On November 4, 2008, the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States showed that the country had finally overcome its most hurtful, shameful, and enduring legacy--slavery. Though Obama's election showed progress,...

It was the summer of 2007, a warm quiet Friday morning. The shiny blue Maserati pulled up to a large house that was surrounded by a tall black iron gate. The man pulled a device from the dashboard, pressed a button, and the gate slowly opened. The car...

Where can the roots of exotic North Africa dishes be traced?What other countries have influenced their delightful recipes?How can you faithfully recreate the dishes at home?The traditional foods in North Africa draw their inspiration from the culinary...

The Norsk H stfest: A Celebration of Ethnic Food and Ethnic Identity Paul Thomas Emch SIL International* and the International Museum of Cultures Publications in Ethnography 41 What does it mean to be Norwegian-American? This study, of interest to laymen...

Sometimes death births new life, and that is fact for sisters Rhonnie and Ahli Malone. After facing the wrath of Madame, the young women take on the job of being security detail for by product other than Sadie Thomas, the head of The Last Kings. With a...

WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST, AMAZON, NPR, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, KIRKUS, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOK OF 2020Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning...

In 1963, at the age of 17, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. His band, the Amazing Rumblers, studies and rehearses Brown's Live at the Apollo album in the storage room of his father's shop in their small North...

A Nigerian conman blackmailed by MI6 is brought in to bring down the Kremlin!Debare Balogun has been getting away with theft for years, skimming off the top of his so-called diamond business while flying under the radar of the Nigerian authorities.Or at...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this Pulitzer Prize-winning follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim...

A story of companionship, compassion, and family reunion--a forty-something woman meets the challenges of finding romance, while reuniting with a long-lost sister, and monitoring the escapades of her friends. Tai Wilson has hit forty and finally is ready...

An American institution, Sun Records has a history with many chapters -- its Memphis origins with visionary Sam Phillips, the breakthrough recordings of Elvis Presley, and the studio's immense influence on the sound of popular music. But behind the...

In The New World: The Awakening, God has lost hope and faith in His creation and is planning to destroy it and start anew. Mankind's only hope to stop God from His plans of destruction rests in the hands of Lyric Daniels, a goddess incarnate from the...

In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to...

Lauren Child tells the familiar tale of a less-than-welcome sibling with subtlety, insight, affection, and humor. Elmore Green starts life as an only child, as many children do. He has a room to himself, where he can line up his precious things and...

2020 upended every aspect of our lives. But where is our world heading next? Will pandemic, economic instability, and social distance lead to deeper inequalities, more nationalism, and further erosion of democracies around the world? Or are we moving...