Most Saturday nights, young Mika races to her grandfather's house, where she finds him painting artful calligraphy. He chants strange words in a stirring voice, surrounded by a house filled with eccentric treasures. Mika later sifts through remembered...

Shilluk is a Western Nilotic language spoken in southern Sudan. In this study, by using an autosegmental approach, which is based on lexical phonology, the author has been able to analyze the vowel and consonant harmony systems, the tonal system, and the...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A splendid book... The emphasis throughout is on the human drama of men at war.--The Washington Post Book WorldThe liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of...

In the matter of race in the United States, reconciliation is sought, while confrontation is shunned. This formula has not worked. An Arena of Truth tells of a remarkable educational project designed by Dr. Peter Kranz, that, if further implemented now,...

The longer I live the more that I am convinced that God governs in the affairs of man, and that if the American nation could not start without His assistance, its restoration and salvation will fail also. Dr. John D. Diamond History is full of examples...

This sassy, shocking autobiographical novel from the author of Uptown Dreams captures the racial tensions, the hardships, and the bonds that formed between families and neighbors growing up poor in Harlem. You'd be angry, too, if you grew up poorer than...

A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR * TIME * BUSTLE * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * AMAZON.COM OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION WINNER OF THE 2019 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR...

Carrie Williams, the African American teacher at the Coketon Colored School in Tucker County, West Virginia, in the 1890s, bravely confronted an attempt to rob black children of their educational rights. In the burgeoning Jim Crow era that legally...

Brenda Jackson: The HunterMallory Standish and Hunter Sloan share a steamy one night stand. But, the next morning, Mallory learns that the P. in P.I. doesn't stand for private. In Hunter's case, it stands for playa. Joylynn Jossel: Just Wanna Love YaJai...

An African Tree of Life demonstrates how mission involves not only a ""bringing-to"" a people, but a ""discovering-of"" those deep symbols in human culture and God's creation that, in the light of the gospel, draw humanity to Christ. This book, in a...

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history,...

In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates and enfranchising blacks. On July 30, a procession of black suffrage supporters pushed through an angry throng of...

"Amy Praises God In Poetry," is full of powerful testimonies to draw people closer to God. People will be encouraged as they gain a greater revelation that God will never leave or forsake them. You will find hope and strength as you read the pages inside...

An "urgent and significant book [that] speaks to our times" (The New York Times Book Review) from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report...