Weaving through African American music, folklore, and mores, A Newark Childhood is a coming-of-age story that journeys from the author's years in kindergarten through high school graduation. It covers the period from 1948 to 1961 when he heads off to...

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a...

A New Constitution for a Free People was influenced by the United States Constitution. It includes adjustments to how each branch of government should function and additions and changes to the Bill of Rights. The author's primary goal was to create an...

After overcoming years of trouble with his alcoholic father and surviving a near-death car accident, Bobby Byington--for the first time in his life--has a strong family. His parents are reunited, his father has turned away from the bottle, and Bobby is a...

Whether it is observations during Poetry Month during the pandemic, stories in song, reflections on pets, both real and synthetic, having her mother's poems finally published, or having the word "poetry" misspelled "pietry" turned into a fun section on...

As violence erupted in her once idyllic village in southern Sudan, Adout Goi Ungua fled all she had known to get her children to safety. Her remarkable journey from that small village to a shining city upon a hill reassures readers that the American...

REGIONAL BESTSELLER Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-Black high...

Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the most influential figures in Louisiana's courts. A More Noble Cause presents both the powerful story of one...

Bella Wahlberg is on top of the world. Surrounded by family in Scotland, she is finally marrying the man she loves-performer extraordinaire and music mogul, Miles "Ari" Moore. Unfortunately. with his ex, chaotic fans, and a series of tours thrown in, she...

Witches, werewolves, and murder - oh, my!Former model and heartbreaker Kyra Ellison is accustomed to making trouble, not being on the receiving end. When she's kicked out of her family's Ozarks cabin where she's been taking refuge - okay, hiding - after...

"Out of 8 million stories, the saddest are the silenced and forgotten.In the city that never sleepsThere are a million and onestories to tell." Set in New York City in the mid-late 1990s and early 2000s, A Million And One Stories To Tell paints a dark...

"A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation."--Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School "Provides important context for an...

The future is grim on a distant planet, urbanized to the brim with massive skyscrapers and corporate-run districts. Ripe with inequality, the classes exist in literal separate tiers. Ascension is everything. Harold, an unsavory factory worker, seeks a...

Strickland a B-Boy from the Southside of Chicago grew up in the 80's and 90's during the golden era of Hip-Hop; rhyming and battling on the Chi-Town streets prepared him to take over what would become a billion dollar industry. During the late 90's...

In her debut poetry collection, fantasy author MéShelle Fae takes readers and enthusiasts on an autobiographical journey to share the lessons and moments that have most influenced and shaped her. Within her poetry, which reflects her unique voice by...

Fifty years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce a federal court order desegregating the city's Central High School, a leading authority on Eisenhower presents an original and engrossing narrative that...