This definitive guide includes a unique chapter-by-chapter playlist for the reader. Jazz: A Beginner's Guide is a lively and highly accessible introduction to a global musical phenomenon. Award-winning music journalist and author Stuart Nicholson takes...

(Musicians Institute Press). Learn the essential concepts of jazz harmony and melody with Jazz Piano . This book and CD package contains a wealth of knowledge for any aspiring jazz musician. The accompanying CD holds 57 tracks for you to play along with...

In this bold collection of hard-hitting urban erotic quickies, Noire, the undisputed Queen of Urban Erotica, brings you eleven authors who explore, without apology or restraint, street sagas of sexual pleasure. Boasting an all-star lineup of some of...

One man versus every mascot in professional sports--THEY WILL ALL BE PUNCHED! It's kick-off time for this year's most action-packed and hilarious comic! Fearless Chuck Fairlane was football's fastest rising star, but his career came to a screeching halt...

Behind every successful man is a good woman. The downfall of a good man is a woman up to no good. Thirty-year-old Samson Judges is a prominent pastor of the Peaceful Rest Missionary Baptist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana. His church owns land that real...

A gripping new novel from today's most important African novelist (The New York Times Book Review), the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He...

"A book this country desperately needs, one with genuine healing potential." --New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of The Rage of a Privileged Class, a provocative, in-depth analysis of the state of race in America; a work that not only explores...

A warm and funny account of what it is like to live in and run a National Trust house: Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk. When Mary Mackie's husband became Houseman at Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk she suddenly found herself running one of the most elegant...

The wonder of Christmas never ceases. Each year the holiday comes and its story seems fresh and new. The ways of telling about the very first Christmas are as many and as varied as the stars in the sky. And so it was for Langston Hughes, who recounted...

Educator and performer Carlos Arana captures Brazil's rich musical heritage with impeccable stylistic, historic, and technical analyses. The first section of this book covers the fundamental rhythmic and harmonic characteristics of samba, bossa nova, and...

From the Romantic Times Sapphire award winning author of the Internationally best-selling Elfhome series. REBUILD A LIFE, SAVE A CITY A vampire struggling to find his purpose. A Virtue, pledged to hunt evil but unable to live alone in a city of...

Before Kayla can free her fellow GENs from slavery, she must save them from a deadly virus.Now in paperback: the second book in the critically acclaimed Tankborn trilogy!Once a lowly Chadi sector GEN girl terrified of her first job Assignment, Kayla is...

Since 1999, Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, where the author has served as pastor for over twenty years, has had an HIV/AIDS ministry program called the AGAPE Program. Agape is Greek for "God's love" and an acronym for Action, Growth,...

A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures Renowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diaka is also an exultant, fierce, and visceral poet whose...

Carrington is the mysterious seductress who Hides behind a mask and seduces her crush. Lynn is a studious young lady who has a thing for women. she encounters her first lesbian relationship. Tink is separated from Devon but, they are having their first...

With the seasons of the year as a backdrop, author Diane Holliday describes what life was like for a Ho-Chunk girl who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Central to the story is the movement of Mountain Wolf Woman and her family in...