New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber has tantalized us with his provocative and sexy plus size characters in Something on the Side, Big Girls Do Cry and Torn Between Two Lovers. Now Weber has taken on the role of not just writer but mentor and...

A volcano goddess, named Keegan, is loose in the world, and the prophecies are unclear whether her coming will bring humanity's destruction or salvation. In the shadow of the sacred volcano, from which Keegan derives her powers, lies the ancient city of...

Valerie Wilson Wesley's Tamara Hayle mystery series featuring Newark, New Jersey's number one private investigator are loved for their smart, sexy protagonist who "has a way with a wisecrack that is positively lethal" (Washington Post). Now in Dying in...

As a free African American living in the North in the 1800s, Charlotte Forten was luckier than most African Americans of her time. But she still faced segregation, limited opportunities, and the sharp barbs of racism. Through it all, Charlotte wrote down...

School's out and sixteen year-old Kennedy Simms is bored. That could be a recipe for disaster. . . Good girls don't go to real parties, like the ones in the hood. Or rock bangin' clothes. Or stay out as long as they want. But I'm sick of my parents'...

It's time to uncover the truth of what really happened to old Chet Charles, how the Eidolon was created ...and what it has to do with Jane's mother in the final volume of the hit series! THE SECRETS OF THE OTHERWORLD ARE REVEALED. It's time to uncover...

Essence bestselling author Brenda Hampton's sequel to the sexy BFF reintroduces a trio of catty, backstabbing girlfriends that readers love to hate. Kayla thought that her best friends, Evelyn and Trina, were supposed to always have her back, but when...

Explores the history and culture of Ancient Egypt. Eye-catching photos, fascinating sidebars, and a Contributions special feature guide readers through the rise and fall of this great civilization, focusing on the people and accomplishments that made it...

In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa's most devastating recent history-from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor's arrival in...

Tracing the careers of hip-hop's three most dynamic stars, this deeply reported history brilliantly examines the entrepreneurial genius of the first musician tycoons: Diddy, Dr. Dre, and Jay-ZBeing successful musicians was simply never enough for the...

Virtuosic ... glorious in its exploration. --The New York Times A singular and powerful debut novel about a young black American learning the difficulties of forming your own identity when society has already assigned you one Like most recent college...

Ato hasn't visited his grandmother's house since he was seven. He's heard the rumors that she's a witch, and his mother has told him he must never sit on the old couch on her porch. Now here he is, on that exact couch, with a strange-looking drink his...

An Imaginoscope for Organizers offers practical exercises to use both individual and collective imagination to activate and mobilize creative organizing impulses. It proposes intellectual, symbolic and poetic food for thought and practice. Each chapter...

'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and complicated history' DAVID LAMMY, author of Tribes, in 'The best books of 2020', the Guardian 'Timely and so important ...

Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture--and increasingly in response to a recent...

If it seems like Nashville is everywhere these days--that's because it is. GQ recently declared it "Nowville," and it has become the music hotspot for both country and rock. But as hot as the music scene is, the food scene is even hotter. In Nashville...