A frighteningly prescient novel of today's America--one man's story of a racially charged real estate experiment in Detroit, Michigan."You get in the habit of living a certain kind of life, you keep going in a certain direction, but most of the pressure...

In 9 stories and 15 poems, Sharon G. Flake provides insight into the minds of a diverse group adolescent African American males. here's Tow-Kaye, getting married at age 16 to love of his life, who's pregnant. He knows it's the right thing to do, but he's...

Little hyena is being excluded from all parties. He is not as cute as the other animals and his cackle makes him different. The animals think that he does not belong. But little hyena proves to them that he is very much a part of the forest to which they...

Little hyena is being excluded from all parties. He is not as cute as the other animals and his cackle makes him different. The animals think that he does not belong. But little hyena proves to them that he is very much a part of the forest to which they...

I am a survivor of many serious Illnesses, and this book details them from their infancy until total recovery; which was a miracle of divine healing! And there are others with similar stories. This book is written to encourage people who are going...

I am a survivor of many serious Illnesses, and this book details them from their infancy until total recovery; which was a miracle of divine healing! And there are others with similar stories. This book is written to encourage people who are going...

Anatural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love& Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories showwomen oppressed but not defeated.These are hopeful stories about love, lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the...

Anatural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love& Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories showwomen oppressed but not defeated.These are hopeful stories about love, lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the...

Now in paperback, an intimate, loving portrait of Michael Jackson--Jermaine Jackson illuminates the private man like never before and offers unrivaled access into a rarefied world. Jermaine Jackson--older than Michael by four years--offers a keenly...

Mary Tabitha Deutsch hopes that the children and adults reading You Are Beautiful will have the opportunity to think about and discuss what it means to be different without judgment or fear. She imagines the child reading or being read to might ask...

Dr. Carjie Scott, the Education Equalizer, (TM) defied the odds as a first-generation college student who rose to the top. When faced with opposition as a woman of color in higher education, she spoke truth to power and held leaders accountable to their...

Laura Love has an uncanny knack for getting an audience to listen. Today she is beloved by fans around the world for her funk-folksy music. But Love's life wasn't always so good. Growing up in racially troubled Nebraska, Love survived a miserable...

"Sneaks up on you with its insight and poignancy." --Entertainment WeeklyFrom New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they'll go to save one of their lives--even if it...

Finding self-acceptance both on and off the mat. In Sanskrit, yoga means to "yoke." To yoke mind and body, movement and breath, light and dark, the good and the bad. This larger idea of "yoke" is what Jessamyn Stanley calls the yoga of the everyday--a...

Jessica Needs a Fix. Vacillating between a desire to get high and a yearning for a substance-free life, she finds herself alternating between cocaine and yoga, dependence and freedom. Will she be able to let go of her self-abuse and find sobriety one...

Jessica Needs a Fix. Vacillating between a desire to get high and a yearning for a substance-free life, she finds herself alternating between cocaine and yoga, dependence and freedom. Will she be able to let go of her self-abuse and find sobriety one...