This story is about lions and tigers. The lions know that they are called Kings of All Beasts, and they want the tigers to know that as well. On the other hand, the tigers want no part of that. They refuse to let the lions rule over them, causing...

At thirteen, Hoàng Chi narrowly escapes to America with her family to avoid persecution at the fall of Saigon. Years later, the author recounts her war-torn childhood and harrowing refugee journey in her memoir TigerFish in the form of a letter to her...

Record-breaking media sensation Tiger Woods has moved beyond the fairway to take the world by storm. After becoming the first golfer in history to win three straight U.S. Amateur titles, his win at the 1997 Masters Tournament gave him a permanent place...

It's 1997 and the year has just begun. During a transition from being a teenage, to having to step up to adulthood, Tiffany is about to experience first-hand, within a five month's span, the test and trials of a life time. Tiffany is a 15 year old,...

It's 1997 and the year has just begun. During a transition from being a teenage, to having to step up to adulthood, Tiffany is about to experience first-hand, within a five month's span, the test and trials of a life time. Tiffany is a 15 year old,...

The latter half of the twentieth century saw the development of liberationist and progressive theologies whose aim is both to understand life and to enhance it by focusing attention on the ways in which certain groups and ethnic minorities suffer...

Thunderclouds in the Forecast traverses the linked histories of two friends--one Black, the other white--who grew up wards of the state in New York. It's April 1976 and Ray is taking Amtrak to San Francisco to reconnect with Scotty, his oldest friend,...

Coretta Scott King Honor Book Thunder Rose vows to grow up to be more than just big and strong, thank you very kindly--and boy, does she ever! But when a whirling storm on a riotous rampage threatens, has Rose finally met her match? Jerdine Nolen's...

"Have you ever wanted something so bad you was willing to crawl over bodies to get it? I mean, fiend for it so hard it didn't matter who you hurt, how low you had to scrape, it was gonna be yours? That's what music and balling did for me. They were the...

New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark has always had her finger on the pounding pulse of the streets. In this novel from her iconic Thug series on sisters trying to rise above, she delivers a true-to-life world where love can be just as...

Acclaimed novelist and columnist Denis Hamill knows the streets that glisten at night and the ones that soak up the dark; he knows the boroughs, the bingo halls, the harbors, and the hangouts. Now, Hamill brings his urban savvy to this new Bobby Emmet...

Willie JohnsonGranddaughter of a slave.Rejected by her father.Sold by her mother.Abused by her husband. How did a biracial woman become accepted to preach revivals in the Deep South and coast to coast during segregation and the Civil Rights movement? How...

Dr. Cowell was born in Portsmouth, Virginia to a teenaged mother. He is the oldest of her children but the third oldest to his father's children. Biologically, he has five siblings. Through marriage, he has two step-siblings. Dr. Cowell grew up in...

What's done in the Past...Always finds its way to the Future.. In the late 1960's in Selma, Alabama, an interracial couple, Richard Adams and Marilyn Halston encountered relentless ridicule, threats, and even beatings by white southern racists - all for...

In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic...

Paul and Sara are the very definition of soul mates, destined for true love. Their path was written in the stars before they were born. Sara's off to college to become a schoolteacher. Paul got a spot at the fire station in the same town Sara is...