A 2017 RT Reviewer's Choice Nominee for Best Historical Fiction Novel!Featured on Elle.comDukes's gripping historical novel tells the tale of a desperate Albanian woman who will do whatever it takes to keep her independence and seize control of her...

This "landmark" (Ibram X. Kendi) dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King transforms our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders. To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent...

Linda Salisbury's retelling of John Mercer Langston's life story is closely based on his 534-page autobiography, From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capital (published 1894). Langston's career in education, politics, and as a champion of...

The Sweet Spot has nothing to do with football. . . .Just ask Kahari Brown, one of the NFL's sexiest stars. He knows how to handle a football, and always thought he had a way with the ladies. But his smooth moves off the field are only getting him into...

Using pop culture to convey the atmosphere, George Pelecanos portrays characters caught in an intricate web of drugs and violence in the mean streets of Washington, D.C., in 1986.

Words and images come together in a collaboration between celebrated poet Ntozake Shange and an acclaimed group of photographers, to result in this stunning celebration of contemporary Black life in America. From the first publication of The Sweet...

This diner in Plainview, Indiana is home away from home for Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean. Dubbed The Supremes by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they've weathered life's storms for over four decades and counseled one another through...

Part deep-South, part subtropical, part Latin, part everywhere that its immigrants have come from, Florida is unique in its variety. And Florida's kitchens reflect this delicious diversity.In this collection you will find easy-to-follow recipes that...

A hot steaming cup of coffee from Starbucks and watching the sunset behind the lake from my bedroom window would be great right now...But unfortunately, I'm still serving a life sentence in this prison. See, the older we get the more that we're supposed...

No! I wasn't raised in the church. It didn't happen until my mother fell ill and God took her away from me for no reason at all. Cancer, they say. But I needed to hear it from God, so I began talking with him every day until my friends started calling me...

The New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection. Winner of the 2019 Moore Prize Finalist, Dayton Peace Prize, 2019 An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity."- Archbishop Desmond...

- Pat Cunningham Devoto's most recent novel, Out of the Night That Covers Me (0-446-52751-3, Warner hard-cover, 1/01), has over 60,000 copies in combined print and was highly praised in the New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Book World, among...

From the author of A Brooklyn Story and one of USA TODAY's celebrated "New Voices of 2011," comes a new novel which exposes the over-the-top decadence--and corruption--of Wall Street's elite. Hailed as one of USA Today's New Voices for her 2011 literary...

Follow Liberian Ambassador Jeremiah C. Sulunteh's incredible journey from a modest boyhood in rural Liberia to a powerful position in Liberian diplomacy. The Suakoko Boy tells Ambassador Sulunteh's story in riveting detail, as he excels in education...

Three guys I didn't recognize stood outside the door as I came down the steps of a Chicago apartment building. I had just finished up collecting newspaper fees for delivering the daily paper. One stepped inside, walked toward me, and said, "What's up?" I...

Three guys I didn't recognize stood outside the door as I came down the steps of a Chicago apartment building. I had just finished up collecting newspaper fees for delivering the daily paper. One stepped inside, walked toward me, and said, "What's up?" I...