Seattle, or In the Meantime is set in the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s. Grunge is dying, Kurt Cobain is dead, and Seattle is slowly but inevitably turning from a home for quirky misfits and cafe denizens living on the edge of the continent to the...

Bradford Williams, a successful African American lawyer, venture capitalist, and real estate mogul appears to live a perfect life. When booked as a special guest and keynote speaker, reluctantly he agrees. After a seemingly familiar face appears during...

This wonderfully well-written and compelling book looks at the life of a single woman's "seasons," from the raging storms of her life's winter to the sun-drenched days of her summers--and how she endures it all with God's love.

After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he...

Robert Johnson, while probably the most influential of all blues guitarists, is also one of the most obscure. Recognized as an influence on musicians like Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones, Johnson was poisoned by a jealous husband in 1938--at the age...

Searching for Freedom: The Nat Turner Revolt is a story about a young African boy who had matured into a man being considered a fugitive of American law. The information provided in this story is for the readers of this story to think about Nat Turner...

Searching for Freedom: The Nat Turner Revolt is a story about a young African boy who had matured into a man being considered a fugitive of American law. The information provided in this story is for the readers of this story to think about Nat Turner...

Portia Roberts was in a day-to-day struggle to recover from the tragedy that tore her family apart. Desperate for a way out from under the dark cloud that constantly hovered above her; a major event on the news captures her curiosity and convinces her...

In Search for Security, M. J. Field offers a unique ethno-psychiatric study of rural Ghana. The book focuses on the people, many of whom were obviously mentally ill, who came to the shrines of a new religious movement for help. The author's training in...

An illustrated book on the refugee crisis that will break your heart in under 48 pages, from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. Intensely moving. . .Powerfully evocative of...

The noted blues scholar Paul Oliver here examines the many different skeins of the blues form, relating them to other black traditions--musical and religious--and tracing the origin of the blues through the dense, many-colored warp and weft of influences...

Jia has always feared this day would come before she was ready to accept her father's responsibilities.She never believed it would arrive on the heels of an unsanctioned anthro hunt that tears her father from her life and leave the Pack in her care, with...

White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912

The image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abolition: they would surround the slave states with a...

"Scorn" is a love story that touches home for many. Sheila Fox is the mother of three boys, who will do everything in her power to keep her marriage with Eddie Sr. who is a real estate broker that owns and operates his own company. Eddie Sr. loves his...

Scipio Africanus (236-183 B.C.) was one of the most exciting and dynamic leaders in history. As commander, he never lost a battle. Yet it is his adversary, Hannibal, who has lived on in public memory.As B.H. Liddell Hart writes,"Scipio's battles are...