"Riveting." - Kirkus Reviews "Powerful." - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette "Gripping and harrowing . . . Punches the reader in the guts." - Los Angeles Review of Books "Will leave you reeling--and thinking." - Mike Farrell, M*A*S*H star "Wonderful...

What's the real meaning of "juke joint"? Explore these special places for a special brand of the blues.Juke joint - two words often used, often abused. They convey an inherent promise of something real, edgy, from another time. All ju

In the 1900's, North Carolina's Geechee River region serves as a melting pot for Blacks, Whites, Indians and Jews. Former Buffalo Soldier, Willie Moses Sandwinder, hopes the uncharted territory will provide him a personal homestead. Somewhere in the...

The Blues, that unique form of African-American music, continues to hold a fascination with each successive generation of young people. Scots-born Londoner Robert Nicholson is just one such person. Grabbed first as a teenager by the white blues sounds of...

Steamy, sensual, and poetically hypnotic, Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2 is the follow-up to the bestseller Purple Panties. The Queen of Erotic Fiction delivers a collection of lesbian erotica that will have readers squirming on the edge of their...

Giant Afro. Even Bigger Brain. Jaden Toussaint is a five-year-old who knows it all. I mean, really knows it all. Animal Scientist. Great Debater. Master of the art of ninja dancing. There's nothing Jaden Toussaint can't do.This time our hero is on a...

"I am not a civil rights hero. I am a warrior, and I am on a mission from God." --James Meredith James Meredith engineered two of the most epic events of the American civil rights era: the desegregation of the University of Mississippi in 1962, which...

Mason Gray, a former cop, has a knack for solving puzzles, but the corpse on his living room floor is a piece that doesn't fit.As the number one suspect, Gray races to find the killer before the cops can pin it on him. But the cops aren't the only ones...

The poet writes tenderly about his beloved who is suffering from dementia. Poems also offer a critique of the times we are all experiencing. As one reader said "It's like my thoughts and feelings have been transformed into poetry."

MISSING. That's what the posters say about the girl. But this isn't just another missing kid - not for ten-year-old Calvin Crane. After he bumps into a strange guy at Yellowstone National Park who's secretly removing the posters, Calvin thinks their van...

An inspired spiritual novel constructed of one's imagination. Sometime during the 1800s, a scanty plight from Africa, which resulted in a stop-over in Barbados, was bound for shores of America. Fourteen-year-old Omeallie's turbulent life continued on a...

'Do not venture out of the hippo space, ' Mummy hippo warns Miss hippo, 'I do not trust these Biryani eating animals.' But Miss hippo wants to travel. She wants to have adventures and make new friends. So, she ventures out and when she spots the tigers...

Mr. Tchinda, a Cameroonian immigrant, poet, and playwright, has just arrived in America, a nation that has witnessed the feminist movement, civil rights activities, and reforms. He has to stay with his one-time peer, Miss Beatrice, who picks him up at...

So I'm a seer. A Cognizant under the Mandate. Life should be easy now, right? Wrong. With all the "accidents" that keep befalling me, I'll be lucky to survive the week. That is, if my crazy boss doesn't work me to death first...

In this fun and fresh sequel to Saints and Misfits, Janna hopes her brother's wedding will be the perfect start to her own summer of love, but attractive new arrivals have her more confused than ever. Janna Yusuf is so excited for the weekend: her...

An inspiring memoir of one man's transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate--all by the age of twenty-seven. Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled...