Once they had a country, a culture, a future. Today, upheaval and betrayal have turned their world upside down. And for one family-a U.S. war hero, his deeply religious wife, and their impressionable fourteen-year-old son-a new struggle has just begun...

HOTlanta! Is a compilation of short stories about growing up in the streets of Atlanta. These stories will take you deep into the lives of the hustlers responsible for putting the city on the map. You will see first hand what life is like in the hood.

American Pamela Courtney's most formative years were spent in the bush of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. In this recounting of her childhood through adulthood, Courtney, the daughter of missionaries governed by a less-than-supportive missionary organization,...

Welcome to the exclusive lives of four extremely hot thots. This book will show you how to spot a thot, from thot tops to thot flops, all the way to thot Snaps and claps. This book is the first-ever with a double twisted love triangle. Watch as Chicago,...

It's the hottest, stickiest day of the summer. A fat-sun-in-the-sky day. An eating-ice-pops-on-the-porch day. And for Kishi and Renée, it's a best-friends-breakup day. Each girl sits on her own front porch, waiting for the other to apologize, even though...

Hot Damn and Hell Yeah shows regular people how to use familiar, easy-to-find ingredients to create tasty, spicy vegan incarnations of typical Southwestern (and a little Southern) food. This is not the stereotypical healthy vegan fare: Nothing comes...

Appeared on best of the year lists from The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, and more! Nominated for an NAACP Image Award and Winner of the Believer Book Award for Fiction!Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women's lives and coming-of-age...

Depressed from the complications of a head injury, SERENA MANCHESTER seeks solitude in the hometown she left almost twenty-five years before. Unknown to Serena, her hometown's landscape has changed and unseemly elements have seeped into the quaint...

Upon the death of her mother, Zoe Edevane takes time away from Oxford to fulfill her mum's dying wish. It's a peculiar wish that requires Zoe to obtain a specific grave rubbing under the next full moon. Beneath this full moon, as charcoal clings to her...

Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns. She has said that her poems-even the happy ones-emerge from an accumulation of sadness, when she stands again "in the sunlight." "[This collection]...

This teen and young reader book is a richly illustrated biography about Horace King. In 1807, King was born into slavery on a South Carolina plantation. A slave trader sold him to a man who saw something special in Horace King. His owner, John Godwin...

Hope Never Dies is part two of the riveting fiction-novel Voiceless, which stole the hearts of readers across the nation with its paralyzing storyline and hidden messages. Jeremiah, Troy, and Catherine were siblings fighting through a tumultuous...

"Colleen Adams is saving lives." - Todd Bass, Miami Dade State Attorney's OfficeA raw and emotional account of one woman's dream to offer a path out of poverty and crime, proving that one drop, even in the ocean, creates an expanding ripple.Imagine a...

By the groundbreaking author of the award-winning Monster-a visionary who influenced and inspired a generation-this fast-paced and poignant story reveals the fierce underworld of sports.   All eyes are on seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson while he...

A multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, love, and race, John Edgar Wideman's Hoop Roots brings a touch of Proust to the blacktop (Time) as it tells of the author's love for a game he can no longer play. Beginning with the scruffy backlot...

With a crack-whore for a mother, it's no wonder that life for Davion and his younger sister Janaya, was everything but a crystal stair. Left in a dirty house by themselves with only the roaches to look after them as their tummies rumbled, the two...