Mouse Watkins is the leader of the Bad Apples, the funkiest old school soul band in St. Louis. For twenty years, he's been laying down smoking grooves, tasty rhythms, and gutbucket funk in dance clubs up and down the Mississippi, always one break away...

Girlz in the Hood is the unsentimental, moving, and surprisingly humorous account of a girl and her ten siblings who grew up in one of the roughest neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Mary's mother was a fierce matriarch, a single mom who raised eleven...

In Girls Like Us, Randi Pink masterfully weaves four lives into a larger story-as timely as ever-about a woman's right to choose her future. Four teenage girls. Four different stories. What they all have in common is that they're dealing with unplanned...

In the Winter of 2001, 29-year-0ld Walt Steadman survives a shooting in his favorite Boston Café that leaves four people dead. In the aftermath, Walt forms two new relationships: one with Ginger Newton, a privileged, reckless, Harvard undergraduate who...

Two Essence(R) bestselling Urban Books authors have teamed up to bring the Motor City drama in this latest installment of the popular Girls from da Hood Series.All the Way In by Treasure HernandezBorn into the struggle, Sonya Mills and Melody "Ham" Tatum...

Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Paste, LitHub, Real Simple2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist: Best FictionLonglisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize"Incandescent...A searing portrait of what feminism...

Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed by critics and scholars, Stephen Mitchell's version allows us to enter an...

Composed over 2,500 years, lost in the deserts of Iraq for 2,000 more, Gilgamesh presents a palimpsest of ancient Middle Eastern cultic and courtly lyrics and lore. The story of a visionary journey beyond the limits of human experience, Gilgamesh is a...

Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the ability--with a glance, a gesture, a word--to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict...

This bestselling book reveals the extraordinary life of Dr. Ben Carson--from inner-city kid to renowned neurosurgeon.Dr. Ben Carson is known around the world for breakthroughs in neurosurgery that have brought hope where no hope existed. In Gifted Hands,...

In this third installment of the Gift series, Reverend Clint and Addie are finally settling down in Harlem following their Alabama adventure, during which they help black farmers. Addie, a former schoolteacher, loves New York City, with its glittering...

Peter Leavell's award-winning debut novel is a touching and inspiring tale of surprising heroism amid the horrors of the Civil War.

If a child is brought up without any outside influences but the word of God, what kind of child would he grow up to be? Gideon is one such child. Found by a single woman in an unused motel room, the baby boy seems to be nothing short of a miracle from...

If a child is brought up without any outside influences but the word of God, what kind of child would he grow up to be? Gideon is one such child. Found by a single woman in an unused motel room, the baby boy seems to be nothing short of a miracle from...

Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were the preeminent self-made men of their time. In this masterful dual biography, award-winning Harvard University scholar John Stauffer describes the transformations in the lives of these two giants during a major...

Anya was thrilled to be reunited with her father, legendary giant the Bodach. The rest of the world, not so much.With Chris by her side and her powers at their peak, Anya, the Queen of Winter, did the unthinkable and freed her father and brothers from...