What's worse than a city under siege?An irritating father on a power trip.I may have spent my entire life wishing I could have my father back, but now that he's here he can just head right back to where he came from.He just won't shut up about broken...

CHIRP! CHIRP! CHIRP! It's springtime on Bradford Street. Jada and Jamal are searching for signs of spring. So are their best friends, Carlita Garcia and Josh Cornell. But the most surprising sign of spring awaits them at school the next day . . . a...

In a small southern town in the 1930s, racial barriers did not only exist, but prevailed. Boy and his brother will discover that love, friendship and family can overcome any of life's struggles. Author Christian G. Sullivan hopes that Boy and Brother...

boy, the debut poetry collection by Donny Jackson--veteran poet, clinical psychologist, and Emmy Award-winning documentary television producer--is an awakening on an ocean floor of othering, be it color or gender or place, and rise from personae, to...

Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch bring their heroine to brilliant life in this charming sequel to the award-winning Amazing Grace. When Grace gets the opportunity to go to Africa and visit with her father and his new family, she feels a little strange...

A supernatural love triangle that tests the bounds of science, truth, and faith. Regent Lela of Asiya is the most powerful person on her planet but she is powerless to save the life of her beloved soulmate--Zion Grace. For thirty years they lived as...

The essential, "richly researched"* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who "led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary" (*The New York Times Book Review). Harriet Tubman is one...

A God with a destiny and power to save us all. Shame he can't remember that.Bounce is complicated and simple at the same time. As the leader of The Grid and the former General of the legions of Hell, he simply wants to run his nightclub, have a nap and...

Five courageous womenEach facing a life-altering decisionWill they bounce back or spiral into self-destruction? Rosie is finally living her dream as a sultry jazz singer after defying all odds to make a name for herself. When life takes and unexpected...

Everyone with a sense of fair play is horrified by stories of racially inspired abuse. As bad as such incidents can be, however, what is most damaging to the well-being of blacks is the constant media assertions that blacks are inexorably inferior. It...

Everyone with a sense of fair play is horrified by stories of racially inspired abuse. As bad as such incidents can be, however, what is most damaging to the well-being of blacks is the constant media assertions that blacks are inexorably inferior. It...

Tracy Ellison, the star of Omar Tyree's Flyy Girl and For the Love of Money, returns in this bestselling novel, Boss Lady. Everybody's favorite flyy girl is a little bit older, a whole lot wiser, and just as sassy as ever. After a series of triumphs in...

The most lethal ride-or-die women in Memphis now run their gangs and the streets. But the aftermath of an all-out war means merciless new enemies, time-bomb secrets. . .and one chance to take it all. . . Bullets have no names and collateral damage is the...

The astonishing national bestseller and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara...

Samantha King Holmes brings forth a raw, original perspective. A collection of poetry that breathes hope into the idea of love while mourning the human condition of seeking out connections, sometimes with the wrong people. Her verse takes the readers on...