When money, power, and real estate are at stake, family bonds and loyalties are strained to the breaking point. Annotation: When money, power, and real estate are at stake, family bonds and loyalties are strained to the breaking point. "DeBerry and...

Synopsis: Reginald Dwayne Betts sings mournfully, bearing witness within prisoners' cells, pulling readers to walk through a brutal underworldPublisher Comments: Inside silence there is a sliver of light that is the seed of the music of these poems, the...

Camille Logan feels trapped. After she is sexually and emotionally abused by her foster parents, she turns to the one person she knows she can trust--her boyfriend Chu, a mid-level drug dealer. But when life finally starts looking up for Camille, Chu is...

From bestselling author and actress Holly Robinson Peete--a heartwarming story about a boy who happens to be autistic, based on Holly's son, who has autism.Charlie has autism. His brain works in a special way. It's harder for him to make friends. Or show...

Be the "U" God intended: Be Honest. Be Beautiful. Be Intentional. Be Strong. Be You! From the Publisher: In this inspirational book by popular performers Mary Mary, the heart and faith of this urban gospel duo permeates every page and motivates young...

Robinson explores the singularly curious and inimitable tragic history of the island nation of Haiti, beginning with the present anarchic disrepair of it modern state. From one revolution to another, Haiti has changed the fate of empires yet has not been...

In a pursuit for love, happiness, and monogamy sometimes mistaken for sex, Chante encounters an array of men, just not the perfect man. Just as she is ready to admit defeat in her quest for love, in walks a caramel Adonis who offers the potential for...

All her life, Zenovia has struggled with the burden of caring for her schizophrenic mother alone. Until one day, God seems to offer support in the form of two members of a church, who knock at the women's door preaching an unconventional version of the...

Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the most talked about--and praised--smash hit of 2007 follows the adventures of a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd plagued by a family curse.

Finally, the bar will be set and the truth will be told. Buffie Carruth, known as the legendary Buffie the Body, takes readers from ATL’S most wanted dancer, most sought-after YouTube actress, leading lady in G-Unit and other music videos, an in-demand...

Publisher Comments: What is African American about African American literature? Why identify it as a distinct tradition? John Ernest contends that too often scholars have relied on naAve concepts of race, superficial conceptions of African American...

Ashley's autobiography is full of art, photographs, and the poignant never-say-never tale of his rich life, a life that has always included drawing and painting. Even as a boy growing up during the Depression, he painted -- finding cast off objects to...

After her daughter's disappearance, a world-weary grandmother becomes the guardian of her two streetwise grandchildren--but their no-good father will do anything to get them back. After twenty-nine years of marriage, Hattie has paid her dues. She's now...

By turns harrowing, moving, and ultimately redemptive, this is a war story -- a war that rages out of control on the streets of the United States, claiming the lives of our loved ones and neighbors. In this memoir, complete with child soldiers, unspeakabl

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life takes readers behind the velvet rope and inside A-list nightlife. At thirty-five, Destiny Day is at the top of her game. Having escaped her hardscrabble beginnings in the small Midwestern town she calls "East Boogie,...