Non-Fiction

The Sunny Side of Crazy is a work of narrative non-fiction. It is the story of a little adopted daughter who comes to her American mother with secrets.She has multiple personalities.It is the story of love, courage, and the search for a normal life.This...

Discover the colors and textures of 21st-century Morocco in this enticing collection of lush and inviting photographs of homes, gardens, hotels, and historic sites. Brimming with inspiration, this guide introduces readers to the next generation of...

In My Debt to You, Elvage G. Murphy shares his personal, and honest story about how his father and mother, who endured the harsh realities of Jim Crow, prepared him and his brother to navigate a world they knew would not be colorblind. From the...

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Kenya is your in-depth guide to the very best of Kenya. Whether you want to go on a safari adventure and come within feet of this country's spectacular wildlife in its world-famous national parks, lounge on superb beaches, or...

An all-new cookbook brings you to the table to celebrate the versatility of vegetables with Southern flair. As more and more Americans turn to locally-sourced and home-grown ingredients to help create their meals, vegetables have returned to the center...

Seven Grains of Paradise tells the fascinating and much neglected story about many kinds of food in Africa, a continent with a rich farming tradition, intricate cuisines, and a multitude of food cultures.Centuries of disparaging judgements and a...

I take Liberties--poetic--and take License to relate her story In her voice, to tell History Who she was--as I hear her say Or sing. [...] But still you will come face-to-face With a Portia, whose life outshines All brilliance this black ink...

Black women are beautiful, intelligent and capable --but mostly they embrace strong. Esteemed clinical psychologist, Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, praises the strength of women, while exploring how trauma and adversity have led to deep emotional pain and...

To celebrate the acquisition of the archive of distinguished artist Tom Phillips, the Bodleian Library asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the...

We can heal our communities--one friendship at a time.Many of us want to do something to improve race relations, but we don't know where to start or even if we can make a difference. In Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships, beloved authors and good...

Told from an ordinary man's perspective, these are the journal and letters of Wilhelm Weike as he accompanied Franz Boas--the father of modern anthropology--on his journey to the arctic from 1883 to 1884. This extraordinary document of early arctic...

A compelling autobiography from one of Detroit's favorite sons At 15, Willie Horton received his first contract offer to become a professional baseball player. At 20, he smacked his first major-league home run. At 24, Horton stood in full uniform on the...

Thirty Dollars and a Bowl of Soup is a celebration and lamentation of womanhood, motherhood, teaching, identity, oppression and justice, loss and love, and Carla's attempt to grapple with challenges that run the gamut from Flint to fibroids with wit,...

These Pearls Are Real is about love and liberation. This medley of poems exalts the joys of childhood, self-acceptance, falling in love, grappling with gun violence, cultural appropriation, police brutality, and the neglect of the mentally ill. This...

'Soulful Colour'. Each page has an affirmation statement or mantra that is accompanied by an image that speaks to that affirmation. The look and feel is urban and you, the colouring artist, can bring these images to life in your own way. The thought...

Fearful of prison time--or lynching--for violating Indiana's anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry in Buffalo. Her mother simply vanished, evading an FBI and police...