Non-Fiction

Gifted chef and storyteller Martha Hall Foose invites you into her kitchen to share recipes that bring alive the landscape, people, and traditions that make Southern cuisine an American favorite. Born and raised in Mississippi, Foose cooks Southern food...

School Is a Joke: Ethnography of Inner City Public School Students' Perception and Sensemaking of School and Schooling explored minority and low-SES inner-city high school students' perception and sense-making of school, schooling, learning, academic...

Scale is about a relationship between a father and a son. These poems consider the importance of acknowledging the past as well as the dangers in doing so.

Say I'm Dead is the true story of family secrets, separation, courage, and trans-formation through five generations of interracial relationships. Fearful of prison time--or lynching--for violating Indiana's antimiscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores...

Say Goodbye to the Blackman Who Drains the Blackwoman is an inspirational book about saying goodbye to life draining issues that cause black women to feel unappreciated. The book covers real problems concerning African-American men who are not ready to...

Have you asked the "keeper of your family recipes" to write down your favorite family recipes so you can recreate them? If you have not, you should ASAP! Sheri is her family's historian and genetic genealogist with a commitment to preservation traditions...

Edna Lewis, known throughout the country as the Grande Dame of Southern cooking, often served as guest chef at Mulloy's restaurant where she and Mulloy soon became friends. For more than 10 years, Miss Lewis shared her recipes, techniques, experiences...

When Marita Golden decided to write her personal account of the challenges of raising a black son in today's world, she didn't intend to write more than her own family's story. But through the story of raising her son against the backdrop of a racially...

In what Gear magazine deemed a rich and fascinating portrait of sex in America, Eurydice gives us a frontline report on the reality of sex life in the United States -- from fringe sexual behavior and sex-on-the-Net to how and why sex has changed from a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy "Satchel" Paige "Among the rare biographies of an athlete that transcend sports . . . gives us the man as well as...

Bradt's São Tomé & Príncipe is the only standalone guide to Africa's second-smallest country, still home to the Voice of America, and considered by some to be the centre of the world as it is the site of the closest point to the intersection of the...

A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability--and offers a new template for living.As an indigenous person, Tyson...

Realising the preciousness of life and family, a hunger has emerged for beautiful, nurturing and spiritual home environments. This creative text inspires readers to create beautiful spaces by concentrating on how to live in them as opposed to what you...

A singular work of poetic prose exploring otherness and belonging--and what it means to be truly at home. Sanctuary: A Meditation on Home, Homelessness, and Belonging examines the interface between inner and outer sanctuary, and the ways they affect one...

A culinary travel fantasy, celebrating the food of the Southeastern coast Whitney Otawka is the award-winning chef of Greyfield, a celebrated Carnegie-built inn located on Cumberland Island, Georgia--a magical and remote barrier island that has been...

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED One of America's historic strengths is the ability to incorporate aspects from many different cultures to create a stronger whole. Our music, literature, sports, architecture, food, and fashion have all benefitted. But...