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Kickoff your Mother's Day weekend with Tia Williams, bestselling author of the new book, The Perfect Find.Join us on May 7, 2016 from noon to 2PM at Oxon Hill Library for an author talk and book signing with Tia Williams, former beauty editor, now author. Tia will read from her page turning new book, do an entertaining Q&A, and of course sign books.It's the perfect way to start off Mother's Day weekend. Bring your moms, aunts, and daughters. We look forward to seeing you next Saturday!Tia Willia …

Join us for a book signing and author talk on May 19, 2016 at 7:00PM at Jirani Coffee House in Manssas, VA with Tracy Chiles McGhee. Tracy, a multi-genre writer and debut author of the historical novel Melting the Blues. McGhee, selected as a Finalist in the 2014 William Faulkner - William B. Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in the Novel-in-Progress category, is a graduate of Catholic University Law School and Georgetown University. Kirkus Reviews proclaims Melting the Blues “A brave, …

Join us at the William O. Lockridge/Bellevue Neighborhood Library on Thursday, April 21 at 6:30 p.m. for an author talk and book signing with Sadeqa Johnson. A Philadelphia native and mother of three, Johnson is the author of two novels Love in a Carry-On Bag and Second House from the Corner. Johnson’s newest novel, Second House from the Corner centers on the story of Felicia Lyons, a stay-at-home mother of three drowning in the drudgeries of play dates, lost pacifiers and potty …

Everyone is raving about Sadeqa Johnson's SECOND HOUSE FROM THE CORNER!ESSENCE MAGAZINE gives Second House an incredible review in the March "Hollywood" Issue! "Novelist Sadeqa Johnson should take a bow for her latest effort."1 MADAME X Novelist Sadeqa Johnson should take a bow for her latest effort. Fans of 2011's Love in a Carry-On Bag (12th Street Press), her first offering, will devour every word of Second House From the Corner (Thomas Dunne, $25.99). Even those unfamiliar wit …

In her new book, Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide, MSNBC national correspondent, Joy-Ann Reid looks at the history of race relations in the U.S. while tracing the political shifts in the Democratic party. She examines the complicated relationship between Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton and how their varied approaches to the race issue parallel the challenges facing the Democratic party itself. Joy-Ann Reid was the host of MSNBC's "The Reid Report" and ma …

One of the great things about independent presses is that they are often the first to bring new or emerging voices to market. Craig T. McNeely’s Double Life Press is one such indy press, fairly new to the game, and already putting out established authors who I love, such as Will Viharo. Double Life’s newest release, A Negro and an Ofay, by debut author Danny Gardner, is sure to impress with its heavy cultural subtext.Set in the post-WWII 1950’s midwest, A Negro and an Ofay is, as the tagline rea …

The Beast Side, D. Watkins (Skyhorse Publishing) To Watkins, there are two Baltimores—one white, the other black. This is something he continues to realize as an adult in his home city, through dinners with community leaders in a Hampden restaurant and his appearance at The Stoop Storytelling Series (see page 136) in March 2014. That night, he joked to a supportive, albeit mostly white, crowd at Center Stage, “This ain’t the stoop I’m used to. There’s no pit bulls, red cups, or blue …

What makes this book, as well as, his previous book, The Beautiful Struggle, so important is the perspective from which Ta-nehisi speaks. Like him, I myself am a black male Gen Xer. For most of my young life I heard about the statistics regarding my kind dying at a young age. It was an ever present feeling that you either get caught up in the madness surrounding you or somehow escape to the other side that was just a Metro ride away. This book is important because, whether you agree with it …

Inspired by James Baldwin’s 1963 classic “The Fire Next Time,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book, “Between the World and Me,” is a searing meditation on what it means to be black in America today. It takes the form of a letter from Mr. Coates to his 14-year-old son, Samori, and speaks of the perils of living in a country where unarmed black men and boys — Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Walter L. Scott, Freddie Gray — are dying at the hands of police officers, an America where just last month …