A young girl reckons with the demolition of a Black Saint Paul neighborhood to make way for the Interstate in the early 1960s When thirteen-year-old Zenobia has to leave her friends and spend the summer at Grandma's while Mama recovers from a stroke,...

New York Times Book Review Top 100 Books of 2024 Explore the "comprehensive and compelling" (Jon Meacham) biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, celebrated as "the conscience of Congress," through a narrative that weaves together exclusive...

The National Book Award, PEN/Voelcker Award, and NAACP Image Award winner returns with another inventive and boundary-breaking book: a sensual journey ignited in the archives of iconic queer Alexandrian poet C. P. Cavafy. In her first book, Robin Coste...

Here is collection of poems about finding oneself in a life--an ordinary life that one could not have imagined--and making the decision to live it. Against our terribly ambivalent present--in which Black, trans, and other minoritized forms of life seem...

A Black cop turned PI. An unspeakable crime. A Californian beach town ready to combust. The new shocking, completely gripping Trevor Finnegan thriller. "Aaron Philip Clark is a storyteller of immense talent" Stephen Mack Jones "In a time of growing...

An extraordinary and unexpected book of finding happiness, by the award-winning author of The Renunciations What does a life look like on the other side of survival, and can the one who survived come to recognize that she did? Donika Kelly's poetry is...

From the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.'s decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom--and how their conflicting visions still divide American politics In the mid-1950s,...

A Stampede Tramples Hopes Collect a series of six historical romances. When life seems weighed down by challenges, there are always pillars of enduring hope and love to be discovered. Lealie Bevard, a determined Tuskegee Institute student, attends the...

Michaela Foster Marsh and her brother Frankie grew up as "twins" in Glasgow, Scotland in the sixties. Born only weeks apart, Michaela was white and Frankie was black, and they were an unusual sight in their dual pram. Despite the love from his adopted...

A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law--a prosecutor and a madam--who team up to bring down notorious mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the million-copy...

In this vulnerable and enlightening book of life lessons, globally renowned performer Cynthia Erivo draws from her singular experience to show us how to embrace being "too much" and to live up to the fullest iteration of ourselves.  It is never too...

Framing Fatherhood is a stunning and moving photographic celebration of culture, fatherhood, masculinity, and blackness from some of today’s prominent Black male photographers.In Framing Fatherhood, acclaimed curator and producer Dr...