From island life in the Caribbean to a new beginning in France, a young man comes of age in a sweeping and lyrical novel about family, loss, secrets, and finding freedom from the past.Eighteen-year-old Salomon Destin graduates high school and anxiously...

An Audacious Book Club Pick The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times returns with a poetry collection that transforms the Black female speaker from object, artistic muse, and victim to subject, critic, and...

An airline captain crafts a riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the remarkable true life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who learned to fly at the dawn of aviation and found freedom in the air A few years after the Wright brothers'...

In the fifth installment of the Ashe Cayne series the smooth Chicago private eye stumbles into the city's internecine (and deadly) world of politics.The death of immigrant Juaquin Escobar has been ruled an accidental drowning in Lake Michigan. The only...

The Second Emancipation, the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title--referring...

The life and 1984 murder of a beloved Black grandmother that changed community activism forever--and sparked the ongoing movement against racist policing and brutality #SayHerName: The story of Eleanor Bumpurs, told for the first time by decorated...

Coming home to the man she never stopped loving... And the daughter she never knew. A visit to her old hometown--and an accidental reunion--could be Dr. Andrea Taylor's prescription for happiness. Now living in Aspen Creek, Colorado, her high school...

Sixteen-year-old Leena has always wished for a big family... but when she discovers she has a Muslim grandfather and aunt she never knew, she learns that family comes with tangled histories she may not be able to heal. "Lonely Leena" is close with her...

In this riveting domestic thriller for readers of Jeneva Rose, Kimberly McCreight, Kimberly Belle, and Shanora Williams, one woman's seemingly perfect marriage is shattered by a shocking revelation. Now, how far will she go to learn the whole truth--and...

In a time of rising authoritarianism and attacks on personal freedoms, the New York Times bestselling author of I'm Still Here chronicles her efforts to live as her full self in a society that wants women--and Black women in particular--to do anything...

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR of CONFESSIONS OF A BAREFACED WOMAN - 2022 ILLINOIS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR - Allison Joseph searches for home in her poetry collection, DWELLING Dwelling is the latest collection from Allison Joseph, whose wise words, narrative passion,...