BLACK PECULIAR sketches out power dynamics and faulty assumptions in terms of race and history, media and culture, and sex and gender in highly original lines of verse. An extraordinary mixture of wit and profundity, the three long works in the...

Set on the fictional, futuristic Caribbean island of Jacaranda--caught at the nexus between amazing technological advances and huge environmental hazards of globalization--this book recounts the tragic consequences of a forbidden love affair and a family...

In A World Of Bikers, Meth, And Overdue Mortgages. . . All the miles. All the blood. All has led him here. Looking for a place to hole up, O'Conner--with nothing to his name but a failing motorcycle, a gun, and uncollected debts--lies low in the last...

Now an HBO film! Catch the premiere this fall. In 1966 Muhammad Ali announced his intention to refuse induction into the United States Army as a conscientious objector. This set off a five-year battle that would strip him of his world heavyweight title,...

A major player in the narcotics business doesn't learn that the woman who stole his heart is an undercover DEA agent...until it's too late.A major player in the narcotics business doesn't learn that the woman who stole his heart is an undercover DEA...

Fifteen years after its release, They Like to Never Quit Praisin' God continues to explore the theology, dynamics, and strategy of celebration throughout the sermon process. This updated edition includes additional sermon illustrations and commentary.

A cross between Shades of Grey and Z-Rated, No Boundaries takes readers on an unforgettable journey as a young law school graduate stumbles into an alternative lifestyle full of naughty pleasures. Just out of law school, Jaguar is deep in debt and takes...

When you're in trouble and sinking fast, whom do you call? Piper Nelson is stuck. She can't quite stay away from the husband she divorced. She isn't always attentive to the high school students she teaches. And even she admits that she's been drinking...

Every summer, relatives (old and young, big and small) come together from all over the country for a reunion. All have one thing in common: their love for each other. They sleep wherever there is room. They eat and laugh and tell stories and remember...

Cincinnati played a large part in creatng a refuge for escaped salaves and in the Underground Railroad movement.Nearly a century after the American Revolution, the waters of the Ohio River provided a real and complex barrier for the United States to...

Following the successful reception of her first book, The Shining Material, comes Aisha Sasha John's THOU -- a powerful collection of two long, narrative poems exploring the social space that exists between the self and others. Using the language that...