In Finding Sarah and Mary, Jacqueline Jones Royster combines memoir, family lore, DNA data, local history, and national history to create an ancestral history narrative. Surveying a forty-year journey of discovery, Jones Royster weaves and reweaves data...

From a preeminent King scholar, the origin story of the man, minister, and civil rights hero who would lead the nation and change the world.We know who Martin Luther King, Jr. became, but who was he at the beginning of his life? How did his youth inform...

A touching and warmhearted picture book that explores what it means to belong to two cultures.Marlee's parents are excited. "We are going back home!" they tell her and her brother. "Not my home," Marlee says. She knows the island is where her mum and dad...

A probing essay collection that chronicles one woman's complicated quest to find home in a fractured America, from the award-winning author of Field Study "In Chet'la Sebree's sensitive and tender hands, this book's quest (and question) of home is...

Interweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione ("sacred conversation"), a style of Renaissance painting that imagines divine communion across time and space. Here, artists,...

For the first printing only! This paperback features stunning stenciled sprayed edges while the special edition supply lasts. This "endearing and honest" (School Library Journal) romance about love across cultures follows a Black girl and Brown boy who...

The most beloved Southern cookbook of all time: a glorious celebration of seasonal eating that has shaped generations of home cooks, from "the first lady of Southern cooking" (NPR). Beautifully repackaged and redesigned, with a new foreword by Toni...

One of The Atlantic's Great American NovelsOne of The Center for Fiction's 200 Books That Shaped 200 Years of Literature"Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while...

"Compelling and beautifully written... Everett's sophomore novel story is sure to captivate readers." -- Janae Marks, New York Times bestselling author of On Air with Zoe WashingtonFrom the award-winning author of The Probability of Everything, which has...

An unprecedented, no-holds-barred set of dialogues about race and education from two of the country's best-known educatorsIn this powerful and deeply personal volume, two luminary educators, generations apart but united by a shared commitment to...

Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpr? Award."A story that will slam the power of poetry and love back into your heart." --Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and ChainsIn...