This stunning picture book looks into the life of Georgia Gilmore, a hidden figure of history who played a critical role in the civil rights movement and used her passion for baking to help the Montgomery Bus Boycott achieve its goal. Georgia decided to...

Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award WinnerNew York Times bestsellerTimely and timeless. --Jacqueline WoodsonImportant and deeply moving. --John Green Acclaimed author Renee Watson offers a powerful story about a girl striving for success in...

Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award WinnerNew York Times bestsellerTimely and timeless. --Jacqueline WoodsonImportant and deeply moving. --John Green Acclaimed author Renee Watson offers a powerful story about a girl striving for success in...

Pieces. And Me. The Stuff That Wakes Me Up At Night is a re-released edition of E. Claudette Freeman's first published work. She made her debut in contemporary fiction with a collection of short stories that ring with vibrance and character. Throughout...

Terron Wilkerson's shares a myriad of incredible experiences, thought provoking imaginatives, and LIFE through a creative expression of poetic rhythms that establishes an in-depth reflective of life and spirit.

Part memoir and part urban social history, Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt is an African American woman's personal account of her life during a racially turbulent period in a northern American city. Raised in a black neighborhood in urban Detroit,...

Most people know where they belong. As an outcast, even among misfits, I'm not that lucky. It's fine. I don't need them. These walls I've built keep me safe. Until they don't anymore. With the rebellion under way, I have enough on my hands gaining my...

By the time she was eight, Lundyn knew that important things get broken. She spent years trying to forget the missing fragments until she realized that restoration, or just the attempt, is necessary. She learned that scattered pieces can take years to...

Photographer Otis Hairston's camera snapped nearly forty years of fond memories and historic Greensboro events--from community gatherings and North Carolina A&T Aggie homecomings to celebrations of the historic 1960 sit-in. This stunning photo collection

In Picture Windows, Baxandall and Ewen shatter naive stereotypes of suburban life, replacing them with a clear and compelling historical analysis that situates the development of the suburbs in relation to the pivotal issues of postwar American life...

Meticulous . . . [Nagle's] passion for the subject really comes to life. --The New York Times New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of household trash and recyclables a day. As quickly as it accumulates, it's hauled away. But who makes...

The Book of Esther has been examined by many, and most tell the story of Esther becoming a Queen and saving her people. Phoenix Rising From The Ashes: My Story of Restoration will examine the process to beautification that Esther experienced which...