Mara Brock Akil, the award-winning creator of Girlfriends, Being Mary Jane, Love Is, and Forever, pens an emotionally enthralling debut novel about enduring love, world-shattering secrets, and self-awakening.What happens when one knock at your door...

Young people fight for survival during and immediately after the Revolutionary War in these five brilliant, searing novels by New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Laurie Halse Anderson--now available together in one...

Founded in 1876, Prairie View A&M University is the second-oldest public institution of higher learning in Texas, one of two Texas land-grant universities, and an "institution of the first class" within the Texas A&M University System. It is also the...

In this "gorgeously compassionate" (Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage) debut reminiscent of Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, two men in Atlanta reconcile their human dignity against the price of their professional...

A dark, emotionally charged thriller where three sisters, bound by blood and divided by secrets, are forced to confront the violent past that made them. Stormi Feathers learned early that monsters can live inside the people meant to protect you. The...

Portia is the madam of an elite prostitution ring in the hood. It might be time for this circle to meet its demise. Portia grew up in the ass-for-cash game, seeing the best and surviving the worst. At five years old, hungry and huddled near a dumpster,...

As Prohibition era speakeasies and Jazz Age excitement reign supreme throughout a deeply divided country at the height of the Roaring 20s, a young psychic in small town Illinois helps the Black community fight crime and corruption in this thrilling...

A daredevil lawyer meets a gorgeous single mom with a guarded heart in this sizzling second chances romance from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson!After uncovering a slew of family secrets--including his Westmoreland cousins--single dad...

A conspiracy draws Julius Jr. into the brutal streets of South Dallas, where pimping, drug dealing, treachery, and betrayal go hand in hand. Julius Jr.'s childhood is far less than perfect. He is torn between his mother and father, who are going through...

During the Jim Crow era, Black activists appealed to a diverse population of migrating Black Americans by making them viscerally feel that the threat of anti-Black violence continued to afflict them as a group and to undergird blackness itself. To this...

During the Jim Crow era, Black activists appealed to a diverse population of migrating Black Americans by making them viscerally feel that the threat of anti-Black violence continued to afflict them as a group and to undergird blackness itself. To this...

Across a range of literary texts, Black writers depict taking flight to escape systems of subordination from the Middle Passage and the plantation to the present-day racialized order. While flight, air, and aviation technologies have long held out the...