In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down 3,000 men and women who had been enslaved before and...

Sometimes a family grows from the most unlikely of friends. A lonely little girl living with a strict stepfather and mother. A woman just released from prison, seeking a job and a new purpose for her life. An aging matriarch with a sense of humor and a...

River by Design marks 100 years since the Boise River emerged as an engineering sensation with the dedication of Arrowrock Dam. Sequenced like a tour with stops in Boise, Garden City, Eagle, Caldwell, and Parma, these essays collectively search for the...

While Africa is the continent on which human life began, it is also a continent that has been invaded throughout the history of mankind. Christianity was firmly established in North Africa by the third century CE only to be extinguished when Islam...

As the reigning Queen of Radio, Ritz Harper has managed to out, ridicule, jack up or mess over everyone and anyone, from hip-hop stars to high-class snobs--so she's decided to take her career to the next level: Hollywood, baby! Decked out in Chanel from...

Rita Washington, 17, is a wise-beyond-her-years African American street raised young lady who acts as the provider for her 8-year old sister Diamond Washington because her mother is strung out on heroin. After she nearly loses everything dear to her...

The extraordinary story of how Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Joe Namath, his star quarterback at the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to victory and transformed football into a truly national pastime. During the bloodiest years of the civil...

A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history.--Newsday An engaging social history that reveals the critical role Pullman porters played in the struggle for African American civil rights When George Pullman began...

Jason Bujnoch's debut Urban Fiction, Rising Dragonfly, leaps off the page like a Bruce Lee film on steroids. The hero, the wildly eccentric "Ting," is accidentally thrown into a tilt-a-whirl of action when a gang of terrorist shrimpers start removing...

Jashi betrayed them. Kahmel protected them. Together, they must unite them.Nothing is more important to Jashi than proving her worth to her country. But her new role as Faresha and rebel member is both uncomfortable and daunting. Perhaps it's the...

"Gleason is really on a roll!" -- Publishers Weekly The saga of Victoria Gardella continues as the glorious nineteenth-century city of Rome gives rise to a new threat from the immortal undead.... Lady Victoria Gardella Grantworth de Lacy has been a...

Alex Verus must keep his friends close--and his enemies closer--in the epic conclusion to the bestselling urban fantasy series about a London-based mage. Mage Alex Verus has gone from a Camden shopkeeper to one of the most powerful mages in Britain. Now...

NCSS Septima Clark Book Award Elementary Level WinnerIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, this beautiful biography of Maya Angelou describes how she rose above a childhood of trauma and emotional...

This groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson protests, the Obama and Trump administrations, and the...

The follow-up to Larger Than Lyfe--Keshari Mitchell is back in Los Angeles after faking her death to escape from a life of crime. After a massive, identity-altering, physical transformation in Brazil, Keshari Mitchell is back as "Darian Boudreaux" and...