When adult Levonne Gaddy returns to the rural North Carolina community, where she was born and raised, to attend her mother's funeral, the director bars her entry to the viewing room, assuming she is white and therefore not related to the "colored" woman...

The flyer reads, "One dark mulatto runaway, aged fourteen, well dressed and bright..." Blanche thinks he has it good. He has risen above the field hands to a position helping run a printing press. He's well fed, never physically mistreated, and he has...

The story of Mia and her family and friends at the Calivista Motel continues in this powerful, hilarious, and resonant sequel to the award-winning novel Front Desk.Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Day (writing as S.J. Day) comes Three Eves, starting with Eve of Darkness. This steamy urban fantasy series tells the story of Evangeline Hollis, a heavenly bounty hunter, who's cursed by God, hunted by...

A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime minister flounders as his ministers betray him, alliances fall...

Back in the day, sex, drugs, and Run-DMC ruled. New York City during the 1980s was a breeding ground for experimental artists, from Andy Warhol to Jean-Michel Basquiat to Madonna. Among them: Crow Shade, a drug-addicted hustler who manages to convince an...

It is an account of the author's visit to his native country, Ghana, after almost 13 years' absence (1994-2007). It details the quite remarkable improvement in the economic and political life of the country that had taken place in his absence. The book...

The location is South-side Jamaica, a rough and tough neighborhood in Queens, New York, and home to Babita Harris, an uninsured single parent who falls ill after returning home from vacation. She is taken to a hospital, where Salome McBryant diagnoses...

Barnes, Demus, and Baker are back with another actioned-packed adventure. This time, they travel to Monomotapa, Alkebulan, where the king and queen were recently slain by Ego, a familiar nemesis who the three Black boys thought they had destroyed in the...

What is written without pain, said Doctor Johnson, is rarely read with pleasure. Rarely perhaps, but not, I hope, never: for the little essays in this book were written, I must confess, without much angst. In part this was because, in writing them, I had...

The full range of U.S. foreign policy issues must be involved, beyond those concerning refugees and migration policies alone. Can U.S. aid, trade, and investment policies affect the exodus of illegal migrants from sending countries? Can U.S. population...

19th Poet Laureate of the United States "A powerful, beautifully crafted book."--The Washington Post "Ripe with the perfidies and paradoxes of thralldom both personal and public, it is utterly elegant."--Elle Charting the intersections of public and...