In the spring of 1968, the Omaha Central High School basketball team made history with its first all-black starting lineup. Their nickname, the Rhythm Boys, captured who they were and what they did on the court. Led by star center Dwaine Dillard, the...

This New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year is a powerful tale of racial tensions across generations (People) that explores the depths of women's relationships--powerful women and marginalized women, healers and survivors. In 1924, Josephine...

SEERS FORETELL THE BIRTH OF A LEGENDARY KING. His ascendance will spell the end to the centuries-old enslavement of his race. Knowing this, a head-of-state plots a mass genocide. Its failure drives him to forge an uneasy alliance with a rival possessing...

A riveting novel about tragic hero Nat Turner's uprising, capture, and trial--and how he impacted life in the United States forever. The truth has been buried more than one hundred years . . . Leading a small army of slaves, Nat Turner was a man born...

This work is an extended exhortation urging white ministers and slaveowners to attend to the spiritual needs of slaves and free blacks. The book is broken into four parts. The first part is an historical sketch of slavery in the Colonies and the United...

Since the last Ice Age, the reindeer's extraordinary adaptation to cold has sustained human life over vast tracts of the earth's surface, providing meat, fur, and transport. Images carved into rocks and tattooed on the skin of mummies hint at ancient...

Database logic nowadays appears to be imposed as a norm; its inclusion is visible in science, media, social networking, state governing, policy making, juridical processes, and military interventions, but also in a wider range of art practices, including...

THE REDEMPTION CHRONICLES: The Onset, is a two-fold story of Mack Trimble Jr, better known as "Bubbahead"-a street poisoned dope dealer running wild.On a Saturday out with his close friends, Bubbahead meets a female, Shanai Terrell Hall, someone that's...

There is only one Gargoyle left.It is only a matter of time now before the Twelve Generals defeat the remaining Gargoyle and open the gates of hell to let their brethren take over the world. It has been two thousand years and Gwen and the others are...

Tulsa resident Deborah J. Hunter is an award-winning poet, spoken-word performance artist, and actor. Since 1997, she has facilitated poetry workshops and worked as a poet-in-residence in schools and community programs across the state. Her poetry has...

Amira, look at me, Muma insists.She collects both my hands in hers.The Janjaweed attack without warning.If ever they come -- run.Finally, Amira is twelve. Old enough to wear a toob, old enough for new responsibilities. And maybe old enough to go to...

"Written with love, told with joy. Very easy to enjoy."--Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove For fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared comes a heartwarming debut about 96-year-old...