Val Shapiro has a secret she's desperate to keep-she's lost her slayer powers. As the new guardian of the Encyclopedia Magicka, Val expected the books to give her powers to replace those that disappeared after she lost her "V card" to Shade. But the...

Make it Shine! is a celebration and appreciation of language diversity and poetic forms such as dub-wise and narrative poetry poised for performance. The reader becomes engaged through the rhythms of speech and humour whilst identifying with a character...

Black Americans have always relied on the oral tradition -- storytelling, preaching, and speechmaking -- to assert their rights and preserve and pass on their history and culture. In the pulpit, courtroom, or cotton field, they have understood the power...

From the founder of the "I Have a Future Program" comes a memoir recounting his notable career as a physician and experience as a controversial nominee for surgeon general as Dr. Henry W. Foster, Jr. shares his vision for the youth of America. Between...

MAIDEN navigates holy themes of longing and purpose with adventurous instinct, applying steady tone to vibrant images of the complex intensity that is existence. travis leads an expedition to the most human places of the divine, removing the shame from...

#1 New York Times BestsellerFollowing the launch of her #1 New York Times bestselling cookbook, Magnolia Table, and seeing her family's own sacred dishes being served at other families' tables across the country, Joanna Gaines gained a deeper commitment...

Dark powers she can't control. Deadly hunters tracking her down. Can she rip the target off her back before it turns fatal? Jun Bear has lived with bad luck all her life. And when a professor threatens to give her a failing grade, the college senior sees...

Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs...

An Oxford professor of archaeology explores the unique history of magic--the oldest and most neglected strand of human behavior and its resurgence today Three great strands of belief run through human history: Religion is the relationship with one god...

Magic is real - and it's a bitch.Between her divorce, her terrible boss, and her dwindling finances, impulsive Mattie's life is getting more and more complicated by the day. So when she learns that Tillie, her twin sister, is missing, she drops...

Lochlan learned the hard way.Power attracts enemies. So does fighting shoulder to shoulder with a God. But that was a long time ago - a past he's worked hard to bury.Now, in the Year 2047, Lochlan takes the public bus to his soul-sucking job answering...

A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will somehow, magically, turn out for the best. -- Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionWith a new Afterword from the author reflecting on the 100th anniversary of one of the most...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!Blast from the past!Spring equinox was supposed to be a fun time in Black Sands.The magical Spring Games are being held in town, with all kinds of new talent and tourists pouring money into the economy. Of...

Together They Fall With both Scott and Layla West behind bars, it's now up to Bugsy and Lucky to run the family businesses. Lucky quickly steps into Layla's shoes, but being second-in-command to an absentee boss has her feeling unsatisfied...

Divided They Stand Chaos, betrayal, and turmoil have divided the West family into two factions. When the Mafioso squares off against a Boss Bitch, things are bound to get explosive. Layla begins her solo reign of terror with seed...

Meet Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to travel to space.Fact-filled Rookie Read-About Biographies introduce the youngest readers to influential women and men, both past and present. Colorful photos and age appropriate text encourage...