The classic cookbook from "the first lady of Southern cooking" (NPR), featuring a new foreword by the James Beard Award-winning chef Mashama Bailey Decades before cornbread, shrimp and grits, and peach cobbler were mainstays on menus everywhere, Edna...

When sex abuse and crime are seen through innocent eyes, they become embedded into one's core--thus, producing criminal behavior, patterns of abuse, and violence. Meet Tyshann. Journey with her as she turns from innocent eyes to street criminal and...

Sophie lives with Mama and Daddy and Grandpa, who spends his days by the window. Every day after school, it's Grandpa whom Sophie runs to. Here I am, Grandpa!Ah, Sophie, how was your day? As Sophie and her grandpa talk, he asks her to find items he's...

In Our Words: Queer Stories from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Writers is a thoughtfully curated collection of short stories at the intersection of racial and queer identity. Comprising both the renowned and emerging voices of Black, Indigenous,...

"I have lived for months where my only neighbors were Indians and my one music the howl of the coyote." - Charlotte Tanner Nelson It was a land the devil wouldn't have, made of sand and mountains filled with wild beasts and wild men. Yet in the eighteen...

Long-listed for the 2018 Man Booker PrizeShort-listed for the 2018 Gordon Burn PrizeShort-listed for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics, Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City...

We The PeopleThe Bill of Rights defines and defends the freedoms we enjoy as Americans -- from the right to bear arms to the right to a civil jury. Using the dramatic true stories of people whose lives have been deeply affected by such issues as the...

This book is the primer on human trafficking in North America. In recent years, Americans have woken up to the reality that human trafficking is not just something that happens in other countries. But what most still do not understand is that neither is...

With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm,...

Being in love with the plug isn't always easy, especially when that love is forbidden. Best friends, Purple and Breelynn, know that all too well. After secretly being in a relationship for the past two years with Em-kay, Purple's brother, Breelynn has...

Qua loves Wynner. Wynner loves Qua. Easy enough, right? But Wynner comes with two brothers who can't stand Qua with their baby sister. In spite of it all, Qua grabs Wynner's hand and marries her at the courthouse.Flash forward five years, and Qua has...

In sway of Love, while Single and hoping for an eventual marriage; one may have become too good at being alone. With the realization that one is not, Alisia Latoi wrote this collection of prose and poems that tell a story, not of why or how, but of what...

A controversial new novel from critically acclaimed Essence bestseller Reginald L. Hall explores the attraction of dating a bad boy from an entirely new angle. During college, Juan Jiles fell in love with Darrell, who convinced Juan to help him rob one...

Dumped by her high school sweetheart for not being out and proud, bi-racial Tori Kahl struggles with college life, her demanding mother, and the legacy of her dead sister, Keisha. Her only escape comes from her horse and her job at the stables. Then...

ANTHONY J THOMPSON(TONY) was born in Waycross Ga. a family of 8. attended elementary in Waycross, and upstate New York. in 1965 moved to Daytona Beach and was placed in 5th grade instead of 6th (had no records to prove different). I attended old Campbell...

In Glory's Shadow explores the history of The Citadel, an institution set on preserving tradition in the face of profound change. Established as protection against slave insurrections feared by the white minority of Charleston, South Carolina, a...