Dirty Game is the blazing new novel from the #1 Essence bestselling author and undisputed king of urban lit, Shannon Holmes. Kenny Ken-Ken Greene left his days as a hustler behind him when his wife was killed during a scam gone bad, leaving him with a...

Following the phenomenal success of Essence bestsellers Dirty Red and Still Dirty, Vickie M. Stringer takes readers on another bumpy ride in Dirtier Than Ever with Red, Bacon, and Q--the crazy love-hate triangle who makes the series a favorite among...

In a world where dark skin and textured hair have not always been celebrated, Dipped in Chocolate highlights the beauty of dark skin and the diversity of textured hair. This stunning, rhyming picture book encourages children to love and embrace their...

In a world where dark skin and textured hair have not always been celebrated, Dipped in Chocolate highlights the beauty of dark skin and the diversity of textured hair. This stunning, rhyming picture book encourages children to love and embrace their...

Could he be the one foretold? Faith and doubt wrestle to save the world. Could his doubt stand in the way of his nation's unity? His doubt may prove the undoing of his world. When you wrestle with destiny, who wins? In a struggle with doubt could...

Your mission: To unite a nation divided by a forest of lies.. When privilege becomes an unbearable burden. When you must discard your privilege to bring peace. What is a life of privilege worth if there's no peace? One journey to save the world. One...

A hero's journey starts with a single step--but what if that step rested on a broken foundation?When all you know about your world crumbles into ashes.When truth rests on a broken foundation.When what you believe to be true lies on a broken foundation.A...

"Be young tonight, if you must. For tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow you will grow old, and the night will no longer be your lover."The powers of the pantheon have faded. The gods live amongst the mortals, grasping for what little of their divinity...

Back when people spent their whole lives in one place, life was all about family and family rituals. It was about the whole clan gathering at dinnertime over meals to be remembered forever. Luann Landon's cookbook/memoir transports us to that world of...

The years immediately following the Second World War witnessed a dramatic transformation of America's working-class suburbs, driven by an unprecedented post-war prosperity and a burgeoning consumer culture. Chrome and neon were the new currency in this...

Sacred myths from Santería centered on nature and the natural world - Includes more than 40 myths, stories, and histories from the Lucumí tradition - Reassembles the oral fragments from the African diaspora into coherent stories - Demonstrates that the...

"A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book....Beautiful and powerful...you will not encounter another book like it."--National Review online In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers...

"Reapers, vampires, and... zombies?" Helena Pierce is recovering from the shock of her life... er, death. While she's trying to cope with her world getting turned on end once again, her best friend Grace comes to her with disturbing news: Boude, Grace's...

Roots are usually kept underground, out of sight, out of mind, like the necessities of the Underground Railroad kind. Black folks have been digging deep down in those roots for years. They have been pulling up from the roots in their hair to the cotton...

Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal ★"King's narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . . [Dig] will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking...

Different Like Me is a book that speaks to our black youth and serves as an aid for families to navigate conversations of racial differences, being considered "different," and loving ourselves for our differences. The book also introduces an avenue to...