The extraordinary story of how Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Joe Namath, his star quarterback at the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to victory and transformed football into a truly national pastime. During the bloodiest years of the civil...

A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history.--Newsday An engaging social history that reveals the critical role Pullman porters played in the struggle for African American civil rights When George Pullman began...

Jason Bujnoch's debut Urban Fiction, Rising Dragonfly, leaps off the page like a Bruce Lee film on steroids. The hero, the wildly eccentric "Ting," is accidentally thrown into a tilt-a-whirl of action when a gang of terrorist shrimpers start removing...

Jashi betrayed them. Kahmel protected them. Together, they must unite them.Nothing is more important to Jashi than proving her worth to her country. But her new role as Faresha and rebel member is both uncomfortable and daunting. Perhaps it's the...

"Gleason is really on a roll!" -- Publishers Weekly The saga of Victoria Gardella continues as the glorious nineteenth-century city of Rome gives rise to a new threat from the immortal undead.... Lady Victoria Gardella Grantworth de Lacy has been a...

Alex Verus must keep his friends close--and his enemies closer--in the epic conclusion to the bestselling urban fantasy series about a London-based mage. Mage Alex Verus has gone from a Camden shopkeeper to one of the most powerful mages in Britain. Now...

NCSS Septima Clark Book Award Elementary Level WinnerIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, this beautiful biography of Maya Angelou describes how she rose above a childhood of trauma and emotional...

This groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson protests, the Obama and Trump administrations, and the...

The follow-up to Larger Than Lyfe--Keshari Mitchell is back in Los Angeles after faking her death to escape from a life of crime. After a massive, identity-altering, physical transformation in Brazil, Keshari Mitchell is back as "Darian Boudreaux" and...

Dirt is for heroes.Mara Duval, a spacer born on Tombaugh Station, came down to Earth prepared to endure six weeks of exile on the disease-ridden, war-torn wasteland that spacers call dirt. Instead, she discovered the Space Service's stranglehold on...

Ripples of Hope brings together the most influential and important civil rights speeches from the entire range of American history-from the colonial period to the present. Gathered from the great speeches of the civil rights movement of African...

Antrone Davis attends Ella Baker Elementary School in the Truth Towers neighborhood in Chicago's inner city. Antrone's future hangs in the balance between life-long success and life-long failure, possibly even between a rewarding life and an early death...