In A Death in Harlem, famed scholar Karla FC Holloway weaves a mystery in the bon vivant world of the Harlem Renaissance. Taking as her point of departure the tantalizingly ambiguous "death by misadventure" at the climax of Nella Larsen's Passing,...

Riley Jones is off to a cursed start this holiday season. After finding a dead body at a Christmas party, she can't imagine things could get any worse. But when a beloved resident goes missing soon after, she knows something wicked is brewing. Following...

This book kicks off a charming cozy mystery series set in an ice cream shop--with a fabulous cast of quirky characters. Recent MBA grad Bronwyn Crewse has just taken over her family's ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and she's going back to basics...

Dezi Gianni is a very much a man used to getting what he wants. Kayla DeWitt, the beautiful woman dining in the restaurant where he and his partner are having lunch, is no exception. Dezi finds himself in a constant battle keeping the true depth of his...

Jevaun was no longer interested in playing baseball on Saturdays. Instead, he quit the team and settled into a weekend routine of sleeping in and playing video games.This was until his parents sent him on an adventure with his Uncle Bembe that helped...

A Day of Rain is a collection of LGBT short stories narrating the lives of those who struggle with romance, heartbreak, loss, rejection and acceptance on rainy days and nights.

The Black man from birth until death has been saddled with systemic racism, discrimination, and police violence. These immoral acts are parallel to the genocide of the American Indians, the indigenous people of this land, or the deliberate and systematic...

An innocent online DNA test releases fifty years of hidden and long-buried secrets. Her husband takes an online DNA test to help in building his family tree and research his ancestry. His wife is somewhat amused by it and doesn't have much interest in it...

An innocent online DNA test releases fifty years of hidden and long-buried secrets. Her husband takes an online DNA test to help in building his family tree and research his ancestry. His wife is somewhat amused by it and doesn't have much interest in it...

A Daughter of the Samurai offers an elegant account of a world that had all but vanished by the time Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto put pen to paper. In her beguiling memoir Sugimoto chronicles her childhood in the frozen Nagaoka region of Japan, where she grows...

How much is one man willing to sacrifice to prove that black lives matter?Ishmael "Ish" Carter is an African American computer whiz. He left his successful software company to proudly fight for his country against the Taliban.But he's disturbed by the...

Courage to Love in the Shadow of HateA Darker Shade of Pale tells of Beryl Crosher-Segers' family and community life in apartheid-era South Africa. With a piercing narrative, she details the injustices, humiliation and challenges she faced under the...

Roger L. Green was born in Nebraska-the third of four children in his family. The Green family moved to Africa in 1950, staying for 10 years. After returning to the U.S. from Africa, Roger graduated from the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and went into...

It was the last day of rehearsals for tomorrow's Festival of Dance in the park. Kaa'hina was practising her African dance routine. For some unknown reason she kept getting her steps wrong. With all the reassurances from her mother and her teacher, she...

This story is for all those great fathers out there that have taken the responsibility of being called daddy, an honor and privilege. For those fathers that enjoy and look forward to leading and guiding their children through this journey called life,...