Dyamonde, a third grader, has wild-crazy hair, is skinnier than half a toothpick and is more than equal to the challenge of entering the crowded field of confident grade school heroines.--New York Times Dyamonde Daniel may be new in town, but that...

Make The Hood Healthy Again is a holistic wellness manual aimed at Urban America. This book lays out the foundational work for one looking to be healthier spiritually, mentally, and physically. Make The Hood Healthy Again travels back in time to examine...

Ever the prodigal son, Gavin Danvers returns to Heron's Landing to move on from his recent divorce. With his young daughter in tow, Gavin wants to rebuild his life-alone. He's done with love and marriage forever.Gavin's resolve is tested when he meets...

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...