Susie and Roberto are putting on a puppet show and all of their friends have come to see it, including she Louie. As the show begins, Louie becomes fascinated by the smiling puppet Gussie and shouts Hello! in front of a silent audience. After the show,...

Get out of Hell free card? Not for Callie Delgado, Gem City's newest soul charmer. Sin and salvation collide in this gritty and action-packed urban fantasy. Callie's magic is finally her own. She and Derek dispatched Ford. They should have been able to...

From Justice Department officials seizing people's homes based on mere rumors to the IRS and its master plan to prohibit the nation's self-employed from working for themselves to the perpetrators of the Waco siege, government officials are tearing the...

They were friends-just friends. Now they're something else entirely...JasonWhen I think back, on almost any given day, I see Maggie. In college, she was my best friend's girlfriend. But, as they say, time changes things. I suppose the funeral was the...

In this second book of the classic chapter book series by award-winning author Sharon M. Draper, four boys who call themselves the Black Dinosaurs explore an old tunnel that once was part of the Underground Railroad. Ziggy, Rico, Rashawn, and Jerome...

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Known World "Original and arresting....[Jones's] stories will touch chords of empathy and recognition in all readers."--Washington Post "These 14 stories of African-American life...affirm humanity as only...

One of thousands of children who fled strife in southern Sudan, John Bul Dau survived hunger, exhaustion, and violence. His wife, Martha, endured similar hardships. In this memorable book, the two convey the best of African values while relating searing...

It was supposed to be quick, in and out. A put the time down type of lick, that's all. But it all went so very wrong...fast. Jabari had this crazy passion for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and making a helluva lot of wrong decisions. His...

Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic...

Greed driven sex traffickers kidnap and sell Nari Bentley a charming, lovely young lady of bi-racial ethnicity, along with her younger sibling into a detestable, cesspool of child pornography and exploitation at the hands of a heartless sex ring leader...

Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. Now he dares to say the unsayable: racism's ugliest legacy is the disease of defeatism that has infected...

Black women's heads of hair are galaxies unto themselves, solar systems, moonscapes, volcanic interiors.--Elizabeth Alexander, from the Introduction Using advertising photographs of black women (and men) drawn from vintage issues of Ebony and Jet...