Non-Fiction

The earth is groaning and rumbling, the foundations of the world systems are shaken, and the whole world is in topsy-turvy. America and the world are plunged by turmoil with rising racial, social, political, economic and geopolitical tensions, street...

Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life. National Book Award winner Nikky Finney's...

Love after Babel is a brilliant new poetry collection by Dalit poet Chandramohan S, a highly charged political treatise. Chandramohan's position as a Dalit writer illuminates his treatment of caste-based oppression, while also creating a sense of radical...

Louisiana Back Road Restaurant Recipes Cookbook, the sixth edition in the STATE BACK ROAD RESTAURANT RECIPES SERIES, is now open. From two-lane highways and interstates, to dirt roads and quaint downtowns, every road leads to delicious food when...

Lost or forgotten were the walls that now proudly carry the messages of calligraffiti artist eL Seed. "Lost Walls", his first book, beautifully and poetically documents these walls, handpicked during his road trip around Tunisia. "Lost Walls" is a...

From Caf' de R'fugi's, the city's first eatery that later became Antoine's, to Toney's Spaghetti House, Houlihan's, and Bali Hai, this guide recalls restaurants from New Orleans' past. Period photographs provide a glimpse into the history of New Orleans'...

People of African descent were some of Galveston's earliest residents, and although they came to the island enslaved, they retained mastery of their culinary traditions. As Galveston's port prospered and became the Wall Street of the South, better job...

Lost Body, Kept Soul encompasses insecurity, brokenness, joy, wholeness and more. It is an inside look into the author's transition in to becoming the woman she was always destined to be. Through poetry Jasmine loses herself to rediscover who she truly...

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...

A provocative, intellectual memoir (USA Today)-from a remarkable new literary voice. Growing up, Thomas Chatterton Williams knew he loved three things in life: his parents, literature, and the intoxicating hip-hop culture that surrounded him. For...

By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guralnick's remarkable work, which from the start has...