Non-Fiction

On December 10, 1953, tragedy was visited on a family when Nathaniel Allen was murdered on the Sampit River by his white employer, who lured him into the meeting under the false promise of reconciliation. Allen's death was recorded as an accidental...

Have you ever wondered if you were meant to complete something that generations before you weren't able to complete? As if your grandparents set out to do something you were meant to finish?Marvin's grandmother fled her home when they attacked. My...

Sometimes life doesn't give you a break. One minute everything is going how it should-- the next, it all comes crashing down. Throughout the journey of life different versions of us emerge in the mirror at different times. Some versions make us proud,...

In her debut poetry collection One Strange Country, Russian-American poet Stella Hayes, replaces one strange country with another she calls home, mapping an origin story of identity, exile and loss. In stark and sharp language, Hayes conveys poems of...

One Race One Blood reveals the origins of the horrors of discrimination, the biblical truth of "interracial" marriage, as well as the proof revealed in the Bible that God created only one race. Explore the science of genetics, melanin and skin tone,...

You want me to pack up, leave everything I know, and go where? Sometimes God asks us to leave the familiar and venture out into the vast unknown, but are we willing? For Pam, the line had been drawn in the sand, quite literally. Through humorous and...

This rich collection of nearly a hundred stories from every part of Africa--legends and folktales, myths and parables, poems, prayers and proverbs--probes deeply into the heart and our relationships with God and one another.

Five years into fatherhood, Calvin Hennick is plagued by self-doubt and full of questions. How can he teach his son to be a man, when his own father figures abandoned him? As a white man, what can he possibly teach his biracial son about how to live as a...

This first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College...

"Personally, I've got a lot invested in reaching my stunning current age, and I'm damned if I'm going to hang on to that youthful crap. (I liked the idea of being a sixty-year-old so much I started claiming that age before I turned fifty-nine.) Parts of...

Carola Luther's new book On the Way to Jerusalem Farm explores the complexities of living in a damaged world. How, it asks, does such a world live in us, and we in it? At the centre of the collection are three sequences, 'Letters to Rasool, ' 'Birthday...

"Read Kuralt's words and discover America with him."UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONALHe has entertained and informed us about ourselves on television for years. Taking to the highways, he has met the little-known and the famous, and shared them with the rest of...