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Bear it or perish yourself. Those are the words Helen Jean hears that fateteful night in her cousin's outhouse that change the trajectory of her life. Spanning decades, Perish tracks the choices Helen Jean the matriarch of the Turner famil
1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army.

Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions …
Young Adult
Sparks fly when Orion and Ray meet for the first time at a roller rink in Memphis. But these star-crossed souls have a past filled with secrets that threaten to tear them apart …

A debut picture book sharing the great and varied history of Black Americans, A through Z.



Local Bestseller
We live in a world that's ever changing and can sometimes feel overwhelming with not knowing enough of the right things to keep us afloat…!
Children Picture Books
"Carter G. Woodson didn't just read history. He changed it." As the father of Black History Month,…

Already excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom

At Banneker Terrace, everybody knows everybody, or at least knows of them. Longtime tenants’ lives are entangled together in the ups and downs of the dayto-day, for better or for worse.
Serena, Michelle, Kenya, and Lynette have been best friends since they were small children. And as sister friends forever, they have always been there for one another, through good times and bad, no matter what.

Authentic Spiritual Autobiography, which tells the Story, Growing up in Fort Worth in the Wesley Chapel AME Church and Graduating from one of the best High Schools in Fort Worth TX.
Xavier Moon is not one to steal the show. He’s perfectly content to play…
