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"Author Ross Gay spent a year writing almost-daily essays about the things, large and small, that delight him"--

Born a slave in Virginia in 1856, Booker T. Washington rose in prominence to become black America's foremost spokesman. This is the dramatic autobiographical account of Washington's struggle to succeed and prosper in a country that refused to acknowledge his existence. From his fight for an education to his founding of the world-renowned Tuskegee Institute, Up From Slavery is one of the most significant and defining works in American literature.

"A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American historyBorn a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life--perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives. It became an immediate bestseller and today...

"The story of America's first Black engineer, his revolutionary son, and the corporation that destroyed their relationship"-- "In 1946, John Stanley Ford was hired as the IBM's first black software engineer. But many of the company's white employees refused to accept a black colleague and did everything in their power to humiliate, subvert, and undermine Ford. Yet Ford would not quit, recognizing that he had an obligation to his race as a "first."...

Booker T. Washington did more to shape the post-slavery culture of the African-American community than just about anyone. This collection includes his fascinating memoirs, as well as the first history ever written about his people. His philosophy called for black integration through education and financial success and set the stage for what was the dominant approach of African-American elites for generations.

Alice Walker's first published book collects poems written as a student and on her first visit to Africa  For readers seeking the origins of Alice Walker's potent, distinctive voice, this collection will provide ample insight. Composed while she was still a student at Sarah Lawrence College in the late 1960s, these poems are already engaged with some of the moral dilemmas that have defined Walker's entire career. Luminous vignettes from her first...

Carolina Red FOREWARD by Ray Shell I have lived in the UK since 1978. I returned to the USA in 2013 when my Mother passed away which remains the most traumatic event of my life. I'm at the age when a lot of my friends have parents that are either living in the next room with them, being cared for in a hospital or nursing home, are dying, or have just died. Returning to the USA from being away so long was a shock for me especially when hearing,...

All of Chenille Abrams' dreams came true the day she married NFL star Brayden Carpenter. He's the down-to-earth, loving, and protective man she never thought she'd find. And with her own successful career, Chenille plans to be more than just a famous athlete's wife. She's determined to balance work, marriage, and motherhood, as the couple awaits their first child... Until their son is born with a crippling heart ailment. Until a devastated Brayden...

From New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe, the riveting tale of family loyalty, betrayal, and sweet revenge. Seth Garrett's family taught him that anything less than the best simply isn't an option. Now he's out to prove he can be the most successful Garrett-and Rachel McNeal fits the bill. She's pretty, hard-working, good in bed-and willing to finance his dreams. He thinks she's perfect wife material-until he meets her relatives and discovers...

A New York Times Notable Book: A novel spanning two decades in the lives of an African American family as their upstate New York steel town slowly decays. Set just outside Buffalo, New York, during the 1960s and '70s, All-Bright Court paints a portrait of the Taylor family-starting with hopeful dreams as Samuel Taylor and his wife, Mary Kate, migrate from the South looking for better opportunities and a place to raise a family, and continuing through...