An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His home and himself in it, may no longer...
African Americans
- Author:Morrison, ToniSummary:
- Author:Hurston, Zora NealeSummary:
A collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem...
- Author:Sitomer, Alan LawrenceSummary:
Follows an African-American teenager through four years at her inner-city high school.
- Author:Jackson, BrendaSummary:
All she has to do is be his lover for a week... And when the man is gorgeous Galen Steele, what woman could possibly say no? Brittany Thrasher has her own hidden motives for accepting Galen's proposal. Only the savvy businesswoman...
- Author:Alers, RochelleSummary:
Super Bowl MVP Brandt Wainwright's good fortune runs out when he crashes his SUV into a tree. During the long recuperation, the fun-loving quarterback becomes cranky and sullen--until private nurse Ciara Dennison shows up for duty.
- Author:Roby, Kimberla LawsonSummary:
A poignant story of two strong, intelligent women facing tragedy, surviving loss and terrible sorrow, and ultimately learning that only with each other's help can they heal the hurt and celebrate the joy in their lives.
- Author:Sanders, DoriSummary:
Living through momentous transformations, Mae Lee Barnes, a South Carolina farm girl, goes from war bride to proud grandmother.
- Author:Eisen-Martin, TongoSummary:
This is truly revolutionary poetry. From the corner store to the dilapidated school, from the alleys between downtown office buildings to the prison, voices that have been through too much to care and yet still struggle on, relate the...
- Author:A'zaylerSummary:
They inherited ultimate power ... Heir to the infamous DeLuca drug cartel fortune, Angel DeLuca walked away from it all for a normal life-until a wrenching betrayal shattered his belief in anything but saving his family's hard-won...
- Author:Grant, MicheleSummary:
Best friends Jewellen and Renee think they know Dallas men like the backs of their hands. But that's before Jewellen unexpectedly falls for a guy from the wrong side of the tracks, and Renee gets lured away from her own man by a hard-...
- Author:Rhodes-Pitts, SharifaSummary:
As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy. Drawing on Harlem's history and her own observations, Rhodes-Pitts introduces a variety of observers who shared...
- Author:Cherry, Matthew A.Summary:
Zuri's hair has a mind of its own. It kinks, coils, and curls every which way. Zuri knows it's beautiful. When Daddy steps in to style it for an extra special occasion, he has a lot to learn. But he loves his Zuri, and he'll do anything...
- Author:Weber, CarlSummary:
From the minds of New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber and Essence bestseller La Jill Hunt comes the newest entry into the game-changing Family Business saga. The year is 1978, the Duncan brothers and their tough-as-nails women...
- Author:Griggs, Vanessa DavisSummary:
Gabrielle's girlhood dream of becoming a dancer slips away when life takes an unexpected turn. But after she meets the man of her dreams at church, everything seems to be falling into place--until a past secret threatens to tear her...
- Author:Little, BenildeSummary:
Alice Andrews, a reporter in Newark, falls in love with handsome, Harvard-educated surgeon Jack Russworm, but class differences, especially his upper-crust African American background threaten their romance.
- Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:
"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and...
- Author:Lyons, Kelly StarlingSummary:
"On reunion morning, we rise before the sun. Daddy hums as he packs our car with suitcases and a cooler full of snacks. He says there's nothing like going down home." Down home is Granny's house. Down home is where Lil' Alan and his...
- Author:Monroe, MarySummary:
Annette Goode Davis is thankful that her husband Pee Wee has decided to give her a second chance after discovering she's having an affair. But post-betrayal Pee Wee seems a million miles away, and with true forgiveness the bitterest of...
- Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:
Moving through time from the rural South to the northern ghetto, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one...
- Author:Smith, CharlieSummary:
Haunted by his mother's disappearance, Delvin Walker rides the rails, falls in love, and sees an America sliding into the Great Depression. But as he is pushed deeper into the darkness of imprisonment after being falsely charged with...