Gloria T. Hull | Give Us Each Day | A significant life, scrappily skimmed. Alice Dunbar-Nelson (I 875-1935) was the widow of black poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar (d. 1906), and a writer and a
A.C. Wise | The Kissing Booth Girl And Other Stories | Some story collections are tied together by themes, others voice, still others ideas. A.C.Wise’s second collection, The Kissing Booth Girl and Other S
Nicky Drayden | The Prey of Gods | In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. The government is harnessing renewable ener
Chinelo Okparanta | Under The Udala Trees | Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to s
Zelda Lockhart | Fifth Born Ii: the Hundredth Turtle | Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle is sequel to the novel Fifth Born. Set in New York s Harlem and in rural Mississippi during the late 1970 s
Roxane Gay | Difficult Women | Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection B
Charles Vert Willie; Richard Reddick | A New Look At Black Families | A New Look at Black Families provides a provocative and precocious analysis of the diversity of the black family experience in which black families of
E. Patrick Johnson | Black. Queer. Southern. Women. | Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South,
Alethia Jones; Virginia Eubanks; Barbara Smith | Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around | 2015 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, presented by the Publishing Triangle
2015 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir/Biography, pr
Rebekah Weatherspoon | Treasure | Her sister’s bachelorette party is the highlight of a miserable year for Alexis Chambers, but once her bridesmaid’s dress is packed away, she’s back t
