“A beautifully written and evocative book.”—Danielle Evans, author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize “Written by the hand of a poet, the prose in this collection is consistently beautiful.”—Elizabeth Nunez, author of Prospero’s...

An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom Saints is a powerful blend of fact and imagination reminiscent of E.L. Doctorow's classic novel Ragtime and Marlon James' Man Booker Award-winning masterpiece, A Brief...

A dazzling literary debut that reimagines The Odyssey and asks what power do we have to control our own fate when destiny feels pre-determined and the systems of the world are broken? Eurick Ulysse is irrevocably trapped: by poverty, by class, and...

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Another Brooklyn with this trade paperback special edition featuring a new foreword from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Woodson. For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories, and transports her to a time...

A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award New York Times Bestseller A SeattleTimes pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017 A Bustle Fall Roundup pick for 2017 The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty...

Set in a colorfully painted but crumbling housing project near a Buffalo, New York, steel mill, this "novel full of wisdom, grace and poetry" (Newsday) traces two decades in the lives of the project's residents. At the heart of this...

Revere, Mississippi, with its population of "20,000 and sinking," is not unlike most Southern towns in the 1960s. Blacks live on one side of town and whites on the other. The two rarely mix. Or so everyone believes. But the...

“32 cheers for Ernessa T. Carter! She’s created one of the freshest, funniest characters I’ve ever read….32 Candles is a charmer.”—Carleen Brice, author of Orange Mint and Honey 32 Candles by exciting newcomer Ernessa T. Carter is the slightly twisted, utterly romantic, and...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866. Introduction into America through Canada; remote and proximate Causes, Symptoms and Pathology, and the various Modes of Treatment analyzed.

Every life has a story; a story with many "ifs" and many "buts." The story of Cynthia's life also has many ifs and buts. Cynthia's life is a puzzle of relationships, with the central piece missing: her relationship with herself....

Appendix to Marine Shells of South Africa - a catalogue of all the known species - with references to figures in various works, descriptions of new species is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is...

The title “Annals of Africa’s Saints and Leviathans” metaphorically suggests a juxtaposition between virtuous people (saints) and oppressive rulers (leviathans) in Africa. It implies a historical narrative that chronicles the lives of those who have fought for justice, freedom, and equality against...

Fascinated by a mysterious novella, aspiring journalist Robin Fletcher is determined to find out more about the book's main character, a man known only as J.B. His quest leads him from the wheat fields of Kansas to a small, disadvantaged...

Africa's Embrace is author Mark Wentling’s fictional account about the adventures of a young man from Kansas who travels to Africa and becomes caught up in a mystical, larger-than-life adventure. This well-crafted novel revolves around a young man named David,...

Africa's Embrace is author Mark Wentling’s fictional account about the adventures of a young man from Kansas who travels to Africa and becomes caught up in a mystical larger-than-life adventure. This well-crafted novel revolves around the main character of “David,”...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

In Africa: Through a Mirror, Saikou Camara acknowledges that the African has been brutalized, dehumanized and depersonalized by legalized colonial supremacy for over 300 years. In spite of all the injustice, as a born proud African, he makes a call...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Reproduction of the original: Adventures in Africa by W.H.G Kingston

Secrets haunt Adam Broadford’s extraordinary life. The ugly divisions of race, religion, and politics in the early 60’s and 70’s of Africa gnaws at him. Beauty and brutality are constantly at odds. Happiness and sadness are locked in a dance....

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

An Account Of The Gold Coast Of Africa: With A Brief History Of The African Company by Henry Meredith is a historical and descriptive survey of the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) as known to British traders in the early 19th...

An Account Of The Gold Coast Of Africa: With A Brief History Of The African Company by Henry Meredith is a historical and descriptive survey of the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) as known to British traders in the early 19th...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1812.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1812.

Harry Collingwood's sea tale "The Adventures of Dick Maitland" may be very thrilling because it follows the main individual, Dick Maitland, on numerous thrilling adventures. Maitland is a brave and professional swimmer who's at the middle of the tale. On...