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Danilo Osorio Jr.’s baseball skills were once the pride of his father and entire hometown of El Chorrillo, Panamá. But that was then, and this is now… Following 1989's Operation Just Cause, a US military invasion that left his neighborhood decimated, Danilo couldn’t care less about baseball or the father who abandoned him for opportunities in the States. Now Danilo’s focus is taking care of his m...
Danilo Was Here
By: Tamika Burgess
Release: January 2025
Danilo Osorio Jr.’s baseball skills were once the pride of his father and entire hometown of El Chorrillo, Panamá. But that was then, and this is now… Following 1989's Operation Just Cause, a US military invasion that left his neighborhood decimated, Danilo couldn’t care less about baseball or the father who abandoned him for opportunities in the States. Now Danilo’s focus is taking care of his m...
Everyone has their heroes; mine were my parents, the Late Robert “Babe” Pearson and Fannie Bell “Queenie” Lancaster-Pearson. I have given so many talks about them, and everyone always says “I like hearing the stories about your parents”. Well, on November 2020, my late father went on to Glory, and I became the babysitter of a spunky 78-year-old momma who still loves to have a bit of fun. There are...
Babe and Queenie Words of Wisdom
By: Dr Jannell Pearson-Campbell
Release: November 2024
Everyone has their heroes; mine were my parents, the Late Robert “Babe” Pearson and Fannie Bell “Queenie” Lancaster-Pearson. I have given so many talks about them, and everyone always says “I like hearing the stories about your parents”. Well, on November 2020, my late father went on to Glory, and I became the babysitter of a spunky 78-year-old momma who still loves to have a bit of fun. There are...
One Outsider… One Outcast… One Enchanted Island… In the wake of post-Reconstruction America, opportunities for African Americans remain scarce and fraught with challenges. Seeking a chance at adventure and a new beginning, 23-year-old Elijah takes a daring leap by accepting a position as a deckhand on a British merchant ship. His dreams of exploration swiftly turn into a nightmare when a legendar...
The Hermit of Fishcrescent Island
By: Owen Sieffre
Release: October 2024
One Outsider… One Outcast… One Enchanted Island… In the wake of post-Reconstruction America, opportunities for African Americans remain scarce and fraught with challenges. Seeking a chance at adventure and a new beginning, 23-year-old Elijah takes a daring leap by accepting a position as a deckhand on a British merchant ship. His dreams of exploration swiftly turn into a nightmare when a legendar...
Her destiny was certain. Until it wasn’t. Exploring her beloved forest, young Princess Chibuike “Chi” encounters a man unlike any she has seen. His skin is as pale as the moon that watches over the Queendom of Kana, a land where women rule fiercely and freely. Ten dry seasons later, in 1619, Chi, now a seasoned warrior in the Kanaian army, and preparing for her own future as queen, faces a myste...
No One Will Save Us: A novel
By: Julie L. Brown
Release: June 2024
Her destiny was certain. Until it wasn’t. Exploring her beloved forest, young Princess Chibuike “Chi” encounters a man unlike any she has seen. His skin is as pale as the moon that watches over the Queendom of Kana, a land where women rule fiercely and freely. Ten dry seasons later, in 1619, Chi, now a seasoned warrior in the Kanaian army, and preparing for her own future as queen, faces a myste...
The Nile brings them life, but the Nile also takes away. A small farming village in North Sudan wakes up one morning to the news that a little boy has drowned. Soon after, the animals die of a mysterious illness and the date gardens catch fire and burn to the ground. The villagers whisper of a sorceress who dwells at the foot of the mountains. It is the dry season. The men have places to go, the ...
A Mouth Full of Salt
By: Reem Gaafar
Release: April 2024
The Nile brings them life, but the Nile also takes away. A small farming village in North Sudan wakes up one morning to the news that a little boy has drowned. Soon after, the animals die of a mysterious illness and the date gardens catch fire and burn to the ground. The villagers whisper of a sorceress who dwells at the foot of the mountains. It is the dry season. The men have places to go, the ...
A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historical fantasy that shines a light on the drowned Black towns of the American South. “Our home began, as all things do, with a wish.” Jane Edwards hasn’t spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family from their hometown along with every other Black resident. Now, twelve ...
Daughter of the Merciful Deep
By: Leslye Penelope
Release: March 2024
A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historical fantasy that shines a light on the drowned Black towns of the American South. “Our home began, as all things do, with a wish.” Jane Edwards hasn’t spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family from their hometown along with every other Black resident. Now, twelve ...
A tragic injustice that will forever change the lives of Kane and Candace took place during a moment of reprieve, but a situation that has taken place too many times in the black community. The family must stand their ground and unite to fight against this grave injustice. Kane and Candace's marriage is tested, but the family remains steadfast on revenge while united for justice. Will the Black co...
A Time For Revenge 2: The Black Revolution
By: Richard Jeanty
Release: February 2024
A tragic injustice that will forever change the lives of Kane and Candace took place during a moment of reprieve, but a situation that has taken place too many times in the black community. The family must stand their ground and unite to fight against this grave injustice. Kane and Candace's marriage is tested, but the family remains steadfast on revenge while united for justice. Will the Black co...
Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing knew better than to expect love. Her marriage to an absent lord does at least provide some comforts, including a box at the Drury Lane theater, owned by the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Abigail has always found respite at the theater, away from the ton’s judgmental stares and the risks of her own secret work to help the cause of a...
Murder in Drury Lane
By: Vanessa Riley
Release: October 2023
Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing knew better than to expect love. Her marriage to an absent lord does at least provide some comforts, including a box at the Drury Lane theater, owned by the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Abigail has always found respite at the theater, away from the ton’s judgmental stares and the risks of her own secret work to help the cause of a...
The Blackwoods. Everyone knows their name. Blossom Blackwood burst onto the silver screen in 1962, and in the decades that followed, she would become one of the most celebrated actors of our time—and the matriarch of the most famous Black family in Hollywood. To her great-granddaughters, Hollis and Ardith, she has always just been Bebe. And when she passes away, it changes everything. Hollis Bla...
The Blackwoods
By: Brandy Colbert
Release: October 2023
The Blackwoods. Everyone knows their name. Blossom Blackwood burst onto the silver screen in 1962, and in the decades that followed, she would become one of the most celebrated actors of our time—and the matriarch of the most famous Black family in Hollywood. To her great-granddaughters, Hollis and Ardith, she has always just been Bebe. And when she passes away, it changes everything. Hollis Bla...
From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to sa...
The Unsettled
By: Ayana Mathis
Release: September 2023
From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to sa...
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Danilo Osorio Jr.’s baseball skills were once the pride of his father and entire hometown of El Chorrillo, Panamá. But that was then, and this is now… Following 1989's Operation Just Cause, a US military invasion that left his neighborhood decimated, Danilo couldn’t care less about baseball or the father who abandoned him for opportunities in the States. Now Danilo’s focus is taking care of his m...
Danilo Was Here
By: Tamika Burgess
Release: January 2025
Danilo Osorio Jr.’s baseball skills were once the pride of his father and entire hometown of El Chorrillo, Panamá. But that was then, and this is now… Following 1989's Operation Just Cause, a US military invasion that left his neighborhood decimated, Danilo couldn’t care less about baseball or the father who abandoned him for opportunities in the States. Now Danilo’s focus is taking care of his m...
Everyone has their heroes; mine were my parents, the Late Robert “Babe” Pearson and Fannie Bell “Queenie” Lancaster-Pearson. I have given so many talks about them, and everyone always says “I like hearing the stories about your parents”. Well, on November 2020, my late father went on to Glory, and I became the babysitter of a spunky 78-year-old momma who still loves to have a bit of fun. There are...
Babe and Queenie Words of Wisdom
By: Dr Jannell Pearson-Campbell
Release: November 2024
Everyone has their heroes; mine were my parents, the Late Robert “Babe” Pearson and Fannie Bell “Queenie” Lancaster-Pearson. I have given so many talks about them, and everyone always says “I like hearing the stories about your parents”. Well, on November 2020, my late father went on to Glory, and I became the babysitter of a spunky 78-year-old momma who still loves to have a bit of fun. There are...
One Outsider… One Outcast… One Enchanted Island… In the wake of post-Reconstruction America, opportunities for African Americans remain scarce and fraught with challenges. Seeking a chance at adventure and a new beginning, 23-year-old Elijah takes a daring leap by accepting a position as a deckhand on a British merchant ship. His dreams of exploration swiftly turn into a nightmare when a legendar...
The Hermit of Fishcrescent Island
By: Owen Sieffre
Release: October 2024
One Outsider… One Outcast… One Enchanted Island… In the wake of post-Reconstruction America, opportunities for African Americans remain scarce and fraught with challenges. Seeking a chance at adventure and a new beginning, 23-year-old Elijah takes a daring leap by accepting a position as a deckhand on a British merchant ship. His dreams of exploration swiftly turn into a nightmare when a legendar...
Her destiny was certain. Until it wasn’t. Exploring her beloved forest, young Princess Chibuike “Chi” encounters a man unlike any she has seen. His skin is as pale as the moon that watches over the Queendom of Kana, a land where women rule fiercely and freely. Ten dry seasons later, in 1619, Chi, now a seasoned warrior in the Kanaian army, and preparing for her own future as queen, faces a myste...
No One Will Save Us: A novel
By: Julie L. Brown
Release: June 2024
Her destiny was certain. Until it wasn’t. Exploring her beloved forest, young Princess Chibuike “Chi” encounters a man unlike any she has seen. His skin is as pale as the moon that watches over the Queendom of Kana, a land where women rule fiercely and freely. Ten dry seasons later, in 1619, Chi, now a seasoned warrior in the Kanaian army, and preparing for her own future as queen, faces a myste...
The Nile brings them life, but the Nile also takes away. A small farming village in North Sudan wakes up one morning to the news that a little boy has drowned. Soon after, the animals die of a mysterious illness and the date gardens catch fire and burn to the ground. The villagers whisper of a sorceress who dwells at the foot of the mountains. It is the dry season. The men have places to go, the ...
A Mouth Full of Salt
By: Reem Gaafar
Release: April 2024
The Nile brings them life, but the Nile also takes away. A small farming village in North Sudan wakes up one morning to the news that a little boy has drowned. Soon after, the animals die of a mysterious illness and the date gardens catch fire and burn to the ground. The villagers whisper of a sorceress who dwells at the foot of the mountains. It is the dry season. The men have places to go, the ...
A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historical fantasy that shines a light on the drowned Black towns of the American South. “Our home began, as all things do, with a wish.” Jane Edwards hasn’t spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family from their hometown along with every other Black resident. Now, twelve ...
Daughter of the Merciful Deep
By: Leslye Penelope
Release: March 2024
A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historical fantasy that shines a light on the drowned Black towns of the American South. “Our home began, as all things do, with a wish.” Jane Edwards hasn’t spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family from their hometown along with every other Black resident. Now, twelve ...
A tragic injustice that will forever change the lives of Kane and Candace took place during a moment of reprieve, but a situation that has taken place too many times in the black community. The family must stand their ground and unite to fight against this grave injustice. Kane and Candace's marriage is tested, but the family remains steadfast on revenge while united for justice. Will the Black co...
A Time For Revenge 2: The Black Revolution
By: Richard Jeanty
Release: February 2024
A tragic injustice that will forever change the lives of Kane and Candace took place during a moment of reprieve, but a situation that has taken place too many times in the black community. The family must stand their ground and unite to fight against this grave injustice. Kane and Candace's marriage is tested, but the family remains steadfast on revenge while united for justice. Will the Black co...
Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing knew better than to expect love. Her marriage to an absent lord does at least provide some comforts, including a box at the Drury Lane theater, owned by the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Abigail has always found respite at the theater, away from the ton’s judgmental stares and the risks of her own secret work to help the cause of a...
Murder in Drury Lane
By: Vanessa Riley
Release: October 2023
Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing knew better than to expect love. Her marriage to an absent lord does at least provide some comforts, including a box at the Drury Lane theater, owned by the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Abigail has always found respite at the theater, away from the ton’s judgmental stares and the risks of her own secret work to help the cause of a...
The Blackwoods. Everyone knows their name. Blossom Blackwood burst onto the silver screen in 1962, and in the decades that followed, she would become one of the most celebrated actors of our time—and the matriarch of the most famous Black family in Hollywood. To her great-granddaughters, Hollis and Ardith, she has always just been Bebe. And when she passes away, it changes everything. Hollis Bla...
The Blackwoods
By: Brandy Colbert
Release: October 2023
The Blackwoods. Everyone knows their name. Blossom Blackwood burst onto the silver screen in 1962, and in the decades that followed, she would become one of the most celebrated actors of our time—and the matriarch of the most famous Black family in Hollywood. To her great-granddaughters, Hollis and Ardith, she has always just been Bebe. And when she passes away, it changes everything. Hollis Bla...
From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to sa...
The Unsettled
By: Ayana Mathis
Release: September 2023
From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to sa...