Product Description: Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul. It is this lesson that the characters in Bebe Moore Campbell's poignant new novel must learn. Life is good for Maxine McCoy. She is the executive producer of a popular talk show, married to a man she loves, and pregnant with their child...read more

“A multigenerational saga . . . about forgiveness and redemption. Lavish and funny and perfect.”—The Los Angeles Times   Sweeping across fifty years of family, friendship, betrayal and reconciliation, What You Owe Me is Bebe Moore Campbell’s most ambitious achievement in storytelling. When Hosanna Clark—a hotel maid in post-World War II Los Angeles—first meets her new co-worker, Holocaust survivor Gilda Rosenstein, she is shocked to see a white woman in a situation so like her own. They quickly become friends, then business partners. But when their cosmetics company meets with unprecedented success, Gilda disappears with the profits—and leaves behind an emotional debt that grows with time, in the hearts and souls of generations to come. . . .  “Entertaining . . . engaging . . . heartwarming.” —Boston Herald

Product Description: "This book is about succeeding—and surviving—even being happy, in a society where every card seems stacked against you. If this is a fair world, Bebe Moore Campbell will be remembered as the most important African-American novelist of this century—except for, maybe, Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin...read more

When Mindy decides that she can't go to her jazz dance recital due to nerves, she is transported back in time to the Savoy Ballroom, where she, amidst all the legends of the swing era, can't stop from moving her feet to the beat!

Fed up with the bureaucracy of the mental health community and desperate to save her daughter Trina, who is suffering from bipolar disorder, from her increasingly violent, paranoid, and unpredictable behavior, Keri enlists the assistance of the Program, an illegal group of radicals who have rejected the established psychiatric system. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

A little girl learns coping skills with the help of her grandmother, neighbors and school friends, when her mother's mental illness disrupts her daily routine.

A little girl learns coping skills with the help of her grandmother, neighbors and school friends, when her mother's mental illness disrupts her daily routine.

Records how a racist beating in a small Mississippi town ripples through generations, changing forever the lives of everyone involved in the incident.

Drawing on more than one hundred interviews, this thought-provoking guide to relationships discusses the prolonged struggle that develops out of the frustrations both men and women feel when they try to reconcile the pressures of daily life with the ideals of the dual-career marriage. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: "Potent . . . Unforgettable."--Bharati Mukherjee The New York Times Book Review"A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT . . . . While Sweet Summer is infused with experiences unique to African-American culture, it speaks to the universals of human experience...read more

Discusses the prolonged struggle that develops out of the frustrations both men and women feel when they try to reconcile the pressures of daily life with the ideals of the dual-career marriage