Product Description: What happens to a young black boy in Depression stricken North Carolina when he learns he is the direct descendant of a Confederate legend? Follow David Jonathan Sawyer on a fabulous journey down the Rose Hill Road, past sunny fields white with cotton, into his favorite swamp, where he learns his family's dark and tragic secret...read more

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. This book is Sapphire's latest, a sequel to Push coming 15 years after its publication and one year after Precious, the film based on Push, got Academy Award attention. It is the story of Precious's son, Abdul, opening on the day of his mother's funeral. This book brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones, son of Sapphire's unforgettable heroine, Precious. It is a story of survival and awakening, and of one young man's remarkable strength. We meet Abdul at age nine, on the day of his mother'sfuneral. Left alone to navigate in a world where love and hate sometimes hideously masquerade, forced to confront unspeakable violence, his history, and the dark corners of his own heart, Abdul claws his way toward adulthood and toward an identity he canstand behind. In a generational story that moves with the speed of thought from a Mississippi dirt farm to Harlem in its heyday; from a troubled Catholic orphanage to downtown artist's lofts, this story tells of a twenty-first-century young man's fight to find a way to the future. Inti

Encouraged by his older brother to become a boxing champion in the years before the Million Man March, Eddie Bloodpath finds his dream shattered by a violent attack that leads him on a spiritual quest in search of salvation, an effort that is challenged by his love for two beautiful women. 50,000 first printing.

Tells the story of Billy Lee Turner, a black ten-year-old convicted of raping and killing a white girl in 1937 Mississippi

Although best known as a poet and pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes proves himself one of modern literature’s most revered and versatile African-American authors with Not Without Laughter, a powerful classic novel.This is a moving portrait of African-American family life in 1930s Kansas, following young Sandy Rogers as he comes of age. Sandy’s mother, Annjee, works as a housekeeper for a rich white family, while his father, traverses the country in search of work. Not Without Laughter is a moving examination of growing up in a racially divided society. A rich and important work, Hughes deftly echoes the black American experience with this novel.

Caleb Jacobson, a sixteen-year-old African American free man living on a Maryland farm in the 1700s, is torn between loyalty to his fellow colonials and his race when rumors of war begins arriving from Boston.

A Faulknerian parable set in early twentieth-century Tennessee follows a tragic evolution of race relations along the claustrophobic forests, rivers, and railroads of the region's back country. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Set in Kansas City, Missouri, during the Jazz Age of the 1920s and ’30s, Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic evocation of childhood and parental love told through the eyes of a remarkable boy, Amerigo Jones. This vivid portrait of an era marred by racial segregation and relentless, daily injustices is nonetheless rendered with love and longing for a time and place that was enriched by a vibrant, burgeoning, and widely influential African American culture and a fierce feeling for family and community...read more

After Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850, and his cousin escape to the North to obtain their freedom due to a young master's brutal torment, they must return to the South to fight in the Civil War, where young Samuel becomes a regiment drummer with a 'colored regiment' and witnesses the many horrors of war. Book available.

In 1959, amidst the turmoil that erupted in the wake of the Supreme Court's historic desegregation orders, ten-year-old Benjamin Rome becomes caught in the middle between his own family's efforts to establish a private whites-only system and his close friend, the son of a black hired hand, and his growing understanding of prejudice. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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Product Description: "Beautiful Dreamer" sees a white man branded a "nigger lover" after trying to prevent a lynching. Pursued by the mob and a law officer who must choose between turning a blind eye and stopping racial hatred from playing out, he is forced to flee the country in the company of the dead man's son...read more

The devastating loss of their children, twin girls, in a flash flood turns the lives of Terry and Laura Sheldon upside down as their marriage is tested by grief, Terry's brief love affair with a young woman who became pregnant, and their growing relationship with their foster child, Alfred, a ten-year-old African-American boy who finds meaning in a neighbor's tales of the buffalo soldiers, African-Americans who served in the cavalry of the American West. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

The award-winning author of Amistad returns with a beautifully textured novel about the relationship that develops between twelve-year-old Edward Massey and his curmudgeonly uncle over the course of a summer at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, in the 1960s. Reprint.

Product Description: Tyrone Hunter: An aspiring writer, used badly by his first boyfriend, and sour on love forever. David Donatello Reilly: The effeminate son of a preacher who dreams of dancing and men. Faison Brown: A singer with the voice of an angel, but with a face not even a mother could love...read more

Product Description: Set in the early 1960s, West of Rehoboth is the moving story of twelve-year-old Edward Massey. Each summer, to escape the heat of Philadelphia, Edward's family moves to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The "coloreds only" side of a pristine resort on Rehoboth Beach offers work for his mother and a sandy playground for his sister...read more

Depicts a Black family's attempts to deal with life in a small Kansas town