This text explores the implications of Eleanor Rosch's seminal work on categorization and prototype theory, extending the application of prototype theory from lexical semantics to morphology, syntax, and phonology. It provides a readable introduction to the field of cognitive linguistics. For this edition, the author has added a further chapter which updates the book, particularly in its treatment of lexical semantics. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 9 short stories of African-American family life

Product Description: This ironically titled tale by an influential figure in African-American literature explores the tragic effects of color prejudice and self-hatred. Jessie Redmon Fauset's 1933 novel paints a haunting portrait of internalized racism with its depiction of a domineering mother whose determination for her children to pass as white leads to devastating results for the entire family...read more

Product Description: Fiction. IBO LANDING is a celebratory testament to the South's unbroken cultural, linguistic and spiritual links to West Africa through Gullah ancestry and the heritage of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In these 22 tales author Ihsan Bracy brings to life an arcana of colorful characters carefully illuminated through speech, manner and relationship...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Kenzie Lowe, who grew up in a Brooklyn household scarred by her alcoholic father's rages and abuse, visits him in the hospital where he is dying, and comes to terms with her past and the choices in her life.

The best-selling author of Sisters and Lovers journeys to Prince George's County, Maryland, into the heart of an affluent African-American enclave to reveal the lives, fortunes, passions, trials, secrets, and scandals of its citizens. Reprint.

In a sequel to One Day I Saw a Black King, Roberta, determined to escape her mother's fate of unrequited love and suicide, becomes pregnant and forces lover Charles to marry her, while Charles discovers a consuming love for another woman. Reprint.

The perfect wife and mother of three grown children, Marilyn Grimes struggles to deal with the problems of midlife--an empty nest, wildly fluctuating hormones, too many demands on her time, and too little room for herself--as she struggles to recall some of her own postponed dreams and reinvent her marriage, friendship, family, and herself. Reprint.

After her father leaves, stranding her mother with six children, sixteen-year-old Jackie Smalls discovers that she is pregnant, and with no one to turn to after the baby's father denies paternity, she meets a loving guy who vows to take care of her, but things aren't always what they seem. Original.

Behind the gilded doors of the Chase mansion lies a moneyed world of African-American royalty and family intrigue-where no price is too high to pay . . . Being appointed to the Board of his father's empire means nothing to Carter Chase since his fiance, Avery, left him. Carter intends to use every resource-and compromise every moral-to find her and get her back. Carter's brother, Michael, has a problem of his own. His relationship with his wife, Kimberly, has been strained ever since she exposed a shocking secret from his mother's past. Now Kimberly's own past could destroy her marriage-and the entire Chase legacy. Meanwhile, oldest daughter, Leigh Chase, is being wooed by a hot Hollywood star whose fast lifestyle places her in danger. And with youngest daughter, Haley, creating scandal after scandal, the family may be in hot water even their billions can't buy them out of . . . "Entertaining . . . the pacing is fast and the drama [is] unrelenting". - Publishers Weekly "More backstabbing than a soap opera". - Romantic Times

Product Description: 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 and 80 s, the novel is reminiscent in tone to Alice Walker s The Color Purple. The story is rich in its portrayal of both the urban and rural spirit, and prolific in its human teachings that demonstrate the love necessary for reconnecting with family members estranged by family violence...read more

From Reconstruction to both world wars, from the Harlem Renaissance to Vietnam, from spirituals and arias to torch songs and the blues, Some Sing, Some Cry brings to life the monumental story of one American family’s journey from slavery into freedom, from country into city, from the past to the future, bright and blazing ahead. Real - life sisters Ntozake Shange, award-winning author of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, and Ifa Bayeza, award - winning playwright of The Ballad of Emmett Till, achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this story of seven generations of women, and the men and music in their lives. Opening dramatically at a sprawling plantation just off the South Carolina coast, recently emancipated slave Bette Mayfield quickly says her good - byes before fleeing for Charleston with her granddaughter, Eudora, in tow. She and Eudora carve out lives for themselves in the bustling port city as fortune - teller and seamstress. Eudora marries, and the Mayfield line grows and becomes an incredibly strong, musically gifted family, a family that is led, protected, and inspired by its women. Some Sing, Some Cry chronicles their astonishing passage through the watershed events of American history.

Product Description: The most anticipated sequel...has readers drooling from the mouth! In Dirty DivorcePart 1...the Sanchez family ended with a bang. Lisa, Rich,and Denie all fought treacherously to escape a harsh death sentence. Only time will tell who had the heart to survive...read more

Product Description: "Vanessa is a superb storyteller." --ReShonda Tate Billingsley"I absolutely love Vanessa's unique writing style. She is one of a kind." --Mary Monroe, New York Times bestselling authorTeen sisters Sahara and Crystal Nichols are acting up, and their risqué behavior is more than their mother can handle...read more

Product Description: Warm, energetic, and charming. --The Houston PostMama Ruby's known for taking things that aren't rightfully hers, like her best friend's stillborn infant, who she brought back to life and christened Maureen. She's also rumored to have done away with her husband...read more

Product Description: In Dirty Divorce Part 1 and 2 readers were at the edge of their seats, addicted to the Sanchez family drama. The Dirty Divorce Part 3 begins with Rich instantly being a mark with a death sentence placed on his head. He's faced with his biggest nightmare when secrets are revealed that he thought were buried...read more

Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families -- the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode ...

Product Description: Groundbreaking and heartbreaking, this triumphant novel by two of America’s most acclaimed storytellers follows a family of women from enslavement to the dawn of the twenty-first century.From Reconstruction to both world wars, from the Harlem Renaissance to Vietnam, from spirituals and arias to torch songs and the blues, Some Sing, Some Cry brings to life the monumental story of one American family’s journey from slavery into freedom, from country into city, from the past to the future, bright and blazing ahead...read more

Unabridged, 7 CDs, 8 hours Read by TBA A masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family that will forever establish Walter Mosley as one of the true literary icons of our time.

Product Description: With demanding careers and two children, Cherise and Mason McKenzie find themselves spending more time apart than together, which allows infidelity with a trusted loved one to darken their doorstep. It is only through a series of near tragic events that the couple are able to rebuild their lives and rekindle their love...read more