For fans of Girl Boss by Sophie Amoruso, I Am That Girl by Alexis Jones and You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero comes the latest book from best-selling author, entrepreneur, and master life coach Cara Alwill Leyba. Girl Code is a roadmap for female entre...

Girl Code

Winner, The Man Booker Prize, 2015  On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Regg...

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be...

An Unkindness of Ghosts

With Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the smash number one best seller Toxic Parents, offers a powerful look at the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters - and provides clear...

Mothers Who Can't Love

Every town has at least one beloved if misunderstood eccentric, and Beanie Bradsher belongs to Mayhew Junction. Some - LouWanda Crump, for example - would call Beanie a spectacle, but Beanie just marches - and dresses - to the beat of a different dru...

What Matters in Mayhew

In the first cycle of the Harbinger series, four strangers discover they have extraordinary gifts and are brought together to fight a growing darkness. Meet the members of the Harbingers team - each written by an acclaimed author - in four linked epi...

Invitation

Authorized by the Margaret Mitchell Estate, here is the first-ever prequel to one of the most beloved and best-selling novels of all time, Gone with the Wind. The critically acclaimed author of Rhett Butler's People magnificently recounts the life of...

Ruth's Journey

"When I read a Tiffany L. Warren novel I know I'm going to get two things - a riveting story and a faith boost!" (ReShonda Tate Billingsley)  All of Chenille Abrams' dreams came true the day she married NFL star Brayden Carpenter. He's the down-to-ea...

The Outside Child

Scarred by poverty and life with a crackhead mother, Onika Lewis had a rough start. Still, thanks to her sharp mind, and hard work, she graduated with honors from a prestigious college. But her achievements weren't enough to earn her the elite status...

Her Secret Life

You know the invasion has begun. You know we are all that stands in their way. You think we are alone. You will see we have hidden allies. They think they have won. They are wrong. They do not have our power. They do not know the truth. We have a secret weapon. 

I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Rebel Allies

In cycle two of the series, the Harbingers team investigates more unsettling mysteries that drive them to the breaking point. Will they be strong enough to keep overcoming the world's dark forces? Fast-paced and ongoing, this thrilling collection is ...

The Assault

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping-off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her gener...

The Fire This Time

The Westing Game meets The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 in a stirring mystery of past and present, as two kids search for a place in their families, city, and country. The letter waits in a book, in a box, in an attic, in an old house in Lambert, ...

The Parker Inheritance

From legendary comedian D. L. Hughley comes a bitingly funny send-up of the Obama years, as "told" by the key political players on both sides of the aisle.  What do the Clintons, Republicans, fellow Democrats, and Obama's own family really think of P...

Black Man, White House

In cycle three of the series, the Harbingers team investigates more mysterious and fascinating supernatural occurrences in Hollywood, a small town in North Carolina, and elsewhere. Can they keep the growing darkness at bay?  This fast-paced and ongoi...

Probing

A major debut from an award-winning writer - an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands.  In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish t...

Land of Love and Drowning

New York Times best-selling author Kimberla Lawson Roby has won adoring fans for her Rev. Curtis Black series, which includes Recorded Books' audio presentation of The Best of Everything. In A Deep Dark Secret, a seemingly perfect 12-year-old girl ha...

A Deep Dark Secret

When 16-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white.  In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the ...

How It Went Down

Essence best-selling author La Jill Hunt has crafted another tasty, drama-filled tale. Paige Michaels seems to have the perfect family. But she's beginning to feel like her man is just using her - and he might have another woman. Maybe it's time to finally let go. If Paige hadn't played house back in college and gotten pregnant, she could have done better for herself. But that's the past - what's she gonna do now?

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda

Dan Gutman, the prolific author of over 60 popular books for children and young adults, vividly imagines what is surely every put-upon school kid's dream: a machine that does homework for them - error free! When four unlikely friends become dependent on this marvelous device, they'll soon learn that cheating always has its consequences - including legal trouble. No matter what happens, their best bet is to stick together.

The Homework Machine

Frustrated by the limitations of cross-race communication in her predominantly white town, a young African American girl teaches herself to sign. Years later, Laurel uproots her husband and daughters from their downwardly mobile, overeducated, and un...

We Love You, Charlie Freeman

Beauty Director of TeenPeople magazine, Tia Williams has also contributed to YM, Elle, Glamour, and Lucky. She makes her debut as an author with the hilarious and poignant novel The Accidental Diva. Intelligent and gorgeous, Billie Burke is a workaho...

The Accidental Diva

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.  On 3 December 1976, just weeks before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house.  Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert. Not a lot was recorded about the fate of the seven gunmen, but much has been said, whispered and sung about in the streets of West Kingston.

Enthusiastic fans flock to La Jill Hunt’s raw tales of urban romance, as evidenced by the immense popularity of her novels Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda and Drama Queen. After they are in a car accident together, video vixen Paisley Lawrence and gospel sin...

Say It Ain’t So

Maybe it's the long, lazy days, or maybe it's the heat making everyone a little bit crazy. Whatever the reason, summer is the perfect time for love to bloom. Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories, written by 12 best-selling young adult w...

Summer Days and Summer Nights

Contemporaries like Mary Monroe and Kimberla Lawson Roby hail Darnella Ford as a provocative and insightful author who infuses her prose with poetic sensibilities. When a horrible accident kills Blaze James' father and scars her twin sister Aerial, B...

Finding Me

Now available in Ecco's Art of the Story series: a never-before-published collection of stories from a brilliant yet little known African American artist and filmmaker - a contemporary of revered writers including Toni Cade Bambara, Laurie Colwin, An...

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

The Good Braider was selected as the 2013 Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year and a book of Outstanding Merit.  Viola's strikingly original voice sings out the story of her family's journey from war-torn Sudan, to Cairo, and finall...

The Good Braider

Best friends since the fifth grade, Vaughn, Reenie, Susan, and Audrey have always been considered the most likely to write the Great American Novel, marry a prince, find fame, and run the world, respectively. Now in their 50s, they are all still chasing those dreams - which sometimes makes the "girls" collide.

Girls Most Likely

Alex Gino, the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of George, is back with another sensitive tale based on increasingly relevant social justice issues. Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister Emma is born deaf, she realize...

You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!

Guys and girls get together, get played, and get real. Who Am I Without Him? is a Booklist Top 10 Romance Novel for Teens and is "breaking new and necessary ground" in 12 short stories about guys and girls falling in and out of love and relationships...

Who Am I Without Him?

Disney's The Princess and the Frog puts a new spin on a classic fairy tale! At first, beautiful, hardworking Tiana is not impressed when she meets spoiled Prince Naveen. But when the two of them are transformed into frogs, they quickly realize that t...

The Princess and the Frog

As rehearsals begin for the ballet version of Peter Pan, the teenaged members of an Ohio dance troupe lose their focus when one of their own goes missing. The Crystal Pointe Dance Academy is a refuge for the group of students who take classes and par...

Panic

International best-selling author Henning Mankell' s books have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. In The Shadow Girls, author/poet Jesper Humlin struggles under the pall of a frustrating life. Everything from his personal relationships to h...

The Shadow Girls

See the story of Theseus and the Minotaur in a whole new light! Minos thought he could Pull a fast one On me, Poseidon! God of the Sea! But I'm the last one On whom you Should try such a thing. The nerve of that guy. The balls. The audacity. I AM THE...

Bull

With each novel, Stephanie Perry Moore demonstrates a deft touch with spiritual, relationship driven fiction. Even the best Christians sometimes wear their halos tilted - especially when dealing with troubled marriages. For Shari and Dillon, fissures...

Wearing My Halo Tilted

Shani Silver is not an advocate for singlehood. She’s an advocate for single women feeling good while single - and there’s a difference.  A Single Revolution is one book for single women that won’t approach you like you’re unfinished. It’s for those ...

A Single Revolution

She's blossomed from a wealthy surgeon's beautiful daughter to elegant socialite to being the top fashion stylist in the country. And Nora Mackenzie is only days away from marrying into one of New York's richest, most powerful families. But her fairy...

Have You Met Nora?

Eighteen kids, one year of poems, one school set to close. Two yellow bulldozers crouched outside, ready to eat the building in one greedy gulp. But look out, bulldozers. Ms. Hill's fifth-grade class has plans for you. They're going to speak up and w...

The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

Ian was the one who chased the majestic buck into the forest. (His motto: act first, think later.) Kendra didn't want to become separated from the other sixth graders, but she followed Ian anyway, despite what her analytical mind told her. PJ followe...

Mountain of Bones

At first glance, Geniece’s story sounds like that of a typical young woman: she goes to college, has romantic entanglements, builds meaningful friendships, and juggles her schedule with a part-time job. However, she does all of these things in 1960's...

Virgin Soul

This thought-provoking companion to Nikki Grimes' Coretta Scott King Award-winning Bronx Masquerade shows the capacity poetry has to express ideas and feelings, and connect us with ourselves and others. Darrian dreams of writing for the New York Time...

Between the Lines

Rediscover the bone-chilling ghouls of the Marvel Universe in this original chapter book series!  Marvel Monsters Unleashed: The Gruesome Gorgilla!  The forest is quiet. Strange. Something has scared the animals, something...unnatural. A ferocious mo...

Marvel Monsters Unleashed Compilation

Hailed as a Favorite Book by the Chicago Tribune and based on true events, Magic City wowed critics and audiences nationwide. In 1921 Tulsa, a white woman and a black man get on an elevator. The woman screams, and suddenly the man is on the streets -...

Magic City

Solemn Redvine is a precocious Mississippi girl who senses a nearby baby may be her half sibling - the outcome of her father's mistakes with a married woman who lives in their trailer park.  After Solemn witnesses a man throwing the baby down a commu...

Solemn

Good. Evil. Dangerous. Glamorous. Will the real Cleopatra please stand up? Almost everything we know about the last queen of Egypt came from her enemies the Romans. Now it's time to meet the ''real'' Cleopatra, a ruler more complex, brilliant, and po...

Cleopatra Rules!

This is a soulful and timely novel exploring family histories and community divides, in the vein of Nicole Dennis-Benn's Here Comes the Sun and Monique Roffey's The White Woman on the Green Bicycle.  At a Caribbean resort built atop a former slave pl...

Fingerprints of Previous Owners

Lauren, Jayda, Danielle, and Brenda are finishing their senior year of high school. They seem to have perfect lives, but these girls have more to worry about than finals and college applications. Lauren has an inextinguishable infatuation with her hi...

Searching for Right

In the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life change - and what do we do it transform it?  Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well being in the ...

Remaking a Life

The Invitation compiles the first four episodes of Harbingers, each following a different character. Four strangers with gifts they don't understand soon realise pockets of darkness are emerging throughout the world.  Whether it involves a mysterious...

Acclaimed author Dianna Hutts Aston delights young listeners with books about real-life topics, written in language they can understand. In The Moon Over Star, a young girl remembers how in 1969 she watched enthralled as astronauts took the first steps on the moon. She looked into the sky and dreamed of reaching for the stars. This little girl turns out to be Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to go into space.

The Moon Over Star

Seventeen-year-old honors student Coretta White's Tumblr, Little White Lies - her witty thoughts on pretty much...everything - has gone viral. She's got hundreds of thousands of followers; she's even been offered a TV deal. But Coretta has a secret. ...

Little White Lies

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Cherise Boothe has a BA in African American Studies from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Acting from NYU. She originated the role of Josephine in Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play Ruined. She received an Obie Award for her performance in Kirsten Greenidge’s play Milk Like Sugar. In addition to theater, she works in film, television, and narration.

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