Home Girl
When Naomi, a fourteen-year-old white girl, is placed with a black foster care family, her life takes some dramatic twists and turns.
Catalog Tag: black interest
Knucklehead
A fierce, intelligent, and often hilarious novel about a young African American attorney who struggles to keep his cool in the personally and politically turbulent ’90s.
A Tall History of Sugar
A haunting, epic Caribbean love story, reminiscent of García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera.
Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story
A timely memoir about world record–breaking Tyus’s 1964 and 1968 Olympic victories, amid the turbulence of the 1960s, along with contemporary reflections.
Forthcoming Titles
The Freedom Artist
Forthcoming: 2/4/20
An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri.
I Am a Promise
Forthcoming: 2/4/20
An inspiring children’s picture book about the indomitable spirit of Jamaican six-time Olympic medal winner Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce.
African
Forthcoming: 6/2/20
A beautiful children’s picture book featuring the lyrics of Peter Tosh’s global classic celebrating children of African descent.
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship out on June 2, 2020!
The Darkest Hearts
Forthcoming: 8/4/20
Trap music, human trafficking, malt liquor, and the tyranny of President Trump collide in the fifth installment of Nelson George’s D Hunter mystery series.