Knucklehead

By: Adam Smyer

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.

Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story

By: Wyomia Tyus and Elizabeth Terzakis

A timely memoir about world record–breaking Tyus’s 1964 and 1968 Olympic victories, amid the turbulence of the 1960s, along with contemporary reflections.

Home Girl

By: Alex Wheatle

Forthcoming: 9/3/19

When Naomi, a fourteen-year-old white girl, is placed with a black foster care family, her life takes some dramatic twists and turns.

A Tall History of Sugar

By: Curdella Forbes

Forthcoming: 10/1/19

A haunting, epic Caribbean love story, reminiscent of García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera.

I Am a Promise

By: Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce, Ashley Rousseau and Rachel Moss

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.