PUBLISHER: Yearling Books #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERDig deep in this award-winning, modern classic that will remind readers that adventure is right around the corner--or just under your feet!Stanley Yelnats is under a...

PUBLISHER: Scholastic Press Esperanza Rising joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!   Esperanza thought she'd always live a privileged life on her family's ranch in Mexico. She'd always have fancy dresses, a...

PUBLISHER: Atheneum Books for Young Readers03/18/2014 A go-cart contest inspires imagination to take flight in this picture book for creators of all ages, with art from New York Times bestselling illustrator Peter H. Reynolds.It’s time for this year’s Going Places contest! Finally....

PUBLISHER: Dragonfly Books02/12/1974 From beloved Caldecott winning picture book creator Leo Lionni, this charming tale of sticking together and imagination shows how powerful friendship can be.Two best friends, a minnow and a tadpole, are practically inseparable until the tadpole grows...

PUBLISHER: Schwartz & Wade Books 01/08/2019 CORETTA SCOTT KING – JOHN STEPTOE ILLUSTRATOR AWARD FOR NEW TALENT WINNERThis final, magnificent picture book from three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and Newbery Honor author Patricia McKissack is a poignant and uplifting celebration of the...

PUBLISHER: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers 01/08/2015 #1 New York Times BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerWinner of the Newbery MedalA Caldecott Honor BookA Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book This award-winning modern classic—a must-have for every child’s home library—is an inclusive ode to kindness,...

Supplier: Candlewick Press (MA) “Will leave readers thinking about the ways that humor can be a survival tool in a world that tends to put people in boxes.” — Publishers WeeklyListen in as ten YA authors—some familiar, some new—use their own...

Spanning 40 years and including Himes's first work, written during his imprisonment in the 1940s, this collection uncovers the internal struggles of black individuals caught between resignation and rage, probing the heart of the African-American experience with wit, indignation, and...

New York Times best-selling author Zane presents a tantalizing short story collection, Zane's Sex Chronicles, which is now the basis of the Cinemax series Zane's Sex Chronicles - the first urban erotic series on television. The series calls for a sexual revolution and brings forth...

"Stay Scheming"Kiki Swinson Karlie Houston is broke, betrayed - and running from a bounty on her head. Turns out the real owners of the payday loan office she ripped off weren't cool with her idea of employment bennies. With her...

The New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Pecking Order offers a daring collection of erotic tales about the undeniable attraction older men have for younger women.   Omar Tyree is known by his fans for pulling the sheets all the way off...

When a group of talented authors, their unique writing styles, and one of social media’s biggest movements come together the end result is astonishingly jaw-dropping and will surely leave you begging for more.THE BEARD GANG CHRONICLES is a collection of...

NINE LIVESKIKI SWINSONWild-card Aiden. Dead-shot Ava. Efficient, fast, and brutal, this notorious brother-sister hit team grew up abused, unwanted—and in lethal tune with each other. Killing nine targets in ten days will be their biggest score yet. But as Ava...

I: With only two hundred dollars, Unique packed her suitcase and headed to New York City for a brand new start. It's there that Unique meets big time boxing promoter, Kennard, and it is love at first sight. After nine...

A powerful selection of the best of John Edgar Wideman’s short stories over his fifty-year career, representing the wide range of his intellectual and artistic pursuits.When John Edgar Wideman won the PEN Malamud Award in 2019, he joined a list...

A collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the “stunning and audacious” (NPR) debut novel We Cast a ShadowMaurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a...

**NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER**A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel about race and police violence by the legendary author of Native Son and Black BoyFred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and...

"In one of Chekhov's stories, a character says that every happy man should have someone who taps at his door with a little hammer, reminding him that there are unhappy people in the world. Reading Celeste Mohammed's novel-in-stories makes me...

“Perfection in short story form, I am in love with every single word Bolu Babalola has written. So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully.”— Candice Carty-Williams, international bestselling author of QueenieA high-born Nigerian goddess, who has...

The eclectic stories in this collection are bound by the threads of desire in its many forms, above all, the desire for love and a place of safety in a world where being Black and gay can thwart the fulfillment...

"How to Wrestle a Girl is a work of stunning grace and rhythm. In these stories Venita Blackburn reminds us she is a writer unlike any other, her stories propelled by voice and wit and harsh beauty." --Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author...

In this daring collection of speculative fiction, Stephanie Andrea Allen attends to the lives of Black women, mostly lesbian or queer, all keenly aware of the forces seeking to consume them. A Black lesbian working the gig economy runs into...

A provocative and raw debut collection of short fiction reminiscent of Junot Diaz’s Drown.A Black man’s life, told in scenes—through every time he’s been called nigger. A Black son who visits his estranged white father in Los Angeles just as the...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER BRANDON TAYLOR IS:“A powerhouse.” —Newsweek“An extraordinary cartographer.” —Esquire“A striking new voice with a vital perspective.” —Harper’s Bazaar“A brilliant writer.” —Garth GreenwellNamed a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Time, Elle, Enterntainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, O: The Oprah Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, BuzzFeed, Vulture, Thrillist, The Week, Lit Hub, The Rumpus,...

From humor to horror, the speculative fiction in Broken Fevers has a gleaming edge. This new collection by award winner Tenea D. Johnson features 14 tales. Though many are dark, they pull one through the light, if only for a moment, to...

"With topics ranging from slavery to space travel, the impressive breadth of this anthology makes for a well-rounded survey. Readers, writers, and scholars alike will find great value here." — Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewA deluxe edition of new writing and neglected...

“A vital voice in the short story, telling us new truths with deep humanity."–George Saunders Celebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers a short-story collection of nimble dexterity and startling originality in his BOA Short Fiction Prize-winning Alien Stories. These eighteen startling...

Product details Publisher: Vintage; 1st edition (October 5, 1999) Language: English Paperback: 224 pages ISBN-10: 9780375705908 ISBN-13: 9780375705908

Product details Publisher: Back Bay Books; First Edition (September 18, 2009) Language: English Paperback: 384 pages ISBN-10: 9780316086370 ISBN-13: 978-0316086370

  Product details Publisher : University of Georgia Press (October 15, 2012) Language : English Paperback : 160 pages ISBN-10 : 0820344397 ISBN-13 : 9780820344393