One World imprint: 150 books
by Robert Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
"Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go."
--James Baldwin
In these troubled times, wisdom often seems in short supply. But as this magnificent volume reminds us, African Americans have been blessed with a precious legacy of wisdom,...
The African American Writer's Handbook
How to Get in Print and Stay in Print
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
With African Americans writing and buying books in record numbers, the time is ripe for a comprehensive publishing guide tailored expressly to the needs of this vibrant, creative community. The African American Writers Handbook meets this challenge perfectly. Written by veteran journalist and published...
Crux
A Cross-Border Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
A daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory—between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death
**Winner of the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize • “Expressive and affecting . . . deeply...
Have You Met Miss Jones?
The Life and Loves of Radio's Most Controversial Diva
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
“Even though I’ve tried to wear glass slippers, somebody has deliberately knocked them off my feet. Because of that, I have walked the earth emotionally barefoot, and expressed my lack of self-esteem and rage in ways that clouded my judgment. I was a participant in a lot of drama. Didn’t mean...
Freedom in the Family
A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement—its hardships,...
Messengers of the Wind
Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
"Messengers of the Wind goes beyond the autobiographies of everyday women. These are women who have long been an invisible part of American culture. Their stories are haunting, frightening, encouraging, and courageous. . . . Katz is a faithful guide."
--The Minnesota Daily
In Messengers...
Good Talk
A Memoir in Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
A “vibrant, inventive, and vulnerable” (Bustle) graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and our most difficult conversations, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.
“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America...
Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?
The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
What happens to a little girl who grows up without a father? Can she ever feel truly loved and fully alive? Does she ever heal—or is she doomed to live a wounded, fragmented life and to pass her wounds down to her own children? Fatherlessness afflicts nearly half the households in America, and it...
by Eric Holder, Douglas A. Blackmon
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2021
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2021
In this provocative memoir, Barack Obama’s history-making attorney general reveals the story of his life.
Gender Talk
The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Why has the African American community remained silent about gender even as race has moved to the forefront of our nation’s consciousness? In this important new book, two of the nation’s leading African American intellectuals offer a resounding and far-reaching answer to a question that has been...
by Nikki Turner
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
“Nikki Turner has truly brought the female hustlers to light. Fellas betta watch out, because the Girls in the Game are taking over!”
–LaJill Hunt, author of Drama Queen and No More Drama
A collection of explosive stories handpicked by the undisputed “queen of hip-hop fiction,” Girls...
Christmas in the Hood
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
The undisputed queen of hip-hop fiction, #1 Essence bestselling author Nikki Turner unwraps a talented new collection of writers with raw urban stories to jingle your bells this season.
Christmas in the Hood presents fresh talent alongside shining stars such as K. Elliott and Seth “Soul Man”...
Children of the Waters
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Still reeling from divorce and feeling estranged from her teenage son, Trish Taylor is in the midst of salvaging the remnants of her life when she uncovers a shocking secret: her sister is alive. For years Trish believed that her mother and infant sister had died in a car accident. But the truth is...
The Sweetest Taboo
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
“With the passion of Zane and the gut-wrenching emotion of Noire, Risqué takes the erotic-fiction scene by storm.”
–Danielle Santiago*,* author of Little Ghetto Girl
The sweetest taboo–if you want it, come get it. . . .
Yuri and Drae are keeping secrets–each caught up in her...