Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
Julie C. Dao weaves a tale that shapes a young peasant girl into the legendary Evil Queen, and watching the dark journey is both heartbreaking and glorious.
A Historic Journey
March is Women’s History Month, so why not read a great book about two remarkable women who made history?
The Cruel Prince
This is not your average faerie tale, Black paints a dark, but fantastical picture of a faerie kingdom where anything can happen.
Dizzy
It is as fun for caregivers as it is for adults.
We Were Witches
In this fictionalized memoir we follow Ariel from her giving birth as a teenager in the 1990s through her early college experience as a single mother. Ariel finds her voice … Continued
One Recommendation That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Zach Weinersmith of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, and his wife, Kelly, who is a Huxley Fellow at in the BioSciences Department Rice University (see: a real scientist), wrote a book.
Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA
Interested in learning more about the heroic women depicted in the book and film Hidden Figures? Then check out the book Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA, part of the Hidden Heroes series written by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris!
Dear Martin
“there’s no escaping the BMC! BMC? Yeah the Black Man’s Curse. World’s got diarrhea and dudes like us are the toilet.”
The Fight for Civil Rights: Then and Now
A selection of some of our newest titles examining key moments and figures in Civil Rights history, along with some demonstrating why the struggle continues.
Powerful Poetry
Hope and lament, grief and celebration, all are on offer in some of our newest titles from African American poets.