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At age thirty-three, Maurice Ashley became the first African American to attain the rank of International Grand Master of Chess. Since that historic moment, he has brought his love of the game to a wide audience as an educator, innovator, and motivational speaker.

For one hundred years, without realizing it, we’ve been building an organism. We gave the enterprise a body through global supply chains, logistics networks, and industrial systems that move goods across the globe. Then, we gave it a nervous system of cloud platforms, enterprise software, and data that flows through organizations like electricity through a wire.

In Harlem’s tumultuous history, there are many tragedies. For those growing up in this part of New York City, a young man known simply as Fritz from West 112th Street became an urban legend in Harlem. In the 1970s, Richard “Fritz” Simmons is introduced to the drug trade by an associate of the Lucchese crime family, one of the five families of La Cosa Nostra (the Mafia). After negotiating a deal with the Medellín Cartel, Fritz becomes New York’s Cocaine Consignment King. Harlem Holiday brings her inside scoop after almost three decades of silence.

Salado Creek, Texas, 1918: Thirteen Black soldiers stood at attention in front of gallows erected specifically for their hanging. They had been convicted of participating in one of America’s most infamous Black uprisings, the Camp Logan Mutiny, otherwise known as the 1917 Houston Riots

Acting as a critical pillar for those seeking to build a rock-solid financial foundation, Financial Literacy for All is a must-have book for working professionals, blue-collar workers, members of young families, and established businesspeople looking for a better, more secure future for themselves and the ones they care about.

P. Djèlí Clark's Ring Shout meets Alyssa Cole's When No One Is Watching in this creeping body horror novel following the tenants of an apartment complex in a gentrifying neighborhood, the parasitic infection they contract, and what they do to survive. Leigh Pierce Estates is home to a diverse...

Jackson Jones and Mackenzie Cunningham are both Black private investigators operating out of Los Angeles, but where Jackson specializes in high-end clientele whose swagger matches his own, Mackenzie is scrappy, defensive, and easily underestimated. They haven't met until the day they're both...

Stories are told freely at The Chinaberry Tree bar—fiercely, and without permission. A young white narrator arrives to listen, document, and preserve the lived experiences of Black men and women whose voices are too often overlooked. But observation quickly becomes entanglement, and the line between witness and participant begins to blur. In bars, living rooms, and late-night conversations, language is raw, humor cuts deep, and truths resist easy interpretation. The narrator is pulled into a world that challenges not only what he hears—but his right to hear it.

Charlie tells the story of a man and his family who live on a Kansas Ranch in the early 21st century. His story parallels the Biblical story of a man named "Job", who probably lived more than 4,000 years ago and endured a period of great adversity followed by a struggle that led him to greater intimacy with God.

Kay and Matt—disenfranchised, manic depressive pagan deity assassins, cult busters, and office drones, real "all-in-one" employees of the clandestine, Pan-Abrahamaic conglomerate known as CrossTech. You might conjure up an exciting, high-octane fantasy over such a profession, but in reality they are not so different from you. They mostly file reports, attend seemingly pointless meetings, and have to explain every decision they dare make outside of the chain of command to an uncaring, angelic manager, and his self-important, weaselly assistant.

In this poignant, wry, and powerful memoir, Nunn links the politics of Black Power to the movements for Black lives and dignified reentry today. His story underscores the power of coalition building, persistence in the face of backlash, and the importance of centering the voices of experience in the fight for freedom-and proves, once and for all, that jailbirds can fly.

Searching for Solid Ground is a captivating and deeply personal chronicle of Harris’s extraordinary life, from his early years, when his love of music was fueled by singing everywhere he could—at home, at church, and in the school choir—to performing across the world for over forty years as one half of the folk duo Kim and Reggie Harris, to his current work blending his musical gifts with a commitment to promote justice and peace and heal the racial divide.

Find hope when you see that it is never too late for a new beginning. This book is for… Every person who has experienced struggle and hardship Every person who knew there was more out there than their own surroundings Every person who dreamed and wanted more Every person who hoped to inspire...

I am an Army veteran, author, and advocate for preventing veteran suicide, who wasn't sure how to share my story of overcoming my plight with veteran suicide, so I decided to share my story by writing a book. Therefore, I have to ask you, the listener, the question is my book? A poem? Or a memoir? The true answer is, it depends on the listener's interpretation once the listener has listened to 81 Days: The Hidden Suicide.

Victorious is a testament to others that anyone can overcome anything. In this book, Joy Regulus is 100 percent transparent about her life so she can help a tremendous amount of people.

These are some things I have seen and experienced over the first 50 years of my life. My Dad got to be 91, and Mama just gave up the fight at 81. I would like to get to 100 and still be healthy. It is hard to deny something when you see it with your own eyes, or feel it when it touches you.

I am a romanticist, a dreamer, a positive thinker. I see the world as a place to flourish and do better. I am sure, we are here to love and to be loved. Love is what I look for in a sea and sky and star. Love is what I look for in all that things that are.

Imagine that you have life by the horns. The future is looking very promising, and you’re only 25 years of age. You serve your country by enlisting in the Air Force, one year left on your bachelors degree, and just founded and launched your very own business called Kiwi Enterprise LLC. At this point, it seems as if nothing can go wrong, until on one beautiful day it does. 

Righteousness? Me? provides a road map to the restoration that the Lord truly wants for us. The lessons of the restoration process are clearly described and illustrated with stories that look into the lives of people with real spiritual and life struggles. This book isn't narrated as vague theories but as practical descriptions of how this change can be integrated into real lives. This is not a self-help book. Instead, it is a God-help book. The whole concept of this book is a recognition of our own limits.

“Solomon-Simmons’s extraordinary lawyering, activism, and engagement on how we repair harms long unaddressed are at the forefront of urgent and critical issues in this country. Redeem a Nation tells an American story we cannot ignore.”—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author...