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  • Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing

    Rebecca Vilkomerson

    $22.95

    What does the politics of solidarity look like in practice, and how can left-wing organizations grow—in numbers and power—while remaining accountable to the broader movements of which they are a part?

    Against enormous odds and in the face of fierce pushback, the Palestine solidarity movement has succeeded in transforming the landscape of American politics. The movement has catapulted Palestine from being an untouchable topic in even liberal political circles to a central rallying cry in grassroots progressive organizing, one that is championed by some of the highest profile and beloved members of Congress.

    In the fall and winter of 2023, with the attention of the world focused on Israel’s unprecedented aggression against the people of Gaza, millions across the globe mobilized in solidarity with Palestinians and their struggle for liberation. Jewish progressives in the US played a highly visible role in denouncing Israel’s actions and US complicity in them: leading mobilizations and disruptions from the US Capitol to Grand Central Station.

    In this book, two key leaders and former staff of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) —Rebecca Vilkomerson and Rabbi Alissa Wise—focus on the important role of anti-Zionist Jewish organizing within the broader Palestine solidarity movement, reflecting on their decade of leadership of JVP and drawing lessons especially relevant to those organizing from a position of solidarity.

    Against the backdrop of rapid and often devastating political developments, they explore how JVP grew larger as the organization shifted to the left and helped to alter the public narrative about Palestinian liberation, while also navigating the tensions of organization-building and creating a space for Judaism liberated from Zionism. Their insights help contextualize the intense suppression of activism for Palestinian freedom, while illuminating the roots of today’s flourishing Jewish solidarity with Palestinians worldwide.

    In addressing their shortcomings and failures no less than their inspiring successes, Vilkomerson and Wise deliver an account of JVP’s organizing during the 2010s that offers crucial strategic lessons for anyone engaging in the collective work of building organizations and fighting for justice as our movements evolve over time.

  • We Could've Been

    Scarlett Miller

    $15.00

    Vivienne Leblanc seems to have it all. She is absolutely stunning, smart, and driven to turn her fantastic job as a Music Marketing Director into her true career as a singer. She lives in a gorgeous New Orleans home with her childhood sweetheart and fiancé, Malik McKenna, a Music Producer. Vivienne is living the dream. Or so it seems.

    Malik's music-producing career begins to soar with his new rap artist, Lyric. Malik and Lyric work closely together and are always plastered on social media, leaving Vivienne to wonder if there's something more than music between her future husband and his artist. The higher Malik's star rises, the more the idyllic façade Vivienne has created begins to crumble around her.

    In the midst of her relationship's growing pains, her fiancé's best friend, up-and-coming singer Caine Guidry, begins to confide in her. Malik and Caine are like brothers, but Caine never embraced Vivienne like a sister. Despite always being in the same circles, sharing a connection with Malik, and working together, Vivienne and Caine were never really friends. He barely talked to her before, so why is he talking to her now?

    Their love of music and the pursuit of their dreams unite Vivienne and Caine in a way that neither of them could've ever imagined. As their friendship blossoms and their dynamic changes, Vivienne feels closer to Caine than anyone else in her life, even Malik. There's an awakening inside of Vivienne that brings her desires and a deep sense of longing bubbling up to the surface, unveiling emotions as foreign to her as her newfound friendship with Caine.

    Juggling her professional and personal life as they collide, Vivienne doesn't know what she really wants. Does she continue building the life she's begun with the only man she's ever envisioned being with? Does she pursue the dreams that she pushed aside to support Malik's aspirations? Or maybe she wants something or someone else entirely.

    As these decisions weigh on her, Vivienne starts to wonder if she has to make a choice. Can Vivienne have her cake and eat it too, or will wanting it all cost her everything?"

  • Hot for Teacher

    Monique Fisher

    $15.99

    Latrice Richardson is a thirty eight year old divorced, single mother who has an amazing career and a wonderful eight year old son named Quincy. What she doesn't have is any semblance of a love life and sex is non-existent. After a scorching one night stand with a handsome stranger, Nathan Woodson, Latrice never expects to see him again, and definitely not at the front of her son's classroom!
    Nathan Woodson is a former foster kid who loves teaching and has just landed his dream job. The last thing he expected was the sexy enchantress he spent the night with, to be the mother of one of his students.
    Despite the two of them both trying to keep things professional, Latrice and Nathan find themselves being drawn closer together. But with nosey school moms on the prowl and his job on the line, they find that love may be too hot for this parent and teacher to handle.
    Hot for Teacher is a sexy rom-com that features an older woman/younger man, (somewhat) secret lovers and plenty of high heat.

  • Keep Giving Me Love

    Briann Danae

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    Peace.

    That's what Synovi now had and cherished more than anything. Free from all the disturbances his chaotic life once ensued, he wanted nothing more than to keep it that way. With a thriving business and relationship, almost nothing could take him back to that dark place of no love. His Love didn't reside there.

    His world is still hers, and she is still his.

    Without warning, Torin inserted herself into Synovi's life and remained. She's the person he can run to when everything begins to fade, but there's a price to pay when you have a good heart. It's costly, depending on the circumstances, and Torin isn't sure her light is enough for the both of them to make it through the tunnel again.

    Is keeping her to himself all in vain, or is their bond strong enough to prove otherwise?

    Please note: Keep Giving Me Love is book #2 in the Unorthodox Loves series with no cliffhanger. It is best to read the interconnected standalone books in order.

  • Two Minute Warning

    Alexandra Warren

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    There’s a lot that can happen in two minutes or less…

    Kendall “Snoop” Dogwood has something to prove.

    After a devastating ending to his first year with the Houston Skyhawks, getting redemption is the only thing on the veteran quarterback’s mind coming into the new season. But when a picture of him and a woman he barely knows, but wants to get to know, goes viral on social media, it doesn’t take long before Kendall finds himself on a different kind of mission going into year two.

    A mission to pursue her.

    As a social media influencer and the daughter of a well-known sports bettor, Shakira “Kiki” Knight is used to seeing her face tied to all sorts of internet gossip. What she’s not used to is having an actual crush on whoever she’s rumored to be involved with. But when it comes to Kendall Dogwood, Shakira just can’t seem to contain her attraction, especially once she learns the Skyhawks quarterback is equally interested in her.

    Considering the messy way in which her last relationship with an NFL player ended, Kendall is probably the last man Shakira should be checking for. And after Shakira’s sports gambling ties are unveiled, the conflict of interest makes her the woman Kendall should probably be avoiding at all costs. But the instant chemistry between the two of them makes both of those things worth looking past for the sake of being together… until the stakes get higher and there’s more than just a game on the line.

  • She a Baddie

    Monique Fisher

    $10.99

    Christopher Rossmore has one dream: to run Rossmore Wineries, the vineyard that has been in his family for generations. Despite preparing for the role since birth, Christopher finds himself competing with his estranged father's gold digging fiancee for the job.

    In order to become CEO, he has to convince celebrity couple Michaela Hamilton and Hunter Lawrence to hold their star studded nuptials at the vineyard.

    He can run a business with his eyes closed, but public relations is not his jam.

    He's gonna need some help.

    Isobel Brooke Taylor has one dream: to run Taylor Made Hair Care, the family run hair care brand currently helmed by her father. Despite traveling all over the world to solidify Taylor Made's status as an international brand, the board is worried that her reputation as a party girl & socialite would make her unsuitable to take over.

    In order to get the top job she has to convince the board that she can balance business & pleasure.

    Walking into a crowded party and walking out with everyone eating out of the palm of her hand? Easy. Doing the same thing in the boardroom? Not so much.

    She's gonna need some help.

    When Izzie and Chris discover that Michaela and Hunter are hosting a couples only retreat, the perfect plan emerges. These childhood best friends will pretend to be lovers, while Izzy helps Chris woo the future Lawrences and Chris helps Izzy woo the board.

    But, can Christopher and Isobel get through the retreat without wooing each other?

  • Finding My Way Outta Darkness: A Story Of Unconditional Love

    Briyanna Michelle

    $24.00

    Special Ops Agent Brian McClain finds himself teaming up with the FBI to end the sex-trafficking ring in the city. He doesn’t expect to see his first love Makayla Scott after so many years. The one that got away and he is reminded of the fact that she doesn’t remember the time they spent together. Brian is determined to help Makayla not only gain her freedom but win her heart in the process.

  • Heat Of The Moment

    Briann Danae

    $12.99

    Fueled by her impulsive desire to create a memorable night, Sovanna approaches the finest man in the club. Boldly, she introduces herself to Zahir, confident he won't reject her... and he doesn't. Instead, he exceeds her expectations, making it clear that a mere one-night stand was just the beginning for them and the least she could've asked for. With Zahir, Sovanna realizes that she means much more to him than a fleeting, passionate encounter.

    Please note: Heat Of The Moment is book 1 in the Evermore series and does not include a cliffhanger.

  • Black Rican Vegan : Fire Plant-Based Recipes from a Bronx Kitchen

    Lyana Blount

    $23.99

    New York Times acclaimed vegan chef, Lyana Blount, shares her Afro-Latinx roots in this mouthwatering collection of plant-based soul food.

    The Best Latin & Soul Food Made Entirely Vegan

    Growing up in a Puerto Rican and Black household, Lyana Blount knew from a young age that food was a love language, and it was one she intended to master. After going vegan, she set out to capture the flavor, vibrancy and love in her family’s recipes with lighter plant-based ingredients. And with that, her NYC pop-up Black Rican Vegan was born! In this personal collection of recipes, Lyana shares the secrets behind the vegan, Latin soul food she’s famous for, so you can make her incredible meals right in your own kitchen and enjoy healthier versions of beloved classics.

    These 60 dishes combine crowd-pleasing favorites from the Black Rican Vegan menu, OG meals from the five boroughs and passed down family recipes. Make Puerto Rican fare like Holiday Vernil, Chicharron sin Carne, Mofonguitos con Vegan Camarones and Sopa de Salchicon. Celebrate the diverse NYC food scene with recipes like Moxtails, NYC Bacun Eggin Cheeze, Succulent Birria Tacos, Titi’s Lasagna for Dad and Bronx Fried Oyster Mushrooms. Lyana’s ingenious plant-based swaps will have you wowing your friends and family with ridiculously good meals no one will believe are vegan. Because after all, food is love, and nothing helps you share that more than the incredible plant-based recipes in Black Rican Vegan.

  • Feeding Toddlers : The Complete Guide to Maintaining Nutrition and Variety with Easy Family Meals

    Simone Ward

    $22.99
    Simone Ward follows up her first book, Baby Led Weaning Made Easy, with a new recipe guide for new parents whose child has weaned to solid foods and are now facing new challenges with feeding a toddler.

    Nourish Your Toddler Without the Stress!

    Jump-start your toddler’s healthy relationship with food with quick, easy recipes and actionable advice. In this comprehensive guide for busy parents of 1- to 4-year-olds, Simone Ward—food writer, cookbook author and mom of five—provides everything you need to keep mealtime filling, flavorful and low-stress. Navigate issues like portion sizes, introducing sugar and picky eating with delicious meals, exciting sides and make-ahead snacks like:

    10-Minute Peanut Noodles
    Whole-Wheat Protein Blender Waffles
    Oven-Baked Turkey & Spinach Meatballs
    Crispy Zucchini Fries
    Lemon & Blueberry Yogurt Muffins
    20-Minute Iron-Rich Tomato Soup

    Featuring an invaluable month of well-balanced meal plans using the book’s recipes—plus allergen warnings and substitution suggestions for dietary restrictions—this is a cookbook you’ll be sure to keep off the shelf and in the kitchen. And the best part? These meals are so delicious that your whole family will be asking for seconds!

  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (10th Anniversary Edition)

    Sherman Alexie

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    Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

    Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.

    With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and four-color interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.
  • Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen

    Marie Mitchell

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    A passionate debut cookbook celebrates Caribbean food, its legacy preserved―and, ultimately, transformed―by the kinship of those who share food.

    As the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, Marie Mitchell cooks to understand and celebrate recipes that have been passed down from generation to generation. In Kin, her hotly anticipated debut cookbook, she shares dishes from the Caribbean and its diaspora. Accompanied by gorgeous photographs, many shot in the Caribbean, the book’s 80 recipes blend influences from South Asia, Africa, and Latin America in crispy Saltfish Fritters, Honey Jerk Wings with Fluffy Cassava Fries and Hot Pepper Sauce, garlicky Mojo Roast Pork, Sweet Tangy Coleslaw, and Creamy Tomato Curry. Her breads, desserts, and drinks evoke the islands and are stunningly easy: coconut bread buns, a Ginger Drizzle cake, Summer Rum Punch. Marie’s food is subtle and playful, layering different notes and spices carefully to create delicate, rewarding flavors perfect for home cooks.

    full color photographs, illustrations, and chapter openers throughout

  • Doggerel: Poems

    Reginald Dwayne Betts

    $26.99

    Doggerel is a revelatory meditation on Blackness, masculinity, and vulnerability from one of poetry’s boldest voices.

    Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. In Doggerel, Betts examines this subject through a more prosaic―but equally rich―lens: dogs. He reminds us that, as our lives are broken and put back together, the only witness often barks instead of talks. In these poems, which touch on companionship in its many forms, Betts seamlessly and skillfully deploys the pantoum, ghazal, and canzone, in conversation with artists such as Freddie Gibbs and Lil Wayne.

    Simultaneously philosophical and playful, Doggerel is a meditation on family, falling in love, friendship, and those who accompany us on our walk through life. Balancing political critique with personal experience, Betts once again shows us “how poems can be enlisted to radically disrupt narrative” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker)―and, in doing so, reveals the world anew.

    “. . . every story becomes a multiplication,

    If the naming is filled less with names than

    With the best parts, the barking & everything

    Else, because who among us hasn’t been

    As mangy as a rescue, even on our best

    Days, desiring mostly to be loved.”

    ―from “Rings”

  • The Ephemera Collector: A Novel

    Stacy Nathaniel Jackson

    $29.99

    The year is 2035, and Los Angeles County is awash in a tangelo haze of wildfire smoke. Xandria Anastasia Brown spends her days deep in the archives of the Huntington Library as the curator of African American Ephemera and associate curator of American Historical Manuscripts, supported by an array of AI personal assistants and health bots. Descended from a family of obsessive collectors who took part in the Great Migration, Xandria grew up immersed in African American ephemera and realia: boots worn by Negro Troopers during the Civil War, Black ATA tennis rackets, bandanas worn by the Crips....

    Although Xandria’s work may preserve collective memory, she is losing a grasp on her own. Evren, her new health bot, won’t stop reminding her that her symptoms of long COVID are worsening; not to mention that severe asthma, chronic fatigue, grief, and worrying lapses in reality keep disrupting progress on a new Octavia E. Butler exhibition, cataloging the new Diwata Collection, and organizing the Huntington against a stealth corporate takeover. Then, one morning a colleague Xandria can’t place calls to wish her a happy birthday―and the library goes into an emergency lockdown.

    Sequestered in the archive with only her adaptive technology and flickering intuition, Xandria fears that her life’s work is in danger―the Diwata Collection, a radical blueprint for humanity’s survival. Up against a faceless enemy and unsure of who her human or AI allies truly are, she must make a choice.

    A lyrical and strikingly original saga, The Ephemera Collector announces Stacy Nathaniel Jackson as a singular new voice in fiction.

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  • To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

    Viet Thanh Nguyen

    $26.95

    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity.

    Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would soon move to San Jose, California, where the author grew up, attending UC Berkeley in the aftermath of the shocking murder of Vincent Chin, which shaped the political sensibilities of a new generation of Asian Americans.

    The essays here, delivered originally as the prestigious Norton Lectures, proffer a new answer to a classic literary question: What does the outsider mean to literary writing? Over the course of six captivating and moving chapters, Nguyen explores the idea of being an outsider through lenses that are, by turns, literary, historical, political, and familial.

    Each piece moves between writers who influenced Nguyen’s craft and weaves in the haunting story of his late mother’s mental illness. Nguyen unfolds the novels and nonfiction of Herman Melville, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, William Carlos Williams, and Maxine Hong Kingston, until aesthetic theories give way to pressing concerns raised by war and politics. What is a writer’s responsibility in a time of violence? Should we celebrate fiction that gives voice to the voiceless―or do we confront the forces that render millions voiceless in the first place? What are the burdens and pleasures of the “minor” writer in any society? Unsatisfied with the modest inclusion accorded to “model minorities” such as Asian Americans, Nguyen sets the agenda for a more radical and disquieting solidarity with those whose lives have been devastated by imperialism and forever wars.

  • rock flight

    Hasib Hourani

    $16.95

    A powerfully moving debut poetry collection about the violence of colonialist occupation

    One more rock thrown onto the pile to tumble the mountain on my chest

     ―Hasib Hourani

    Hasib Hourani’s rock flight is a book-length poem that, over seven chapters, follows a single personal and historical narrative centered on the violent occupation of Palestine. The poem uses refrains of suffocation, rubble, and migratory bird patterns to address the realities of forced displacement, economic restrictions, and surveillance technology that Palestinians face both within Palestine and across the diaspora. Searing and fierce, tender and pleading, rock flight invites the reader to embark on an exploration of space while limited by the box-like confines of the page. Through the whole, Hourani moves between poetry and prose, historical events and meditations on language, Fluxus-like instructions and interactions with friends, strangers, and family.

    As incantatory and stirring as Inger Christensen’s alphabet or Raúl Zurita’s Inri, rock flight adapts themes of displacement and refusal into an interactive reading experience where the book becomes an object in flux.

  • The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria

    José Donoso

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    Sensual and semi-fantastic, this erotic novel by José Donoso―for the first time in English―is a thrilling and unsettling exploration of identity via sexual desire

    All of a sudden, Blanca Arias has it all. The daughter of middling Nicaraguan diplomats posted to Madrid, she marries, at the age of 19, the equally young and passionate Marquess of Loria, her darling Paquito, heir to one of the largest fortunes (and most august titles) in Spain. Paquito, as if on cue, dies of diphtheria, leaving his young widowed Marquise alone, free, and inconceivably rich.

    Donoso’s luxurious and disturbing work details the sexual awakening of the Marquise of Loria as her white-gloved chauffeur shuttles her from tryst to tryst. But it’s not all Patek Phillipes and pink champagne: Blanca’s mother-in-law Casilda is scheming with her gang of sycophants to take back “their” fortune from this newly-minted Loria, and there’s no low they won’t sink to to get it. The mysterious presence of Luna, a Weimaraner pup who infiltrates Blanca’s chambers and hypnotizes her with his lunar gaze, twists this glittering elegy to the literary erotica of 1920s Madrid into something more: a psychological thriller and a profound investigation into the surfaces that the fortunate gild and polish to hide the darkness that lies beneath.

    As exuberant as it is explicit―and elegantly translated into English for the first time by Megan McDowell―The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria―shows the Boom-era master Donoso in a lighter mode, and the result is irresistible.

  • The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive: being dreamity, algoriddims, chants & riffs

    Marcia Douglas

    $17.95

    A startling new dream-like vision of Jamaica―a work of surreal poetic fiction, lavishly studded with ecological prayers, drawings, and footnotes about healing herbs, disappearing flora-fauna, and buried herstories―by Whiting Award winner Marcia Douglas

    Zooming into tight focus on present-day life and dashing deep into the past in turns, the pace is fast and fierce in The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive, which continues Marcia Douglas’ “speculative ancestral project” (The Whiting Foundation) begun with The Marvellous Equations of the Dread. Her new poetic and eco-spiritual book carries further the cultural preservation so central to Douglas’ vision. TheShante Dream Arkive brings alive a mosaic of characters―all searching through history for something or someone lost to the island: a mother searches for her missing child through time and space; an undocumented migrant’s struggles with loss while living in the US; a youth wanders through dream-gates seeking liberation and the lost parts of himself. And one key to the whole is Zora Neale Hurston’s left-behind camera. Each chapter/poem opens like an aperture onto another aspect of the dream story. And, each and every potent dream story contains the spirit, beauty, and riddim of Jamaica:

    For after three hundred years of slaughter, monk seals know better than to reveal themselves to humans. These days, they stay low, adapting to below surface conditions and establishing habitat with the underwater spirits of drowned horses and slaves disappeared overboard. For things happen below sea that have never been told. There is wheelin there and turnin; and far-far down past brochure azure, cerulean and indigo, there is a vast dark ink and vortices of voices caught up in such a trumpet of rah- &-glory bottomsea sound as to move earth’s axis. And after that, more ink blue, and cobalt and sapphire and a calm-calm wata― velvet and kin to the moon brand new. The monk seals dare not go this far. But the spirits do.

  • The Build Up: A Black Romance Novel

    Tati Richardson

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    A truly unfortunate first day of work leads to unexpected love in this sparkling debut from Romance in Colour podcast cohost Tati Richardson.

    Rumpled and ragged was not how architect Ari James envisioned kicking off her first day at a new firm. And few things can top the horror of her new—and extremely hot—colleague walking in on her at the worst moment ever. Learning that she’ll be working with him on the project that’s supposed to get her career back on top makes it harder than ever to focus on her big comeback.

    With a partnership at his firm on the line, nothing is going to stand in the way of Porter Harrison absolutely killing it on his new project: not his obnoxious rival, not his unpredictable brother and definitely not his new coworker whose gorgeous curves he accidentally saw and now can’t get out of his head.

    Though neither of them is looking for love, once their creative juices get flowing, Ari and Porter’s connection is obvious. But when their shared goal has always been winning at work, building a solid foundation for a relationship might end up costing them everything…

  • Falling for the Competition (The Friendship Chronicles, 5)

    Darby Baham

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    He’s her biggest competition.

    And the key to her success.

    When Keisha Edwards collides with Rhodes scholar Julian Langley, she briefly considers switching from her MBA to chemistry—because theirs is off the charts! But when Tall, Dark and Arrogant asks for her number? The answer is no. Besides, if Keisha’s going to graduate top of her class, she doesn’t have time for romance.

    Julian is no novice when it comes to beautiful women, yet when Keisha turns him down, it stings. But not as much as discovering she’s in his MBA program—and she’s the one to beat for top marks. Well, the competition is on—until they’re assigned to a group project. As their chemistry threatens to boil over, it’ll be a test to see if these frenemies can work together to succeed in business…and in love…

    From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness.

    The Friendship Chronicles

    Book 1: The Shoe Diaries
    Book 2: Bloom Where You're Planted
    Book 3: London Calling
    Book 4: Her New York Minute
    Book 5: Falling for the Competition

  • Mina's Matchbox: A Novel

    Yoko Ogawa

    $17.00
    From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.

    “A story of first enchantments and last gasps…Effervescent.” —New York Times Book Review


    In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family’s pygmy hippopotamus resides. The family is just as beguiling as their mansion—Tomoko’s dignified and devoted aunt, her German great-aunt, and her dashing, charming uncle, who confidently sits as the family’s patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko’s cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling.

    In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko's life. Behind the family's sophistication are complications that Tomoko struggles to understand—her uncle's mysterious absences, her great-aunt's experience of the Second World War, her aunt's misery. Rich with the magic and mystery of youthful experience, Mina's Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time—and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse.
  • The Taste of Country Cooking: The 30th Anniversary Edition of a Great Southern Classic Cookbook

    Edna Lewis

    $28.95

    In this classic Southern cookbook, the “first lady of Southern cooking” (NPR) shares the seasonal recipes from a childhood spent in a small farming community settled by freed slaves. She shows us how to recreate these timeless dishes in our own kitchens—using natural ingredients, embracing the seasons, and cultivating community. With a preface by Judith Jones and foreword by Alice Waters.

    With menus for the four seasons, Miss Lewis (as she was almost universally known) shares the ways her family prepared and enjoyed food, savoring the delights of each special time of year.

    From the fresh taste of spring—the first wild mushrooms and field greens—to the feasts of summer—garden-ripe vegetables and fresh blackberry cobbler—and from the harvest of fall—baked country ham and roasted newly dug sweet potatoes—to the hearty fare of winter—stews, soups, and baked beans—Lewis sets down these marvelous dishes in loving detail.

    Here are recipes for Corn Pone and Crispy Biscuits, Sweet Potato Casserole and Hot Buttered Beets, Pan-Braised Spareribs, Chicken with Dumplings, Rhubarb Pie, and Brandied Peaches. Dishes are organized into more than 30 seasonal menus, such as A Late Spring Lunch After Wild-Mushroom Picking, A Midsummer Sunday Breakfast, A Christmas Eve Supper, and an Emancipation Day Dinner.

    In this seminal work, Edna Lewis shows us precisely how to recover, in our own country or city or suburban kitchens, the taste of the fresh, good, and distinctly American cooking that she grew up with.

  • The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories

    Mariana Enriquez

    $17.00

    “The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”—Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • FINALIST: Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ray Bradbury Prize, Kirkus Prize • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, New York Public Library, Electric Lit, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews

    Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre. Populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her new collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken—fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history—with bracing urgency. A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart; a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom; a pair of teenage girls can’t let go of their idol; an entire neighborhood is cursed to death when it fails to respond correctly to a moral dilemma.
     
    Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with a resounding tenderness toward those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed is Mariana Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling.

  • Priceless Facts about Money (Mellody on Money)

    Mellody Hobson

    $19.99

    An instant New York Times bestseller!

    Debut author Mellody Hobson, barrier-breaking pioneer in the world of finance, demystifies money for kids with a look at some wild and weird facts about what makes the world go round.

    What is the meaning of all those symbols on US bills (and why are they so hard to counterfeit)? What’s with people calling money “bacon” or “cheddar” or “smackeroonies”? With savvy and wit, financial expert Mellody Hobson sheds a friendly light on a daunting subject, from the meteorites that created the first mineral deposits to the ancient Maya who used chocolate as currency to the beginnings of the banking system itself. Readers learn about bartering, profit and loss, the origins of credit, ATMs, and even fun facts about money around the world. In her first children’s book, Mellody Hobson brings excitement to the realm of financial literacy and gives kids the tools they need to navigate money now and in the future. Featuring energetic artwork by debut illustrator Caitlin Stevens, amusing skits starring a cat and bunny who converse in money idioms, and inserts depicting the author and her business partner as kids just learning how money works, Priceless Facts about Money is an inviting, entertaining, and richly educational resource for every child.

  • When We Talk To God: Prayers And Poems For Black Women

    Sharifa Stevens

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    These are prayers for your moments of gratitude and celebration. For your seasons of loss and waiting. For your days when prayers come, not in words but in groans. When We Talk to God, from poet-theologian Sharifa Stevens, captures the arc and the ache of our lives.

    A beautiful interweaving of artwork, prayers, and poems for Black women, this unique book encourages you to lift up your whole heart and loudest voice to God. And to tell Him about everything; nothing is off-limits. Sharifa's honest and powerful words express prayer and longing through personal experiences, biblical examples, and stunning imagery. When We Talk to God offers:

    * An invitation to journey through honest lamentation and heartfelt joy to find greater peace in a turbulent world
    * Poems and prayers exploring topics from job interviews to grief, from braiding hair to feeling invisible, from parenting to dancing
    * Validation and inspiration for Black women of faith, by a Black woman speaking from her life to yours
    * A relatable and authentic voice that frees you to present your own prayers and praises to the God who hears you, sees you, and loves you
    * A beautiful gift idea for Mother's Day, Grandparents' Day, International Women's Day, spiritual anniversaries, and birthdays

    Ideal for Black women of any age and background, When We Talk to God is a balm to your spirit and soul as it urges you to go to God with all of who you are and with everything you can or cannot say.

  • Take Your Seat at the Table Study Guide

    Anthony O'Neal

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    Use this tool to take ownership of your life and become the person God created you to be.

    In Take Your Seat at the Table Study Guide, bestselling author and podcaster Anthony O'Neal provides you with practical tools and guidance if you want to take the message of Take Your Seat at the Table to the next level in your own life.

    Designed to be used in conjunction with Take Your Seat at the Table, this Study Guide is perfect for individuals, small groups, and churches seeking to:

    * Become empowered to make the best financial, career, health, emotional, and relational decisions
    * Identify the keys to fostering strong relationships with friends and family, build a "work tribe” that will help you achieve your goals
    * Develop a vision for thriving in every phase of life
    * Discover an eternal quality of life filled with meaning, true abundance (including financial freedom), and joy

    The Take Your Seat at the Table Study Guide equips you to take charge and step into the life God wants you to live. Just about every significant decision, conversation, prayer, celebration, or affirmation takes place around the table--are you ready to take a seat at the head of your own table?

  • Two Equals One: A Marriage Equation for Love, Laughter, and Longevity

    Jimmy Rollins

    $19.99

    Uncover the secrets to a thriving marriage. Focusing on reconciling differences and forging true intimacy, Two Equals One emphasizes the crucial roles of communication, understanding, and concerted team effort.

    100% of marriages that end in divorce are cited for "irreconcilable differences." Things that brought couples together are now tearing them apart. Simple occasional frustrations have morphed into everyday fights causing complex fractures. Marriages are miserable, families are affected, and the equation for a marriage made one is elusive.

    In Two Equals One, Jimmy and Irene Rollins introduce you to a solution that is counter-cultural to a society that encourages you to give up, to not give your spouse any more chances, or use pain as permission to step out on your spouse. A solution that with two committed people coupled with the power of God can be the equation for a marriage made one. Two Equals One presents the case to stay rather than leave. To lean in rather than let go. To give you a framework and path to discover a marriage equation of love, laughter, and longevity.

    From tackling tough topics such as addiction and resentment to addressing the impact of neglecting spousal roles, Two Equals One is a comprehensive guide to strengthening and salvaging relationships, while offering practical challenges, prayers, and resources to actively engage couples.

    Jimmy and Irene will help readers to:

    * Move from cussing and fussing to communicating and forgiving
    * Learn tools to have hard conversations that will improve your communication and connection in relationships
    * Find hope and healing in areas in your relationship where there is real hurt, broken trust, and rebuild your relationship together
    * Discover how two completely different people can accept, learn from, and leverage their differences to make a marriage made one

    Jimmy and Irene encourage couples to identify differences and navigate through them, providing guidance on conflict management and expectation setting. They stand firm in their belief that with effort and commitment, any marriage can overcome challenges and thrive. Your irreconcilable difference can be reconciled.

  • Remain in His Love: 90 Devotions to Help You Dig Deep and Draw Closer to God (A 90-Day Devotional)

    Jackie Greene

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    Come on a 90-day journey with pastor, Bible teacher, and author Dr. Jackie Greene as she encourages you to dig deep into His Word and discover and enjoy a love that never ends.

    Do life's challenges and distractions prevent you from developing or maintaining a deep, consistent, intimate relationship with the Father? Dr. Jackie Greene has been there but love--God's love--changed everything for her, and it can change everything for you too. When Dr. Jackie finally learned to surrender, receive God's love, and spend time in daily devotion with Him, resting in His love, she discovered a life-transforming revelation: His love remains consistent and unfailing despite her mistakes and flaws.

    By digging into His Word and spending time with Him, you can develop and enjoy a flourishing, reliable connection and a love that never ends. In this 90-day devotional, you will

    * develop a daily habit of spending time with God and drawing into lasting fellowship;
    * experience healing in your areas of brokenness;
    * become anchored in your role as God's daughter; and
    * discover your true worth and the joy of abiding in His love!

    Give yourself a priceless gift and spend the next ninety days experiencing intimacy with God through Scripture, prayer prompts, and devotional messages and gain the life-transforming revelation of the love of God and what it means to live loved and cherished.

  • The Breathe Life Holy Bible: Faith in Action (NKJV, Black Leathersoft, Red Letter, Comfort Print)

    Thomas Nelson

    $69.99

    Faith in Action: Being a Gospel-Driven Change-Maker

    Christians are called to be the hands and feet of Jesus in the world. To be proclaimers of good news—agents of reconciliation with a message of hope, and faith that takes action. We need wisdom from God’s Word, power from His Spirit, hope from His gospel, and faith that He will equip us for the task.

    The Breathe Life Bible invites you to experience Scripture through the lens of the BREATHE acronym: Believe, Reconcile, Exalt, Act, Trust, Hope, and Elevate. Receive practical biblical encouragement. Find answers to some of life’s most difficult situations. Discover what faith in action really looks like as we pursue God’s vision of being a community where all people are valued and cared for.

    Features include:

    * Introduction article by Rev. Dr. Bernice A. King
    * Foreword by Ambassador Andrew Young
    * Prayer of dedication by Bishop Hezekiah Walker
    * Encouragement letters from Rev. Matthew Wesley Williams (President, Interdenominational Theological Center), Dr. Thelma Thomas Daley (President, National Council of Negro Women), and Derrick Johnson (President, NAACP)
    * The Sky Dive more deeply into faith in action with these three focused articles. Through God’s Word, you are empowered to live a fruitful, abundant life, fully engaged in the pursuit of healthy relationships with God and others.
    * The Air Increase your understanding with introductions and overviews for each book of the Bible’s content and themes, plus insights on each book’s relevance to the hearts of people of color today.
    * We Speak Look at life through the eyes of 49 people in the Bible. Relate to the joys, sorrows, victories, and defeats of those who lived long ago and glean insights on how to live today.
    * Life Support Explore how God’s truth can be applied to action steps in your life through 10 passages in the Bible.
    * Inhale-Exhale A Q&A format addresses some of the most difficult life situations with answers that remind you that it is possible to rise above challenges in God’s power.
    * #Oxygen Be challenged and encouraged with 98 brief snippets of wisdom drawn straight from the Word.
    * Release Focus on tenets of the BREATHE acronym—Believe, Reconcile, Exalt, Act, Trust, Hope, Elevate—through this series of 49 devotions developed by Christian pastors and teachers who seek hope and guidance in God’s Word.
    * Cross references and concordance
    * Words of Christ in red
    * Clear and readable 10-point NKJV Comfort Print®

    Additional Contributors:

    Dr. Charrita Danley Quimby

    Rev. Dr. Eric W. Lee

    Michele Clark Jenkins

    Stephanie Perry Moore

    Min. Derrick Moore

    Bishop Kenneth Ulmer

    Dr. Arthur Satterwhite

    Pastor Debra B. Morton

    Pastor Tommy Kyllonen

    Rev. Dr. Helen Delaney

    Pastor Tommy Stevenson

    Bishop Vashti McKenzie

    Bishop Marvin Sapp

    Dr. Franklin Perry, Sr.

    Rev. Dr. LaKeesha Walrond

    Antonio Neal Phelon

    Elder De’Leice R. Drane

    S. James Guitard

    Dr. Lakeba H. Williams

    Rev. Dr. Walter L. Kimbrough

    Jekalyn Carr

    First Lady Jamell Meeks

  • Homeward: A Novel

    Angela Jackson-Brown

    $17.99

    The country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing—and no one—will ever be the same.

    Georgia, 1962. Rose Perkins Bourdon returns home to Parsons, GA, without her husband and pregnant with another man’s baby. After tragedy strikes her husband in the war overseas, a numb Rose is left with pieces of who she used to be and is forced to figure out what she is going to do with the rest of her life. Her sister introduces her to members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—young people are taking risks and fighting battles Rose has only seen on television. Feeling emotions for the first time in what feels like forever, the excited and frightened Rose finds herself becoming increasingly involved in the resistance efforts. And of course, there is also the young man, Isaac Weinberg, whose passion for activism stirs something in her she didn’t think she would ever feel again.

    Homeward follows Rose’s path toward self-discovery and growth as she becomes involved in the Civil Rights Movement, finally becoming the woman she has always dreamed of being.

    Praise for Homeward:

    "This is a harrowing novel about the push and pull of fidelity, family, and faith under the crush of history. Angela Jackson-Brown has written a deeply emotional novel that feels timeless while also speaking to the particularly troubled times in which we live."

    —Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of When Ghosts Come Home

    * A stirring tale of one woman’s experience in the Civil Rights movement that changed a nation, written from Angela Jackson-Brown’s experience of being born and raised in the rural South.
    * Stand-alone novel
    * Includes Discussion Questions for book clubs

  • I Am Maroon : The True Story of an American Political Prisoner

    Russell Shoatz

    $32.50
    In this cinematic memoir, follow one man's journey from gang member to Black liberation leader to political prisoner–and the justice and redemption he fought for along the way.

    Inspired by Malcolm X, Russell Shoatz became a lifelong crusader for justice, a soldier in the most militant units of the Black Liberation Army. Shoatz was convicted to life in prison following a coordinated attack on a park police station that left one guard dead.The prison walls, however, could not deter Shoatz’s battle for personal and collective freedom. He escaped state prisons twice, making him a living legend, and endowed him with the moniker “Maroon,” once used to honor runaway slaves from plantations. He survived 22 years in solitary confinement, prompting an international campaign for his freedom.

    I Am Maroon charts a life of dizzying intrigue and a long struggle for liberation. With an unforgettable voice, Maroon reminds us that we too are capable of radical change, leaving us a blueprint for how we might dedicate our lives and minds to the ongoing fight for freedom.    
    Contributor Bio(s)

    Russell "Maroon" Shoatz was a dedicated community activist, founding member of the Black Unity Council, former member of the Black Panther Party, and soldier in the Black Liberation Army.

     Kanya D'Almeida is a writer and winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. As a journalist, she reported for a decade on global economic apartheid, reproductive justice and prison abolition.
  • Katabasis: A Novel
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    Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:

    The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld

    Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.

    That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

    Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….

    Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.

    With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.

    But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.

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