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For as long as she can remember, Patience Adewale, the eldest daughter of Chief Kolade Adewale, has been waiting for confirmation that she is loved, that there is a place where she truly belongs.

This little-known story of Mary Lumpkin reveals a slave woman who lived in a slave jail that she eventually renamed and transformed into a school for Black men, blazing a path of liberation for tho

Danny Timmons has looked up to Jack Bailey ever since Jack saved two small children from drowning during the Great Flood of 1940.

Yale professor Dr.

Mahalia Jackson was known as the queen of gospel music. A close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s, she was also a civil rights activist who sang at the March on Washington.

Serene dreams of making couture dresses even more stunning than her mom's, but for now she's an intern at her mom's fashion label.

Assembled and edited by Julian Hawthorne and first published in 1909, the Modern English volume of The Lock and Key Library features classic mystery and detective stories by such luminaries as Rudy

Eleven-year-old Ellis Johnson has the summertime blues. He dreamed of spending the summer of 1976 hanging out with friends, listening to music, and playing his harmonica.

We all come with our own mental and physical baggage, something that older cats from the animal shelter share in common with us.

Spade is a grave thief.

With the aid of a stranger, Frey discovers a world beyond the elves who bound her. But it's a world of shadows and dark magic, a world she's been warned not to trust.

Josie Barton is a high school student living in terror. Invisible creatures torment her everywhere she goes, constantly getting her into trouble at school, and even haunting her apartment.

Former New Jersey prosecutor Sandy Moss moved to a LA law firm to make a new start.

This memoir is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. Kathryn Davis centers the book on the death of her husband, Eric.

On all other nights, the train departs from Stain'd Station and travels to the city without stopping. But not tonight. You might ask, why is this night different from all other nights?