Black Bottom Saints

An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom ...

A celebrated columnist, nightclub emcee, and fine arts philanthropist draws inspiration from the Catholic Saints Day books to reflect on ...

Ada Howard, the wife of the preacher at Nashville's Full Love Baptist Tabernacle, has a whole lot of people to ...

Attending the funeral of her Pentagon special advocate ex-husband, a bewildered woman encounters a British socialist and probable spy who ...

"A joy to read." —New York Times Book Review From beloved bestselling author Ursula Hegi, a new novel about three ...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very ...

One of the most prominent and dynamic African-American neighborhoods in U.S. history, Paradise Valley served as a social and ...

Critical, wide-ranging analyses of Detroit’s redevelopment and alternative visions for its future....

In this daring and provocative literary parody which has captured the interest and imagination of a nation, Alice Randall explodes ...

To the outside observer, Salt Lake City might seem to be the squeaky-clean "City of Saints"—its nickname since Mormon ...

Performing Miracles. Facing Wild Lions. Confronting Demons. Transforming the World. From Augustine to Mother Teresa, officially canonized as St. Teresa ...

The Guggenheim Fellowship and Whiting Award-winning author Louis Edwards makes his long-awaited comeback with this epic tale of a New ...

Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature posits strength as a frequently contradictory and damaging trait for ...

In February 2017, Rochelle Riley was reading Twitter posts and came across a series of black-and-white photos of four-year-old Lola dressed ...

Catholic lore, American tales, and Sicilian superstition blend in this “clever, funny, heartbreaking, and heartwarming” novel (Publishers Weekly). Born with ...

A timeless story of family, war, art, and betrayal set around an ancient, ancestral home in the Tuscan countryside from ...

New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly ...

Learn about the lives and works of over eighty saints in this collection, featuring ninety-two colorfully illustrated holy cards. How ...

Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They’re told by people who have ...

From legendary writer Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one ...

This “delicious take on the one percent in our nation’s capital” (Town & Country) and clever combination of The Bonfire ...

A thoughtful middle-grade novel about caring for others and for yourself––and what it truly means to be kind and ...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "A stunning story... The ending is ingenious, and it's possible that ...

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST "Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing." --Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT "A ...

Roark is a bad man. His pig is a bad pig. They match in devilish temperament and violent deeds. Roark ...

NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano ...

One of Vogue’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020 One of Esquire's 15 Best Books of the Winter One of Vogue’s 22 ...

Cliff St. James returns along with his partner Honey to investigate a baffling series of ritualistic deaths that may be ...

This is the untold story of how black saints - and the slaves who venerated them - transformed the early ...

A mother and daughter duo translate soul food recipes passed down through generations into affordable and nutritious dishes, featuring black-eyed ...

From well-known saints like Patrick and Francis of Assisi to such lesser-known figures as Saint Kateri Tekakwitha and Saint Bernardino, ...

"The Ideal Bartender" by Tom Bullock. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses ...

It's the Midwest in the 1970-80s, and Mary is growing up in Detroit, where the recession hits hard, and ...

The acclaimed author of The Cloud Atlas returns with a wondrous second novel. Set in a small beachfront Catholic high ...

The Great Michigan Read 2013-14 Michigan Notable Book for 2010 A Washington Post Book World's "Best Books of 2009," Memoir Beth Luxenberg ...

NAACP 2017 Image Award Finalist 2018 Michigan Notable Books honoree The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, ...

“A fascinating political, racial, economic, and cultural tapestry” (Detroit Free Press), a tour de force from David Maraniss about the ...

“Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did ...

In Reggie Ford's bold reassessment of the Black experience in America, he demonstrates that a new understanding of PTSD is ...

Critically acclaimed author Julie Lawson Timmer returns with a tale of how community can heal the brokenness in all of ...