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A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.
The story begins in 1619—a year before the Mayflower—when the White Lion disgorges...

Sensitive, big-hearted, and achingly self-conscious, forty-year-old Aaron Englund long ago escaped the confines of his Midwestern hometown, but he still feels like an outcast. After twenty years under the Pygmalion-like direction of his older partner Walter, Aaron at last decides it is time to stop letting life happen to him and to take control of his own fate. But soon after establishing himself in San Francisco-where he alternates between a shoddy...

400 Soul Food Recipes for Appetizers, Main Meals, Breads, Pies, Cakes, Salads, and More!An African American Cookbook: Exploring Black History and Culture Through Traditional Foods is a bountiful collection of favorite foods and the memories that go with them. The foods reflect the ingenious, resourceful, and imaginative Africans who made them. Woven among the four hundred recipes are rich historic anecdotes and sayings. They were discovered or lived...

Mike Ford turned himself around and worked his way into Harvard Law School. Now he is employed by the Davies Group, Washington's most high-powered and well-respected strategic consulting firm that specializes in pulling strings and peddling influence for the people who really run Washington. Quickly pulled into a seductive, dangerous web of power and corruption, Mike struggles to find his way out. But how does one save his soul when he has made a...

Were-rats Gothwrain and Sherisha, former overlords of the criminal underworld, are free from Dreadwing's grasp thanks to the curse they placed upon Sheila and Gar. The only ones who can possibly rescue the were-jaguars' captive souls are Julia and Dr. Diggers. They just have to defeat the evil duo who so utterly outfought them during their last battle!

Gothwrain and Sherisha have activated the last sigil of their curse, and now Gar and Sheila have only a day to live if Julia and Dr. Diggers can't destroy it! Fortunately, Dr. Diggers finds a back door into Gothwrain and Sherisha's soul-seal: their daughter, Lydia. But catching Lydia, the new Overlord of Darkholme, isn't going to be easy!

A little sea princess, longing to be human, trades her mermaid's tail for legs, hoping to win the love of a prince and earn an immortal soul for herself. Capturing the magic of Hans Christian Andersen's original tale, Classics Illustrated reveals the spectacle of the worlds below and above the sea. Beautifully illustrated, this classic tale will capture children's interest and spark their imagination inspiring a lifelong love of literature and reading....

It has been over three hundred years since the death of Ezra, but the memory still haunts Kade. He has traveled the world searching for demons that will bring closure to his past. On the hunt for the demons that plague our earth, and his soul, has been his only objective and it has led him to the Land of the Rising Sun. He senses that there is a demon, an oni, that he must banish - but there's another person he sense - is it the return of Ezra? And...

"Brandee has been dumped in every way possible, but by text is the last straw. That's it--she's officially done with men. Unfortunately, she's just been told her "soul mate" is the drool-worthy hottie all her friends call One-Night Nick. Nick has been searching for true love for one hundred years. After all, werewolves mate for life, and he does not want to mess this up. As soon as he kisses Brandee, he knows she's the one. But how will he convince...