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We're celebrating the entire month of December with stories of Holiday romance. This book is comprised of stories written by three of romance's most sizzling authors. Holiday Heat by Beverly JenkinsFor Eve Clark, winter usually means long cold
Author Esi Edugyan introduces us to the life of eleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, who is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master’s brother. To his surpris
David Jerome Hendricks brings us the life of David Felipe, a former police officer, and US Marine and US Army combat veteran of two wars. Felipe has formed his own spy agency and hires female assassins to do his dirty work from Medellin, Colomb
In this imaginative sci-fi novel, author Rivers Solomon introduces us to Aster who lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity
Author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles the untold story of the Great Migration, an exodus of nearly six million African-Americans from the Jim Crow South to Northern and Western states. Using stunning historical detail and first-hand accounts, Wilk
Jarrett G. Pratt is a first-time author whose poetic style is designed to stimulate interactions that appeal to multiple generations. This project uses engaging humor and cultural imagery to deliver inspirational content to spoken word and poet
In her debut novel, author Margaret Wilkerson Sexton captures the emotional changes of one family spanning across three generations in New Orleans - a city impacted by segregation and economic inequality. The book highlights the societal forces
Author Langston Hughes, a powerhouse of the Harlem Renaissance and best known for his poetry, published this debut novel in 1930. This stirring coming-of-age tale unfolds in 1930s rural Kansas. A poignant portrait of African-American family lif
Bringing together fourteen African-American women, author Marita Golden has compiled saucy and spicy essays that serve as an exploration into the contemporary black female psyche. These essays - nine of which were written expressly for this bo
In this novel, author Octavia Butler explores the dynamics and dilemmas of antebellum slavery from the sensibility of a time-traveling late 20th-century black woman, who is aware of its legacy in contemporary American society. Dana, a modern bl
Author Tanisha Alston captures the literal (and sometimes not so literal) varying ranges of emotion of the title in this collection of eight short stories.Bringing to life rich characters experiencing various degrees of love, loss, and being fo
In this award-winning novel, Jamaican author Nicole Dennis-Benn explores the lives of two sisters who are fifteen years apart, with eldest sister Margot working to help make a better life for the youngest by becoming a sex worker. Thandi, the y
In this novel, loosely based on the life of Willie Francis, a young Black man twice sentenced to the electric chair, author Ernest J. Gaines poses the question - Knowing we're going to die, how should we live? It's the story of an uneducated yo
Colin Channer is a Jamaican born author, musician, and philanthropist. His writing style taps into spiritual, sensual, and social themes presented from a literary perspective, and as such, he has been referred to as "Bob Marley with a pen". In
Born in Ohio and raised primarily in South Carolina & Brooklyn, author Jacqueline Woodson draws inspiration from her roots. She consciously writes for a younger audience, making sure to write about youth with an adolescent audience in mind. Tho
As an educator with a background in psychology and all-around creative, author Omar Rice enjoys writing about the human experience through musings, poetry, prose, and short stories. In this first published work, Rice explores the complexity of
Author, playwright, and anthropologist, Zora Neal Hurston was a revolutionary during the Harlem Renaissance best known for her audaciousness, wit, and folk writing style. She conducted field research of folklore among African-Americans in the S
This is an autobiographical tale from Matthew Alexander Henson, an American explorer, who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages into the Arctic and with whom he spent a total of 18 years on various expeditions. In 1937, Henson was the first
A poet, fiction writer, journalist, and author, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper earned her reputation as the Mother of African-American journalism for her contributions to anti-slavery newspapers. She was a prolific speaker on the abolitionist cir
An autobiography with reminiscences of the last and present century, was published in 1902 by Mifflin Wistar Gibbs. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gibbs was a carpenter by trade, and later became an activist in the abolition movement, shar
American novelist, William Wells Brown was an abolitionist, lecturer, playwright, and historian. He is considered to be the first African-American to publish a novel, and the first to have a play and travel book published. Born into slavery in
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an author, playwright, and poet who wrote a number of short stories and novels. He is noted as one of the first influential Black poets in American Literature. 'The Sport of the Gods' written in 1902, centers on a famil
Mrs. Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson was a poet, essayist, diarist, and activist. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to mixed-race parents. Her heritage contributed to her complex understanding of gender, race, and ethnicity, topics she often ad
Author Charles W. Chesnutt was a social and political activist. He was of mixed race and as such, some of his books deal with passing and miscegenation, including the novel The House Behind the Cedars.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/s
Author Mary Seacole was a nurse of the Crimean War, and a contemporary of Florence Nightingale. Mary was born in Jamaica and had both Scottish and African ancestry. This particular book is an autobiography of her life experiences.Support the sh
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