NB: Explicit content.On the morning after his 35th birthday, nightclub owner, Alex Logan, is left with the hazy memory of a sensual encounter with a handsome Scottish stockbroker. While the affair is a bit of a shock, it is nothing compared to the bizarre change taking place in his body. Body parts are not supposed to talk, let alone being opinionated and sex-mad, but such is the case with his new best friend, Broadsword.Leith Johnson is a sexed-up executive who would do da...

The Global History of Black Girlhood boldly claims that Black girls are so important we should know their histories. Yet, how do we find the stories and materials we need to hear Black girls’ voices and understand their lives? Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons edit a collection of writings that explores the many ways scholars, artists, and activists think and write about Black girls' pasts. The contributors engage in interdisciplinary conversations that consider what i...

Standing in the doorway to his office, he is floored by the woman tsking the chaos. Five minutes before, his mind had been focused on the chaos. Now his mind couldn’t get past her dark curls, her luscious figure. In that moment, Zeke realized that his bachelor days were over.He had to laugh when he overheard her telling one of his ex-lovers that he was gay.Zeke was going to have to prove the lovely and mischievous March wrong.Marcy had been working for the amazingly...

An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied themWomen including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate themselves.In The Trouble with White Women, Schulle...

* Book #5.5 in the Slater Brothers series*Alannah Ryan is plagued by an old face haunting her dreams, turning her waking hours into a mess of worry. Talking it out with the person she loves the most isn't a possibility, not when the same face haunts him, too.To protect the love of her life from another burden, she keeps her fear to herself, even as that fear begins to consume her.Damien Slater has the life he always wanted with the woman he...

The timeless and essential anthology of Black Feminist thought—showing that Black women have always understood the need for feminism to be intersectional“In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. . . . She has refused to cut off contemporary African American women from the long line of sisters who have righteously struggled for the liberation of African American women from ...

READER NOTE: Dead Bastard (The Soldiers of Wrath, 4) must be read before Ruin and Rise in order to get the full experience of the story. Please find the current books out in The Soldiers of Wrath MC (all books currently available):*Book 1: Owned by the Bastard*Book 2: Bent, Not Broken*Book 3: Hard As Steel*Books 1-3 boxed set*Bonus Story: The Soldiers of Wrath MC*Book 4: Dead Bastard*Book 4.5: Ruin and Rise*******Sometimes f...

This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest and expertise.From his earliest work of literary-historical excavation in 1982, through his current writings on the history and science of African American genealogy, the ess...

He's no monster. At least, not as far as he can remember…Aiden Sinclair was usually a go-with-the-flow kind of vampire. Easy going. Ready for anything.But waking up in an unfamiliar city with no memory of how he’d gotten there was a bit much even for him.He probably should’ve focused on finding his way home. Instead, he played hero to a cheeky witch in distress and got himself in even more trouble.Grace Moss is secretive. Distrustful. Unfair...

A courageous, humane, and provocative examination of how differences in color and features among African Americans have played and continue to play a role in their professional lives, friendships, romances, and families.

A month of research pointed shapeshifter Cole to nurse Alicia Ortiz as the only hope for his people's survival. Yet he hadn't needed any of that research the moment he saw her. Her kindness and power shone as strongly as her beauty, and Cole had to fight his desire for her. His duty was to convince Alicia to embrace her heritage, not give in to his passion. But even though it may mean failing his mission, Cole could not resist the urge to claim her as his own....