Born into “the blessings of liberty in a free State,” Solomon Northup was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Bayou Boeuf region of Louisiana’s Red River Valley. Twelve Years a Slave is the chronicle of his captivity at the mercy of sadistic plantation owner Edwin Epps, who tested Northup’s tenacity and self-control under the most brutal conditions. Until fate brought a Canadian abolitionist to Epps’s farm, Northup thought he would never draw another free breath. To this day Northup’s h...

A survey of the world communist movement's difficulties, issued first in 1975 and then revised and supplemented for a second printing.Its subject is the strategic questions facing the non-ruling parties: the anti-monopoly alliance, the relation between democratic and socialist demands, the united front, the struggle in the trade unions, the national liberation movements, and the movement's own internal disputes. Around a hundred and fifteen thousand words, it is one of the fuller S...

A book about efficiency by a man who had spent his working life inside the machinery of Soviet planning, written at the moment that machinery began unmistakably to run down.S. A. Heinman was a professor and leading researcher at the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and a specialist in the economics of technical progress - one of the technicians of growth rather than one of its priests. Where the companion volume on this theme spoke in sixteen voices, this spe...

This collection centers on artists who wake to a genocide - and answer it with creation.It follows seventeen artists in Gaza, Palestine whose work is made not in safety, but in the presence of fear. For them, art is the absence of fear - yet fear is the condition they wake to, work through, and survive. Their materials are whatever remains. Their studios are unstable. Their homes are rubble. And still, they paint, write, and build images that refuse to disappear.

WINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY LGBTQ SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR AWARDThe water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society-and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award-nominated song "The Deep" from Daveed Diggs's rap group clipping.Yetu holds the memories for her people-water-dwelling descenda...

Deluxe edition with special embellishments on first printing only!An instant New York Times bestseller!They fell for each other in just twenty-four hours. Now Rowan and Neil embark on a long-distance relationship during their first year of college in this “achingly real…gorgeous” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) dual POV sequel to Today Tonight Tomorrow.When longtime rivals Rowan Roth and ...

Did you know God made you with care, from head to toe?This bedtime board book offers your children a perfect nightly gift—your attention, love, and blessing. As you read, your family will find:A primer for toddlers to learn eleven different parts of the bodyAn encouragement to preschoolers to use their bodies to serve God with joy and courageAn easy way to establish a bedtime ritual of praying a blessing over your childLet A Bedtime ...

The new forbidden student/professor rom com from the New York Times bestselling author of What Happens in Amsterdam!'So hot, so funny, so emotionally satisfying. The perfect romance' Laura Wood'Rachel Lynn Solomon always delivers these quirky, thoughtful and just sweet romances- I simply cannot get enough' Reader Review'I love love LOVED this! Pop star turned college student falls for her p...

LOCUS AWARD FINALISTWelcome to Rivers Solomon’s dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary things—the strange and the unexplainable—began to happen ...

Flex and Flow: The Precision Playbook for Corporate America is a unique blend of personal story and a corporate playbook. In the book, Flow reminds us of who we are, and Flex serves as a guide for professionals, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds, to navigate corporate environments effectively while maintaining their identity and integrity. It introduces the concepts of "Flex" and "Flow" as essential tools for achieving success in corporate America. Drawing from ...

An "intensely thought-provoking" science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler (LeVar Burton Reads).One of Esquire magazine's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All TimeAster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her an ogre and a freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she was truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing ...

A TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2021A New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2021The Stonewall Book Award winner of 2022Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR, The New York Public Library, Publishers Weekly and more!**A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction.Vern—seven months pregnant and desperat...