Author Thomas Glave is known for his stylistic brio and courageous explorations into the heavily mined territories of race and sexuality. This searing collection of stories is a stunning debut of a writer the Village Voice has named "One to Watch."“Thomas Glave walks the path of such greats in American literature as Richard Wright and James Baldwin while forging new ground of his own. His voice is strong and his technique dazzling as he cuts to the bone of what it means to...

Concerns with human rights, political oppression, sexuality, race, and Jamaican culture thematically connect these essays."This is a collection that will leave you with chills; you will return to it not only for its sheer beauty, but also for its raw honesty, pain, and passion." — Lambda Literary Report*—*With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa.Thomas Glave has been admired for his unique style and expl...

Nominated for the 2010 Stonewall Book Award, the oldest book award given for outstanding achievement in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered LiteratureA woman is haunted by the atrocities committed by her husband, and makes a heart-wrenching decision about atonement; secret fears and unspoken desires reveal the profound ambivalence at the heart of an interracial couple's relationship; a Jamaican man mourns his friend's death at the hands of anti-gay vigilantes; and two extraord...

Beyond Homophobia: Centring LGBTQ Experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean aims to disrupt the conventional rendering of the Caribbean as uniquely and deeply homophobic by focusing on the experiences and agency of LGBTQ people in the region.Presenting a wide range of perspectives and approaches, this book grew out of presentations at two groundbreaking events on the Jamaican campus of the University of the West Indies: a symposium discussing LGBTQ experiences and research ...

In this jaw-dropping first installment of Treasure Blue’s short eBook series, Little Bad Girl, Chantel Turner is trying to enjoy her final year of high school when terrible news changes everything and she learns who she can trust.Chantel Turner was your typical high school student—pretty, popular, and with plenty of friends. Until one fateful day she receives news that will prove to change her life forever. Chantel is about to find out that when real troub...

From the bestselling author of The Personal Librarian, comes a story of a young couple who, when confronted with financial troubles, is faced with the question—what would you do for five million dollars?Adam and Evia Langston have lived in their own little garden of Eden since the two married at the age of seventeen. Working their way up from the humblest of beginnings, the Langstons have thrived beyond anything they could have ever imagined. Now they live...

Which of us hasn't daydreamed about what we'd do if we won the lottery? A Dollar And A Dream brings those fantasies to hilarious, heartbreaking life in three stories by #1 national bestselling author Carl Weber and La Jill Hunt, Essence bestselling author Angel Hunter, and Cushcity.com bestselling author Dwayne S. Joseph.In "Easy Street," Carl Weber and La Jill Hunt deliver a drama-filled world of money, greed, and lies. When Paul, a wannabe player, is sent out by his neig...

The inimitable Wahida Clark delivers the next installment of her bestselling high-octane urban drama series, Payback—filled with the glamour, sex, and danger that fans of the series can’t get enough of and that new readers will rush to.Picking up where the suspenseful ending of Payback With Ya Life left off, we’re plunged back into the hip-hop drama, where the men are hot and dangerous, the women know their shoes from their Choos, and will stop at nothing ...

"A bombastic coming-of-age novel....The White Boy Shuffle has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time."--Los Angeles TimesThe first novel from National Book Critics Circle Award and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The SelloutPaul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle, is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by hi...

In Little Bad Girl, bestselling author Treasure Blue left readers with a shocking cliffhanger. Now, in this second installment, Treasure unveils the riveting ending to this eBook short series.After receiving news that rocked her world, seventeen-year-old Chantel Turner’s hardships have only just begun. Now she must go to extremes to protect the only family she has left, her twelve-year-old baby sister, from the very person who began her nightmare. With the...

Looking back on a long and active life, Anne Deveson draws on a rich vein of public and private experiences to reflect on what made her the bold social commentator she became. Central among her lifelong preoccupations have been the questioning of war, and the promotion of peace.Deveson describes her childhood during the Second World War in Britain, which prompted her family's evacuation to Malaya just before invasion by the Japanese, and further evacuation to Australia as refugees ...

Rico born and raised in Harlem, New York is tired of being broke. Still living at home with his mother, who is a drug addict, he finds himself trying to think of new ways to get money. Crossing paths with the notorious Smoke& Rico's life turns into a roller coaster. Strap up and enjoy the ride as Silk White takes you into a life in the streets as you find yourself wrapped into some of the deadliest sins: lust, greed, envy, anger and pride. Find out how Rico engages into the street life, so...