I Am the New Black

Written by Tracy Morgan and Anthony Bozza

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $25.00

The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.

Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose... Read more >

Backstage

Written by Nikki Turner

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $14.00

The undisputed Queen of Hip-Hop Fiction presents five knockout tales set in the fast-paced, high-stakes rap game–written by a hot lineup of authors with unmistakable swag and a gift for dropping sexy, thrilling stories.

From a big-time hustler who can’t give up the streets–even when it might cost him his rap career–to... Read more >

A Mighty Long Way
My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Written by Carlotta Walls Lanier and Lisa Frazier Page
Foreword by Bill Clinton

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $26.00

When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an... Read more >

Resilience

Written by Alonzo Mourning and Dan Wetzel

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $15.00

In 2000, Alonzo Mourning was on top of the world: He had a fat new NBA contract, an Olympic gold medal, and a second beautiful child–plus the fame and wealth he had earned playing the game he loved. But in September of that year he was diagnosed with a rare and... Read more >

Saving Savannah
The City and the Civil War
Written by Jacqueline Jones

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $17.00

In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, prize-winning historian Jacqueline Jones transports readers to the balmy, raucous streets of that fabled Southern port city. Here is a subtle and rich social history that weaves together stories of the everyday lives of blacks and... Read more >

The Black Book
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00

Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >

Millionaire Wives Club
A Novel
Written by Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $15.00

In Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker’s steamiest novel yet, we meet the four deliciously dramatic, designer-clad divas from prime time’s new hit reality show, The Millionaire Wives Club.

Evan: Married to a pro-football star who isn’t in love with her anymore, Evan is digging her freshly manicured nails in ever deeper as she fights... Read more >