Briefly Noted

“By turns witty, insightful, touching, and laugh-out-loud funny, I Take My Coffee Black paints a portrait of black manhood in America and enlightens, illuminates, and entertains—ultimately building the kind of empathy that might just be the antidote against the racial injustice in our society.”

“From the acclaimed author of Roll with It and Tune It Out comes a funny and moving middle grade novel about a boy who uses his unusual talent for decoding people’s trash to try to fit in at his new school.”

“Eliot Parker’s eye for detail is on full display in A Final Call as a simple missing persons case turns deadly. Protagonist Stacy Tavitt is damaged and complicated and has the relentless drive to find the truth that forces you to root for her.”

“In the course of his war, he will lose a son, plumb a daughter’s love, and form a strange bond with the region’s most controversial figure, W. G. Brownlow. Unremarked by history, Harry experienced, firsthand, the serial betrayals and surprising loyalties of a bloody war on his doorstep. How he survived — and what he became — is a suspenseful and moving tale of a soul’s reformation.”

“A world-renowned critical care doctor offers hope for ICU patients and their families in this timely, urgent, and compassionate narrative.”

“In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie comes a powerful story of a black man in the brutal South who rose to the rank of mayor and the young reporter whose life he touched as he learned of the transforming power of forgiveness and love.”