“I want to make it very clear. I want action and I want it right now.” That’s how Stuart O. Van Slyke was introduced to his new assignment as mess officer. He was to build a mess hall for 400 men to be operational twenty four hours... Read More

Many were surprised during the 2004 presidential election when former senator and ambassador, Carol Mosely Braun, announced her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. More than ever before, African American women are pursuing... Read More

Twenty-something Ryley McKenna thinks she has it made. She’s finally got the corner office with a view and all the rewards that come with corporate success. Thing is, she seldom has a chance to savor the life she’d hungered for when... Read More

Attorney Stan Turner’s client, Dusty Thomas, is believed to have murdered an IRS agent over back taxes he owed the government. And why not? The agent was shot by a Remington shotgun, and Dusty was found standing over the victim with a... Read More

The San Francisco in the pages of this slender, rough-around-the-edges novel is not the town of Tony Bennett’s signature song. There’s no romance, no tiny cable cars, and if there are any hearts, they have been bludgeoned by drugs,... Read More

“This book is about love-not the soft, sentimental kind but the strong, spirit-transforming kind,” writes the author. The distinction is important, since the word “love” can signify different things to different people. To... Read More

This book is a collection of eight sermons written and preached by eight different African-American ministers, who refer to Biblical stories where women play a central role, like the stories of Ruth and Naomi, and the scene with Jesus’... Read More

The art of prevarication is alive and well. In Here Lies, the title of which comes from first-class liar Dorothy Parker, that art is taken to a new level. In this collection of twenty-one short stories, “every story either features the... Read More