This unassuming instrument arrived in the American South with West African slaves in the 1600s and lifted the spirits of countless plantation gatherings right up till the time that thoroughly uncivil war put an end to legal enslavement.... Read More

This book not only chronicles the struggles after freedom, but its subtext asks, to what extent does society owe them something? Every now and then, a tiny crack of light shows through the dark, brutal realities of the US criminal... Read More

Daitch’s novel is Indiana Jones for the introspective crowd—a continual, thrilling, and harrowing search for historical treasures. Beneath the sands of Iran lies a civilization lost millennia ago, rumored to have housed the lost... Read More

"Trainbots" are trying to make a delivery of toybots to children, but the misbehaving badbots are doing all they can to sabotage the train. With inventive rhymes and colorful, action filled illustrations, "Trainbots" delivers fun to... Read More