A collection of empowering stories and captivating photos, My Beautiful Black Hair celebrates an aspect of Black femininity—natural hair—and embraces it as a central part of Black womanhood. My Beautiful Black Hair is a book about Black women embracing their natural hair. One hundred and one Black women share their stories of learning to love […]
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Murder Ballads Old and New is a graveyard stroll that's equal parts musicological, psychosocial, and genealogical, excavating facts and exploring stories that reveal larger contexts while mapping the lineages of songs and themes, forebears, and ancestors.
Mr. Tux and the Little Garden Hotel, born out of a stay at a small, charming hotel in Central France, follows Pipsqueak, an abandoned kitten who finds a new job, new name, and new home, and plenty of adventure trying to save the hotel from the mice, the health department, and El Cidre.
In Mothman’s Merry Cryptid Christmas, Rudolph takes an unexpected vacation one foggy Christmas Eve forcing Santa Claus to ask for Mothman’s help and the holidays will never be the same.
Mommy Goose's Appalachian Melodies, offers lyrical poems and nursery rhymes in tandem with whimsical and vibrant wood carvings giving readers an opportunity to delight in language and the richness of music and storytelling more attuned to the cultural and verbal complexities of Appalachia.
Josh Boldt writes crime fiction and mystery novels set in the American South. For fans of his prior novels, Moneymaker offers a glimpse into the early years of a familiar character in Mack Abbott in this gripping tale of intrigue and suspense.
When pup Inky can't find the right book to read, super dog Mighty Reader comes to the rescue! He picks The Sword and the Bone and soon Inky and Mighty Reader are transported to a medieval world filled with castles and creatures of legend.
Perfect for fans of Ivy & Bean and Dory Fantasmagory, this is the start of a charming new chapter book series about a third-grader whose plans may backfire but whose persistence and heart are inspiring.
Mariposa: Opioid Abatement Poems tells two parallel stories, one a harrowing descent of a beloved adult daughter into heroin addiction and homelessness, the other a quietly hopeful mother's journey toward a heroic self-discipline.
A collection of poems written by a teacher who served in public schools for twenty-five years, Mama Tried (Broadstone Books) takes the reader on a journey through her experiences as an educator and as a mother.
A freak car accident in 1960s rural North Carolina puts in motion moments of grace that bring redemption to two generations of women and the lives they touch.
Set in a small Kentucky college town in 1953, Lovesick Blossoms is a compelling and emotional tale of passion, power, fulfillment -and consequences- of not playing by the rules in Appalachia.