Africa First

The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all-black Ranger unit in the history of the United States Army. Edward Posey's The US Army's First, Last, and Only All-Black Rangers is the first complete history of this elite all-volunteer unit. As a member, Posey bases his account on firsthand experience, official records, interviews with survivors, and other material to produce a rich and worthy addition to the growing literature on the Korean War. Now the world will learn the true story of the United States Army's first, only, and last all-black Ranger unit.

Have you ever said to yourself, "wouldn’t it be nice to be a detective"? This is the story of an African girl who says just that. Her name is Precious. When a piece of cake goes missing from her classroom, a traditionally built young boy is tagged as the culprit. Precious, however, is not convinced. She sets out to find the real thief. Along the way she learns that your first guess isn’t always right. She also learns how to be a detective.

Confession: I like being frisked by rough, sexy, crooked cops because they are always excited to find my BIG surprises. Arnold is a straight college frat boy with a criminal past that desires to be manhandled by muscular, sexy police officers. He has one in mind, Officer Stuart. Arnold fantasizes about Officer Stuart pinning him against the wall, frisking his body, and finding a surprise so big he made him his boy toy for the night. He gets butterflies in his stomach, and his little friend between his legs inches down his basketball shorts at the thought of him. He wants Officer Dennis ...

This compilation pulls together books one through three of the Making of a Hotwife series. "Jenna broke from the kiss and started to move away but Michael's lips found her neck. He began kissing and biting at her skin as his right hand began to drift further up under her dress. Her emotions were complex. She knew she was in the wrong, and felt guilt for even going this far, but she craved so much more from the dark stranger."Jenna Laramie is a devoted housewife and mother. Her son is in college and her husband works all the time, leaving Jenna with a lot of time on her hands to think about ...

After Tripoli declared war on the United States in 1801, Barbary pirates captured 300 U.S. sailors and marines. President Jefferson sent navy squadrons to the Mediterranean, but he also authorized a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. He chose an unlikely diplomat, William Eaton, to lead the mission, but before Eaton departed, Jefferson grew wary of the affair and withdrew his support.

N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights listeners with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.

David Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and one of the greatest European explorers who ever lived. He fought all his life against slavery, and is remembered as a national hero for opening up the interior of the so-called "Dark Continent"; his expeditions had a tremendous influence on the colonization of Africa and the relation between Europeans and Africans. The son of a Christian missionary himself, Livingstone felt a spiritual calling to reach people in the interior of Africa in order to find new commercial routes and thus free the Africans from the plague of slavery.

Earth is a distant memory. Habitable extrasolar planets are still out of reach. For generations, humanity has been clinging to survival by establishing colonies within enormous vacuum-breathing space beasts and mining their resources to the point of depletion. Rash, dreamy, and unconventional, Seske Kaleigh should be preparing for her future role as clan leader, but her people have just culled their latest beast, and she’s eager to find the cause of the violent tremors plaguing their new home.

Bunny fell out with her best friend Olivia years ago, but when she unexpectedly runs into Olivia's Mom Charmaine in church, she realizes the long-held, secret crush she had on the older woman all those years ago is still there. When Charmaine makes a bold move, Bunny has no choice but to give in. Her body literally burns at the memory of the inappropriate things Charmaine used to do to her. Unfortunately back then, they never had the chance to go "all the way". Now that Olivia is out the way, they can fully explore their forbidden curiosity. Question is, will it be too good to do it just once?

When we last left Ava Marie Grant, the former Mistress was marrying Pastor Gregg Davis. Now only armed with the Bible, she is the First Lady of her new husband’s church. Ava quickly finds out that there is far more drama in the church than in her former life. What’s worse is people are now looking to her for guidance. How does a worldly woman new to the church counsel people that like her, struggle with their faith? This book is the final installment that began with Love & Sex, and The Mistress Rules.

Confession: I’m attracted to my nineteen-year-old former student, and I don’t think I have the willpower to say no. Mr. Whitman is a bisexual, sexy, and novice teacher who looks like he could pass as one of the students at Calloway High. However, he has decided to live a straight lifestyle because it has proved easier. Although he loves his girlfriend, they are on hiatus. He enjoys a challenging job as an English teacher, and he has just gotten over the guy that ghosted him after they made love at least twice a week for over six months. He is ready to end another successful school year ...

SHE MADE LOVE. THEN SHE MADE HISTORY. The stunning prequel to the prize poly Sleeping Lotus series! In a world where magic is bestowed by dragons, Kori Hashimoto-Barren would rather be normal. After all, her parents were sacrificed to a dragon seven years ago, and she couldn't hate the beasts more if she tried. But this year, the dragons are returning for their new sacrifice, and Kori will have no choice but to offer herself. She can only hope that--as an indentured servant to a magelord--her life is too boring for the dragons to want it. That is, her life used to be boring... until Eidan ...

The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discrimination, and violence against African Americans. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson utilized the space program as an agent for social change, using federal equal employment opportunity laws to open workplaces at NASA and NASA contractors to African Americans while creating thousands of research and technology jobs in the Deep South to ameliorate poverty.

Elaine is a hot, nubile nerdy college freshman who desperately wants to find some friends. She is excited to learn the Mandy, an upperclassman she bumped into in the cafeteria plays the same fantasy role playing game that she does and is invited to a game. Dressed as a slutty warrior queen, Elaine is introduced to a world of hot girl on girl sex with three other women who take the role playing to a whole new level! Lot's of hot action!

One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots and the roots of life as we know it. When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari bushmen, she was 19, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as humans had for 15,000 centuries. After a lifetime of interest in the bushmen, Thomas has come to see that their lifestyle reveals great, hidden truths about human evolution.

Editor and investigative reporter Jefferson Morley has been widely published in national periodicals and is the author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction work Our Man in Mexico. An eye-opening look at Washington’s first race riot, Snow-Storm in August also offers revealing profiles of Arthur Bowen, the slave blamed for the riot, and “Star Spangled Banner” lyricist Francis Scott Key, a defender of slavery who sought capital punishment for Bowen.

Set in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City, in the years 1857-1863, when America's attitudes toward people of color and slavery shifted—painfully, transformationally—to the point where a war that began to restore the union becomes one that owes much to Black fighting regiments, and common cause grows for the abolition of slavery. We experience the daily life of Five Points through the eyes of Theo, aged seven at the start of the book and 13 at its close. Theo is half Black and half Irish, an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandparents.

Upon meeting her future husband's daughter Harmony, Simone's mind is filled with all kinds of salacious thoughts and fantasies that she knows she has no business thinking of. She's been in the closet for most of her adult life, and her fiance's gorgeous, sexier than sin, thicker than a snicker daughter is about to make her throw it all away. Will she be receptive if Simone makes a move? Will risking a lifetime of luxury and comfort with her rich beau be worth it, just for the forbidden taste of his daughter? When Harmony hesitantly decides to give in to her own forbidden curiosity about her...

Della: perfectionist token-black ballerina... Miles McKinnon: black-sheep billionaire... The chemistry: unlike anything either has ever felt... Disoriented by a week in Paris and a tough proposition, there's this mystique of not quite knowing what's real or facade. Love will come up against the things they hold most dear, like Della's chance to overcome racial bias in ballet and make history. Nothing is gained without something lost. For love, the stakes are as high as ever.

Jasmine Phillips has always had her sights set high, and it seems like she has everything figured out. She has the grades, the looks, the money—and let’s not forget her perfect boyfriend. To anyone on the outside looking in, she has the perfect life. Little do they know, it’s not what it seems. Despite her stellar grades and top percentile MCAT score, her parents still aren’t happy. Jasmine’s surgeon parents want her to follow in their footsteps while she wants to pursue a career in pediatrics. However, this turns out to be the least of her worries. Her perfect, med student ...