Africa First

“The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.” – Saadi Bolen Daymond I owe this quiet life with my dog and music to my big brother, Melo. So when he wants to borrow my jazz club for a strip show, I have no choice but to comply. I refuse to fraternize with his peacocking guest of honor, but then I meet his sister, Kassia James. A sinful urge awakens in me the moment I discover the scars she hides behind dark sunglasses. Melo promised me anything in return for one night to defile my club. Now I need it to make one of my own. To her. Kassia James The only love of ...

Finding love in the club wasn't working for Soraya after she dumped her ex for going to jail, so she tries to find love online. Thousands of women have found love with a simple click of the mouse, and she wants to test it out for herself. Just when Soraya thinks that spending hours online looking for a man is a complete waste of time, she finds YoungGucci90's profile. Looking at his hazel eyes in his pictures, she falls in love instantly. Though her roommate is convinced that he's a catfish, Soraya sees him at a concert. Fast romance blossoms and everything seems to be too good to be true.

The Black household is swiftly deteriorating. Frustrated and angry at her prosperous preacher husband's obvious infidelities, Tanya cannot believe the man she once loved has been replaced by this pathological liar obsessed with material wealth.

The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist and an educator, and as her reputation grows she becomes a celebrity, revered by titans of business and recognized by U.S. Presidents. Eleanor Roosevelt herself is awestruck and eager to make her acquaintance.

Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Commonwealth forces completed a stunning and important victory in East Africa against an overwhelmingly superior Italian opponent. A hastily formed British-led force, never larger than 70,000 strong, advanced along two fronts to defeat nearly 300,000 Italian and colonial troops.

Jasmine is on staycation and away from her family when she is seduced by a mysterious guest at her hotel, an older, sexy lesbian with smoldering eyes and a wicked smile. After accepting a drink from the stranger at the hotel bar, Jasmine offers her name, but the stranger refrains from offering her own. When the woman invites her up to her hotel room for a night of endless, toe-curling, oral satisfaction, Jasmine's only response is yes. It's not the first time she's cheated, but it is her first time with a woman and someone so much older than her 30 years. Will the seductive stranger live up...

Never fool around with your coworker. Never fool around with your coworker if you're married. Definitely don't fool around if your coworker is older, a lesbian, and also in a relationship. Today, Jayla is about to break all three of those rules. To be fair, Jayla has always been a by the book married woman. Until Ace. From the moment she and her lesbian coworker Ace meet, their chemistry is explosive. They flirt and text one another constantly. So it shouldn't come as a shock when Ace makes a move and offers up her... "services" to Jayla. But Jayla has a hard time making up her mind. She's ...

A blend of autobiography and fiction, the book opens on the day his close friend, Pop, a celebrated hunter, leaves Ernest in charge of the safari camp and news arrives of a potential attack from a hostile tribe. Drama continues to build as his wife, Mary, pursues the great black-maned lion that has become her obsession. Spicing his depictions of human longings with sharp humor, Hemingway captures the excitement of big-game hunting and the unparalleled beauty of the scenery.

Hailed as the adventure-writing successor to Hemingway and Ruark, only Peter Hathaway Capstick “can write action as cleanly and suspensefully as the best of his predecessors’ (Sports Illustrated). This long-awaited sequel to Death in the Silent Places brings to life four turn-of-the-century adventurers and the savage frontiers they braved. * Frederick Selous, a British hunter, naturalist, and soldier, rewrote the history books with his fearless treks deep into Africa. * English game ranger Constantine “Iodine” Ionides saved Tanganyikan villages from man-eating lions and leopards.

It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places. And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders. But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace.

Jesse Peterson is nothing but trouble. He’s got a reputation around town and, being honest, it’s about as filthy as that old truck he drives. His tendency to let his fists do the talking might have a little something to do with that. I couldn’t remember ever hearing anything good about him. In fact, had I not gotten a flat tire outside his house one blistering afternoon, I might not have known he had another side. A side that made me wonder whether the good in him outweighed the bad. It didn’t take long to see he was kind and funny and maybe even sweet. But … I’m not allowed to ...

Closeted lesbians Macy and Stella have the hots for their married co-worker London, and London knows that, but she hangs out wth them anyway. After all, they're always respectful of her and have never made a move. But that's all about to change. Woking with and hanging out with the busty, super-curvaceous, caramel-colored London is driving both women insane with lust, and they are tired of playing nice. So they make her an offer: Let us have our way with you and all you have to do is lay back and enjoy the ride. But London is hesitant. Not only is she "happily married", Macy and Stella are ...

Carl Weber is the New York Times best-selling author of such fan favorites as So You Call Yourself a Man. The First Lady is the tale of a preacher's wife who learns she's dying and vows to find her husband another woman. There is no shortage of ladies who want her man, but will she be able to find a suitable replacement among the conniving church women?

In Prince of Darkness, a groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger-than-life story of a man who defied every convention of his time. He wheeled and dealed in the lily-white business world, he married a White woman, he bought a mansion in rural New Jersey, he owned railroad stock on trains he was not legally allowed to ride, and generally he set his White contemporaries' teeth on edge when he wasn't just plain outsmarting them.

Luke Valente is the perfect stranger. A bit of a sweet-talker and good looking. I mean, so good looking I nearly forgot how much my night sucked before he walked up. I swear he came out of nowhere, but it wasn’t just that heartbreaker smile of his that made me melt. It was the two little words that tumbled from his lips. “Marry me.” I know … I know. It all sounds crazy and I should have taken off running as soon as he suggested it. Especially when it became clear the proposal wasn’t an act. But one-hundred-percent real. With the question lingering between us, I knew I should have ...

Two children from Sierra Leone, Liberty and A’shai, are brought together by chance, only to be forced apart by the most inevitable and tragic fate. Ashley & JaQuavis bring us this classic love story set against modern life’s most horrifying realities.

Suddenly jobless and single after a devastating layoff and a breakup with his cheating ex, advertising copywriter Dominick Gibson flees his life in Hell's Kitchen to try to get back on track in his hometown of Detroit. He’s got one objective—exit the shallow dating pool ASAP and get married by 35—and the deadline’s approaching fast.

Volume One of 100 Great African Kings and Queens is a fascinating account of ten illustrious African monarchs through the sands of time. This revised edition of the original book offers a detailed fact-filled narrative with corresponding images that opens up a whole new world to the reader. Volume two of another ten is not far behind, both in colour and black/white. Volume ten will fulfil the thrilling historical adventure of 100 Great African Kings and Queens. After all, if Africa is the origin of humanity, then without African history, there is no history.

In January 1944, 16 Black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to begin a cram course that would turn them into the US Navy's first African American officers on active duty. Years later, these pioneers came to be known as the Golden Thirteen, but at the outset they were treated more as pariahs than pioneers. This book collects their stories.

The astonishing untold history of America's first Black millionaires - former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring '20s - self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison.