When a friend's crime spree threatens his legal empire, a powerful New York attorney must race to stop itbefore at least one of them winds up dead Edward Parkchester, or Parky, the black eagle," is the most successful criminal lawyer in town. He looms over Manhattan from his lair in Sugar Hill and has only one client, Byron Abando, a Mafia prince with a Phi Beta Kappa key. But the black eagle suddenly finds his empire in ruins. Freeman Faulks, a detective...

The first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, Hattie McDaniel, when the Oscar curse sets in, is thrust in the middle of two worlds--black and white--and is not welcomed in either but, through it all, continued her fight to pave a path for other Negro actors.

She must not fall in love with the privateer who rescued her from pirates... Felicity Barrow needs a respected husband with a title or money. Her family sent her abroad to escape scandal and make a proper match, but she finds the honorable Captain Doyle easy to speak and dance with despite their shocking introduction. Captain Thomas Doyle vowed never to wed. He makes a generous living as a privateer and intends to buy back his former home on Sugar...

Embark on a breathtaking journey of whimsy and wonder in this delightful bedtime story that rhymes! 'Journey Through Enchanted Nightscapes: A Whimsical Ride on the Magic Dream Train' is a magical, dreamy night-time train ride through fantastical lands that will captivate children and foster their imagination. This enchanting narrative introduces the 'magic dream train,' a resplendent vehicle that travels through the velvety night, carrying the dreams...

"What do you do when the people you love are declining right in front of your eyes? What can you do but rage at all that is cruel, laugh at all that is absurd, and show up for whatever happens next Mira Cayne's father has been in physical decline for decades, ever since his spinal cord injury at the age of forty-four. He was never the dad who ran a marathon, but he was the strongest and most resililent man Mira knew. Now, at seventy-nine, Matt Frank...

"Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone--her house her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends--everything but the memories of her mother's kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart"--