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Pendant ce temps, rien ne semble pouvoir arrêter l'ascension fulgurante de Preto. Son ambition le pousse à ignorer tous les avertissements, quitte à attiser la convoitise de nouveaux ennemis. Au cœur de cette escalade de violence, Preto n'a pas peur de défier Angel Cortès pour récupérer celle qu'il n'arrive pas à oublier. Et s'il peut en profiter pour prendre son trône et contrôler le trafic de drogue au Mexique, il n'hésitera pas à rendre cette guerre plus que sanglante.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.

The Ibrahim family is facing a crucial moment: Their patriarch just lost his fortune as the result of a Ponzi scheme, and the family is picking up the pieces. At the family’s core is Asma—successful doctor and the long-suffering middle daughter who stepped into the family center after the death of her beloved mother years ago. Despite what the prying aunties think, Asma is living the life she has always wanted, fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a doctor...or so she thinks. In walks Farooq Waheed, Asma’s college sweetheart whose proposal was cruelly rejected by Asma’s aunt and father.

Avila Rogers’ mother kicked her out of the house as a teenager when a one night stand left her pregnant. So when her mother passes away and Avila must return to Myrtle Beach to get her mother’s house ready to put on the market, her feelings are complicated, to say the least. Things get even more complicated when she runs into her childhood friend, Trevor, who is now a professor at the nearby HBCU.

Set along the mighty Mississippi River, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain's timeless tale of freedom, friendship, and the search for identity. Huck Finn, a spirited boy escaping the confines of his small-town life, joins forces with Jim, an enslaved man fleeing for his freedom. Together, they embark on a daring journey aboard a raft, navigating treacherous waters and encountering a vivid cast of characters, from crafty conmen to feuding families.

“You are told to believe in one paradise / and then there is the paradise you come to know,” begins Rick Barot. What follows is an account of the rich and thorny valley between those poles. Moving the Bones dwells in liminal spaces—of love and memory, the pandemic’s singular domesticity, a serene cemetery of ancestral plots, dawn. In precise and tender verse, Barot captures the particularities of being in the middle of one’s life, reflecting on the joys and sorrows of the past and confronting the inevitabilities that lie ahead.

It is 2008. Sam’s dream publishing debut is three years behind him. Now he is a writer without a story. Desperate for inspiration, he takes the opportunity to ghostwrite an old Vietnamese solider’s memoir, only to find that his subject, Mr. Lan, is an intractable communist, whose amazing narrative is rooted in the vilification of Vietnamese emigres, the very people Sam’s debut celebrated.

Step into the poetic world of the charmed city, where the fresh peanuts sparked a revolution, the courageous bird who made a sacrifice beyond measure, and the intrepid field mouse emerged triumphantly. Discover the untold tales of the city's past and wonder, "Will this fabled city ever be the same?"

Inertia is a property of matter and of marriages. Lori is a nurturing type who avoids conflict, priding herself on her adaptability. Parenting keeps her too busy to face her eroding relationship with independent Ike, who is consumed by his job. Receiving only crumbs of attention and affection has left Lori starved, so she throws herself into helping others and finds that a unique new friendship gives her some of the companionship and fulfillment she’s been missing.

Poems for Princesses with Peas Under Their Mattresses is a kaleidoscope of emotions spanning from childhood to womanhood. The spellbinding collection invites listeners to reimagine the power dynamics of familiar tales—so they can discover the magic within themselves.

Ignoring the systemic racial inequalities in film is losing the industry $10 billion a year. Yet, parity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental issues that the Oscar Awards are only just beginning to address. In this book, award-winning writer, broadcaster, model, and fashion designer, Ben Arogundade, provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about Hollywood - documenting the stories and struggles of black artists within the movie industry that have so far been left out of the canon.

A sister struggles with guilt as she helps her brother plan to run away with a man he’s seeing in secret. When the police pull them over one night, everything changes. Bitch Baby is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.

A seventh-grade girl travels to south Alabama where her grandmother is being cared for by incapable extended family members. The mother is overwhelmed with grief. But the girl, busy with her own relationship troubles, witnesses something else disturbing. Her Last Time in Dothan is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.

Dell gets an emergency call at work: Her best friend’s baby is due today, and something has gone terribly wrong. Speeding across town to beat anyone home, to take down the Welcome Home Baby signs, Dell finds herself revisiting the road that got them both here. The Miracle is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.

A woman boards a Greyhound bus to Florida with her ailing sugar daddy on a long journey to meet his mother. In the middle of the night, in the middle of rural Georgia, another passenger disrupts her plan. Seeking Arrangements is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.

Maudette works at the state fair. She hates her job, she hates what her mother does for a living, she hates the people in her town, especially one of her mother’s clients, a local deacon. Working the tilt-a-whirl one day, she begins to consider revenge. Honest Work is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.

Colleen is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. Darkly funny and deeply human, Good Women observes how place, blood ties, generational trauma, obsession, and boundaries―or lack thereof―influence how we navigate our small worlds, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we don’t expect.

Avan Jogia grew up as a teen idol. He stumbled into the spotlight during the birth of the internet, the early days of Instagram and Twitter, before everyone online was a star. He spent his time in that spotlight writing, observing the cult of celebrity, the hilarity, the absurdity, and sometimes sinister side of being idolized before you’ve even had the chance to decide for yourself who you are. Now, in his most revealing and honest work to date, he has assembled a book of poems as an act of self-dissection.

In a quiet North Carolina town in 1968, a seventeen-year-old girl’s life is forever changed when a summer romance leads to an unplanned pregnancy. She is sent to an abusive “maternity home,” where she is shamed and deceived into signing adoption papers.

It’s 1999, and best friends Sal and Charo are striving to hold on to their dreams in a New York determined to grind them down. Sal is a book-loving science nerd trying to grow beyond his dead-end job in a new city, but he’s held back by tragic memories from his past in Santo Domingo. Free-spirited Charo is surprised to find herself a mother at twenty-five, partnered with a controlling man, working at the same supermarket for years, her world shrunk to the very domesticity she thought she’d escaped in her old country.