A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand. One of the author's novels about the Logan family.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple weaves a “glorious and iridescent” tapestry of interrelated lives in this New York Times bestseller (Library Journal).
Includes a new letter written by the author
In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some way with the legacy...

As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history...

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

Charlie is jealous when all his friends begin to play with Arthur who is new.

A young girl describes her various relatives and the foods they bring to the annual family picnic.

Nine-year-old Addy Walder escapes from a cruel life of slavery to freedom during the Civil War.

American blacks, settled on Mars after centuries of abuse on earth, have a chance for revenge when a space ship bearing a white manarrives seeking help in the aftermath of World War III.

Dinner at Aunt Connie's is even more special than usual when Melody meets not only her new adopted cousin, but twelve inspiring, African-American women, who step out of their portraits and join the family for dinner.