by admin | Mar 28, 2026 | Children's Books
In “Paradise on Fire,” an East Coast kid named Addy is spending the summer learning about nature out West. She’s in all-new terrain, but her natural ability to make and understand maps comes in handy when faced with one of the region’s greatest threats, a forest fire....
by admin | Mar 27, 2026 | Children's Books
What was Lanesha born with that gave her “the sight”? A caul How old is Lanesha at the start of the book? 12 What happened to Lanesha’s mother? She died giving birth to her How old was Lanesha’s mother when she gave birth to Lanesha? 17 Which Shakespeare play is...
by admin | Dec 30, 2025 | Adult Books
I can remember as a college scholarship student, surviving on bagels and high hopes, how I came across a reference to Marie Laveau in a Creole cookbook. I was struck by this amazing, larger-than-life figure, this black woman of power living amid slavery and...
by admin | Dec 30, 2025 | Adult Books
My novel, Douglass’ Women, is an imaginative rendering of two women in Frederick Douglass life—his wife, Anna Douglass, and his mistress of twenty-eight years, Ottilie Assing. While Douglass has justifiably been famous for over a hundred and fifty years, Anna and...
