What happens in Vegas…

Sinclair James wasn’t from my world.

She didn’t have my pedigree or family money.

She was everything I never wanted,

Everything I now realize I needed.

I loved her for six years, her soul, her body, her music.

Until I threw it all away.

One decision changed everything.

One decision destroyed what we had.

She slipped from my life as quietly as...

After moving to Mexico with her parents, Winter Gutan had been hoping the local alternative medicine doctor would cure her mother’s illness. When her mother does not survive his controversial treatments, Winter’s life spirals in despair. Her father, a software engineer, insists his computer program, Fractalistic, will enable them to communicate with her...

‘Brilliant... full of the knowledge, understanding, tools and kindness that every black girl needs, through university and beyond. Plus it’s funny, too.’ Candice Carty-Williams

THE FLAGSHIP 2019 RELEASE OF #MERKY BOOKS

A groundbreaking exploration of the problems of diversity in education, by two extremely talented young graduates.

As a minority in a...

There are many good and useful books that provide a wide range of Scottish Gaelic vocabulary to express many aspects of daily life – except, for the most part, the topics covered in this book. Scottish Highlanders, and their descendants all over the world, are no better and no worse than any other people where “sinful” behaviour is concerned. Standards of...

'Groundbreaking' Guardian

Straightened. Stigmatised. 'Tamed'. Celebrated. Erased. Managed. Appropriated. Forever misunderstood. Black hair is never 'just hair'.

This book is about why black hair matters.

Emma Dabiri takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, Black Power and on to today's Natural Hair Movement, the Cultural...

Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove is an eclectic collection of flash fiction and short stories, each taking place over the span of five minutes at a legendary hotel.

This collection is multi-genre, both in the sense that the stories come from different genres, but also in the sense that individual stories cross genres, for example sci-fi romance and paranormal...

Spanning more than six decades of Sudan’s post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan’s most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir’s extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework to help the English reader understand the cultural context. Translated from Arabic, the collection...

Imagine a world where Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X never lived? One where The Honorable Michael Kublai Khan wants his people to live without prejudice and domination and Kimberly Solberg just wants happiness with a guy that loves her for her. Kim goes to Juarez to find her way and the minister goes to the nation's capital. Their lives intertwine in...

Creators of the World, Coyote and the Moon pay special attention to the only survivor of a blazing fire, Tali Nohkati, as the child takes his first steps. At the end of a long journey rich in animal encounters that takes him from the White Land to the Land of the Red Earth, Tali is finally adopted by a tribe.

After saving Nuttah from the sacrifice of...

'It was just sex, Anj, it didn't mean anything.'

When Anjali finds out that Jack, her boyfriend of ten years, has been cheating on her, it throws her world into chaos. Heartbroken, she fills the emptiness by embarking on a series of flings that her traditional Sri Lankan mother would (mostly) disapprove of.

Yet she can no longer avoid her mother or Shanthi...

An exquisite series of meditations on memory, evanescence and the land. Randy Lundy draws deeply from his Cree heritage and equally from European and Asian traditions. Readers will be reminded by turns of Simon Ortiz, Pӓr Lagerkvist, and Jane Hirshfield. This is the mind of prayer, a seeing and re-seeing of the immense cyclic beauty of the earth. “Lundy...

'"Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night"'

Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins stories and breaks hearts in this rollicking story set in the 'sensational city' of 1960s Lagos.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its...

Kevin Christopher is a thirty year old bachelor who seems to have it all – looks, charm and his pick of women. Below the surface, lies a man scarred by an abusive childhood and broken heart. He uses his looks to get what he wants, while never letting anyone get too close. When his reckless ways catch up with him, he moves to Atlanta.

Kevin quickly lands a...

Bahamian. Haitian. American. Where can I fully belong?

At age sixteen, Cholet Josué arrived on the shores of Miami in a wooden boat—and immediately put the past behind him. More than two decades later, the elusive question of identity pursues him, forcing him to confront a difficult truth: the cultures that formed him have each indelibly stamped his soul...

English/Spanish. With well-known ethnic recipes that are both tasty and healthy, this book seeks to pay homage to immigrants through their culinary contributions to the United States. Compiled by lovers of good ethnic food who have lived all around the world, it features 30 well-known dishes that are identified with specific countries worldwide, such as...

Icons of Mexican cultural identity and America's melting pot ideal, taco trucks have transformed cityscapes from coast to coast. The taco truck radiates Mexican culture within non-Mexican spaces with a presence--sometimes desired, sometimes resented--that turns a public street corner into a bustling business. Drawing on interviews with taco truck workers...

Sixteen-year-old Liana Bedford lives in constant fear. Political tensions in Pakistan are rising and terrorist attacks are becoming an everyday norm.

As a Pakistani-Australian, she could be the next target. When her school friends are taken hostage by terrorists, Liana’s world disappears overnight.

Alongside her new teacher, Mr Kimberley, she must...

Amby Balan has had enough of the corporate life in a multinational bank in India. On a reckless whim, she quits her job and becomes a Tweet Writer for Krish Kumaar, the hunky new Kollywood superstar. Despite her glamorous new job (and the opportunity to ogle her gorgeous boss all day long) Amby still longs to fulfil her dream of becoming a writer.

She comes...

Happily ever after begins now for Abdulla and Sangita, the unlikely duo who met by chance in a London apartment. Married life holds more than they bargained for with the pressures of living amongst his extended family. Hind has made good on her aspirations to work in the foreign service in India as an independent woman. Except loneliness dogs her...

The key clicks in the lock, and the door swings open into my world...

Welcome to my cafe. My five-roomed empire. Each room named after a place I hold close to my heart. 

One café, five rooms, five groups of people, all with their own stories to share and opinions to express. This is England, a country living through a period of rapid change and...

It all started with a question. In Kammbia, a land halfway between magic and our wildest dreams, belief in the ancient ways grew cold. Its people grew apart. Diondray Azur wanted to know why.

A son of the most prominent family in Charlesville, Diondray learns that everything he ever knew about his roots--his world--was a lie. Determined to find the truth...

A small country in the heart of Africa, Rwanda is a country of unity and patriotism. But less than 30 years ago, Rwanda was rocked by terrible genocide. Over a million people perished in cruel and horrible situations. Faced with suggestions that the whole country should be wiped out and divided up amongst neighbouring nations, the Rwanda Patriotic Front...

Por fin disponible en español, Ilegal es el aclamado libro de memorias de José Ángel N., un inmigrante indocumentado que se construyó una vida nueva en Estados Unidos, a donde llegó habiendo cursado la secundaria. N. acogió la educación y de ahí ascendió, de ser aprendiz del inglés como segunda lengua a realizar estudios de posgrado, antes de convertirse en...

One is Ne'wt, for one bear. Two is Ta'pu, for two women making offerings. Counting from one to ten in English and Mi'kmaw, baby is introduced to both the ancestral language of Mi'kmaki and to Mi'kmaw culture and legend, through beautifully rendered illustrations of important animals, like turtle, bear, and beaver, to concepts integral to the Mi'kmaw world...

Consumed by a myth about Zeus, a magic sword, and soul mates, Greek-American professor Thair Mylopoulos-Wright has spent much of her life searching for her Other Half. At thirty-one, she spends a summer in Greece; there, alone on a tranquil island, she begins writing stories about her grandmother’s experiences in 1940s Egypt, her mother’s youth in 1960s...

They say President Trump is Racist.

They say White Supremacy/White Nationalism is on the rise.

They call YOU a Nazi.

Do you consider yourself a freedom loving American? Are you one of those who never considered themselves on the right but now other people think you are? Have you been attacked because you love America, or because you are white, or because...

"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English." ~ Winston Churchill.

If like Winston Churchill, you have found us to be a bit odd, then myself and my fellow authors, Greg and Mark, have surely done our job. I don't believe that it is possible to be a writer, at least one which people will find entertaining, without being a bit on the...

An outsider in a foreign land. Her ruthless cyberstalker. She’ll fight tooth and nail for her digital privacy. By any means, if necessary.

Tokyo, the '90s When Alison Crane quit her environmental law practice and followed her hotshot investment banker boyfriend to Japan, she thought they'd only grow closer. But jobless and broke, Alison sits home alone all...

Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In many cases, their work reflected a complex effort to merge internationalism with issues of women's rights and with feminist concerns. To Turn the Whole World Over examines these and other issues with a collection of...

Elvira Sánchez-Blake's shattering testimonial novel, Spiral of Silence, breaks thirty-year silences about the traumatizing impact of Colombia's civil war, and centers on the experiences of women who move through hopelessness, loss, and grief during this volatile era in Latin American history.

A multigenerational epic, Spiral of Silence (Espiral de...