A gorgeous visual homage to Black-owned bookstores around the country along with profiles and essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, featuring a foreword by Nikki Giovanni.For decades, Black-owned bookstores have been a source of joy and refuge for the Black community. They are the keepers and preservers of Black literary tradition; hubs for activism and movement-making; sites for inspiration, knowledge, and creativity; and, above all, essential sanctuaries for a community whose lives and stories are often pushed to the margins. As Black books are continuously being banned, protested, and debated, it is vital to honor the bookstores that have long given space to Black literature and Black readers.  This vibrant book celebrates these deeply important spaces, offering a joyful, visual homage to Black-owned bookstores across the United States. Thoughtfully curated by writer and Black bookstore owner Katie Mitchell, Prose to the People profiles over fifty bookstores, both current and historic, detailing their origin stories, specialties, and political and cultural impact. Transporting readers from the northeast to the mid-Atlantic, the south, and the west coast, each profile is accompanied by rich photography that not only depicts the interiors of the bookstores, but illustrates the sense of history, activism, community, and inclusivity they embody. Bookstores include the historic D. Ruggles Books, the first known Black bookstore in the United States, Lewis Michaux's National Memorial African Bookstore, which held the largest collection of Black literature in the world, Pyramid Bookstore, the first chain of independently Black-owned bookstores in the country, and many more.Interspersed throughout are essays by award-winning author Kiese Laymon, poet W.J. Lofton, and many more journalists, activists, authors, academics, and poets that offer deeper perspectives on the multifaceted roles that Black-owned bookstores play in society. Complete with a foreword by world-renowned poet and activist Nikki Giovanni, PROSE TO THE PEOPLE is a beautiful, all-encompassing tribute to these vital pillars of the Black community.

Accomplished physicist Sir Claud Amory has constructed a workable formula for one of the most deadly weapons known to man – the atom bomb. Hercule Poirot, with the help of Captain Hastings and Inspector Japp, is called in after the formula is mysteriously stolen and Sir Claud is callously murdered. A superbly crafted whodunit with endless red herrings, subplots of infamous spies and an astonishingly prophetic storyline about weapons created through “bombarding the atom”. One of Christie’s most gripping country house murder mysteries. “It’s exactly as Agatha Christie – and Poirot – should be. I’m totally in the dark, in every way, but having fun.” THE GUARDIAN CASTING: 3 women, 10 men Samuel French Acting Editions * Clear text and large margins for practical use * Choice of sizes and bindings to suit how you use playtexts * Additional features help bring the play to life

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags The Coin follows a Palestinian woman as she pursues a dream that generations of her family have failed at: to live and thrive in America. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys in New York, where her eccentric methods cross conventional boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler and the two participate in a pyramid scheme reselling Birkin bags, the value of which "increases, year by year, regardless of poverty, of war, of famine." The juxtaposition of luxury and the abject engulfs her as she is able to con her way to bag after bag, preoccupied by the suffering she knows of the world. Eventually, her body and mind go to war. America is stifling her—her willfulness, her sexuality, her ideology. In an attempt to regain control, she becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness and self-image, all while drawing her students into her obsessions. In an unforgettable denouement, her childhood memories converge with her feelings of existential statelessness, and the narrator unravels spectacularly. Enthralling, sensory, and uncanny, The Coin explores materiality, nature and civilization, class, homelessness, sexuality, beauty—and how oppression and inherited trauma manifest in every area of our lives—all while resisting easy moralizing. Provocative and original, humorous and inviting, The Coin marks the arrival of a major new literary voice.

Patriots, Traitors and Empires recounts modern Korean history from the point of view of those who fought to free Korea from the domination of foreign empires. First Japan, then the United States. When Kim Il-sung, founder of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, along with other patriots, launched a guerrilla war against Japanese colonial domination in 1932, other Koreans joined the side of Japan's Empire. They became officers in the Japanese army or part of the hated colonial police force, thus traitors to the cause of Korean freedom. After the US engineered partition of their country, Koreans fought a conventional war from 1950-1953. Three million Koreans gave their lives. This insightful, informative and timely book answers the nagging questions and provides a much-needed antidote to the jingoist clamor spewing from most quarters whenever Korea is discussed.

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags The Coin follows a Palestinian woman as she pursues a dream that generations of her family have failed at: to live and thrive in America. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys in New York, where her eccentric methods cross conventional boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler and the two participate in a pyramid scheme reselling Birkin bags, the value of which "increases, year by year, regardless of poverty, of war, of famine." The juxtaposition of luxury and the abject engulfs her as she is able to con her way to bag after bag, preoccupied by the suffering she knows of the world. Eventually, her body and mind go to war. America is stifling her—her willfulness, her sexuality, her ideology. In an attempt to regain control, she becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness and self-image, all while drawing her students into her obsessions. In an unforgettable denouement, her childhood memories converge with her feelings of existential statelessness, and the narrator unravels spectacularly. Enthralling, sensory, and uncanny, The Coin explores materiality, nature and civilization, class, homelessness, sexuality, beauty—and how oppression and inherited trauma manifest in every area of our lives—all while resisting easy moralizing. Provocative and original, humorous and inviting, The Coin marks the arrival of a major new literary voice.

A mysterious woman, a legendary cursed jewel, and a night train from London to the French Riviera -- ingredients for the perfect romance or the perfect crime? When the train stops, the jewel is missing, and the woman is found dead in her compartment. It's the perfect mystery, filled with passion, greed, deceit, and confusion. Is Hercule Poirot the perfect detective to solve it?

A searing call out of the systemic racism happening in disability rights and also ableism occurring in other justice movements, told through the story of a Black women activist and policymaker For over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has often been the only person of color in the room when significant disability policy decisions are made. Disenfranchisement of people of color and multi-marginalized communities within the disability rights community is not new and has left many inside the community feeling frustrated and erased. In To Be a Problem, Baldwin candidly shares her journey to becoming a disability activist and policymaker in DC while critiquing the disability rights community. She reveals the reality of erasure for many Black people and people of color in the disability movement and argues that, in turn, many white disabled people center themselves within the work without addressing their own white privilege. Disability rights groups have been centering white, straight, cisgender people while racial justice groups often fail to center disabled people, leading many Black and Brown disabled people to start their own Disability Justice organizations. Drawing from her unique vantage point, Baldwin calls readers to understand the shortcomings of the disability rights movement while inspiring us to push all movements towards a more inclusive and authentic liberation.