In this anthology, black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred.

Twelve-year-old Charlie's analytical skills win him few friends at school, but when the most popular girl in class comes to the makeshift private investigation office in his parent's garage asking Charlie's help to find her missing bird, he and his friend Henry begin their first real case.

Ten-year-old Abigail has written to the North Pole and asked for something very special this year--something she's kept secret from her mother. However, when Abigail discovers that Santa hasn't brought her special "gift," she activates her back-up plan and captures jolly St. Nick.

After five seasons on her family's reality show, Rolling with the Royces, and a lifetime of dealing with her narcissistic sister, Porsche, media-obsessed mother, Mercedes, and somewhat clueless brother, Maybach, Bentley wants out. Luckily for her cancellation is looming and freedom is nigh. With their lifestyle on the brink, however, Bentley's family starts to crumble, and one thing becomes startlingly clear-- without the show, there is no family....

"The children's issues picture book, "Why is Mom So Mad?" is a story for children in military families whose mother battles with combat related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). After a decade fighting wars on two fronts, tens of thousands of service members are coming home having trouble adjusting to civilian life; this includes struggling as parents. "Why Is Mom So Mad?" is a narrative story told from a family's point of view (father and children)...

"Head off to school with two Berenstain Bears Classics about everyone's favorite bear family, written and illustrated by Stan and Jan Berenstain. See how the Berenstain Bears face familiar issues--first-day fears and handling homework--and learn that a helping hand goes a long way toward solving all sorts of problems!"--Back cover.

"Prepare your toddler for moving day with this board book exploring the novelty of a new home balanced with the comfort of familial love"--

"A merry little nut faces obstacles on the way to Christmas dinner at his grandma's house"--

"After her brother dies in a fire, Sasha Harless has no one left and nowhere to turn, but soon discovers family she didn't know she had, and begins to heal through poetry"--

"A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new novel stand two extraordinary women. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist and mercurial tyrant who terrorizes her neighborhood and her family with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs....