8 Books Published by Morton Books, Inc. on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Most people hate to admit to mistakes, especially the personal kind which could call into question the very essence of who they are, and how their personhood measures up to others. They have learned the hard lesson that others are just waiting to pounce, with unforgivable ferocity, when they point out a personal lapse in good judgment on their part: "Oh no, I must say, with no disrespect intended, but even you must admit that that was pretty dumb. That wouldn’t have been me. I learned long ago not to do something so obviously foolish."Ouch, and double ouch Speaking of the obvious, it is quite apparent from a statement like that, that we human beings obviously love one-upping each other and casting our own fragile existence in the most favorable light-auteur filmmakers of our own lives, if you will.

A provocative collection of ideas and musings from Resistance and Transformation. Conversations with Black Writer evidences how the gathering of great thinkers on sacred ground can feed a hungry mind.

A rare literature exploration, with such acute insight and sensitivity, on what it means to be institutionalized as young as 3.

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The Year Jerry Garcia Died is an insightful, well written, soft spoken novel with hard truths. The story, set in San Francisco, recounts the major events in the life of the unnamed narrator, during the year 1996. He watches in horror as a distraught man leaps from the Golden Gate Bridge; as one of his friends has her head blown off in her own driveway while he cowers helplessly in his car. This slim volume takes on powerful issues of sexual longing,friendships,race relations, sexual orientation and worker’s rights-and above all, change.

Fred Beauford has been called the thinking man’s novelist. He has been on a thoughtful hunt for the true meaning of what it means to be an American in his previous books. In The Hard Luck Novel, he is true to form in this interesting, fast moving provocative urban fable. After losing his friends, his girlfriend, his job, his fancy Manhattan apartment-all because of a novel he wrote called "The Woman’s Man", the unnamed narrator begins a dizzying descent into painful illness, hunger, grinding proverty, and a fearfilled future.

A contemporary novel set in NYC about relationships,race, fame and oh yeah, womanizing.

A motley collection of rejected essays, unanswered love letters, ignored job applications, spurned offers of friendship and unpublished letters to the editor," novelist/essayist Fred Beauford weaves together the ultimate American story.