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Staten Island Noir (Akashic Noir)
Staten Island Noir (Akashic Noir) Patricia Smith 9781617751295 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books When They Are Done with Us” by Patricia Smith was selected for inclusion in The Best American Myster...
Tampa Bay Noir
Tampa Bay Noir Colette Bancroft 9781617758102 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books “For too long readers have connected Florida Noir with the admittedly fascinating locales of Miami-Dade County, thanks...
South Central Noir
South Central Noir Gary Phillips 9781636140551 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The Akashic Noir Series’ forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles’s most recogn...
Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series)
Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series) Amiri Baraka 9781933354675 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negroand always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bo...
Memphis Noir
Memphis Noir Laureen Cantwell and Leonard Gill 9781617753114 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "A remarkable picture of contemporary Memphis emerges in this Akashic noir volume…Something for everyon...
Brooklyn Noir
Brooklyn Noir Tim McLoughlin 9781888451580 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books announces Brooklyn novelist Tim McLoughlin as the editor of the anthology (in addition to his contributing ...
Trinidad Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir)
Trinidad Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir) Earl Lovelace and Robert Antoni 9781617754357 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Classic stories by: C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, Samuel Selvon, Eric Roach,...
Kingston Noir (Akashic Noir)
Kingston Noir (Akashic Noir) Colin Channer 9781617750748 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Thoroughly well-written stories…fans of noir will enjoy this batch of sordid tales set in the sweltering h...
The Sexy Part of the Bible (Akashic Urban Surreal Series)
The Sexy Part of the Bible (Akashic Urban Surreal Series) Kola Boof 9781936070961 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Number 7 on HEY, SMALL PRESS’s Best Of 2011 list (heysmallpress.org)!"From the mal...
Detroit Noir (Akashic Noir)
Detroit Noir (Akashic Noir) E. J. Olsen 9781933354392 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books From crime stories in the classic hard-boiled style to the vividly experimental, from the determination of tho...
Accra Noir
Accra Noir Meri Nana-Ama Danquah 9781617758898 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. E...
Boundaries
Boundaries Elizabeth Nunez 9781617750335 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books [If] Boundaries, Elizabeth Nunez’s latest novel… seems familiar, that’s because it reflects the current state of affa...
Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636142418 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books This 11-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Boo...
Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set
Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636140766 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The beautifully packaged, limited Edition Box Set was a an African P...
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636140599 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The limited-edition box set is a projec...
New-Generation African Poets (SABA): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (SABA): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617758164 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Praise for the chapbook series: "Dawes and Abani have taken on the ...
Addis Ababa Noir
Addis Ababa Noir Maaza Mengiste 9781617759529 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Ea...
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita)
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita) Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617757174 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The limited-edition box set is an annual project started in 2014 to...
Lagos Noir
Lagos Noir Chris Abani 9781617755231 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book c...
Atlanta Noir
Atlanta Noir Tayari Jones 9781617755378 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Georgia Center for the Book has chosen Atlanta Noir as one of 2018’s Books All Georgians Should Read!Kenji Jasper’s "A Momen...
New-Generation African Poets (NNE): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (NNE): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617755408 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books “Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short...
San Juan Noir
San Juan Noir Mayra Santos-Febres 9781617752964 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Santos-Febres and 13 other contributors of Puerto Rican heritage take full advantage of San Juan’s wide range of di...
Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes 9781617753558 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books "The chapbooks gathered here are almost overflowing with voice….Each of these chapbo...
Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth
Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth Tim McLoughlin 9781933354149 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 ...
Nairobi Noir
Nairobi Noir Peter Kimani 9781617757549 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o anchors this truly fascinating first East African installment in the Akashic Noir Series.
On the Way Back
On the Way Back Montague Kobbé 9781617754418 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Colorful detours into native lore, such as a rich Dutchman’s fabled courtship of a local beauty, strike grace notes th...
Haiti Noir
Haiti Noir Edwidge Danticat 9781936070657 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island…The 36th entry in Akashic’s Noir series (which r...
Trinidad Noir
Trinidad Noir Lisa Allen-Agostini and Jeanne Mason 9781933354552 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The Caribbean provides no shelter from the delicious terror of the Akashic Noir Series. Trinidad...
Got (Seven Weapon Arsenal)
Got (Seven Weapon Arsenal) D 9781933354163 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "There’s a new player stepping into the street-lit spotlight, and he’s one to watch…Urban libraries have to get Got."—Lib...
Bronx Biannual (The Journal of Urbane Urban Literature)
Bronx Biannual (The Journal of Urbane Urban Literature) Miles Marshall Lewis 9781933354040 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Bronx Biannual is the most important literary journal in hip-hop America...
Bedrock Faith
Bedrock Faith Eric Charles May 9781617751967 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books One of Roxane Gay’s Top 10 Books of 2014One of Booklist’s Top 10 First Novels of 2014One of the Chicago Reader’s Favori...
Rapilates: Body and Mind Conditioning in the Digital Age
Rapilates: Body and Mind Conditioning in the Digital Age Chuck D and Kathy Lopez 9781636141749 Nonfiction Enemy Books Akashic Books Legendary hip-hop artist Chuck D has been touring the world for four...
Stewdio: The Naphic Grovel Artrilogy of Chuck D
Stewdio: The Naphic Grovel Artrilogy of Chuck D Chuck D 9781636141008 Nonfiction Enemy Books Akashic Books Chuck D (Public Enemy, Prophets of Rage, etc.) brings his personal insights and social critiq...
The Go the Fuck to Sleep Box Set: Go the Fuck to Sleep, You Have to Fucking Eat & Fuck, Now There Are Two of You
The Go the Fuck to Sleep Box Set: Go the Fuck to Sleep, You Have to Fucking Eat & Fuck, Now There Are Two of You Adam Mansbach 9781617759833 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Celebrating a decade of...
Gathering of Waters
Gathering of Waters Bernice L. McFadden 9781617750311 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Selected as a Go On Girl! Book Pick100 Notable Books of 2012” New York Times50 Best Books of 2012” Washing...
The Cocaine Chronicles
The Cocaine Chronicles Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon 9781617750298 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "The best stories in The Cocaine Chronicles … are equal to the best fiction being written to...
The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations
The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations Kevin Powell 9781636141015 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A hopeful and insightful collection by one of the great voices of our ti...
Creatures of Passage
Creatures of Passage Morowa Yejide 9781617758768 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books With echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and ...
The Darkest Hearts
The Darkest Hearts Nelson George 9781617758096 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "We’re big fans of music mysteries here at CrimeReads, so I’m psyched for the new Nelson George…A complex mystery tha...
Mouths Don’t Speak
Mouths Don’t Speak Katia D. Ulysse 9781617755927 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "After the 2010 Haiti earthquake kills her parents, a woman returns to Haiti after leaving it as a child, 25 years ...
Seriously, You Have to Eat: Fixed Layout Edition
Seriously, You Have to Eat: Fixed Layout Edition Naomi Jackson 9781617754081 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Parents and children alike will surely welcome a pause to bond over a shared recogniti...
Lost Canyon
Lost Canyon Nina Revoyr 9781617753534 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Nina Revoyr’s fifth novel, Lost Canyon. Booklist called it “a gripping tale of unintended adventure and profound transformatio...
Changers Book Two: Oryon
Changers Book Two: Oryon T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper 9781617753077 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books "Fantastic."—John Green"This is an excellent sequel….This installment raises the stakes, maki...
The White House
The White House JaQuavis Coleman 9781617752612 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books "The White House is a fast-paced thriller that doesn’t disappoint."—Urban Reviews"White House by JaQuavis Coleman st...
The White House
The White House JaQuavis Coleman 9781617752629 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books "White House by JaQuavis Coleman starts with a bang and will leave you wanting more."—Book Referees"Kidnapping, murd...
I Love You Too
I Love You Too Ziggy Marley 9781617753107 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Ziggy Marley in Concert" was awarded a 2014 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album!"A sweetly affectionate ode to togethernes...
As Flies to Whatless Boys
As Flies to Whatless Boys Robert Antoni 9781617751554 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books As Flies to Whatless Boys has been longlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award!Winner of...
Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh
Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh Thomas Glave 9781617751707 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Books With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef KomunyakaaNamed a finalist for the...
Nowhere Is a Place
Nowhere Is a Place Bernice L. McFadden 9781617751318 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Nowhere Is a Place is a powerful portrait of family secrets, damage, and healing, probing deep below the surfa...
Seriously, Just Go to Sleep
Seriously, Just Go to Sleep Adam Mansbach 9781617750786 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Critical success for the original Go the F*** to Sleep, a #1 best seller at: New York Times, Amazon.com, Wal...
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (A D Hunter Mystery)
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (A D Hunter Mystery) Nelson George 9781617750243 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "George is an ace at interlacing the real dramas of the world … the book’s slim l...
Anna In-Between
Anna In-Between Elizabeth Nunez 9781933354842 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Read a book review by Me, You and Books Anna In-Between is Elizabeth Nunez’s finest literary achievement to da...
The Age of Dreaming
The Age of Dreaming Nina Revoyr 9781933354460 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Jun Nakayama was a silent film star in the early days of Hollywood, but by 1964, he is living in complete obscurity—u...
eel on reef (Black Goat)
eel on reef (Black Goat) Uche Nduka 9781933354378 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books In eel on reef, Uche Nduka challenges every expectation of an African poet. His unique voice is a heady amalgam of ...
Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America
Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America Larry E. Sullivan 9781888451375 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A lively array of selections from the earliest recorded convict a...
The Angel at the Gates
The Angel at the Gates Karen Lord 9781636143156 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A man’s quest to resolve an inherited family trauma leads him to an enigmatic priory in a war-ravaged region, from w...
The Vision Through My Lens: My Life in Basketball and Beyond
The Vision Through My Lens: My Life in Basketball and Beyond Natasha Howard 9781636143507 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Amid the current firestorm of interest in women’s basketball, Natasha H...
House of the Rising Sun
House of the Rising Sun K’wan 9781636142906 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books When Artie Howell moves with his wife back to her sleepy hometown, he must protect their son, Nicky, from the skeletons ...
82nd Division
82nd Division D.M. Aderibigbe 9781636142425 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Selected by acclaimed poet/novelist Colin Channer for the National Poetry Series, 82nd Division is a lustrous love song...
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636142555 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Bo...
Watch Out for Falling Iguanas
Watch Out for Falling Iguanas Edwidge Danticat 9781636142326 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Perfect for readers of all ages, this captivating picture book teaches children about iguanas’ unique b...
Paradise Once: A Novel
Paradise Once: A Novel Olive Senior 9781636142289 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A historical novel that brings to life the resiliency of the indigenous Taíno people in the Caribbean whose...
My Own Dear People
My Own Dear People Dwight Thompson 9781636141916 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books In Montego Bay, Jamaica, teenager Nyjah Messado witnesses a brutal assault by some of the boys in his circle of fri...
False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel
False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel K’wan 9781636141770 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books In this gripping follow-up to The Reluctant King, the "Monarchy" of New York City’s Five Points is in total ...
I Disappeared Them: A Novel
I Disappeared Them: A Novel Preston L. Allen 9781636141619 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A serial killer’s desire to protect children fuels a parallel drive to murder other sadistic men in this ...
Tender Headed
Tender Headed Olatunde Osinaike 9781636141411 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Tender Headed, selected by Camille Rankine as a winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series, is a musical and formally pl...
Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-Head
Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-Head Alex Wheatle 9781636140933 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Books In this breathtaking memoir, acclaimed author Alex Wheatle details how reggae music beca...
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories Tananarive Due 9781636141053 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books In her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovat...
Music Is in Everything
Music Is in Everything Ziggy Marley 9781617759437 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A picture book based on Ziggy Marley’s popular song celebrating music’s many forms, from the sounds of ocean waves...
Now Lila Knows
Now Lila Knows Elizabeth Nunez 9781636140247 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books “Nunez has always had the power to get to the essence of what makes human beings take right and wrong turns.” —Edward P...
Cosmogramma
Cosmogramma Courttia Newland 9781617759789 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A dark and incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an alternate future of interstellar space travel, robo...
Little John Crow
Little John Crow Ziggy Marley and Orly Marley 9781617759802 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books After being abandoned by his animal friends, Little John Crow must come to terms with what it means to b...
The Reluctant King
The Reluctant King K’wan 9781636140148 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books “K’wan is exceptionally gifted at ratcheting up suspense … There’s no denying the writer’s talent for dark, gritty fiction. I...
My Dog Romeo
My Dog Romeo Ziggy Marley 9781617759420 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Ziggy Marley’s ode to his four-legged friend Romeo becomes a picture book that is sure to touch the hearts of dog lovers eve...
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy): A Children’s Picture Book
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy): A Children’s Picture Book Paul Simon 9781617757983 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Paul Simon’s groovy anthem to New York City provides a joyful basis...
A River Called Time
A River Called Time Courttia Newland 9781617759260 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books “Newland … imagines a world where colonialism never happened at all. Which isn’t to say it’s some airy-fairy para...
(sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay: A Children’s Picture Book
(sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay: A Children’s Picture Book Otis Redding 9781617758508 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Otis Redding and Steve Cropper’s timeless ode to never-ending days is given f...
Prayer for the Living
Prayer for the Living Ben Okri 9781617758638 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and...
Respect: A Children’s Picture Book
Respect: A Children’s Picture Book Otis Redding 9781617758447 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Otis Redding’s classic song “Respect” — as popularized by Aretha Franklin—becomes an empowering picture...
African
African Peter Tosh 9781617757990 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books A beautiful children’s picture book featuring the lyrics of Peter Tosh’s global classic celebrating children of African descent.So d...
Glorious
Glorious Bernice L. McFadden 9781617758454 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "The seeming inevitability of cruel fate juxtaposes the triumph of the spirit in this remarkably rich and powerful novel,...
The Freedom Artist
The Freedom Artist Ben Okri 9781617757914 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Okri’s somber, fablelike novel is a call to rally against oppressive institutions and for broader social consciousness. I...
A Tall History of Sugar
A Tall History of Sugar Curdella Forbes 9781617757518 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A haunting, epic Caribbean love story, reminiscent of Gabriel José García Márquez Love in...
Black Lotus 2: The Vow
Black Lotus 2: The Vow K’wan 9781617757785 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books After helping to solve a cold case involving a murdered child which exposed the high-ranking city officials who tried to ...
Praise Song for the Butterflies
Praise Song for the Butterflies Bernice L. McFadden 9781617755750 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Praise Song for the Butterflies addresses “Trokosi,” the practice of sending girls to shrines as s...
An Unkindness of Ghosts
An Unkindness of Ghosts Rivers Solomon 9781617755880 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her o...
To Funk and Die in L.A.
To Funk and Die in L.A. Nelson George 9781617755859 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books An A.D. Hunter Mystery "Ex-bodyguard D Hunter travels from Brooklyn to Los Angeles to investigate the circumsta...
Dance of the Jakaranda
Dance of the Jakaranda Peter Kimani 9781617754968 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Kimani reimagines the rise and fall of colonialism in Africa by telling the story of the birth of Kenya’s railroad...
Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn
Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn Frederick Douglass 9781617754852 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "A fascinating collection of Frederick Douglass’s controversial speeches in Brooklyn, N.Y., this ...
Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook: Delicious Meals Made with Whole, Organic Ingredients from the Marley Kitchen
Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook: Delicious Meals Made with Whole, Organic Ingredients from the Marley Kitchen Ziggy Marley 9781617754838 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A cookbook inspired by ...
The Book of Harlan
The Book of Harlan Bernice L. McFadden 9781617754456 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The Book of Harlan was inspired by the life of my paternal grandfather; Harold Isaac McFadden (pictured on the ...
Even in Paradise
Even in Paradise Elizabeth Nunez 9781617754401 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books “Nunez has always had the power to get to the essence of what makes human beings take right and wrong turns.”—Edward ...
New-Generation African Poets (TATU): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (TATU): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617754517 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The box set is an annual project started in 2014 to ensure the cont...
The Angels’ Share
The Angels’ Share Garfield Ellis 9781617753732 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "It takes a lot to stand out in the crowded field of Caribbean lit, but Garfield Ellis grabs mystery, family, love, h...
Tales
Tales Amiri Baraka 9781617753954 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A reissue of a 1967 story collection shows a mind in motion and graphs Baraka’s thoughts during that turbulent period.“Baraka’s sto...
The System of Dante’s Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)
The System of Dante’s Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series) Amiri Baraka 9781617753961 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lo...
Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean
Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean Peekash Press 9781617754326 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books With a generous sample from each poet, this anthology is an opportunity to discover som...
Providential
Providential Colin Channer 9781617754050 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books "Jamaican-born Channer draws on the rich cultural heritage of the Caribbean and his own unique experience for this energetic...
The Accidental Hunter (A D Hunter Mystery)
The Accidental Hunter (A D Hunter Mystery) Nelson George 9781617754005 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The Accidental Hunter marks the debut of D Hunter, Nelson George’s unforgettable bodyguard-tu...
The Half That’s Never Been Told: The Real-Life Reggae Adventures of Doctor Dread
The Half That’s Never Been Told: The Real-Life Reggae Adventures of Doctor Dread Doctor Dread 9781617752902 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Impassioned and engaging."—Booklist"A heartfelt tribute...