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Don't Bring Home a White Boy
Don't Bring Home a White Boy Troy Johnson Article A couple of days ago I posted a video (below) of Karen Hunter and Karyn Langhorne Folan, who are the publisher and author, respectively, of the b...
Don't Bring Home a White Boy
Don't Bring Home a White Boy Author Interviews
Karyn Langhorne Folan
Karyn Langhorne Folan NONE Karyn Langhorne Folan, a former law professor and accomplished author, is known for her work in various genres including nonfiction, screenplays, and novels. She developed ...
Don’t Bring Home A White Boy: And Other Notions That Keep Black Women From Dating Out
Don’t Bring Home A White Boy: And Other Notions That Keep Black Women From Dating Out Karyn Langhorne Folan 9781439154755 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In Don’t Bring Home a White Bo...
Be Boy Buzz
Be Boy Buzz bell hooks 9781484788400 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun I be boy. All bliss boy. All fine beat. All beau boy. Beautiful. Famed author bell hooks brings us a tight, exuberant story...
I'm Voting for Barack Obama - Period!
I'm Voting for Barack Obama - Period! Troy Johnson Article He is Black and that is all I care about period.I don't give a crap if he has funny colored lips, a white mother, and African Father.I don't...
Don Lemon
Don Lemon 0000000122571961 Don Lemon is a renowned American journalist, known for hosting CNN Tonight since 2006. He's covered major events like Hurricane Katrina and George Floyd protests, and is re...
Don Fulton
Don Fulton NONE Don Fulton, a Washington D.C. native, is a screenwriter inspired by the lack of quality and diverse Christmas films in Hollywood. His screenplay, “Please Come Home for Christmas,” is ...
Black Boy, Black Boy: Celebrate the Power of You
Black Boy, Black Boy: Celebrate the Power of You Ali Kamanda and Jorge Redmond 9781728250649 Nonfiction Sourcebooks Explore Sourcebooks Inspire Black boys to imagine all the great things they can do w...
Beautifully Organized Home Planner: The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide to Organizing Your Home Life
Beautifully Organized Home Planner: The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide to Organizing Your Home Life Nikki Boyd 9781944515980 Nonfiction Paige Tate & Co Penguin Random House Are you struggling to juggle t...
Men Don’t Like Ugly, Women Don’t Like Broke: What Women Need to Know about Love, Money and Relationships
Men Don’t Like Ugly, Women Don’t Like Broke: What Women Need to Know about Love, Money and Relationships Angela Benson 9781533583512 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Integrated Book and...
An Investigation and Study of the White People of America and Western Europe
An Investigation and Study of the White People of America and Western Europe Tony Rose 9781937269487 Nonfiction Amber Communications Group Amber Communications Group FROM THE INTRODUCTION - AN INVESTI...
Little Black Boy: Oh, the Things You Will Do!
Little Black Boy: Oh, the Things You Will Do! Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Larry C. Fields III 9780593406267 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House A little Black boy finds the courage to go af...
White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret
White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret A. J. Baime 9780358447757 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A riveting biography of Walter F. White, ...
Love Don’t Come Easy
Love Don’t Come Easy Tiffany M. Davis Book Review Boy looks for girl. Boy finds girl. Boy loses girl. Boy looks for another girl. J.T. Smith puts a fresh spin on an old formula in his highly enterta...
Don Cheadle - Brooklyn's Finest Interview
Don Cheadle - Brooklyn's Finest Interview Kam Williams Interview Donald Cheadle might be the best actor around yet to win an Oscar. His only Academy Award nomination came in 2005 for his po...
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism Robin DiAngelo 9780807047415 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterprod...
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley Excerpt CHAPTER ONE CRIMSON SHADOW {1.} "What you doin' there, boy?" It was six a.m. Socrates Fortlow had come out to the al...
The Black Messiah: On Black Consciousness and Black Power
The Black Messiah: On Black Consciousness and Black Power Albert B. Cleage, Jr. 9780865430785 Nonfiction Lushena Books Lushena Books Reprint. Originally published: Sheed and Ward, 1968. For nearly ...
Walter White
Walter White 0000000081462565 “I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me.” Explore A.J. Baime's 2022 autobiograp...
Ball Don’t Lie
Ball Don’t Lie Matt De La Peña 9780385734257 Fiction Ember Ember Newbery Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Matt de la Peña’s Ball Don’t Lie "is a must-read." [The Bulletin]Sticky is ...
Shedding Light From My Journeys
Shedding Light From My Journeys DuEwa M. Frazier Excerpt R Ju Iz Spanish Mami, mami, ju look so good, are ju married ? I think in a past life I was Spanish cause the pa...
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
A Day Late and a Dollar Short Terry McMillan Excerpt Way I see it can’t nobody tell me nothing I don’t already know. At least not when it comes to my kids. They all grown, but in a whol...
The Boy and the Lion: A True Story of a Lost Maasai Boy Mysteriously Protected by a Wild Lioness
The Boy and the Lion: A True Story of a Lost Maasai Boy Mysteriously Protected by a Wild Lioness Mike Saito 9781957810423 Nonfiction Iskanchi Press Iskanchi Press A true survival memoir about a five-y...
Jamesy Boy
Jamesy Boy Kam Williams jamesy-boy.jpg Film Review Jamesy Boy In Theaters: Jan 17, 2014 Limited On DVD: Feb 24, 2014 Click to order via Amazon Unrated, 1 hr. 49 min. Drama, Kids & Family,...
Don’t Tell the Milkman If You Don’t Want Him To Tell The World: How To recognize and Stop Relational Aggression
Don’t Tell the Milkman If You Don’t Want Him To Tell The World: How To recognize and Stop Relational Aggression Johanna Sparrow 9781499383096 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC People wil...
Don Freeman
Don Freeman 000000010880233X Don Freeman was a California-born artist and musician who turned to sketching Broadway shows in New York after losing his trumpet. He found his true calling in children's...
Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel Helen Oyeyemi 9781594631399 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as “gloriously unsettling… evokin...
Off-White
Off-White Astrid Roemer 9781949641257 Fiction Two Lines Press Two Lines Press In Suriname, off the northeastern coast of South America, Grandma Bee has many children who have given her many more gr...
White on White/Black on Black
White on White/Black on Black George Yancy 9780742514812 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield White on White/Black on Black is a unique contribution to the philosophy of race. The book...
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color Ruby Hamad 9781948226745 Nonfiction Catapult Catapult Called "powerful and provocative by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York ...
The Deeper the Roots: A Memoir of Hope and Home
The Deeper the Roots: A Memoir of Hope and Home Michael Tubbs 9781250173447 Nonfiction Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book Macmillan Publishers The making of a visionary political leader—and a blueprint for...
Where to Choose: A Novel
Where to Choose: A Novel Penny Mickelbury 9780684837420 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. As a lawyer, Carole Ann Gibson defended every kind of criminal — from the white collar crooks w...
Your First Home: The Smart Way To Get It And Keep It
Your First Home: The Smart Way To Get It And Keep It Lynnette Khalfani-Cox 9781932450859 Nonfiction Advantage World Press Advantage World Press In Your First Home: The Smart Way to Get It and Keep It,...
White Boy/Black Girl: What Our Differences Can Teach Us, One Honest Conversation at a Time
White Boy/Black Girl: What Our Differences Can Teach Us, One Honest Conversation at a Time Adaeze and Chad Brinkman 9781496474933 Nonfiction Tyndale Momentum Tyndale House Adaeze and Chad—two differen...
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined David F. Walker 9780593836118 Fiction Ten Speed Graphic Penguin Random House A thrilling graphic novel reimagining of The Adventures of Huckle...
Black Boy
Black Boy Richard Wright 9780062964137 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright’s powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John E...
Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the Music Industry
Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the Music Industry Ronin Ro 9780743428231 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. This is a tale of friendship, greed, and betrayal in the music i...
Bad Boy: A Memoir
Bad Boy: A Memoir Walter Dean Myers 9780064472883 Nonfiction Amistad Books for Young Readers HarperCollins A classic memoir that’s gripping, funny, and ultimately unforgettable from the bestselling fo...
Inspire Your Home: Easy Affordable Ideas to Make Every Room Glamorous
Inspire Your Home: Easy Affordable Ideas to Make Every Room Glamorous Farah Merhi 9781982131241 Nonfiction Tiller Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Instagram star and founder of Inspire Me! Home Déc...
White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds
White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds Roland S. Martin with Leah Lakins 9781637740286 Nonfiction BenBella Books BenBella Books White Fear has shaped our democr...
What Does It Mean to Be White?; Developing White Racial Literacy
What Does It Mean to Be White?; Developing White Racial Literacy Robin DiAngelo 9781433111150 Nonfiction Peter Lang Publishing Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. “Rarely will one find an analysis of whitenes...
Theodore W. Allen
Theodore W. Allen 000000003475678X Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005) was an activist and intellectual who pioneered work on white privilege. He co-authored 'White Blindspot', authored 'Can White Workers ...
Greetings, Leroy
Greetings, Leroy Itah Sadu 9781554987603 Fiction Groundwood Books Anansi Press Moving can be scary, but by the end of his first day at his new school, Roy is happy to find a piece of his old home, Jam...
Richard Wright
Richard Wright 0000000079803105 Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908-1960), born in poverty and racial discrimination in Mississippi, was a prolific writer aiming to unite Black and White worlds. Known ini...
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Picture Book Edition (paperback)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Picture Book Edition (paperback) William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer 9798217111121 Nonfiction Rocky Pond Books Penguin Random House The picture book retelling of the ...
A House Is Not a Home
A House Is Not a Home Thumper Book Review The song says it’s hard to say goodbye’humph, not when the guests have overstayed their welcome it Ain't. At that time, saying goodbye is th...
I Don’t Want to Die Poor
I Don’t Want to Die Poor Michael Arceneaux 9781982129309 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the New York Times bestselling author of I Can’t Date Jesus, which Vogue called "a piece of ...
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell M.T. Pope, Tina Brooks Mckinney, Brenda Hampton, and Terry E. Hill 9781601623386 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Private Kyle Sullivan is a happily married m...
Mary Monroe
Mary Monroe 0000000029010860 Mary Monroe, a sharecropper's daughter and the first in her family to graduate high school, returned to the literary scene with her novel “God Don’t Like Ugly”, which sol...
Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming
Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming Antonio Michael Downing 9781571311993 Nonfiction Penguin Books Canada Penguin Random House Blending mythology and memory, Saga Boy follows a young Black imm...
Baby Boy
Baby Boy Marvin X moviebabyboy.jpg Film Review Baby Boy Written, Directed, Produced by John Singleton Click to Order via Amazon Rating: R Studio: Columbia Tri-Star Theatrical Release Date: June ...
How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People
How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People D.L. Hughley 9780062698544 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins 200 years ago, white people told black folks, “‘I suggest you pick the cotton...
Bring It On 4
Bring It On 4 Kam Williams bring_60.jpg Film Review Fourth Installment of Cheerleading Franchise Out on DVD Bring It On 4: In It to Win It Rated PG-13 for profanity, crude humor and su...
Nigger (1990 edition)
Nigger (1990 edition) Dick Gregory 9780671750916 Nonfiction Pocket Books Pocket Books Gregory’s autobiography, Nigger, was originally published in 1963 prior to The assassination of President Kennedy,...
Looking for Bongo
Looking for Bongo Eric Velasquez 9780823435654 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House Where could Bongo be? Help a young boy find his beloved toy—and figure out how he got lost to begin with. The boy k...
Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird Helen Oyeyemi 9781594633409 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as “gloriously unsettling… evoki...
Place for Us
Place for Us James Ransome 9780593324882 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House A poignant wordless picture book about a homeless boy and his mom, by Children’s Literature Legacy Award winne...
White Men Cant Hump
White Men Cant Hump Kam Williams Book Review ’Why should black men continue to sit back and allow whites to negatively define black male sexuality, especially when you consider the fact t...
Going Down Home with Daddy
Going Down Home with Daddy Kelly Starling Lyons 9781561459384 Fiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers “On reunion morning, we rise before the sun. Daddy hums as he packs our car with suitcas...
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...
White Men Can’t Hump (As Good As Black Men): Volume II: Sex & Race in America
White Men Can’t Hump (As Good As Black Men): Volume II: Sex & Race in America Todd Wooten 9781425959760 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions White Men Can’t Hump is a book of hope. The hope is that...
Albert E. White
Albert E. White NONE Albert E. White is a business and finance expert with 30 years of experience. Known for advising top CEOs and identifying market trends, he's held senior positions in energy and ...
I Once Was Lost: My Search for God in America
I Once Was Lost: My Search for God in America Don Lemon 9780316567695 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group In a deeply personal follow-up to his #1 bestseller This is the Fire: Wha...
Love Don’t Come Easy
Love Don’t Come Easy J.T. Smith Excerpt After finishing my job with Lance, I hurried back home and washed up. Looking at the alarm clock on my nightstand, I saw that it was a little after three. I hu...
The Dead Don’t Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit
The Dead Don’t Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit Julian Randall 9781645030263 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group The Dead Don’t Need Reminding is ...
A Boy and His Mirror
A Boy and His Mirror Marchánt Davis 9780593110553 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Debut author and actor Marchánt Davis joins forces with the bestselling illustrator Keturah A....
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer 9780061730337 Nonfiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins Now a Netflix film, starrin...
Mark Mathabane
Mark Mathabane 0000000108774033 "Mark Mathabane is a South African author and human rights activist, known for his memoir 'Kaffir Boy' which sheds light on his life under apartheid. His works, transl...
Heaven, My Home
Heaven, My Home Attica Locke 9780316363402 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group One of Entertainment Weekly’s Biggest Books of Fall 2019 Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is on the hunt for a missi...
The Blood of Emmett Till
The Blood of Emmett Till Timothy B. Tyson 9781476714844 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. In 2014, protesters ringed the White House, chanting, “How many black kids will you kill? Mic...
White Boy/Black Girl
White Boy/Black Girl Eryka Parker Book Review The recently published White Boy/Black Girl: What Our Differences Can Teach Us, One Honest Conversation at a Time by Adaeze and Chad Brinkman is a though...
Choosing Your Lens: How White Christians Can Become Better Allies
Choosing Your Lens: How White Christians Can Become Better Allies Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts 9781733647250 Nonfiction New Season Books New Season Books In order for the seed of reconciliation to t...
Baby Boy, You Are a Star!
Baby Boy, You Are a Star! Andrea Davis Pinkney 9781338672428 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications New York Times bestselling and award-winning duo Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney cre...
Calvin
Calvin JR Ford and Vanessa Ford 9780593108673 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House In this joyful and impactful picture book, a transgender boy prepares for the firs...
The Herd Boy
The Herd Boy Niki Daly 9780802855503 Fiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Malusi is a herd boy, which means that he must look after his grandfather’s sheep and g...
Soldier Boy
Soldier Boy Keely Hutton 9780374305635 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers An unforgettable novel based on the life of Ricky Richard Anywar, who at age fou...
The Boy in the Bubble
The Boy in the Bubble Zetta Elliott 9781497444782 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press A mysterious boy from another planet chooses an unusual girl as his guide on Earth. Both children lead solitary li...
A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie: And Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life
A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie: And Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life Antwone Fisher 9781416566625 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. LIFE LESSONS AND HARD-EARNED ADVICE THAT EVERY BOY...
Jesus Boy
Jesus Boy Thumper Book Review I have a question for you: have you ever heard of anything; a food dish, a recipe, a car or a book, that by the description alone, you knew, KNEW it was going ...
Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery
Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery Harrison Mooney 9781586423469 Nonfiction Truth to Power Steerforth Press An unforgettable coming-of-age memoir awaits in Harrison Mooney’s powerful debut, a s...
Slippin’ Sippin’ Saints
Slippin’ Sippin’ Saints Faye Thompson 9780996610179 Fiction Ultra Pearl Power Ultra Pearl Power Slippin’ Sippin’ Saints takes a scandalous peek inside the flawed flock of New York’s Church of the One ...
Child’s Play: A Poem
Child’s Play: A Poem Frederick K. Foote, Jr. Article Another young Black man knocked unconscious, lying motionless on the fake grass His fellow players move around him in hushed groups radiating fea...
Making Friends With Black People
Making Friends With Black People Nick Adams 9780758212955 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. White people of America, we know you’ve got it rough. Sure, black men and women have been thr...
DON’T SHOOT! I’m Coming Out ~ How to "Man-Up" and Set Heterosexuals "Straight"
DON’T SHOOT! I’m Coming Out ~ How to "Man-Up" and Set Heterosexuals "Straight" Benn Setfrey 9780977428205 Nonfiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing Benn Setfrey turns the tables and pu...
Keepin’ It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)
Keepin’ It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities) Prudence L. Carter 9780195168624 Nonfiction Oxford University Press O...
Black Diamond (The Africa List)
Black Diamond (The Africa List) Zakes Mda 9780857422224 Fiction Seagull Books Seagull Books In this novel by celebrated South African writer Zakes Mda, Kristin Uys, a tough magistrate who lives alone ...
Home Home
Home Home Lisa Allen-Agostini 9781984893611 Fiction Ember Ember Fans of Monday’s Not Coming and Girl in Pieces will love this award-winning novel about a girl on the verge of losing herself and her un...
The Black History of the White House
The Black History of the White House Clarence Lusane 9780872865327 Nonfiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial pol...
The Words Don't Fit In My Mouth
The Words Don't Fit In My Mouth jessica Care moore 9780965830805 Poetry Moore Black Press Moore Black Press The Words Don’t Fit In My Mouth has become a classic book among fans of the new movement of...
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism Lerone A. Martin 9780691175119 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press The...
Police Brutality and White Supremacy: The Fight Against American Traditions
Police Brutality and White Supremacy: The Fight Against American Traditions Etan Thomas 9781636140568 Nonfiction Edge of Sports Akashic Books An NBA veteran offers engaging interviews and reflections ...
The 400-Year Holocaust: White America’s Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide - and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory
The 400-Year Holocaust: White America’s Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide - and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory Dante D. King 9781794862500 Nonfiction lulu.com lulu.com The 4...
Black Jokes About White Folks: The Black Lives Matter Joke Book
Black Jokes About White Folks: The Black Lives Matter Joke Book Mad Comedy 9798665010434 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Even during the dark days of slavery, our courageous...
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America Michael Eric Dyson Article Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White AmericaBeloved, the deed has been done. We have—since that ’we’ mu...
What Does It Mean to Be White in America?: Breaking the White Code of Silence, a Collection of Personal Narratives
What Does It Mean to Be White in America?: Breaking the White Code of Silence, a Collection of Personal Narratives Gabrielle David 9781940939483 Nonfiction 2Leaf Press 2Leaf Press What Does It Mean To...
Sankofa: A Culinary Story of Resilience and Belonging
Sankofa: A Culinary Story of Resilience and Belonging Eric Adjepong 9780593385944 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Inspired by acclaimed chef Eric Adjepong’s own childhood, Sankofa is ...
Golden Boy
Golden Boy Tara Sullivan 9780399161124 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Thirteen-year-old Habo has always been different—light eyes, yellow hair and white skin. ...
A Killing in This Town: A Novel
A Killing in This Town: A Novel Olympia Vernon 9780802142962 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Award-winning author Olympia Vernon’s third novel, A Killing in This Town, is a taut, poetic maste...