River MummaRiver Mumma is a love letter to culture, home, and coming of age and will spark important, relevant book club conversations, too." Marissa Stapley, New York Times bestselling author of Lucky Issa Rae's Insecure with a magical realist spin: River Mumma is an exhilarating contemporary fantasy novel about a young Black woman who navigates her quarter life crisis while embarking on a mythical quest through the streets of Toronto. Alicia has been out of

the optimism of Reconstruction

There is fourteen-year-old Jael

and others) emphasize the importance of music in his life

she has seven weeks to find the perfect boyfriend to rub in their faces at the big

boys who flirt too hard and talk too much

Desperate to keep his secret

Billy Be Kind: The Kind Little Mouse - Honesty

As Bell Hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question "What is love

the results mean justice

and shows why travel was so central to the Civil Rights movement

and finding comfort in them when things are hard

Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus's curse of seeing the future distracts him from being and doing his best