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Based on more than eighty interviews, Strong Inside is a fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball player in the SEC. Digging deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pioneering than we’ve come to expect from the genre, Perry Wallace’s unusually insightful and honest introspection reveals his inner thoughts throughout his journey. Strong...

The Paris Architect brings us to 1942 Paris, where gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money—and maybe get him killed. But if he’s clever enough, he’ll avoid any trouble. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German...

Welcome to Braggsville, the latest novel from T. Geronimo Johnson, the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold It ’Til It Hurts, is a dark and socially provocative Southern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who stage a dramatic protest during a Civil War reenactment—a fierce, funny, tragic work from a bold new writer. A literary coming-of-age novel for a new generation, written with...

Growing Up is the true and evocative story of seven-foot-tall Joe Barry Carroll, Purdue All-American, overall first round NBA draft pick, wealth adviser, painter, author, and philanthropist. Carroll’s southern-comfort prose and impressionistic paintings lend a reminiscent and familiar quality to a uniquely individual story.

Award-winning New York Times columnist Roger Cohen’s luminous memoir, The Girl from Human Street, turns a compassionate yet discerning eye on the legacy of his own forebears. As he follows them across continents and decades, mapping individual lives that diverge and intertwine, vital patterns of struggle and resilience, valued heritage and evolving loyalties (religious, ethnic, national), converge into a resonant portrait of cultural identity...