This Edgar Award winner is "equal parts morality tale and page-turning thriller" (Denver Post)—classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and most

Hare solves his family’s problems by tricking rich and lazy Bear in this funny, energetic version of an old slave story. With roots in American slave tales, T

'Juba' is one of the earliest and possibly best compositions by R. Nathaniel Dett. Majoring in composition and piano at Oberlin, in 1908, Dett was the first bla

A humorous look at how animals use their rear ends, from sitting to stinging, from attracting a mate to taking a breath.

A searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist.