"While her mother puts the finishing touches on her twists, a young girl asks what it means to be 'homegrown'. Touring precious memories and lively rooms warmed by family, Mama and Granny explain that home isn't just a place, but rather a reflection of people who support and love one another." --publisher's website.

A Black mother and daughter spend each day waiting for the return of their husband/father from his job as an EMT. They manage to fill the hours, and are always so relieved when he returns safely to them, especially as they read and see on the news that some Black people do not return home.

"All seventeen-year-old Quill wants is a break from the family business. Flowers, plants, the generations-old garden. What he wouldn't give for a taste of the outside world. Normalcy. But his mom won't let him out of the house, telling him he's just not read ... All because he's a dryad. Well, not just any dryad, but a male dryad - the first ever. And unlike everyone else in his family, he hasn't a lick of magic. Just a shock of green hair, matching...

"Las brujas se rigen por tres normas irrompibles: esconde tu magia, manten la cabeza gacha y alejate del resto de brujas. Por eso, Mika Moon esta acostumbrada a estar sola, pero todo cambia cuando le llega un mensaje inesperado rogandole que viaje a Nowhere House, una mansion misteriosa, para ensenar a tres ninas a controlar sus poderes. Al romper todas las reglas y aceptar el desafio, Mika descubrira en los confines de Nowhere House secretos enterrados,...

In this big-hearted debut about ambition, race, and class, a family grapples with how much of their lineage they're willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation's first federal reparations program. Almost a decade ago, Willie Revel gave up her burgeoning journalism career in New York to help run her father's struggling construction company in Philadelphia. An ambitious single mother, Willie has reluctantly put family first without being...