Cary Hite

You may think that the story of the saxophone begins with Dexter Gordon or Charlie Parker or on a street corner in New Orleans. It really began in 1840 in Belgium with a young daydreamer named Joseph-Antoine Adolphe Sax, a boy with bad luck but great ideas. Coretta Scott King Honoree Lesa Cline-Ransome unravels the fascinating history of how Adolphe's once reviled instrument was transported across Europe and Mexico to New Orleans. Follow the saxophone's...

Hall-of-famer Elgin Baylor was one of basketball's all-time-greatest players-an innovative athlete, team player, and quiet force for change. One of the first professional African-American players, he inspired others on and off the court. But when traveling for away games, many hotels and restaurants turned Elgin away because he was black. One night, Elgin had enough and staged a one-man protest that captured the attention of the press, the public,...

Young Neil deGrasse Tyson was starstruck when he first visited the sky theater at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. He couldn't believe the crowded, glittering night sky at the planetarium was real-until a visit to the country years later revealed the impossible. That discovery was like rocket fuel for Neil's passion about space. His quest for knowledge took him from the roof of his apartment building to a science expedition in northwest Africa,...

"Riley King, ever to be known as B.B. (1925-2015), was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by a local minister's guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone Walker, and encouraged by his cousin, the established bluesman Bukka White, B.B....

"A picture-book biography on science superstar Neil deGrasse Tyson, the groundbreaking American astrophysicist whose work has inspired a generation of young scientists and astronomers to reach for the stars!"--

The best at everything and not afraid to let others know it, the Big Cheese is prepared to win the annual Cheese-cathlon, but when the quiet new kid, Wedge Wedgeman, comes out on top, Big Cheese gets slice of humility.

Previously published in the anthology Some Like It Hot, Irresistible Attraction is now available as a standalone e-novella from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson! Sydney Corbain never forgot her explosive encounter with Tyrone Hardcastle at her brother's wedding. So, when she runs into him in New York City on business, they both see this as an opportunity to explore their undeniable attraction. But, can a whirlwind of passion turn...

This sexy short story, previously released in An All Night Man and Some Like It Hot, is now available as a standalone by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson! A steamy one-night stand is all it should have been between Mallory Standish and Hunter Sloan-one night with the sexy P.I. is about all she can handle. But when circumstances throw them back together, Mallory's about to learn that the "P" in P.I. stands for playa...but even the...

Presents a definitive chronicle of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education, weaving through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States.

Dixyn Greene has it all. She is a hustler's wife, the mother of a beautiful girl, and owns a town house and a nice car, she's living the life. But when the feds arrest her man, Dixyn's whole world begins to crumble. Things quickly go from bad to worse, and as the bills begin to mount, her ability to maintain her lavish lifestyle is put to the test. She becomes strapped for cash, and her good intentions lead to bad decisions. Enter Brian Winters, B-Dub,...