Our team of professional selectors work tirelessly to ensure that the diversity and cultural richness of Prince George's County is represented in our collections. Each month, we feature recent titles that we think will appeal to a wide cross section of our community, as well as those titles that perhaps fall a little under the radar. Discovery is our goal.
Rhonda Byrne launched a global phenomenon with the publication of The Secret in 2006. This life-altering work helped readers understand the untapped powers that reside within. The Greatest Secret is a quantum leap that will take the reader beyond the material world and into the spiritual realm, where all possibilities exist.
Full of joy, generosity, and the incisive humor that has led David Sedaris to be called "the funniest man alive" (Time Out New York), “The Best of Me” spans a career spent watching and learning and laughing--quite often at himself--and invites readers deep into the world of one of the most brilliant and original writers of our time.
Afi Tekple has been married off to a man who doesn't want her. He refuses to give up his mistress and refuses to move Afi into his home. But Afi is smart and talented and determined to stand up for herself. Look out, Accra! Afi Tekple has arrived.
Benson and Mike's relationship is tested when Mike's mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Texas from Japan for a visit just as Mike takes off for Osaka to visit his dying father. As Benson and Mitsuko awkwardly get to know each other in Houston, Mike learns difficult truths about his family's history. Each man faces a turning point, and a decision about whether they belong together.
Enjoy this fictional tribute to the real-life cultural stars of the Black Bottom neighborhood, Detroit's answer to New York's Harlem. Joseph "Ziggy" Johnson, a columnist, nightclub emcee, and philanthropist, is our narrator, interspersing his portraits with recipes for cocktails invented by bartender Thomas Bullock. Bottoms up!
Finding unexpected support from a new friend while collecting stories from her rapidly vanishing Brooklyn community, Sydney uncovers sinister truths about a regional gentrification project and why her neighbors are moving away. The publisher calls this "Rear Window meets Get Out."
In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a Black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in "The Organ Thieves," Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker's death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family's permission or knowledge.
Two decades after the movie that made her a national celebrity, Brockovich urges readers to confront a scary reality: "We are amid a major water crisis that is beyond anything you can imagine." A convincing call to arms about the global water crisis from a sharp, plainspoken activist.
Attention, fans of mysteries, hip-hop, and R&B – the fifth D Hunter mystery is here! Hunter is now a talent manager in LA, where he must manage the career and chaotic life of rapper Lil Daye, keep the FBI and a retired hit man off his back, and enlist the help of vigilante Serene Powers.
Charlotte races to find the truth after her boyfriend disappears and she is called in to identify a murdered woman. The prime suspect for the murder becomes Charlotte, but she has never met the dead woman and has no idea who she is – or why she had named Charlotte as an emergency contact.
Having the gift of reading fortunes in tea leaves is more a curse than blessing to Vanessa Yu (and converting to coffee doesn't solve the problem). When her aunt takes her to Paris, will Vanessa get a chance to take charge of her own fate? By the author of "Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune."
