Danielle Bayard Jackson is the author of Fighting for our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women’s Relationships. This book aims to explain the mechanics of female friendship from an aerial view, as well as provide tangible strategies to equip women for the day-to-day business of being friends. Danielle didn’t set out to become a friendship coach and educator. She began her career as a high school teacher, where her students often came to her with their friendship issues.

Michelle Lindo-Rice, author of The Bookshop Sisterhood, a novel “that will stay with the reader long after the last page. Absolutely brilliant,” said Kristan Higgins, a New York Times bestselling author. The book is relatable. After years of hard work, four best friends—Celeste, Yasmeen, Toni and Leslie—are finally on the verge of opening the bookstore of their dreams, a place where their community can find solace with an intriguing new read, a comforting beverage and book-loving friends. But before they can cut the

Iris Mwanza, born and raised in Zambia, had early exposure to unfair and unequal opportunities for women and girls and has been a driving force for gender equality in her career. She serves in huge role as Deputy Director, Women in Leadership for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Iris leads the foundation’s strategy and investments to improve women’s representation and influence in the fields of health, law, and economics in priority geographies. Isis’ first novel releases on June 25th, The Lion’s

Mary Annaïse Heglar is an extraordinary writer who works at the intersections of climate change, climate grief, and climate justice. Her latest book, Troubled Waters, which releases next month, weaves an unforgettable, distinctly Southern story of the enduring power of family, Black resistance, and the rising climate crisis. In this intimate portrait of two generations, a granddaughter and a grandmother come to terms with what it means to be family, Black women, and alive in a world on fire. The world is

Essie Chambers is an award-winning independent TV and film producer who has penned her first novel, the gripping and compelling Swift River. This book is a sweeping family saga about the complicated bond between mothers and daughters, the disappearance of a father, and the long-hidden history of a declining New England mill town. It’s the summer of 1987 in Swift River, and Diamond Newberry is learning how to drive. Ever since her Pop disappeared seven years ago, she and her mother hitchhike

Deesha Dyer had no credentials or connections, and yet she negotiated her way to become a senior official to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. With this unlikely journey comes a candid, incredible, and inspiring story. Moved by the election of the country’s first Black president, Deesha applied for a White House internship in 2009 as a thirty-one-year-old part-time community college student, taking a leap that carried her into a permanent full-time position, followed by three promotions landing her at

Antonia Hylton is a Peabody and two-time Emmy award-winning Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, and the New York Times bestselling author of MADNESS: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum. In Madness, Antonia tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth

Gabriel Tuggle is a Georgia native who was so skilled athletically as a teenager that he appeared destined for a life playing professional sports. But in high school he was shot in the head, somehow surviving. But his dreams died. In his moving book, Stronger Than A Speeding Bullet, Gabe expresses in great detail the heartbreaking dynamics that led to him almost losing his life, how he lost his memory and his dreams after training for years to become a professional

Gregory S. Works is a sales executive who has recounted his inspiring battle of having two kidney transplants in an uplifting book that is part memoir and part instructional. Gregory wrote Triumph: Life On The Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation, a persoanl account that will inspire, inform, and encourage anyone facing an insurmountable situation. A two-time kidney transplant recipient, he helps readers face challenges in their lives head-on by telling his story in a powerful way. He uses statistics,