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At nineteen, Aya is a promising Black college student from Brooklyn who is struggling through a difficult relationship with her emotional...

Bakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among t...

The stunning national bestseller now features an illuminating discussion with Sister Souljah -- her secret thoughts on creating the story...

Patrice Williams was happy living in Georgia with her grandmother, who called her “cocoa grandbaby.” Then her mother lured her to Chicago...

Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her...

What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black w...

Miss Saunders, whose skin is blotched with a rare skin condition, serves as a mirror to Maleeka Madison's struggle against the burden of ...

Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black America

Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. ...

Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of t...

Growing up isn't easy. Many young people endure bullying that makes them feel they have nowhere to turn--especially LGBT kids and teens w...

Speaking Out features stories for and about LGBT and Q teens by fresh voices and noted authors in the field of young adult literature. Th...

Working women today are better educated and more well qualified than ever before. Yet men still predominate in the corporate world. In Th...

Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful b...

Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest...

New York Times bestselling author Kate White is the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the #1 young women's magazine in the world, and a hu...

In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman of color while also taking read...

Sylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity. Esther Greenwood is br...

In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLe...