Grandpa Was a Preacher is a series of humorous religious anecodotes centering around a turn-of-the-century preacher. It proves that religion has its funny side, too.

Kosi A. Bennett has used his intelligence, suave ways, and gift of gab to attain it all: money, cars, clothes, women, respect, and fame, on and off the streets. He is the up and coming don of his time with only one weakness, Indea Simone Taylor, Kosi’s picture of innocence, his childhood sweetheart, Chocolate. Dressed in white, she is his light at the end of every hustled tunnel. After a shocking turn of events, Chocolate’s own secretive hustles are revealed. Her hidden insanity creeps to the surface reeking havoc on Kosi’s entire way of life. Out of seemingly nowhere, Jamise, a top-notch real estate agent, steps up to take Chocolate’s place. As a rebound, she is the answer to Kosi’s prayers and match made in heaven. With a few tricks up her own sleeve, Jamise turns out to be more of a challenge than he expected. Will Chocolate handle Jamise? Will Kosi B. walk away from them both? Will he maintain under the pressure of womens’ mischief, or is he even in the driver’s seat of his own life at all? This deceptive and seductive story weaves into an intricate bombshell that shakes and rattles everyone, including you onto the straight and narrow answering the question of: Can you really hustle a hustler?

Entitled-felt Panther makes his home on Grandpa’s farm and intrude in the lives of Grandpa and his grandson, Monty. After committing a series of wicked acts against Monty, Panther finds himself in a life-threating situation until he is rescued by Grandpa and Monty. No longer feeling entitled, Panther is grateful to have them in his life. The Preacher’s Tales describes the storytelling experience through the eyes of eight-year-old Monty. A touching story, the book will keep young readers and adults alike entertained to the end. The generosity of a grandfather and grandson transforms crafty Panther into a caring friend.

This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics, and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s, Max Krochmal tells the story of the decades-long struggle for democracy in Texas, when African American, Mexican American, and white labor and community activists gradually came together to empower the state's marginalized minorities. At the ballot box and in the streets, these diverse activists demanded not only integration but economic justice, labor rights, and real political power for all. Their efforts gave rise to the Democratic Coalition of the 1960s, a militant, multiracial alliance that would take on and eventually overthrow both Jim Crow and Juan Crow. Using rare archival sources and original oral history interviews, Krochmal reveals the often-overlooked democratic foundations and liberal tradition of one of our nation's most conservative states. Blue Texas remembers the many forgotten activists who, by crossing racial lines and building coalitions, democratized their cities and state to a degree that would have been unimaginable just a decade earlier--and it shows why their story still matters today.

It is the summer of 1949 when nine-year-old Lilly Browns teenage cousin, Rosalie, romps into her life from the big city of Chicago and crowds her way into the little sharecropper shack Lilly shares with her younger sister, mother, and elderly grandparents in the backwoods of Georgia. Lilly is dismayed that Rosalie has disrupted her household, and Rosalie is less than thrilled with the new home she must share with her sharecropper relatives. Rosalie, who is all sass and bold as a lion, brings attitude to the familys small corner of the world. While she tells tales of her antics in the big city, Lilly hangs on to Rosalies every word and soon begins to dream of a better life that does not include picking cotton in the hot sun or sporadically attending school. But as Lillys coming-of-age journey eventually leads her to migrate north to Buffalo with her family, she quickly discovers that with every dream comes a struggle to make it come true. In this historical novel, a young African American woman migrates from Georgia to Buffalo, where she must battle seemingly insurmountable odds to make a better life for herself and her family.