Nearly three decades offer its first publication, A Different Drummer remains one of the most trenchant, imaginative, and hard-hitting works of fiction to come out of the bitter struggle for African-American civil rights....
On Labor Day, 1938, close to Breesvort Castle, the huge and legendary home of the spawling, tumultuous, and quarrelsome Breesvort family, whose forebears tore thousands of acres of the Hudson River Valley away from the Indians in the seventeenth cent...
In The God Hunters William Kelley brings to full power the extraordinary complex of literary gifts that commanded, for his first novel, Gemini, immediate critical acclaim.The central matter of The God Hunters is spiritual struggle. His mode is an exu...
Oscar-winning writer William Kelley offers the story of a woman who overcame racial prejudice to start a religious ministry that continues today. An inspirational story of the power of one individual of faith to transform the world....
The Sweet Summer is a moving novel of deep friendship and commitment between a white man and his black peers in a time and a place where such relationships were rare and considered with contempt. It portrays with brutal honesty the humiliations suffe...
Based on the life of Henriette Delille, a 19th-century free woman of color who co-founded a New Orleans-based order of African American nuns, this historic novel is a testimony to how each of us has the power to transform the world....