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Timothy B. Tyson, author of The Blood of Emmett Till

In 1955, a 14-year-old black boy named Emmett Till was murdered by a group of white men. He had gone into a small country store a few days earlier and made flirtatious remarks to a white woman, 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant; Bryant’s husband and brother-in-law were two of Till’s attackers. THE BLOOD OF EMMETT TILL revises the history of the Till case, not only changing the specifics that we thought we knew, but showing how the murder ignited the modern civil rights movement.

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The National Book Awards 2017

Winners of the 2017 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature were announced at the 68th National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on November 15, 2017.

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Week of December 4, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of December 4th include THE BLOOD OF EMMETT TILL, Timothy B. Tyson's reexamination of a pivotal event of the civil rights movement --- the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till; DUST BOWL GIRLS by Lydia Reeder, the true story of a Depression-era championship women’s team that the publisher describes as "THE BOYS IN THE BOAT meets A League of Their Own"; DEATH'S MISTRESS, which launches Terry Goodkind's entirely new series, The Nicci Chronicles, featuring a cast of characters centered on one of his best-loved characters in the now-concluded Sword of Truth; and CURTAIN OF DEATH, book three in W.E.B. Griffin's Clandestine Operations series about the Cold War, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency --- and a new breed of warrior.

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