Poetry. Allusive, oracular, heretical, brash, learned, apocalyptic, astronomical, funny, lustful, and deceptively wise, Anthony Madrid's long-awaited first collection, I AM YOUR SLAVE NOW DO WHAT I SAY, is a book of ghazals that assault conventions while often reading like deranged love letters.

I am Not Your Slave is the shocking true story of a young African girl, Tupa, who was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent. As she is transported from the point of her abduction on a remote farm near the Namibian-Angolan border and channeled to her ultimate destination in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, her three-year odyssey exposes the brutal horrors of a modern day middle passage. During her ordeal, Tupa encounters members of Africa's notorious gangs, terrifying witchdoctors, mysterious middlemen from China, corrupt police and border officials, Arab smugglers and high-ranking United Nations officials. And of course, Tupa meets her fellow trafficking victims, young women and girls from around the world. Tupa's harrowing experience, including her daring escape and eventual return home, sheds light on the most shocking aspects of modern day slavery, as well as the essential determination to be free.

Poetry. Written under the spell of a medieval Welsh poetic form, the poems in Anthony Madrid's incantatory second book, TRY NEVER, each offer up their own strange world. They're full of erudition, humor, and rare magnificence. A single poem can contain "bottles and cans," Mount Everest, an upset stomach, Texas rain, a hawk, the evil queen, a "twice- mended lid," and Ralph; as if to say, anything's possible.

Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende. Mende was sold to a wealthy Arab family who lived in Sudan's capital city, Khartoum. So began her dark years of enslavement. Her Arab owners called her "Yebit," or "black slave." She called them "master." She was subjected to appalling physical, sexual, and mental abuse. She slept in a shed and ate the family leftovers like a dog. She had no rights, no freedom, and no life of her own. Normally, Mende's story never would have come to light. But seven years after she was seized and sold into slavery, she was sent to work for another master-a diplomat working in the United Kingdom. In London, she managed to make contact with other Sudanese, who took pity on her. In September 2000, she made a dramatic break for freedom. Slave is a story almost beyond belief. It depicts the strength and dignity of the Nuba tribe. It recounts the savage way in which the Nuba and their ancient culture are being destroyed by a secret modern-day trade in slaves. Most of all, it is a remarkable testimony to one young woman's unbreakable spirit and tremendous courage.

A book of aphorisms, poems, and parables by the author of "The Prophet" - a philosopher at his window commenting on the scene passing below.

Octavia E. Butler said, “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the strange, the unexpected, the shocking—breakthrough stories, stories shining with emerging truths, stories that pierce stale preconceptions with their beauty and bravery. Like the first New Suns anthology (winner of the World Fantasy, Locus, IGNYTE, and British Fantasy awards), this book liberates writers of many races to tell us tales no one has ever told. Many things come in twos: dualities, binaries, halves, and alternates. Twos are found throughout New Suns 2, in eighteen science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories revealing daring futures, hidden pasts, and present-day worlds filled with unmapped wonders. Including stories by Daniel H. Wilson, K. Tempest Bradford, Darcie Little Badger, Geetanjali Vandemark, John Chu, Nghi Vo, Tananarive Due, Alex Jennings, Karin Lowachee, Saad Hossain, Hiromi Goto, Minsoo Kang, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Malka Older, Kathleen Alcalá, Christopher Caldwell and Jaymee Goh with a foreword by Walter Mosley and an afterword by Dr. Grace Dillon.

THE FIRST PSY/CHANGELING NOVEL from the New York Times bestselling author of Shards of Hope, Shield of Winter, and Heart of Obsidian... The book that Christine Feehan called "a must-read for all of my fans." In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of “rehabilitation”—the complete psychic erasure of everything she ever was…Both human and animal, Lucas Hunter is a Changeling hungry for the very sensations the Psy disdain. After centuries of uneasy coexistence, these two races are now on the verge of war over the brutal murders of several Changeling women. Lucas is determined to find the Psy killer who butchered his packmate, and Sascha is his ticket into their closely guarded society. But he soon discovers that this ice-cold Psy is very capable of passion—and that the animal in him is fascinated by her. Caught between their conflicting worlds, Lucas and Sascha must remain bound to their identities—or sacrifice everything for a taste of darkest temptation…

YOUR CLIENTS CAN LEGALLY KILL YOU... Human beings spend a vast majority of their life doing two things: sleeping and working. These two areas, if messed up in some way, won't allow you to live a good life. This book addresses the latter (and most likely, eventually, covers the first one as well). Bad clients or customers at your business can destroy not just your work life but also your personal life. That horrific client causes you massive stress and you come home and, without you even totally knowing it, you take it out on your family, friends, pets, etc. You can even develop sickness and your health can start to slip. The people around you need to be aggressively filtered and watched because the closer they are, the more they affect you (for better or worse). You have worked very hard to learn your trade or your skill-set. Why do you need to beg for clients? Why do you need to be treated poorly? Do you need them more or do they need you more? Here are the main points I want you to realize about your job or business: 1. All the "marketing" sharks floating around you and your business are looking to get paid, sneak under the radar long enough, and get out. Chances are they have no idea how to market or sell what you do. You've probably been burned before and you will get burned again. This book will prevent that. 2. Marketing and sales are considered two different subjects. THEY ARE NOT. These two subjects are married and there is actually a step that goes in-between them that has to be in. If you don't do all 3 steps, you will continue to beg for your client's money and you will be a slave. You learn about all 3 aspects in this book. 3. All the garbage you have been told about "closing techniques," sales drills, etc have always seemed wrong or strange. THEY ARE. When you are honest and create an attraction system to actually bring in the kind of people you want to work with, there are no head-games, no emotional wrestling, no painful headaches and no looking at your bank account balance in terror. This book will show you exactly how to do this and how to set it up so that your clients respect you and your time and are excited to pay you and get started. 4. Price resistance can only exist in a situation where the prospect is not enlightened. People that have doubts or insecurities complain about price. This book will help you to create trust and stability for your prospects and clients so that you do not need to handle price resistance ever again. You are a skilled technician. There are a million books out there on sales and marketing. It seems like a lot of work and you just "don't have the time" to do it. I will show you how you can actually make more money, dramatically reduce your stress and work LESS after this is all said-and-done. What is in this book applies also to staff and personnel: how to attract them and how to hire the right people. Marketing and sales, boiled down into one word, is simply ATTRACTION. If you attract the right people who are looking for what you have, there should not be much arguing or difficulty in having them around. So quit being a slave to your clients. Break your chains and regain your sanity. Regain your love for your work and allow that love to spread through your family, friends, etc. Make your work into a stronghold of your life where, no matter what else is going on, your work can be your anchor when times are tough. Work can be so wonderful that you actually feel good and refreshed after a 10-hour day. THIS IS THE WAY WORK SHOULD BE. I dumped every ounce of knowledge I have on this subject into this book. I wrote it with the purpose of delivering to you, the reader, the maximum amount of value in the minimum amount of time with the minimum amount of big words or difficult concepts. I really want you to be able to gain this information easily so that you can use it right away. I care about you. Do well.

Personal essays exploring identity, work, family, and community through the prism of race and black culture.

Invites readers to revisit the past and see what it was like to grow up as a slave in America.