Kirjahaku

Justin Kena never knew his own strength. He was an average guy stuck working at a mediocre nonprofit in Washington, DC, unsure exactly where his next professional steps would take him. He was awkward, bored, lonely, and bordering on depression. With nothing to lose, he accepts a proposition from his friendly neighborhood corner boy that forever transforms his life. A guru and a hustler all at once, Dante earns Justin's trust and ushers him into a new and terrifying world just under the surface of the one he's always known. In this world, men and women are nothing more than food for daywalking vampires and housing for sinister demons. This lifestyle consumes Justin until he's not even sure he could turn back-or if he even wants to. Over the span of centuries and thousands of miles, from slave coffles in West Africa to the antebellum South; from the black sand beaches of Dominica to the back alleys of the nation's capital, Justin and Dante will live by the precepts of justice and redemption while satisfying their most carnal urges: A lust for blood...and a thirst for life.This is the Birth of a Dark Nation.

Eustace Dailey has a Harvard degree, an artist's eye, an active social life, and more money than he knows what to do with at his age. He should feel on top of the world. Instead, he constantly second-guesses his choices-especially when it comes to Jeremy.Jeremy Jacob Carter has confidence, charisma, the perfect girlfriend, and only a year left in law school. He is supposed to have it all, but a chance connection with Eustace threatens to undermine everything he worked so hard for.Along with their fraternity brothers Miles Johnson, Ian Kenney, and Adrian Collins (from the Potomac University Series), the men stumble through their adult years in search of brotherhood, friendship, love, and purpose.

TIME: Essays, Poems, Short Fiction, & More collects twenty years of some of the best writing from Rashid Darden, including never-before published poems, favorite blog entries, the award-winning play Message from 'The Legba' and the short story "Smith & Jones: Young Americans." Time also includes "Negotiations: A Dark Nation Story."

The silence of a spiritual community is shattered by the murder of one of their own.Jordan and Rahman Gaffney-Bruce, newly married men, move into the eccentric Washington neighborhood known as Slope to start building a life together. Built precariously on a hill, Slope is home to descendants of the Great Migration and is now a lower middle class Black community trapped in a cycle of spiritual depression.In the midst of this community, the Gaffney Bruces gather with the other residents every Sunday in quiet prayer and contemplation, in hopes that their collective dreams will be realized: To be seen. To be known. To thrive-on their own terms.Alongside them is Pops, the quiet old man who has seen it all; Miss Sandra, the matriarch and maven of Sunday dinners; Royce, one of the few good cops left; and the Gang of Four-soft-spoken Peek, angry Korey, flamboyant Ziggy, and Gino, the natural leader.When one of the youths is felled by gun violence, generations-old secrets threaten to unravel the serenity of this peculiar community.A Peculiar Legacy: A Novel by Rashid Darden