Tananarive Due (pronounced tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is the American
Book Award-winning author of nine books, ranging from supernatural thrillers to
a mystery to a civil rights memoir.
Due has a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University and
an M.A. in English literature from the University of Leeds, England,
where she specialized in Nigerian literature as a Rotary Foundation
Scholar. Due currently teaches creative writing in the MFA program at
Antioch University Los Angeles. Due has also taught at the
Hurston-Wright Foundation's Writers' Week, the Clarion Science Fiction
and Fantasy Writers' Workshop, and the summer Imagination conference at
Cleveland State University. She is a former feature writer and columnist
for The Miami Herald.
Due lives in Southern California with her husband, novelist and
screenwriter
Steven Barnes;
their son, Jason; and her stepdaughter, Nicki.
"...I'd had it drummed into my head in creative writing workshop courses
that one could not expect to be a respected writer when writing commercial or
genre books. Legitimacy has always been very important to me...Finally, though,
I said the heck with all of it. I wasn't going to try to be
Toni Morrison or Joyce Carol Oates, I was just going to be me, and I was going to write about the people I know..."
--Tananarive Due
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Washington Square Press; Original edition
(September 6, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1439176140
ISBN-13: 978-1439176146
The
4th Book in Tananarive's
African Immortal Series
Essence bestselling and award-winning author Tananarive Due
delivers a heart-stopping new novel continuing the story of
descendants of an immortal line of people who are the only
ones capable of saving the world.
Fana, an immortal with tremendous telepathic abilities, is
locked in a battle of wills. Her fianc' is Michel. But
Johnny Wright, a mortal who is in love with her, believes
that if she doesn't stay away from Michel, they will become
the Witnesses to the Apocalypse described in the Book of
Revelation.
Fana and the Life Brothers are rushing to distribute their
healing 'Living Blood' throughout the world, hoping to
eliminate most diseases before Fana is bound to marry
Michel. Still, they cannot heal people faster than Michel
can kill them. Due weaves a tangled web in this novel,
including beloved characters from her bestselling Joplin's
Ghost, in a war of good against evil, making My Soul to Take
a chilling and thrilling experience.
Hardcover: 365 pages
Publisher: Atria; 1 edition (May 18, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1439159122
ISBN-13: 978-1439159125
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
The award-winning authors of Casanegra and In the Heat of
the Night team up for a third time to present From Cape Town
with Love, A Tennyson Hardwick novel.
Actor-turned-detective Tennyson Hardwick has solved two
high-profile deaths in Hollywood, but nothing has prepared
him for a race to save a child' life. Tennyson' past in
the sex game cost him his new girlfriend, and he brings her
to Cape Town, South Africa a scenic film destination and
playground for the rich to try to win her back. There
Tennyson is hired as a bodyguard by superstar Sofia Maitlin
when she visits an orphanage to adopt an African
child.Months later, Maitlin offers Tennyson one of
Hollywood' hottest tickets a job as a bodyguard at adopted
daughter Nandi' A-list celebrity birthday party. But the
party is over before it begins. When Nandi' birthday goes
dreadfully wrong, it' up to a guilt-ridden Tennyson to save
a child' life and reunite a Hollywood family.But how? He
can't go to the police, the FBI has threatened to arrest
him, and Big Brother is monitoring his telephone calls. To
find Nandi, Tennyson will have to rely on tips from his
father a retired LAPD captain and a mysterious woman from
his past, Marsha, who has already proven she can't be
trusted. His strongest lead is a deadly knife fighter known
only as Spider.
When his search for the missing child crosses Marsha's
covert investigation into a criminal gang with ties to South
Africa, Tennyson knows that finding Nandi might cost him his
freedom'or his life.
DEAD...
Some evils are so great that they transcend death. In
Brandon Massey's "The Patriarch," a young writer travels to
the hushed backwoods of Mississippi, where dangerous secrets
surface as a generations-old feud comes to bone-chilling new
life...
BURIED...
The souls of the mistreated always find a way to be heard.
In L.A. Banks's "Ev'ry Shut Eye Ain't Sleep," violent
visions haunt a man--until he's handed an opportunity to
right the wrongs of the past and prevent unspeakable acts
from occurring once again...
FORGOTTEN...
When horrors are covered up and lost, our ancestors must
find a way--even in death--to tell their tales. In
Tananarive Due's "Ghost Summer," ancestors haunt the nights
of two children. And when a grisly discovery is made, these
ancestors will make their mark on both the dead and the
living...
"All three contributors successfully combine scary themes
with rich historical detail."
--Publishers Weekly
Threatened with death after acquittal for murder,
football superstar T. D. Jackson asks struggling actor and
former gigolo Tennyson Hardwick for protection. Tennyson has
a reputation in Hollywood after solving the murder of rapper
Afrodite, but politely turns Jackson down: His acting career
is taking off with a new series, and he's trying to work out
his personal life after a series of wrong turns.
But Tennyson's life is upturned when his seedy past catches
up to him on the set of his TV series. Then T. D. Jackson is
found dead in his home, the victim of an apparent suicide.
T.D.'s gorgeous cousin, Melanie, is sure the superstar was
murdered, and Jackson's family offers Tennyson an
irresistible fee to discover the truth. But prying into T.
D. Jackson's death means answering the question that divided
a nation and destroyed a film star and a football icon's
life and career: Did T. D. Jackson kill his wife?
When the investigation takes an unexpected turn toward the
governor's mansion and a long-forgotten football game in the
segregated South of the 1960s, Tennyson uncovers secrets
tearing at the heart of two dynasties and must rely on all
of his assets -- his actor's heart, deadly hands, profiler's
mind, and every other part of his body -- to keep from dying
next.
The Third Book
in Tananarive's African Immortal Series
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Atria; 1st Atria Books Hardcover Ed edition (June 3,
2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0743287355
Acclaimed for seven novels, ranging from supernatural thrillers
to historical fiction, which have garnered her a multitude of fans
and awards, Tananarive Due now imagines the story of an ancient
group of immortals -- a hidden African clan that has survived for
more than a thousand years -- facing one of the most challenging
issues of our time: the AIDS/HIV pandemic.
There's a new drug on the street: Glow. Said to heal almost any
illness, it is distributed by an Underground Railroad of drug
peddlers. But what gives Glow its power? Its main ingredient is
blood -- the blood of immortals. A small but powerful colony of
immortals is distributing the blood, slowly wiping out the AIDS
epidemic and other diseases around the world.
Meet Fana Wolde, seventeen years old, the only immortal born with
the Living Blood. She can read minds, and her injuries heal
immediately. When her best friend, a mortal, is imprisoned by Fana's
family, Fana helps her escape -- and together they run away from
Fana's protected home in Washington State to join the Underground
Railroad.
But Fana has more than her parents to worry about: Glow peddlers are
being murdered by a violent, hundred-year-old sect with ties to the
Vatican. Now, when Fana is most vulnerable, she is being hunted to
fulfill an ancient blood prophecy that could lead to countless
deaths.
While her people search for Fana and race to unravel the unknown
sect's mysterious origins, Fana must learn to confront the deadly
forces -- or she and everyone she loves will die.
Casanegra follows the adventures of Tennyson Hardwick, a
gorgeous, sexy actor and former gigolo, living on the fringes of the
good life in Hollywood. This story, which chronicles the redemption
of a prodigal son, combines the glamour of Hollywood with the seedy
hopelessness of the inner city.
In this hot and steamy mystery, Tennyson struggles to hang on to his
acting career and redeem his sex-for-pay history, which estranged
him from his family -- especially his father, a decorated LAPD
captain who raised Tennyson to call him "sir." Now, in the wake of
his father's sudden stroke, Tennyson has to save himself from taking
the fall for the first murder of a female rapper. In the process he
discovers his hidden talents -- the hard way.
The Second Book in Tananarive's
African Immortal Series
Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Washington Square Press (January 1, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0671040847
2002 American Book Award Winner
The pantheon of modern horror gods is a small and
frighteningly talented group: Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Clive
Barker, Dean Koontz--and Tananarive Due. If there is any justice, Due's
exciting, powerful, ambitious, scary, and beautifully written supernatural
thriller, The Living Blood, will be the first of a decades-long string of
hits that will sell millions.
Jessica Jacobs-Wolde's life was destroyed when her husband,
David Wolde, disappeared after killing both their daughter Kira and Jessica
herself--and reviving Jessica to immortality with his healing blood. David
was a Life Brother, member of an ancient, secret, and immortal African clan.
Now Jessica, hiding with her surviving daughter in rural Botswana, attempts
to make sense of her new existence as she uses her altered blood to save the
incurably ill. But her daughter Fana was born with the living blood in her
veins, and at the age of 3 can raise a storm, kill with a thought, and
possess her mother's mind. The true extent of her abilities is unknown.
Jessica's only hope of teaching Fana to control her dangerous talents is to
travel to Ethiopia and find the Life Brothers' hidden colony. But the Life
Brothers despise the new immortals and may possess the knowledge to end even
immortal lives. And others, unknown to Jessica, are searching for her and
Fana: Lucas Shepard, a Florida doctor driven to desperation by his young
son's untreatable leukemia; ruthless mercenaries in the pay of an aging
medical-company executive, who will stop at nothing to gain immortality and
the billion-dollar profits that a drug based on the living blood would
bring; and a supernatural being or force called the Bee Lady, who stalks
Fana in the world of dreams, seeking to possess Fana's mind and powers for
her own evil purposes.
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Dafina (July 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0758217412
ISBN-13: 978-0758217417
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches
Beyond Your Darkest Dreams...
From the deceptive safety of your very own bed to the seeming stillness
of country roads and the bustle of urban streets, your darkest realities
reveal themselves as you enter hidden realms, crossing the threshold
into one man's tortured mind--a mind haunted by the mocking, derisive
voices of his youth... Quench your insatiable thirst for terror at a bar
where the drinks are abominable and the patrons never leave. Relive the
infamous, harrowing Middle Passage that brought millions of African
slaves to America, but this time with a spellbinding twist...
Lie Your Deepest Fears...
From scenes of pulsating ecstasy to unspeakable tragedy, surrender
yourself to a world inhabited by bizarre sex cults and violent gangs.
Meet the malevolent entities that feed on human misery in the midst of a
hurricane's wrath. Endure a sweltering summer on a swamp inhabited by
mischievous spirits intent on possessing the most innocent within their
slimy grasp. Submit to the tantalizing temptation and the irresistible
pull of the unknown in nineteen stories that will illuminate the horrors
within--and without. And whatever you do, don't turn off the lights...
Book Description
BEYOND THE SHADOWS...they linger, showing themselves only to those brave enough
to perceive them...willing to see beyond human existence and into the heart of
darkness. Feel the racing pulse in the primal desire of werewolves. Embrace the
aura of two gifted women as they unleash power beyond imagining. Savor the aroma
of otherworldly flora planted in a unique patch of earth.
THEY WALK THE NIGHT...prepared to face terrors humans were never
meant to confront. Chant with an African mystic as he protects his people from
an entity of unbridled malice. Ride the dusty trails of the Old West in pursuit
of monstrous legends. Sail on a ship of damned souls as it languishes in the
depths of forbidden waters. From the untamed wilderness of ancient times to the
concrete jungles of today, these seventeen excursions into nightmares will keep
you awake long past the midnight hour--and praying for daylight...
ISBN: 0743449037
Format: Hardcover, 496pp
Pub. Date: September 2005
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
From the award-winning writer of The Good House, The Living Blood,
and more, Joplin's Ghost is a chilling tale of a star-in-the-making whose
life goes haywire as she is haunted by the ghost of a long-dead music legend.
When Phoenix Smalls was ten, she nearly died at her parents' jazz club when
she was crushed by a turn-of-the-century piano. Now twenty-four, Phoenix is
launching a career as an R & B singer. She's living the life young artists envy
and seems destined for fame and fortune. But a chance visit to a historical site
in St. Louis ignites a series of bizarre, erotic encounters with a spirit who
may be the King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin.
The music of Scott Joplin is strange enough to the ears of the hip-hop
generation, but the idea that these antique sounds are being channeled by the
protegee of rap superstar G-Ronn is nothing short of ludicrous.
With growing violence in G-Ronn's inner circle and a ghost bent on living
forever through her, Phoenix's life suddenly hangs in the balance," writes
Tananarive Due. Can the power of her own inner song and the love of a music
writer who believes in her give Phoenix the strength to fight to live out her
own future? Or will she be trapped forever in Scott Joplin's doomed, tragic
past?
From the American Book Award winner and author of "one of the most talked
about debuts in the horror field since the advent of Stephen King" (Publishers
Weekly) comes a terrifying story of supernatural suspense, as a woman searches
for the inherited power that can save her hometown from evil forces.
Tananarive Due's first three novels gained her legions of dedicated fans who
recognize a true master of the genre. Now she returns with her best yet -- a
chilling story set in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. The house Angela
Toussaint's late grandmother owned is so beloved that townspeople in Sacajawea,
Washington, call it the Good House. But is it?
Angela hoped her grandmother's famous "healing magic" could save her failing
marriage while she and her family lived in the old house the summer of 2001.
Instead, an unexpected tragedy ripped Angela's family apart.
Now, two years later, Angela is moving past her grief and taking control of
her life as a talent agent in Los Angeles, and she is finally ready to revisit
the rural house she loved so much as a child. Back in Sacajawea, Angela realizes
she hasn't been the only one to suffer a shocking loss. Since she left, there
have been more senseless tragedies, and Angela wonders if they are related
somehow. Could the events be linked to a terrifying entity Angela's grandmother
battled in 1929? Did her teenage son, Corey, reawaken something that should have
been left sleeping?
With the help of Myles Fisher, her high school boyfriend, and clues from
beyond the grave, Angela races to solve a deadly puzzle that has followed her
family for generations. She must summon her own hidden gifts to face the
timeless adversary stalking her in her grandmother's house -- and in the
Washington woods.
Freedom
in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights Click
to order via
Amazon
Tananarive Due, Patricia A. Duester, Patricia Stephens Due
Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil
Rights era, surrendering her very freedom to ensure that the rights of
others might someday be protected. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply
enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they
saw as wrong. Together, they have written a paean to the movement'its
struggles, its nameless foot-soldiers, and its achievements'and an incisive
examination of the future of justice in this country. Their mother-daughter
journey spanning the struggles of two generations is an unforgettable story.
Patricia Stephens Duewas a civil rights activist with CORE while
attending Florida A&M University. In 1960, based on her nonviolent stand
during a landmark jail-in, she received the prestigious Gandhi Award.
She is married to a civil rights lawyer, has three daughters, and
continues to work for change in America. Over the years, she has
conducted civil rights workshops and re-enactments for colleges, public
schools, civic groups, and churches. She lives in Miami, Florida, with
her husband, John Due.
In 1960, when she was a student at Florida A&M University, Patricia and
her sister Priscilla were part of the movement's landmark 'jail-in,' the
first time during the student sit-in movement when protestors served their
time rather than paying a fine. She and her sister, and three FAMU students,
spent forty-nine days behind bars rather than pay for the 'crime' of sitting
at a Woolworth lunch counter. Thus began a lifelong commitment to human
rights. Patricia and her husband, civil rights lawyer John Due, worked
tirelessly with many of the movement's greatest figures throughout the
sixties to bring about change, particularly in the Deep Southern state of
Florida.
Freedom in the Family chronicles these years with fascinating, raw
power. Featuring interviews with civil rights leaders like Black Panther
Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture) and ordinary citizens whose
heroism has been largely unknown, this is a sweeping, multivoicedaccount of
the battle for civil rights in America. It also reveals those leaders'
potentially controversial feelings about the current state of our nation, a
country where police brutality and crippling disparities for blacks and
whites in health care, education, employment, and criminal justice still
exist today.
A mother writes so that the civil liberties she struggled for are not
eroded, so that others will take up the mantle and continue to fight against
injustice and discrimination. Her daughter, as part of the integration
generation, writes to say thank you, to show the previous generation how
very much they've done and how much better off she is for their
effort'despite all the work that remains. Their combined message is
remarkable, moving, and important. It makes for riveting reading.
Format:
Paperback, 384pp.
ISBN: 0345441567
Publisher: One World
Pub. Date: January 2001
Edition Desc: 1ST TRADE
Born to former slaves on a
Louisiana plantation in 1867, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty and
indignity to become America's first black female millionaire, the head
of a hugely successful beauty company, and a leading philanthropist in
African American causes. Renowned author
Alex Haley became fascinated by the story of this extraordinary
heroine, and before his death in 1992, he embarked on the research and
outline of a major novel based on her life. Now with The Black Rose,
critically acclaimed writer Tananarive Due brings Haley's work to an
inspiring completion.
Blending documented history, vivid dialogue, and a sweeping fictionalized
narrative, Tananarive Due paints a vivid portrait of this passionate and
tenacious pioneer and the unforgettable era in which she lived.
One of the Publishers Weekly Best Novels of the Year in 1997.
Tananarive Due mixes nearly unbearable suspense with
fantasy and horror in this tightly woven tale. When people close to her
begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, Jessica's husband makes an
unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago he and other members of an
Ethiopian sect gave up their humanity for immortality--a secret that he must
now protect at any cost. 352 pp. 15,000 print.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, Incorporated
Date Published: March 1996
Format: Trade Paper, 346 pages
Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award
A
features writer and columnist for the Miami Herald electrifies the literary
world with her brilliant first novel. Hilton's grandmother drowned trying to
save his life. Thirty years later, he's beginning to suspect that he was
never meant to survive the accident--and that dark forces are working to
rectify that mistake.
My Soul to Take: A Novel
From
Cape Town with Love: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel
In
the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Story 
Blood
Colony
Casanegra:
A Tennyson Hardwick Novel
The Living
Blood
Whispers
in the Night: Dark Dreams III
Voices
from the Other Side: Dark Dreams II 
Joplin's
Ghost
The
Good House
Freedom
in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
The
Black Rose
My
Soul to 
The
Between