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Beyond Bethany

Other books by
Will Jones

Four more titles on the shelf. Two he wrote. Two he brought back into print after a century out of it.

The End Hurts: Moving Forward — A Guide for Men, by Will Jones. Cover showing a heavy gold chain broken apart at its center link. Hotep: The Gap, by Will Jones. Cover showing a black-and-white portrait of a young man, half his face in shadow. Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self by Pauline E. Hopkins. Cover showing a woman in gold jewelry above a lamplit ancient city. The Conjure Woman by Charles W. Chesnutt. Cover showing a black-and-white portrait of an older woman in a headwrap outside a cabin.
Written by Will Jones

Two books that stop
and talk to you directly.

The novels tell you a story. These two don’t. They are written to be argued with, marked up, and put down halfway through so you can think about the thing you just read.

The End Hurts: Moving Forward — A Guide for Men, by Will Jones.
Nonfiction · Guide

The End Hurts

Moving Forward — A Guide for Men

By Will Jones

An honest guide for men trying to find their footing after heartbreak. Will Jones combines real-life experience, practical exercises and the science behind emotional pain to help readers understand what they are actually feeling. From setting boundaries and breaking unhealthy attachments to rebuilding confidence and purpose, each chapter offers a clear path forward.

The relationship may be over, but your life is not.

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Hotep: The Gap, by Will Jones.
Nonfiction · Cultural criticism

Hotep

The Gap

By Will Jones

Hotep: The Gap strips away the jokes, the stereotypes and the performance surrounding a word that originally meant peace. Will Jones examines the difference between men who sound conscious and men whose actions truly reflect what they claim to believe. Through sharp cultural observation, the book exposes how knowledge can become an identity without ever producing growth.

This is not an attack on Black consciousness. It is a call to reclaim its meaning through discipline, substance and real work.

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A weathered wooden cabin with a covered porch standing alone in a field between two trees, photographed in sepia.
Reclaimed

Books that were never
supposed to go out of print.

Lost Classics of Black Literature

Reclaimed.

About the series

Somebody else’s book, put back on the shelf.

Reclaimed is a series bringing powerful, out-of-print Black literature back into the hands of today’s readers. The two books below were written more than a hundred years ago by their own authors, and their names stay on the cover where they belong.

Will’s part is the edition — the introduction, the illustrations, and the work of making a book findable again after a century of being hard to get hold of.

Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self by Pauline E. Hopkins, illustrated edition.
Novel · First published 1902–1903

Of One Blood

or, The Hidden Self

By Pauline E. Hopkins

Reuel Briggs is a brilliant medical student hiding his Black ancestry. What starts as a study of the mind carries him toward forbidden love, betrayal, supernatural discovery and a hidden African civilization. Serialized between 1902 and 1903, this groundbreaking novel blends mystery, romance, science and Black history into a story far ahead of its time.

This edition: illustrated, reprinted and introduced by Will Jones. Part of Reclaimed: Lost Classics of Black Literature.

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The Conjure Woman by Charles W. Chesnutt, expanded illustrated edition.
An older woman in a long patterned dress and headwrap standing outside a cabin, holding a bundle of roots, a full basket at her feet.
From the new illustrations
Stories · First published 1899

The Conjure Woman

By Charles W. Chesnutt

A collection of stories in which Uncle Julius, a formerly enslaved man, uses folklore, humor and supernatural tales to reveal the cruelty and the lasting wounds of slavery. Filled with hoodoo, transformation, ghostly encounters and sharp social commentary, these stories preserve an important Black storytelling tradition while exposing truths often hidden beneath romanticized accounts of the Old South.

This edition: expanded, with fresh new illustrations and an introduction by Will Jones. Part of Reclaimed: Lost Classics of Black Literature.

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