Relationships · Fatherhood · Accountability
Why I Left Your Mother
Now AvailableAn emotionally honest reckoning with love, accountability, and what fathers owe their children in truth.
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Stories about love, fracture, culture, memory, identity, and becoming.
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His & Her Bottle
Kindle + Paperback · AvailableWhat happens when two people try to love each other and the world keeps teaching them not to? His & Her Bottle examines the modern relationship at its pressure points — power, vulnerability, expectation, and the silent agreements that shape what we call love.
With psychological precision and emotional realism, Des Wallace traces the interior logic of connection and disconnection in urban life. This is not a self-help book. It is a mirror.
Paperback on Amazon · ASIN: B0H2J5XQJJ
Fine Art Photography
The Monograph
191 pages. Three continents. Six movements. A sustained visual argument in book form.
Fine Art Photography Monograph
Reflections in Contrast
Hardcover · AvailableBetween spectacle and silence, motion and stillness, colour and shadow — Reflections in Contrast invites readers into a world shaped by atmosphere, observation, and emotional tension.
This 191-page fine art photography monograph by Des Wallace brings together images captured across North America, Europe, and the Caribbean, moving through six thematic movements: from the vivid pageantry of Carnival to the quiet geometry of architecture, from luminous city nights to intimate faces in passing crowds, and toward coastal stillness and open horizon.
Designed as both a visual experience and a contemplative object. For collectors of independent photography books, lovers of coffee-table art, and readers who want a book that slows them down.
Hardcover Fine Art Edition · 191 pages · ASIN: B0H4VFN7S4 · Premium archival paper · $59.99
Memoir · Masculinity
Reflections from the Block to Becoming a Man
Paperback · AvailableThis is a book about the cost of becoming. About what street life teaches you and what it takes from you, and how you build something real out of what's left.
Reflections from the Block to Becoming a Man is Des Wallace's most personal work — a memoir of Black manhood told without mythology or apology. The emotional labor of growing up, the weight of what is inherited, and the discipline of deciding who you want to be.
Available on Amazon · ASIN: B0FGV6TSJQ · ISBN-13: 979-8218698409
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Place & Identity
Urban stories rooted in specific geography — what a neighborhood gives you, what it takes, and who you become in the space between.
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Yamecah: Jamaica, New York
Live on AmazonJamaica, Queens. A story about place, identity, and what a neighborhood gives and takes from the people who come through it. Written for readers who know what it means to be shaped by a zip code — and what it costs to leave it behind.
Yamecah is Des Wallace at his most urban and intimate — an illustrated narrative rooted in the specificity of New York street life, the weight of community memory, and the quiet persistence of people who build something real in hard places.
Available on Amazon · ASIN: B094MMWN4B
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Legacy & Myth
Drawn from Yoruba, Vodou, and West African spiritual tradition — four books that use mythology to map the interior geography of power, bravery, and becoming.
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Jean-Baptiste and Marie
Live on AmazonA mythology rendered in the tradition of the African diaspora. Jean-Baptiste sets off in search of love and returns with a magical staff — and a destiny that demands more than he expected to give. Part love story, part spiritual allegory.
Rooted in the living mythology of the Black Atlantic world, Jean-Baptiste and Marie draws from Haitian and West African spiritual tradition to tell a story about bravery, sacrifice, and what it means to serve something larger than yourself.
Available on Amazon · ASIN: B0BVYY6CK3
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Legba's Journey Toward Wealth
Live on AmazonLegba stands at the crossroads between want and having — between prayer and action, between the world you were born into and the one you intend to build. An allegorical guide through the spiritual geography of wealth and becoming.
Told in the voice of the loa who opens every door, Legba's Journey Toward Wealth uses the framework of West African and Vodou mythology to map the interior journey of someone who decides — against everything — that they deserve more, and acts accordingly.
Available on Amazon · ASIN: B0BNPDHHDD
Spiritual Reflection · Memoir
Spirit Walk
Live on AmazonAn inner journey through faith, survival, and the question of what remains when everything else falls away. Spirit Walk is Des Wallace at his most contemplative — sitting with the tension between the visible world and the forces that move through it.
A memoir of spiritual reckoning told through the lens of street life, faith, and transformation. For readers who have survived something and are still working out what it meant.
Available on Amazon · ASIN: 1088079725 · ISBN-13: 978-1088079720 · 6 × 9 in
Mythology · Power · Identity
Rise of Ogun: A Tale of Bravery and Power
Live on AmazonYoruba-inspired mythology. The sacred cost of power, bravery, and becoming who you were meant to be. Ogun — deity of iron, war, and labor — is more than a warrior. He is the patron of those who build, forge, and push through.
A richly illustrated tale rooted in West African spiritual tradition, Rise of Ogun maps the interior geography of a man stepping into power — the price of greatness and the discipline it demands.
Available on Amazon · ASIN: 1088110169 · ISBN-13: 978-1088110164 · Analytics LLC · Feb 2023 · 8.5 × 11 in
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Criminal Justice · Sociology · Policy
Crime & Poverty
In DevelopmentA definitive academic examination of the poverty-crime nexus — structural inequality, systemic failure, and the policy interventions that actually work. Grounded in case studies, current research, and street-level reality.
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12 Things I Learned When I Became a Cop
In DevelopmentWhat they don't teach you at the Academy. An honest account of what the badge reveals about race, power, community, and the people who keep the peace.
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The Haram Way
In DevelopmentFaith, identity, and contradiction on the job. What it means to navigate two worlds — the street and the deen — when neither one fully fits.
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