An action-packed superhero story from New York Times bestselling author Tracey Baptiste Win "Coal" Keegan has just landed in his latest foster home, with a big, noisy, slightly nosy family named the McKays. They seem eager to welcome Coal, but he's...

This sharp and inviting collection explores the wonders of the Black feminine body, the parts, the troubles, and the infinite potential.In this collection of essays, Exodus Oktavia Brownlow adamantly admits to being afraid of knowing too much about...

Major literary figure and "master of language" (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the "slaveroad," a daunting, haunting reality that runs throughout American history. John Edgar...

An illustrated edition of The 1619 Project, with newly commissioned artwork and archival images, The New York Times Magazine's award-winning reframing of the American founding and its contemporary echoes, placing slavery and resistance at the center of...

The Love Hypothesis meets The Holiday in this fake dating YA romance about a city girl and country boy's lives colliding at Christmas City girl Tia Solank? is dreading the festive season. She and her boyfriend are on a break and the last thing she wants...

Can a rookie help a veteran cop catch a diabolical killer? The hunt for the murderer of two women could be the make-or-break case of Drew Taylor's career. The veteran police officer has no time to babysit a newbie cop with something to prove. Thrilled...

--Includes "Incident at Bear Creek Lodge," winner of the World Fantasy Award --Selected for the Locus Magazine 2023 Recommended Reading List --"Rumpus Room" selected as finalist for a 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction"[A] master class in horror...

How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status--without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged Society has never been more egalitarian--in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the...

Etta Extraordinaire is back, and she's heading to Washington!Etta can't think of anything more extraordinary than a field trip to the nation's presidential suite in Washington, DC. When she and her class arrive at the White House, they are faced with a...

How do you live with the pain of watching someone you love suffer from addiction? How do you cope with the grief of losing them especially when your job is to make people laugh every day?Comedian Rickey Smiley has dealt with these immensely difficult...

The man who broke her heart... Must now be her protector. Maggie Scott has worked hard to become an assistant curator at the Larimer Museum. But following the theft of a rare, priceless jewel and the murder of her fellow employee and friend, Maggie is...

When two law enforcers reunite to protect a key witness, the only thing more dangerous than the cartel is the chemistry between them... Deputy US marshal Nova Bennett and DEA special agent River Randolph have one mission: safeguard a former money...

The latest in writer and visual artist Renee Gladman's ever-expanding body of imaginative investigation is a sui generis novel of queerness and art-making, philosophy and sex. The narrator of My Lesbian Novel is Renee Gladman, an artist and writer who...

"The Barn is the most brutal, layered and absolutely beautiful book about Mississippi, and really how the world conspired with the best and worst parts of Mississippi, I will ever read...Reporting and reckoning can get no better, or more important, than...