Fiction

Love and loss aren't unfamiliar territory to Nyimah Deveraux. She's learned to live after losing the love of her life and found the courage to love again. The man she moves on with keeps her pockets lined but doesn't know how to love her correctly. Cree...

The short stories in FLUID are set in California, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, Northern England, and Namibia, taking a deep dive into the vastly differing perspectives of an intriguingly diverse collage of characters, who are navigating lives within...

BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE - A NEW YORKER AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - GMA BUZZ PICK - A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession, and political corruption from the celebrated author of...

Determined to win the one she thinks is for her, Paige finds herself making one foolish decision after another. These decisions become detrimental to her and the life she's worked so hard to maintain. Will she be able to pull herself out of Kyra's...

It's a new millennium, and Nasir's finally coming home from doing a bullet on Riker's Island for a petty drug charge. He's lost everything, and he craves to come up again in the streets and take back his power and respect. One night in a strip club,...

A funny, moving, and urgent new play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage. In this razor-sharp new comedy, a truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at reclaiming their lives. Even as the shop's...

Set in a country where being gay is punishable by law, These Letters End in Tears is the heart-wrenching forbidden love story of a Christian girl with a rebellious heart and a Muslim girl leading a double life Bessem notices Fatima for the first time on...

Susan Choi's Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby's High Fidelity in a Black woman's coming-of-age story, chronicling a life-changing friendship, the interplay between music fandom and identity, and the slipperiness of sanity Set in the suburbs of Los...

Baldwin's life and legacy as remembered by a pantheon of artists and writers: from Jamaica Kincaid and Barry Jenkins to Richard Avedon and Alice Neel When author James Baldwin died in 1987, he left behind an extraordinary body of work: novels, poems,...

In an arrestingly vivid novel spanning seven decades and two continents - from a cloistered 1950s Mississippi town founded by freed slaves to the striking diversity of Paris and Rome in the 1960s and 70s, through the glamor of 1980s Wall Street, to...

Murder. Secrets. Sacrifice: Three women seek the truth of the empire's past. And the truth they find will have the power to ignite a war, in the sequel to The Final Strife, the continuation of a visionary fantasy trilogy inspired by the myths of Africa...

Milestone Compendium is a can't-miss collection for any Milestone Comics or 90's comics fan!   A new volume of fan-favorite Milestone comics from the 90's are collected in this brilliant compendium edition featuring Static, Icon, Hardware, and...

From Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black--a high-wire act of literary-fantastical hybrid fiction. A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian...

Best Book of the Year Time - Real Simple - Oprah Daily A Belletrist Book Club Pick "As short and sharp as a pairing knife . . . Moves along so briskly and with such sly wit . . . Deliciously wicked." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post What if your two...

It's finally time for Charles Ignatius Sancho to tell his story, one that begins on a slave ship in the Atlantic and ends at the very center of London life. . . . A lush and immersive tale of adventure, artistry, romance, and freedom set in...