Fiction

She found a love worth more than money.When Olivia Cameron set out to renovate the house left to her by her great-aunt, the last thing she expected to find behind the walls was millions of 1929 dollars. As the director of a charter school, to reap this...

Debbie Mason meets Lizzie Shane in this small-town romance where a burned-by-love veterinarian arranges a fake partnership with a down-on-her-luck city girl in order to save his family business. When Amarie Walker goes for something, she goes...

Convicted felon Pain awaits his release date so he can put his plan in motion to seek revenge. "Do your time; don't let the time do you!" This advice given to Pain echoes in his head the morning that the Blue Bird transports him from the county jail to...

An Indie Next Pick A LibraryReads Pick From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students. It's...

A socialite and a cautious introvert try to make a love connection, but their differences might be more than they can overcome. Kinisha Jordan has always been a socialite, treating society like her personal revolving door. She doesn't dwell on people...

"Beautiful, vibrant, and electrifying, this has the makings of a modern classic." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) - A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Spring 2024 Roundup pick From the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Nommo award nominated author of Shigidi and...

A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. South Sudanese translator William connects the corpse to...

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,...