Fiction

Black Cake meets Death at a Funeral in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about three generations of a Nigerian Canadian family grappling with their matriarch's sudden passing while their auntie insists that her sister is coming back--from an author...

"From page one, A Country You Can Leave is a riveting, exasperating, and deeply heartbreaking tale of mother-daughter strife and resilience." --Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies Dreaming A stunning debut novel following the turbulent relationship of...

"You'll laugh, you'll swoon, and you'll root for Pearl and Cord's happy ending."--New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune Eight years ago, he fell in love with a stranger he couldn't have--today, she's back in his life and the sparks between...

The Girl with the Louding Voice meets The Water Dancer in Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ's magical, award-winning literary debut, Dazzling, offering a new take on West African mythology. Treasure and her mother lost everything...

In the second book in the Detective Harriet Foster thriller series, author Tracy Clark weaves a twisted journey into the underbelly of Chicago as Harriet and her team work to unmask a serial killer stalking the city's aldermen.The Chicago PD is on high...

Navigating your first year of college is hard--just imagine having to navigate newfound superpowers at the same time! Mari's first year of college is full of exciting new things--she's just reconnected with her extended family, moved to New York City,...

A rediscovered classic of politics, murder, espionage, for the first time in paperback On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American...

Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a brilliant novel that uncovers the boundary-breaking, genuine friendship between Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz, and iconic movie star Marilyn Monroe...

"Mothers never die. Children love to resurrect us in they stories." Folktales and spirits animate this lively and unforgettable coming-of-age tale of two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn grappling with their mother's illness, their father's...

Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie's next sweeping and evocative novel introduces a determined young woman's search for the larger-than-life literary figure she believes to be her father.When...

From award-winning author Kennedy Ryan comes the emotional final installment of the Hoops trilogy.She's not the plan he made, but she's the risk he has to take.A single, divorced dad in the final years of his basketball career, Kenan Ross's perfect life...

The acclaimed author of The Secret Women and Things Past Telling returns with an engrossing historical novel about a little known aspect of World War II--the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only Black WACs to serve overseas during the...

A gripping historical novel about a spirited girl who joins a sisterhood working to undermine the Confederates--from the award-winning author of We Cast a Shadow Ady, a curious, sharp-witted girl, and her fierce mother, Sanite, are an inseparable duo...

Donald Goines, "the godfather of black pulp fiction" (Salon.com) and "one of hip hop's greatest inspirations" (The Source Magazine), is among the most influential and revered urban authors of all time. Now the third book in his groundbreaking Kenyatta...