Fiction

Sappho Clark--beautiful, mysterious, Southern--arrives in Boston to earn her living as a stenographer. She lodges with the Smith family and immediately becomes a source of fascination to the them: Ma Smith is impressed by Sappho's financial independence;...

The stunning, new collection from the Ugandan master of Africanfuturism.A young teen, haunted by the ghost of his father, takes it upon himself to save his brother and his people from a warlord's marauding army. A frustrated detective is driven to the...

Being queer in a small town? Bad. Your employer believing you stole ten thousand dollars? Worse.Abboton, IN has kept hard-partying Victor Adewale in the closet for his entire life. So he makes a deal with his stern Nigerian father: Clean up his act, hold...

Amp Anthony is strong-willed, ruggedly handsome, with a body that women will pay just to look at. He is also a recently freed felon. It's not easy to make things whole again under the rules of the halfway house to which he's been released, especially...

"A scintillating debut full of nuanced and achingly human characters." -- Zalika Reid-Benta, author of Frying PlantainBack in the low-income neighbourhood where she was raised, a young woman rediscovers the importance of community, home, and finding...

A richly detailed, brilliantly woven debut collection about the lives and lore of one Black family   Shannon Sanders's sparkling debut brings us into the company of the Collins family and their acquaintances as they meet, bicker, compete,...

This is the follow up to the highly acclaimed 2021 anthology described as containing "some of the most exciting voices, old and new, from Africa and the diaspora, published in the 2020 year."The first won the World Fantasy Award for best anthology and...

Once a mighty drug lord feared and respected by all, Loon Johnson's life took a drastic change for the worst when a deep-seethed plan from his enemies got to him. He lost everything overnight. Now he must go back to the bottom whilst also running for his...

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: Today.com * Time * Electric Literature * Seattle Times * Telemundo * Washington Post * HipLatina * Harper's Bazaar * Elle * AARP * Shondaland * New York TimesFrom the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author...

From USA Today best-selling and multi-award-winning author Jacqueline Friedland comes a gripping work of fiction based on the true story of female abolitionist Ann Phillips and her connection to Anthony Burns, a young man who briefly escaped American...

A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist's search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago--inspired by the author's own family history Birmingham, 1929: Robert Lee...