Fiction

A harrowing and spellbinding story about family, the complications of mixed-race relationships, misplaced loyalties, and the price athletes pay to entertain--from the critically acclaimed author of Three-Fifths Xavier "Scarecrow" Wallace, a mixed-race...

The deaths of unarmed Black male citizens at the hands of police from Eric Garner's in New York City in 2014 to George Floyd's in Minneapolis in May 2020 provide the impetus behind Louis-Philippe Dalembert's latest novel, a re-imagining of events leading...

All thriller; no filler--a white-knuckled treat --James PattersonThere are those who fight the devil within them. And those who worship it.The butchered body of a cross-dresser is found in a dumpster in Chinatown, New York. Nothing out of the ordinary...

Following her New York Times bestseller Summer on the Bluffs, The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin spirits readers away to the warm beaches of Sag Harbor for the compelling second novel in her acclaimed Summer series.In a hidden...

"A serious, powerful novel...[Gaines] is a writer of terrific energy."--The Nation This is the story of Marcus: bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert plantation to work in the fields. There he encounters...

A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their ownersOn a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of...

A privileged young Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a life in New York that challenges all her beliefs about race, love, and family in this rich and engaging debut. "Told through the eyes of a young Kenyan woman who moves to America,...