Fiction

Gehenna isn't on Google Maps and there's no Angel Annihilation for Dummies. To Miriam Feldman, list lover extraordinaire, this is an irritating oversight.It's fine. She's got this mission under control. Sure, her instructions are vague, and her team is...

In Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, early twentieth-century statesman of Black-American discourse W.E.B. Du Bois weaves autofiction with poetry, social essay, science fiction, and Afrofuturist storytelling that presages Butler, Due, Adjei-Brenyah,...

A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond--and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own terms...

Stories of loners, outsiders, tricksters, addicts, jazzmen, and drifters in the Jim Crow South--a classic of 1950s Black fiction. Raw, fearless, ironic, the stories in Lover Man (1958) promised the birth of a new sensibility in American fiction. Inspired...

In the second installment of Patricia Raybon's critically acclaimed mystery series, amateur detective Annalee Spain races the clock to solve the murder of a handsome young pilot before she is framed for the crime--and before his dashing twin falls head...

A virtuosic epic applauded by Stanley Crouch as "an adventurous masterwork that provides our literature with a signal moment," back in print in a definitive new edition "I have an awful memory for faces, but an excellent one for voices," muses Joubert...

Bestselling author Francis Ray chronicles the lives and loves of the Grayson family and their friends--and friends-of-friends who just might have a change of heart... Cicely St. John is not impressed by her friend C.J. Callahan's so-called passion in...

From award-winning Eritrean author Haji Jabir comes a profoundly intimate novel about one man's tireless attempt to find his place in the world.Dawoud is on the run from his murky past, aiming to discover where he belongs. He tries to assimilate into...

In this "crackling domestic suspense" filled with "wry humor and deft pacing" (Alyssa Cole), no one bats an eye when a Black reality TV star is found dead--except her estranged half-sister, whose refusal to believe the official story leads her on a...

A gripping multigenerational novel that explores the history and human cost of colonialism in the Congo. April 1958. Organizing the Brussels World's Fair, the biggest international event since the end of the Second World War, subcommissioner Robert...

Durham is a progressive New South city, one in which both the white and black populations have economically and culturally prospered over the pastcentury.Durham's Hayti opens a door into the community's past that will allow you to walk downfamiliar...

Join Antoinette Brazelton in a dynamic, heart-pounding journey into the heart of God for the continent of Africa. Read letters written with the ink of His passionate love that will transform your soul. You will be captivated by His awe-inspired thoughts...

The twists and turns continue in the third installment of the Focus Series...Something normal. That's all Rachel Smith wanted after the past year of absolute madness. She wanted nothing more to do with the Crawford family. In her eyes, the name Crawford...

Knox Baker has been missing for weeks. When his cell phone is discovered in Farah Cotton's possession, his family wants to know how she obtained it. Always deceitful, Farah quickly devises a clever lie to buy time. The problem is that there is one living...

Nikki Turner, the Princess of Hip Hop Fiction, took readers by story with her #1 best-selling debut novel, A Hustler's Wife, then took them to new heights with her sophomore novel, A Project Chick. Now, with the help of her home girl Chunichi, and right...

In the second installment of Patricia Raybon's critically acclaimed mystery series, amateur detective Annalee Spain races the clock to solve the murder of a handsome young pilot before she is framed for the crime--and before his dashing twin falls head...