Fiction

Twenty-one-year-old college student Alexis Nicole (Full Figured 2) proves once again a talent and insight beyond her years, with an intriguing story of three best friends trying to make their dreams come true in New York City. Fashion editor Skye's...

When their parents are discovered brutally murdered in a ditch, Kenya and London are left orphaned, forced to navigate through the unforgiving streets of Detroit. They might be identical twins, but they are as different as night and day. With one...

Lightning bugs on a summer evening. A lazy river filled from a spring rain. The taste of honeysuckles. The aroma of wild grapes ripe on the vine. A collection of fantasy and contemporary fiction stories set in Southwest Georgia based on the experiences...

From the Booker Prize-winning novelist and screenwriter of Howard's End "Cinematic" and "exquisite" stories of longing, loss, and redemption (Publishers Weekly). In this expansive story collection, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, author of Heat and Dust and the...

The author of the brazenly hilarious, tell-it-like-it-is first novel (Oprah Daily) Queenie returns with another witty and insightful novel about the power of family--even when they seem like strangers.If you could choose your family...you wouldn't choose...

"The magic here is not the supernatural kind, but rather an attention to the grace of the ordinary. It is the magic of watching these women come into their power."--New York Times   A GMA Buzz Pick! / A Most Anticipated Book by Essence - The...

It's love and bullets--Dickey style--in this blistering novel about a couple who say yes to big time risks when playing it safe stops paying off... Dmytryk and Cora Knight were a respectable couple with a solid, comfortable life on the affluent side of...

Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, by product But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction   In seventeenth-century Peru, St. Martin de Porres was...

This Life is the debut novel by Quntos KunQuest, a longtime inmate at Angola, the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary. This marks the appearance of a bold, distinctive new voice, one deeply inflected by hiphop, that delves into the meaning of a life...

The world comes crashing down when one of Detective Joe Johnson's enemies orders his family to be killed. Detective Joe Johnson must rely on his partner, Vernon Brown and his hoodlum friends to spoil the murderous plot and face his own demons as he...