Fiction

Octavia E. Butler's final novel is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she...

This highly imaginative and inventive collection of poems by fifty-two African poets writing from thirty countries across the continent, offers powerful poems that do not flinch from exploring experiences, hopes, aspirations that are deeply personal yet...

Thot Chronicles 3: Isis' Final Reign is an urban fiction story about a successful business woman, mother of two, Isis Carrington, who is out to settle the score once and for all. But before she can do that, she has to tie up some loose ends. With...

With so much at stake, turning back to what I'd known for twenty to twenty-five years was probably a given, especially after never fully getting a chance to actually see what my true potential was. Then after giving this fucked-up state twelve long years...

The ATLiens have returned with more Black Fantastic stories! Metro Atlanta's best Black Speculative Fiction authors have come together again with tales that range from paranormal, to horror to cyberfunk. Prepare yourself for another amazing ride from...

Bailey is deeply in love with her boyfriend Dino. She has dreams of being his wife and living happily ever after. But sometimes a man can push a woman too far. When Dino breaks Bailey's heart, it unleashes a deadly wrath. Bailey seeks the assistance of...

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of the groundbreaking classic novel of the Black experience in America that is still remarkably relevant more than a century later. First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave...

A Black immortal in 1930's Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is in this extraordinarily affecting novel for readers of N. K. Jemisin and Octavia E. Butler. Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in...

These stories are not fables or fairy tales. They are severe chronicles of gangstas, written by men and women who have starved and bled and survived by the code of the streets. Essence magazine's #1 bestselling author Nikki Turner has earned her rep as...

The heralded Queen of Hip-Hop Lit presents an addictive collection of celebrated urban authors with their fingers on the pulse of the streets. Street lit's finest female voices--Keisha Starr, Tysha, LaKesa Cox, and Monique S. Hall--deliver searing...

There's not a whole lot happening in Gary, Indiana. That is, until nationally renowned relationship expert Lance Montgomery bursts on to the scene. Twice divorced, Montgomery is now on a mission to perfect the art of being single. His tantalizing book...

After coming from a club one night in Killeen Tx, A guy sold me a pill that changed my life forever, After trying ecstasy for the first time, My experience was not like other people who have taken the drug, After almost taking my own life I just wanted...

Drop-dead gorgeous Logan Chambers loves his life as Hollywood's most eligible bachelor. Plus, he's gotten an offer he can't refuse to star in TV's hit medical drama. And the show's sultry makeup and wardrobe director has his pulse racing. But getting...

An ancient legend of an Afro-Indigenous tribe in late15th century America, to early 16th century America.The Nameless Tribe's story began long before, but they will not be forgotten. While trying to defend their heritage known as Buffalo Valley, Quanah...

In Chi Boy, Keenan Norris melds memoir, cultural criticism, and literary biography to indelibly depict Chicago--from the Great Migration to the present day--as both a cradle of black intellect, art, and politics and a distillation of America's deepest...

Lawrence and Brenda are in love! Having known each other for years, through their church, they've each endured painful personal loss: Brenda's divorce, and the sudden death of Lawrence's wife. Through it all, they've lived a life of faith and are blessed...