Fiction

Would you risk your marriage to get out of debt? Naomi and DeShaun seem to have the perfect life, but when money runs low, they have to face the hard truth: Nothing lasts forever. DeShaun and Naomi think they have it all: a wonderful marriage, steady...

Candace is a single mom with a good job, a promising future, and a plan to get herself and her son out of the hood. But can she still make it happen when she gets involved with a young charmer chasing street dreams? Even with a good job, Candace is...

Bryan, a Black, divorced father of two, had finally achieved the career success he had always dreamed of as the new vice president for a large multi-national energy company. Unfortunately, his teenage son, an aspiring drag queen, does not fit into his...

BRYAN is well-liked but feels he must hide his real life to get ahead. His white transgender girlfriend, NADIA, doesn't gel with his coworker's homophobia and his mother's transphobia and wish for an educated Black daughter-in-law. Bryan's internalized...

Justine Holmes is a widow, former activist, and funeral thief, mourning her husband's death during the aftermath of the Ferguson unrest in St. Louis, Missouri. As family tensions deepen between Justine and her three grown children - a former Bay Area...

Teeming with dramatic plot twists and wickedly delightful erotic frills, a passionate story about two lovers struggling with heartbreak, heartthrobs, and self-fulfillment. Many of us fall into unrelenting cycles that lead us to inevitable heartbreak--a...

A gripping thriller about a reporter risking his life to expose corrupt policing from a New York Times bestselling author. Caleb Moon is a young idealistic journalist reporting on everyday racial injustices, but when he is arrested at a police brutality...

Big girls deserve love too, and Brandie Davis and Niko Michelle introduce readers to two women who are determined to get it. Cam Girl by Brandie Davis: Lots of women weighing 300 pounds would have a problem with their size and wish for a smaller frame,...

It's 1999, and Sincere has finished his tour in the United States Army. He's come back home just in time to find his little brother, Maurice, taking his place in the streets. Maurice is hanging out with Drip-Drip and Voltron. The trio commits a home...

A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America--including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more--with a foreword by Jelani CobbThis anthology from the pages of the New Yorker...

THE JANUARY 2022 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "In the way A Thousand Splendid Suns told of Afghanistan's women, Thrity Umrigar tells a story of India with the intimacy of one who knows the many facets of a land both modern and ancient, awash in contradictions...

An instant classic, beloved New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Mary Monroe's debut novel The Upper Room introduced unforgettable, indomitable, and thrillingly scandalous heroine Mama Ruby. Now this beautifully repackaged edition will...

This thrilling, plot-twisting tale will change your views on storytelling forever. As a painter travels the world, he also mourns the death of his queen, his wife. He is secluded from the world and finds an escape through his art. Not until he gets an...

Winner of the Hackney Literary Award and selected in 2002 by Time as one of the eleven best novels on the African American experience, The Children Bob Moses Led is a compelling, powerful chronicle of the events of Freedom Summer. The novel is narrated...

Two classic Westmoreland novels from NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Brenda Jackson THE PROPOSAL The moment Jason Westmoreland meets Bella Bostwick, he wants her--and the land she's inherited. With one convenient proposal, he could have the Southern...

At the tender age of twenty, Vanessa "Sunny" McCord is shocked to learn that her father, Darnell McCord, wants to groom her to take over his drug empire. In his mind, his time has run its course, and he wants to graciously ride off into the sunset. Sunny...