Fiction

Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship...

Supervillains and mad scientists are on the loose and only the world's worst superhero duo can save us! Eric and Woody Henderson have been a lot of things - fractious foster brothers, washed up failures, and, ever since the freak accident that gave them...

Rosie "Aunty" Lee--feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant--is back in another delectable, witty mystery set in Singapore.Slightly hobbled by a twisted ankle, crime-solving restaurateur Aunty Lee...

Blackboard bestselling author Beverly Jenkins delivers another heart-pounding romantic suspense that is guaranteed to thrill. Regina Kane no sooner buries her father when two men claiming to be from the US State Department corner her. They say her father...

A Justice Hustlers Novel Two gorgeous sisters. Only one plays by the rules. But now they'll have to put their differences--and their lives--on the line, to help the exploited. Sisters from Trinidad, Violet and Lily have never had much in common...

Wearing her shades, a black Stetson, and snakeskin cowboy boots, security agent Maxine Max Blake is the baddest thing walking. Ex-marine, ex-cop, and a whole lotta 'tude, Max doesn't have time for anything but her job. Her latest assignment: to protect...

A Times Book of the Year, 2019 THE SECOND WORLD WAR IS OVER. BUT THE WORLD IS FAR FROM SAFE. As victorious Russian troops sweep across East Prussia, a group of desperate children face a new battle. Confronted by critical food shortages and the onset of a...

CRITTER WRANGLER RULE 7: SOME MONSTERS JUST NEED TO DIE.Someone is plotting to put all gargoyles in jail...or six feet in the ground.For decades gargoyles have patrolled the night in Montreal Ward. They are dubbed Guardians by the humans and fae who live...

From the New York Times bestselling author of From a Drood to a Kill comes the next Secret Histories adventure, now in paperback! The name is Drood, Eddie Drood, also known as Shaman Bond. My family has been safeguarding humanity for generations, facing...

First published after the author's death in 2008, this provocative novel charts the late-in-life sexual awakening of a retired army officer who embarks on a dangerous affair with a male servant. Captain Ni'mat, a reservist from the Egyptian army defeated...

Kayla, Evelyn, and Trina have been on-and-off-again girlfriends for many years, but the lines of true friendship will be crossed, the knives that go into another friend's back will cut deep, trust will not apply, and no one will share their dirty little...

R.I.P. = Reanimated, Infernal, and Pretty damn dangerous Struggling actress Esther Diamond, whose year got off to a rough start (what with incarceration, unemployment, and mystical death curses), finally catches a break when she lands an acting job...

The Longchamp mysteries combine history and mystery in a gritty way that makes them feel different from most amateur-sleuth fare--dark-edged rather than cozy. Faye, too, is not your traditional amateur sleuth; she could just as easily anchor a gritty...

Working in Hollywood is a living Hell in this "fast, fun, and unrelenting" urban fantasy series about a stuntwoman who slays paranormal creatures (Seanan McGuire, author of the October Daye novels) Out of the spotlight, in the darker corners of the...