Fiction

South Africa's gold mines are the largest and historically among the most profitable in the world. Yet at what human cost? This book reveals how the mining industry, abetted by a minority state, hid a pandemic of silicosis for almost a century and...

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK - A woman who's used to going solo discovers that there's one relationship she can't run away from in this "hilarious, electric" (The New York Times) novel, a probing examination of the complexities of family, queerness,...

Urban fantasy and miraculous realityThe company birthed in Peace in Chaos discovers that the evil behind the violence is working globally. They are deeply tied into the Swamp, but what is this mayor of a small city in southwestern Utah? He's clearly deep...

Kyra Greene is out of this world-literally. Jacoby, her fire dervish, has been lost in the Nether for weeks. Only Kyra can find him but not without help from her estranged father. There's only one snag in that plan. Daddy is dead. To save Jacoby, Kyra...

Urban Books' popular Girls From da Hood series continues its gritty street drama in this eleventh installment, featuring urban fiction superstar Nikki Turner, and newcomer Katt.Tia, Ton'ya, and Tammi are not only making moves in the game, but they're...

New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber has tantalized us with his provocative and sexy plus size characters in Something on the Side, Big Girls Do Cry and Torn Between Two Lovers. Now Weber has taken on the role of not just writer but mentor and...

A volcano goddess, named Keegan, is loose in the world, and the prophecies are unclear whether her coming will bring humanity's destruction or salvation. In the shadow of the sacred volcano, from which Keegan derives her powers, lies the ancient city of...

Valerie Wilson Wesley's Tamara Hayle mystery series featuring Newark, New Jersey's number one private investigator are loved for their smart, sexy protagonist who "has a way with a wisecrack that is positively lethal" (Washington Post). Now in Dying in...

Essence bestselling author Brenda Hampton's sequel to the sexy BFF reintroduces a trio of catty, backstabbing girlfriends that readers love to hate. Kayla thought that her best friends, Evelyn and Trina, were supposed to always have her back, but when...

Virtuosic ... glorious in its exploration. --The New York Times A singular and powerful debut novel about a young black American learning the difficulties of forming your own identity when society has already assigned you one Like most recent college...

My name is Sam Forman.I invite you to take a journey with me to a beautiful place called Stillwater.We started life as slaves, but the ashes of war gave us new hope and freedom.I took my family north in search of a dream. We found wealth in new friends...

In a world of secrets, who knew vengeance is just as important.Life hasn't always been full of secrets and hidden agendas for Paris Thompson. But, when she meets Trenton Devereaux, it is unexpectedly through aperson she trusts who left her stranded.Paris...

After losing his best friend in the all out drug war, BOOBY LOCO pulls out all of the stops in order to finish off NIGHTMARE. $80,000 dollars is delivered to BUCHO and his band of assassins: a collective of men that live for money and murder. With these...

When tragedy strikes, Krystal is faced with decisions that could alter the fate of her entire generation for years to come. Right or wrong, good or bad, the choice was ultimately hers to make. She has brains, beauty, and she's eager to please. Krystal...

In part 6, the final chapter of the Never Again, No More series, the lives of all the men and women are forever changed as they are forced to come to terms with the consequences of their actions. And one thing is for sure: by product of them will ever be...