Fiction

Writer Ted Fox and artist James Otis Smith bring to life Harlem's legendary theater in this graphic novel adaptation of Fox's definitive, critically acclaimed history of the Apollo. Since its inception as an African-American theater in 1934, the Apollo,...

They say family always sticks together, but when you're your dad's only lifeline and the whole world-humans, dragons, and gods-wants you dead, "family bonding" takes on a whole new meaning.My name is Opal Yong-ae, and I'm in way over my head. I thought...

#3 in the groundbreaking, award-winning Elfhome series. Pittsburgh, PA has been magically transported to a world of elves and magic in order to stave off a monstrous invasion of Earth. Now Tinker must root out and destroy an evil plot. Elfhome. A world...

A desperate need Sassy Grace Atwood never expected to find her proper self accidentally tumbling into a stranger's bed. If she weren't desperate for a man to lead a wagon train of brides to a woman-starved town out West, she never would have gone near...

His name is Nathan Garrett, but he's also known as Hellequin. And murdering one of his friends and trying to blow him up is a good way to get this centuries-old sorcerer's full attention...An old friend's dead body, a cryptic note, and an explosion that...

Twelve-year-old Aaron Broom is protecting his father's car from repossession when he witnesses a jewelry store robbery gone wrong. To Aaron's shock, his father, a struggling salesman in the wrong place at the wrong time, is fingered as the prime suspect...

Native Son and Black Boy are classics of twentieth-century American literature--and yet the novel and memoir known to millions of readers are in fact revised and abbreviated versions of the books Richard Wright wrote. The two-volume Library of America...

The inspiration for the acclaimed OWN TV series produced by Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernayQueen Sugar is a page-turning, heart-breaking novel of the new south, where the past is never truly past, but the future is a hot, bright promise. This is a story...

From New York Times bestselling author Franics Ray, One Night With You continues the popular erotic romance Grayson Friends series. Cougars, brush fires, snow storms--rancher Duncan McBride tackles it all without a flinch. But the archeologist who's come...

Nelson Mandela's memoir, Long Road to Freedom, electrified the world in 1994 with the story of a solitary man who, despite unbelievable hardships, brought down one of the most-despised regimes in the world. Fifteen years after the publication of that...

The first in a "sharp, weird, and wildly innovative" urban fantasy series about a desperate father who embraces a forbidden magic in order to save his daughter (Cherie Priest, Locus Award winner and Hugo Award nominee) Flex Distilled magic in crystal...

Day delivers a lively romance. --RT Book Reviews The Blue-Collar Lover Series Meet the Carter brothers, five hard-working men with a lot to offer. They may not be wealthy but they're rich in integrity and loyalty--not to mention sex appeal. They just...

Sharp, sarcastic, and efficiently lethal, John Charming would feel right at home having drinks with Dean Winchester and Harry Dresden. DARING, the second book in the Pax Arcana series, is just as addicting as the first. Something is rotten in the state...

How do you keep the people you care about safe from enemies you can't remember?Ten years ago, Nate Garrett awoke on a cold warehouse floor with no memory of his past and the only clues to his identity a piece of paper with his name on it and a propensity...

For generations, African Americans have enriched South Carolina's history, and the black families of Chesterfield County are no different.During slavery, many African Americans in Chesterfield County were forced to provide domestic services and labor to...