Fiction

A compelling debut by a new voice in fantasy fiction, The Conductors features the magic and mystery of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series written with the sensibility and historical setting of Octavia Butler's Kindred. Meet Hetty Rhodes, a magic-user and...

Hatter's artful, moving novel looks closely at the murder of a young black woman and her family's devastation. Old--and new--questions about race and civil rights in 21st Century America arise alongside the unfolding story of Malawi and those who live in...

Bestselling author De'nesha Diamond brings her dynamic storytelling talent to D.C.'s treacherous corridors of power--where scandal is merely the first move in a high-stakes game that makes its own rules... It's an offer too tempting to refuse: One night...

A mythic love story set in Trinidad, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut introduces two unforgettable outsiders brought together by their connection with the dead. Heartwarming and heartbreaking, fantastical and familiar, with characters that burrow their...

An experiment gone wrong overloads thirteen year-old Oumou's psychokinetic abilities and strands her in the tiny town of Archwood, North Carolina. Free from the dismal research lab that has been her home as long as she can remember, she is taken in by a...

All hell has broken loose, and the McPhearson clan is right in the middle of the chaos. After finding out their beloved foster mother, Claudette McPhearson, was anything but the sweet old woman they thought her to be, Javon, Shanelle, and the rest of...

From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a novel that chronicles the fall of an oppressive regime, and the chaotic, kinetic potential for real liberation that rises in its wake. Glory centers around...

The Prototype: A Story of True Love tells the story of Jadirah, a woman in search of the perfect love. Throughout her journey, Jadirah is striving to maintain her mental, physical, and spiritual health after public shame and loss. Due to the lack of...

Keita Ali is an elite runner living in Zantoroland, a poor, fictional island that is erupting in political violence. When his father, a journalist, is murdered, Keita escapes to the wealthy nation of Freedom State--an imagined country much like our own...

The last thing Lacy Green needs is trouble--and handsome Mayor Drake Randolph has danger written all over him . . . especially when His Fineness accidentally runs her off the road. Despite Drake's sensuous charm, irresistible magnetism, and unwavering...

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...