Fiction

Once the night comes . . . Will Thorne is living a nightmare, his sanity slowly being drained away by a force he can't control. His talents have made him the perfect assassin for hire. But as he loses his grip on reality, there is no calming him-until...

This "probing collection"--edited by the author of Black, White and Jewish--explores Black Cool with entries from bell hooks, Margo Jefferson and many more (Kirkus Reviews). This collection of essays conceived of and edited by Rebecca Walker explores the...

The ninth novel of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London. This next book in the bestselling UK series follows...

Our way of life Came from having to Survive the world with the little that we were given.How we as a people could take a small thing as, Corn, Potatoes, Cotton and Wheat Etc.And turn it into a money-making business. How our grandparents could build a...

Winner of the Center for Fiction's 2016 First Novel Prize The hotly anticipated first novel by lauded playwright and The Wire TV writer Kia Corthron, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter sweeps American history from 1941 to the twenty-first century through...

A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an extraordinary epic of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). ...

A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter's discovery that she has the power to change her family's legacy. Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's...

The saying goes you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you, but maybe you should if that same hand prevents you from feeding yourself. Every territory has a king, and Metro Atlanta is no exception. Gang lords Blanket and Guerilla have been growing their...

In the beginning, there was a drug dealer named Smoke, and Breanne Phillips was one of his most faithful customers. She was smoking crack cocaine to block out an existence she wanted to escape from. Smoke was just money-hungry enough to take her...

"Tense and evocative . . . Despite its powerful social critique, Vengeance is cautious and prismatic, openly troubled by its own claims to authority." --Katy Waldman, The New Yorker As someone who writes "fiction, nonfiction, sometimes a hybrid of both,"...

Danger and new enemies await Gin Blanco, aka the Spider--the world of Ashland's most fearsome assassin--in Unraveled, Book 15 of the New York Times bestselling Elemental Assassin urban fantasy series that RT Book Reviews calls "unbeatable entertainment!...

A new generation of Ellisons take leadership of the Ellison Construction Company. Harper and Sydney create Ellison Holdings, a multi-billion-dollar business empire. Life is no fairytale for the daughters of Charles and Joelle Ellison. Harper and Sydney...

Charles Randolph Ellison is the last surviving son of Randolph and Beulah Ellison. He is sent away from his birth place of the racially segregated South for his survival and the preservation of the Ellison family. CharlesR finds love in the progressive...

A city threatened by unimaginable horrors must trust their most hated outcast--or lose everything--in this crushing epic fantasy debut After ten years on the run, dodging daemons and debt, reviled magician Edrin Walker returns home to avenge the brutal...

The Sunday Times (London) 2020 Novel of the Year "Luminous...a writer to watch--and to savor." --Oprah Daily From the award-winning author of West and The Redemption of Galen Pike, a "sublime" (The Toronto Star) and propulsive novel that follows an...

In the secret heart of London, under the cover of endless darkness, is the Nightside. But enter at your own risk. The party animals who live here may be as inhuman as their appetites... My name is John Taylor. The Nightside is my home, and I've got a...