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A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classics debut with the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Dirty Bird Blues Set in post-World War II Chicago and Omaha, the novel features Manfred...

Dorothy Jones, the quintessential renaissance woman of Jazz Age Harlem, operates an upscale dress shop by day and an exclusive speakeasy by night from her posh Sugar Hill brownstone. Dorothy has two enemies: her jealous childhood adversary, Marianne, who...

A prodigal son returns back to his childhood home to learn that old stories never die. Jameson Clarkson's career is launching into another stratosphere as he was given the golden opportunity to move back to Pittsburgh to catapult his career as Dr. Black...

N'TYSE returns with Stud Princess! Chyna is on a murder-mission hunt for the crooked lawyer who double-crossed her uncle, and the latest addition to the family brings her one step closer to that sweet revenge. This ruthless queen-pin owns the day and the...

The tale of lineage and legacy continues with Annabelle's escape into Indian Territory after fleeing from her cruel slave masters in Mercy, Missouri. In the wild west prairie lands of Oklahoma, she finds protection with her rescuers' Cherokee family and...

Urban erotica has never been hotter! --Nikki Turner Her billionaire family's scandalous secrets are as big as their fortune. But consummate con-mami Mink LaRue plans to play them all for the ultimate high stakes. . . As a newly-minted Dominion family...

Tiffany is trapped in a life she never wanted for herself. The man she fell in love with turned out to be a lazy, good-for-nothing womanizer. Night after night Tiffany comes home to Blake's physical, mental, and verbal abuse. She's tried leaving in the...

The finest heroes of a generation together on the front lines of WWII! For the first time ever, see the full story of the first meeting of Captain America and the Black Panther! It s a World War Two adventure featuring a young Steve Rogers, the Black...

Destiny and Brazil are good friends as well as protégés of Essence, the 28-year old controlling, ghetto fabulous owner of the Queen Bee strip club. Due to their ambition, they unintentionally make the mistake of outshining their mentor. Essence viewed...

"Secure the bag" is their motto, and death before dishonor is their G-code, so when greed, disloyalty, and hidden agendas threaten their enterprises, these outlaw mamis exact revenge on a whole new level! Blood of My Blood by Jasmine Williams: Products...

Simone knows if she plays with fire, she runs the risk of getting burned, but she just can't help herself. Living large off the paternity scam of a lifetime, she has two "baby daddies" cashing her out for her infant son. Unfortunately, the streets begin...

Sometimes, even true love isn't enough to prevent bad choices. Meet Inaya, a good girl who made some hard choices to keep her daughter safe. Inaya's life is a total wreck, but she is trying her best to keep her head above water for her four-year-old...

www.BrendaJackson.net She's all he's ever wanted. He's everything she'll ever need. Business mogul Dalton Granger is as passionate as he is gorgeous, but private investigator Jules Bradford won't give him the time of day. She knows all about the...

A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life. --Marlon James Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy--concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope. --Joyce Carol...

The graphic narrative history of the 2001 Cincinnati riots, told for the first time from the perspective of the participants. When Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old black man, was fatally shot by police, the city broke out into nonviolent civil disobedience...

Now an HBO Film!"If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son." - Henry Louis Gates Jr.Right from the start, Bigger Thomas...