Fiction

A raucous novel, narrated in deadpan voice-over by Ramesh, a self-described 'lower lower middle class' 24-year-old scammer. . . . His perspective is a delight. . . . a tartly entertaining novel, a potential summer blockbuster. --New York Times Book...

Fall in love with a mysterious and tortured hero in this #1 New York Times bestselling author's steamy, suspenseful romance about an "irresistible" (Booklist) British alpha and the one woman who may be able to save him -- as long as he can protect her...

"American history comes to vivid, engaging life in this tale of two interconnected families (one white, one black) that spans from the 1950s to Barack Obama's first year as president. . . . The complex, beautifully drawn characters are unique and...

Welcome to the ferocious world of The Foundling, set in an bayou town where men are men - except when they are also dragons, kitties with wings, crocodiles and . . . well, Miller.This is the unmissable climax to Hailey Edwards's epic The Foundling...

A searing, provocative satire by one of the most important African-American novelists of the twentieth century that lays bare the abiding racism and the legacy of slavery on the psyche of white America. Mitchell Pierce is a well-off New York ad executive...

A gritty, powerful tale from Solomon Jones--the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Ride or Die and The Bridge--the first book in an unforgettable series, C.R.E.A.M. Karima Cream Thomas is an ex-convict from an upper-crust family whose only...

An instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLER!"If Rear Window and Get Out got married and had a baby that was a book, it would indeed be When No One Is Watching, which takes place in contemporary Brooklyn and combines a page-turning thriller with...

"After centuries of hunting my family, it all came down to this. By the end of the night, I was either going to defeat him, or die trying..."When Lucy Owens discovers her dark ancestry, she must claim her birthright or follow in the tragic footsteps of...

"Rich and colorful... [Refuge] has the kind of immediacy commonly associated with memoir, which lends it heft, intimacy, atmosphere." -New York Times The moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global...

Bestselling author Solomon Jones returns to his gritty, street life series with Payback: The Return of C.R.E.A.M. Karima C.R.E.A.M. Thomas, who has been held as an accomplice in the murders of two drug dealers, is acquitted based on the deathbed...

"Historical fiction at its best." --Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered Sailing to Shanghai in 1936, Thomas Greene goes from playing classical piano for pennies in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with his own servants, the leader of a black...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM STARRING SANAA LATHAN What happens when you toss tradition out the window and really start living for yourself? Venus Johnston has a great job, a beautiful home, and a loving live-in boyfriend named Clint, who happens to be a...

The whole world loves Riri Williams, A.K.A. Ironheart! Well, except for those who have a bone to pick with how she's doing the job. And the deadly villain who'd like to take a piece out of her. Come to think of it, that's a whole lot of people who aren't...

In these five stories, Ernest Gaines returns to the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana, the terrain of his great novels A Gathering of Old Men and A Lesson Before Dying. As rendered by Gaines, this country...

New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands brings the heat in this new Argeneau novel, as one woman is rescued by an irresistible immortal ..."Vampires..."When Raffaele Notte pulls a barely dressed, disoriented woman from the ocean, the last thing he...

Across three generations, three wars, two continents, and the mythic waters of the Mediterranean, one family's history leads to an inevitable question: What price do our descendants pay for the choices that we make? Naïma knows Algeria only by the...