Fiction

From one of the most revolutionary writers of the 20th century, the uncensored and gritty novel that inspired today's street lit and hip hop culture. "After my ninth birthday I began to really understand the meaning of my name. I began to understand...

Longlisted for the Booker PrizeNamed a Most Anticipated Book of Summer 2021 by Entertainment Weekly, Time, and CrimeReads An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the university where he is studying...

From the projects of Washington, DC, to the runways of Paris, to the boardrooms of Manhattan, this is the story of Celinda Gray. A young Black girl enters a local beauty contest only to lose but win a bigger prize. Discovered by a Black French...

At the tender age of 10, Nafee witnessed his father gunned down in front of him by someone he thought was a friend so, he vowed to get revenge. Cam who was Nafee's best friend had been stealing from him, but later went to jail and became envious of him...

Horror meets humorous urban fantasy in the fifth book in the White Trash Zombie series - Winner of the 2012 Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist by the RT Awards Angel Crawford has buried her loser past and is cruising along in undead high gear--that is, until...

A PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post - San Francisco Chronicle - NPR - GQ - Time - The Economist - Slate - HuffPost - Book Riot Ghost story, murder mystery, love letter to American music--White Tears...

Kamal Jackson is a black novelist who has reached an impasse in his career. His work is either too white for black audiences or too black for white audiences. He decides to do something about it, in spite of the opposition he gets from his new love...

The godfather of urban lit, Donald Goines knows life on the streets is a one-way ticket to life behind bars, where suffering is the one and only daily bread. For the first time in over a decade, his classic White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief is now...

The ultimate love story forged on the gritty streets of New York began with White Lines, and now, in this stunning conclusion, Jada and Born come full circle, but not without paying a hefty price in White Lines III: All Falls Down by Tracy Brown. On the...

While growing up on 5th-N-O street, N.W., Washington, D.C. life wasn't easy for Dwight Whitehorse Sanders. He was a poor under-privileged youth who often stayed hungry. When it came to his younger brother and sister being teased by some ruthless bullies,...

This book will change you. --Chicago Tribune White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Eminem, Louise Brooks, and Michael Jackson...

A riveting evocation of the Civil War, drawn from the true family history of America's best novelist (The Denver Post), JAMES LEE BURKE 1861. Two young Southerners, friends despite their differing political views and backgrounds, enlist in the 18th...

Former cop and private investigator Noel Two Horses finds himself working in a tribal casino undercover to help supplement his bookstore and teaching income when his life is turned upside down when he discovers an Indian baby in his bookstore restroom...

A WHOLE NEW REASON TO MIND THE GAP It begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student James Gallagher--and the victim's wealthy, politically powerful family is understandably eager to get...

Go on a jaw-dropping ride of steamy, erotic moments, comedy, suspense, and supernatural thrills when reincarnation, karma, and past lives unfold in Whispers from the Past... Moroccan born and SoHo raised, Jacques, exudes sex appeal without even knowing...

Reincarnation, karma, and past lives are just some of the things that unfold in Whispers from the Past. Simone Kelly sends readers on a jaw-dropping ride of steamy, erotic moments, comedy, suspense, and supernatural thrills.Jacques Berradi has always...