Fiction

Briar Egibi has had just about all she can stand of Wichita, Kansas. Her spells fizzle out more often than not, and hiding her witchery from everyone has left her with no real friends to speak of. She needs a change of pace, and the warm sands and...

A product of the system, Terrell is haunted by his past, but he's determined not to let anything stop his shine. Terrell wasn't raised in the corrupt streets of Detroit. After being abused and left for dead by his violent, psychotic father, he was raised...

Terrell wasn't raised in the corrupt streets of Detroit. After being abused and left for dead by his violent, psychotic father, he was raised by his aunt in uncle in a loving home in the suburbs. However, he never lost touch with his mother, whose...

A 2017 RT Reviewer's Choice Nominee for Best Historical Fiction Novel!Featured on Elle.comDukes's gripping historical novel tells the tale of a desperate Albanian woman who will do whatever it takes to keep her independence and seize control of her...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK​ PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SUMMER 2021 READING LIST Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2022 Carnegie Medal for Excellence In the spirit of The Known World and The...

An unforgettable story of two courageous women brought together by one extraordinary little girl Betty Jewel Hughes was once the hottest black jazz singer in Memphis. But when she finds herself pregnant and alone, she gives up her dream of being a star...

"A delightful opposites-attract fake-relationship romance with a decidedly modern flair." --Library JournalDelysia Daniels didn't intend any of this. Accidentally tagging the wrong person in a slightly racy photo could have happened to anyone. But when...

The Sweet Spot has nothing to do with football. . . .Just ask Kahari Brown, one of the NFL's sexiest stars. He knows how to handle a football, and always thought he had a way with the ladies. But his smooth moves off the field are only getting him into...

Using pop culture to convey the atmosphere, George Pelecanos portrays characters caught in an intricate web of drugs and violence in the mean streets of Washington, D.C., in 1986.

Words and images come together in a collaboration between celebrated poet Ntozake Shange and an acclaimed group of photographers, to result in this stunning celebration of contemporary Black life in America. From the first publication of The Sweet...

This diner in Plainview, Indiana is home away from home for Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean. Dubbed The Supremes by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they've weathered life's storms for over four decades and counseled one another through...

A hot steaming cup of coffee from Starbucks and watching the sunset behind the lake from my bedroom window would be great right now...But unfortunately, I'm still serving a life sentence in this prison. See, the older we get the more that we're supposed...

No! I wasn't raised in the church. It didn't happen until my mother fell ill and God took her away from me for no reason at all. Cancer, they say. But I needed to hear it from God, so I began talking with him every day until my friends started calling me...

In this follow-up to Nothing New Under the Sun (2011), some of our favorite characters are figuring out how to move on from prior losses, disappointments, challenges, and failures while navigating new relationships and successes. Reunite with Charlie...

- Pat Cunningham Devoto's most recent novel, Out of the Night That Covers Me (0-446-52751-3, Warner hard-cover, 1/01), has over 60,000 copies in combined print and was highly praised in the New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Book World, among...

From the author of A Brooklyn Story and one of USA TODAY's celebrated "New Voices of 2011," comes a new novel which exposes the over-the-top decadence--and corruption--of Wall Street's elite. Hailed as one of USA Today's New Voices for her 2011 literary...