Fiction

A Black immortal in 1930's Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to save the world in this extraordinarily affecting novel for readers of N. K. Jemisin and Octavia E. Butler. Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los...

Denise and Derrek Shaw are the perfect American couple. Happily married for fifteen years, they have a wonderful daughter, successful careers, and a beautiful house. They also have a shocking secret: a dangerous addiction to drugs. Denise and Derrek...

Chase Storm is a rich, young bachelor with no intention of settling down. His reputation as the town's playboy is ruining his family's name, so his brothers decide to take action. To tame their youngest brother's appetite for women, they offer him a...

Will a forty-year-old woman with everything on the line - her high-stakes career, ticking biological clock, bank account - risk it all for a secret romance with the one person who could destroy her comeback, for good? Jenna Jones, former It-girl fashion...

After twenty years in Castro's prisons, Juan Perez comes to America and encounters culture shock, unpredictable characters, and confusion as he and his companion in exile, Dottie, search for the Perez family in Miami.

"According to the laws of Sharia in Iran," says Roya Movafegh in this tale of murder and escape to freedom, "if a Muslim man is murdered, his family may be compensated according to the price of one hundred camels. If the same crime is committed against a...

Cashmere and Demarco are married, own three hair salons, and have a big house in Inglewood, CA, with their timid thirteen-year-old daughter, Dominique, but things are far from perfect or even normal. Demarco holds deep resentment toward Cashmere and...

Growing up, thirteen-year-old Cashmere Pierce was the light of her father Desmond's life. But when tragedy strikes, and Desmond is no longer able to take care of himself, the family falls apart. Soon orphaned, Cashmere and her self-destructive,...

A thrilling anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide, from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize and National Book Award-nominated modern classic, A Little Life. "Enthralling . . ...

Season Holidae is a thirteen-year-old competent swimmer who lost her mother in a one-car accident last year. The aftermath of it all distresses Season to the point of becoming irresponsible and belligerent. Her father, Xavier, makes a difficult decision...

From bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billinglsey comes a charming novel filled with love, laughter, inspiration and drama as Pastor Terrance searches for his Mrs. Right. Most men barely survive one mother, but Terrance Ellis has three: his aunts. His...

Named a New York Times Notable Book of the YearShortlisted for the Center For Fiction First Novel PrizeNamed a Booklist Best Book of the Year A mesmerizing, indelible coming-of-age story about a girl in Boston's tightly-knit Ethiopian community who falls...

Unlikely Friends Unite to Save a Wrongly Accused American Soldier and a Fragile Treaty of Peace in The Historical Mystery, The Paris Deception, from Author David O. Stewart --1919-1920, Paris and Berlin-- In the wake of The Great War, the city of...

First and foremost, I must pay homage to Marimba Ani who I gained insight from concerning the title of her book titled, "Yorugu" which means Pale Fox. One must do their own investigation into the Dogon African religion to understand "The Pale Fox." Many...

Mr. Lowe lives the simple and happy life of a shopkeeper. A Chinese immigrant to Jamaica in the 1890s, Lowe revels in the lush beauty of his adoptive land. But the past confronts Lowe in everything he does, and so his history reveals itself-the tale of...

Set in a 22nd Century London; after the Great Cyber War and the fall of the Internet. Arthur, a street cleaner in Whitechapel, stumbles upon a woman's mutilated corpse. He instantly makes a connection to the infamous Jack the Ripper, but nobody in town...