Fiction

The whole world now knows of the existence of the World Under, thanks to fallout from the terrible events in Omaha a year back. As the World Under's most effective foe, Kal Hakala performed actions that were both heroic and horrific. Now, sidelined as an...

What happens when the miracle God gives you threatens to destroy your marriage? Laurie Crane is happily married. And she is usually able to overlook her husband's moments of quiet sadness. If only God would give them a child ... Pierce wants a child as...

After exiting a long-term relationship, Hadiyah Matthews starts life anew in a different city and graduate school. As Hadiyah self-repairs from a heartbreaking split with Charity, she makes platonic connections with several women. Two of these women, in...

THE SOUTHERN PHOENIX was born out of the Black experience in America during the mid-1900s. It is an intense story reflecting the lives of very real people. Throughout this historical fiction novel, the reader is introduced to events such as the sit-ins...

A brilliant novel about family ties, generational racism, and a mysterious murder that casts is shadow on a man fulfilling his mother's dying wish.James Kingsman hated the South.Raised by parents who had migrated north from Alabama years before his...

This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays,...

This hard-hitting novel examines the role of white liberals in the most tumultuous period in the South's history after the Civil War. After the Freedom Riders experience resistance from local Governors down South, the movement accelerates in momentum. It...

From the bestselling author of What the Wind Knows and From Sand and Ash comes a powerful love story about a musical duo who put everything on the line to be together.New York, 1960: For Benny Lament, music is his entire life. With his father's deep ties...

From the bestselling author of What the Wind Knows and From Sand and Ash comes a powerful love story about a musical duo who put everything on the line to be together.New York, 1960: For Benny Lament, music is his entire life. With his father's deep ties...

In the small town of Beaver Hollow, West Virginia, forester Mark Steele has experienced the same reoccurring vision since he was a boy one that foreshadows a towering tree, menacing premonitions and his own suffocating demise. Hundreds of miles away,...

What happens when everything around you seems perfect - your family, your health, your social status, your overall life - but all of a sudden something threatens to tear it all apart and rob you of what you've always known? This type of thing happens to...

As Stumpy Fowler sets out to work on one fine May morning in 1956, he's blissfully unaware of what's unfolding around him. At his house, events are being set into motion that will turn his world--the small-town of River Falls, a place strictly segregated...

A New York Times-bestselling graphic novel based on the true story of two families--one white and one black--who find common ground as the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas. This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967. A white family from a...

The war for power begins with the end of one empire. The war for power will shape a country, a people. First, it will shape the lives of two men: Cao Zhou, a merchant's son turned soldier, and Ken Lou Fan, a soldier's son. War may be cruel, but fate can...

Benjamin January, a free Black man, physician, and musician in the American South in the antebellum years of the 1830s, ends up far away from New Orleans caught up in new adventures out West.Abishag Shaw is seeking vengeance for his brother's murder--and...

Urban Lit/Romance Relationships (Strong language and Adult situations) The Shards of Serenity is an emotionally captivating novella which chronicles the love story between an abused Muslim-American bride on the run (Serenity Davis), and her eventual...