Fiction

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A collection of raucous stories that offer a "vibrant and true mosaic" (The New York Times) of New Orleans, from the critically acclaimed author of We Cast a Shadow   "Every sentence is both something that makes...

It was the summer of 2007, a warm quiet Friday morning. The shiny blue Maserati pulled up to a large house that was surrounded by a tall black iron gate. The man pulled a device from the dashboard, pressed a button, and the gate slowly opened. The car...

Sometimes death births new life, and that is fact for sisters Rhonnie and Ahli Malone. After facing the wrath of Madame, the young women take on the job of being security detail for by product other than Sadie Thomas, the head of The Last Kings. With a...

WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST, AMAZON, NPR, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, KIRKUS, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOK OF 2020Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning...

In 1963, at the age of 17, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. His band, the Amazing Rumblers, studies and rehearses Brown's Live at the Apollo album in the storage room of his father's shop in their small North...

A Nigerian conman blackmailed by MI6 is brought in to bring down the Kremlin!Debare Balogun has been getting away with theft for years, skimming off the top of his so-called diamond business while flying under the radar of the Nigerian authorities.Or at...

A story of companionship, compassion, and family reunion--a forty-something woman meets the challenges of finding romance, while reuniting with a long-lost sister, and monitoring the escapades of her friends. Tai Wilson has hit forty and finally is ready...

Silvertower, a large US-based real estate investment company, has experienced incredible success over the past ten years. However, to maintain their momentum, expanding into new markets is vital. CEO Patrick Miller thinks he has hit upon the perfect...

Silvertower, a large US-based real estate investment company, has experienced incredible success over the past ten years. However, to maintain their momentum, expanding into new markets is vital. CEO Patrick Miller thinks he has hit upon the perfect...

In The New World: The Awakening, God has lost hope and faith in His creation and is planning to destroy it and start anew. Mankind's only hope to stop God from His plans of destruction rests in the hands of Lyric Daniels, a goddess incarnate from the...

From the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the evolution of the African American in society. With...

Down on his luck and still pining for his ex-wife, South Carolina taxidermist Romie Futch spends his evenings drunkenly surfing the Internet before passing out on his couch. In a last-ditch attempt to pay his mortgage, he replies to an ad and becomes a...

Four former singing group members decide to form a record label called Positive Records Period to promote the idea of songs without swearing, the "n" word, excessive sexual connotations, prejudices towards others, etc. Their hope is through this label...

The Nabi'im, or Prophets, are the guardians of this world. They defend not just the hearts, minds and spirits of humanity but the very life of God's most precious creation, though there have been instances wherein a Nabi strayed from his path and due to...

We've all pretended to be something we're not. But Rupen Najarian, an eighty-three-year-old musician living in Glendale, California, has built his whole existence on a lie. The day his village in Turkey was torched by soldiers, seven-year-old Rupen...