Fiction

From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming-of-age Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of character, an account of one...

"This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In this woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman...

First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standard -- and double consciousness -- that ruled the lives of black people in modern America. Republished in 1927, at the...

Recalling the great confessional narratives from St. Augustine to Jean Jacques Rousseau, from Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass to Henry Adams, James Weldon Johnson relates the emotionally gripping tale of a mixed-race piano prodigy who can pass...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man takes place in post Reconstruction era America and follows the story of a young biracial male. Johnson poses a complex dilemma: because the Ex-Colored Man, which is the only name by which the...

Originally published in 1912, this novel was one of the first to present a frank picture of being black in America Masked in the tradition of the literary confession practiced by such writers as St. Augustine and Rousseau, this autobiography purports to...

Lenna has been hiding from the Guild since she was born. If they knew about her magic her life would be forfeit. She must brave the possibility of discovery by entering the Guild under the guise of a human recruit after her father goes missing. She...

Michael Hy-Yung, the son of business mogul David Hy-Yung, was born holding the keys to the world. Utilizing his intellectual prowess for business and government alike, he positions himself to become the next and best president of the United States. But...

The pack knows Ljubljana's sun-kissed streets will taste the touch of death. But whether they will walk upon them victorious or mar them with their own blood is a guess nobody dares to make. Caged in the promise of war and with enemy forces pressing in...

[An] extraordinary achievement. --Liesl Schillinger, The Wall Street JournalAcross three generations, three wars, two continents, and the mythic waters of the Mediterranean, one family's history leads to an inevitable question: What price do our...

What was it like in the heyday of the Hip-Hop video vixen? Enter Tangie's world and find out how to master the art of deceit. Sex, drugs, lies and video tape all dwell in the shadows of Hip-Hop. It's a glamorous and alluring world that can blind its...

"Feels revolutionary in its freshness." --Entertainment Weekly "The Arsonists' City delivers all the pleasures of a good old-fashioned saga, but in Alyan's hands, one family's tale becomes the story of a nation--Lebanon and Syria, yes, but also the...

The Battle of Gettysburg, July 1 to 3, 1863, all but ended General Robert E. Lee's invasion of the north. The estimates of total casualties [on both sides] were over 57,000. The battle also ended Quinn's military career. "Son," Colin Duncan inquired,...

Attorney Kenneth Starr's client, a DNA expert, found out some serious espionage regarding DNA sampling and Labrador Inc. contract with the United States government regarding DNA child support reports against men across the nation. The reports were false,...

A woman who prides herself on being the perfect fidelity bait--who will seal the deal for an additional price--finds herself enmeshed in a sensual scenario that she can't afford to lose... How important is it to know your man's worth? For Jayla Morgan,...

Guilty. Not Guilty. Those are the only options facing Ebony Jones. She is standing trial in the death of Judge Barker Gordon. A crime she says she did not commit. Defended by her boyfriend, and former State Attorney James Parnell, the two of them are...