Fiction

In The Cleanup Man, we meet Tomeka Washington, whose love life has never been a bed of roses. First, she was betrayed by her little girl s father. On Thanksgiving, of all days, her heart is broken by Antone, who is committed to only what happens between...

How long can you fight Fate? How far must you go to claim what is yours?Sidroc the Dane has been in Angle-land for twelve years. The first nine were all hard fighting. He has won treasure beyond counting, and now peace for his men. But there is one thing...

How long can you fight Fate? How far must you go to claim what is yours? Sidroc the Dane has been in Angle-land for twelve years. The first nine were all hard fighting. He has won treasure beyond counting, and now peace for his men. But there is one...

The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and monsters. Jude Dubuisson knows things he shouldn't. He has the supernatural ability to find lost things, a gift passed down to him by the father he has...

The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and monsters. The post-Katrina New Orleans of The City of Lost Fortunes is a place haunted by its history and by the hurricane's destruction, a place that is...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Library Journal Vulture The Verge SYFYWireStep into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty, an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in...

In The City Line Bus Stop: Bringing the City Together, Victoria Vasalle, known as Mother Ve-Ve, a transit operator and a bold person, understands the criminal street culture around her. She had lost two of her sons to the dangerous lifestyle of crime...

Young women with courage. Swords with names. Vikings with tattoos. Warfare. Passion. Survival. Sheep. And Other Good Things . . .It is the year 871, when England was Angle-Land. Of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, five have fallen to the invading Vikings. No...

It is the year 871. Of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, five have fallen to the invading Vikings. No trait is more valued than loyalty, and no possession more precious than one's steel. Across this war-torn landscape travels fifteen year old Ceridwen, now...

Every young boy wants to be like his father when he grows into a man. But Jonathan had a different plan. He wanted a different kind of life. His love for his father was unquestionable, and he would do anything to keep him happy. The church was his...

Jack Porter never forgot the church at the fork in the road--where the entire congregation was black. When he was a boy, white folks did not associate with a church made up of black folks. Fifty years later the times have changed, and so has Jack. When...

In Cleveland, Ohio, drugs, rape, violence, and mayhem became a part of a neighborhood called Hough Heights. After the Hough riots in 1966 and 1968 and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, the children of Hough were growing up experiencing the...

Bria Twon didn't have the pristine upbringing like so many of her friends, raised an only child by an alcoholic mother, Bria has had to deal with hurt, shame, and embarrassment. Bria's childhood has impacted her adult life, and she doesn't know what to...

A collection of short stories about a long-gone Brooklyn from the legendary New York writer Pete Hamill. Pete Hamill's collected stories about Brooklyn present a New York almost lost but not forgotten. They read like messages from a vanished age,...

Australian bestselling novelist Karen Brooks rewrites women back into history with this breathtaking novel set in 17th century London--a lush, fascinating story of the beautiful woman who is drawn into a world of riches, power, intrigue...and chocolate...

Jim Natas has spent the last decade enhancing the functionality of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to identify, track, and provide information on every living organism via an implantable chip. His concealed mission: The creation of one...