Fiction

Since her mother's death, Mýa Day has been no stranger to loss. But with a budding new singing career on the horizon and help from Jack and Mary Tanner, a couple that understands from experience how a troubled past can prevent someone from having a...

Kidnapped from Africa as a child, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan she becomes a scribe for the British, recording the names of blacks who have served the King and earned...

As she struggles to move from antagonism to common ground with Miss Xenobia Kezee, her sick, elderly, cantankerous mother-in-law, Paula Johnson confronts her own mother's death and her husband's detachment from the emotional life of his family.

A resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize The poems in Adrian Matejka's newest and fifth collection, Somebody Else Sold the World, meditate on the...

The gritty and fast-paced tale of a teenage assassin whose exploits capture the attention of a dangerous drug kingpin, who gives her a job that changes her life foreverA teenage girl should not know the power of her body, but Sola Nichols discovers her...

Ziggy creates a journal that describes his college years in the '60s and his friends of that era. When he meets up with one of his best friends from those days in his latest residence on a Portland, Oregon houseboat, they decide to recreate their college...

The sixteenth book in the New York Times bestselling Elemental Assassin urban fantasy series that RT Book Reviews calls, "An extraordinary series...[containing] one of the most intriguing heroines in the genre." If you don't know Gin "the Spider" Blanco,...

There are few moments in life that change you like being held at gunpoint.There are also few events in life that change you like a revelation of your past in a way that forces you to look at your present differently.Seth Brommels, a struggling...

An ambitious photojournalist. An uber-dedicated enforcer. And an explosive, high-profile scandal ignites Camryn King's provocative new thriller . . . Breathtaking oceanfront views, friendly locals, festive meals. At first, award-winning photographer...

In his first novel, J. Everett Prewitt brings us a gripping story of violence and transformation in a small Arkansas community during the early 1960s. Traumatized as a child after witnessing a murder, Anthony Andrews, the first black reporter at the...

The epic conclusion of Sasha Urban's story I found my family, I found my heart, I found myself. But it's not over. No matter how many allies I have, there's no escaping destiny. The end of the world is coming, and I'm the only one who can stop it.

Dezi Gianni has spent twenty plus years rebuilding his empire, becoming even more powerful than he'd been before. Though the life of luxury and privilege that people only dream of never faltered, Dezi was not fulfilled. There was still that one loose...

Isaiah Quintabe--an unlicensed detective for all seasons--and his best friend and masterful sidekick, Juanell Dodson, are at a crossroads in this latest installment of the "aggressively entertaining" IQ series (New York Times). This time, their lives may...

Isaiah Quintabe--an unlicensed detective for all seasons--and his best friend and masterful sidekick, Juanell Dodson, are at a crossroads in this latest installment of the "aggressively entertaining" IQ series (New York Times). This time, their lives may...

Thank you, Captain America and all of the Marvel and DC Heroes, for all your diligent work and self-sacrificing efforts in protecting this world against extremely evil foes. But, sometimes, in small towns around the globe, it could be your town or mine,...