Fiction

Phoenix is an explosive crime thriller that is packed with drama, love, and deceit where four friends growing up on Chicago's south side are stuck right in the midst of it all. NuNu, a high school football star with a scholarship to Ohio State. His life...

Philadelphia streets were never silent. Gangs wars on corners, screeching cars on avenues, and squealing steel trolley tires on tracks kept you alert for the next confrontation. Philadelphia playgrounds were sometimes silent. These were sanctuaries where...

Philadelphia's kingpin is a queen with a tragic past, this is her story of survival and strength from the beginning... Just as every superhero has an origin story, so does every drug dealer who holds the title kingpin.Before all of the hood fame, fancy...

One of John Wideman's most ambitious and celebrated works, the lyrical masterpiece and PEN/Faulkner winner inspired by the 1985 police bombing of the West Philadelphia row house owned by black liberation group Move. In 1985, police bombed a West...

In this sequel to the Nebula Award-nominated and Tiptree Award Honor Book that New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire called "exciting, inventive, and brilliantly plotted," Millie unwillingly returns to the Arcadia Project when an impossible...

I've never been on ideal terms with Fate.After the attacks, it wasn't hard to link events with a deadly book. I'm desperate to get rid of it. But a toll must be taken. Thank Gods Peter was there to bring me back from the brink.The discovery of a fae...

One night's transgression. A love unveiled. The in-escapable outcome of passion and vengeance. Carissa Alkippes is a daughter of a god, but she doesn't know it. As a cop she's seen her fair share of bad, but nothing prepared her for the horror of the...

Perfectly Fine Christmas is an entertaining coming-of-age holiday fairy tale with a romantic twist that La Jill Hunt's fans are sure to enjoy. Who says Cinderella is the only one who gets a happily ever after? Shouldn't the fairy godmother get a knight...

Introduction Camille is a successful pharmaceutical representative who has it all going for herself. She is sophisticated, sexy, and can pay her own way. She has two best friends, Pam and Tara, and they are like the sisters she never had. Camille is also...

New York Times bestselling romance powerhouse Brenda Jackson's classic novel reunites two friends on a sexy, emotional journey through love, loyalty, and trust--aboard a breathtaking Caribbean cruise. Maxine Chandler and Mya Rivers were once the best of...

Stalking, violence, and philandering threaten the well-being of the professional and private lives of four characters in the Emerald City of Seattle. Ayman Sparks is the head coach of the East Seattle City University basketball team. He tries to control...

The third and final novel in the Maradaine Elite series blends fast-paced high fantasy and political intrigue, bringing together the threads of the interconnected Maradaine novels. Corruption and conspiracy have infected the city of Maradaine, from the...

"Hillerman . . . is in a class by himself."-- Los Angeles TimesThe fourth novel in New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman's highly acclaimed Leaphorn and Chee series.A dying man is murdered. A rich man's wife agrees to pay three thousand...

In Penny Candy and Other Stories, Trisha Batchelor exploits the strengths of a literary form rarely published today--the short story. The title story captures the longing of a child affected by her father's absence. In "More Than Lovely" two families...

Penitentiary Tales: A Love Story recounts the escapades of Dean Davis, a thirty-something, educated, straight white male from the affluent community of Sausalito, in Marin County, California, who is sent to an Illinois prison dominated by a daunting,...

"These letters reveal how I remembered I had wings, and that I could fly - not because I had them, but because I had the courage to use them." The ageing Arabella Gallina is struggling to pack up her family's centuries-old coffee plantation house in...