Fiction

Bold, envisioned storytelling. A hands down pleasure to read. --Richard Wagamese In the winter of 1989, Eva Gibson is a university student living in downtown Toronto. She's homesick and anxious to finish her education and return home to serve her...

A riveting tale about a back-room abortion that has devastating consequences for two teenage girls on a close knit Philadelphia block circa 1972 Block parties were king in this West Philadelphia neighborhood, especially the year Cecil Street decided to...

In this "very satisfying mix of dizzying intrigue and steamy romance, " the #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a novel that's "perfect for those who love a good alpha male and a damsel in distress who doesn't wait for someone else to rescue...

Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this breathtaking debut novel tells the story of the most famous woman ever written out of literary history. "I am the queen of two crowns, banished fifteen years, the famed and gilded woman, bad-luck baleful girl,...

This dark, propulsive novel, the crowning masterwork by the 92-year-old Caldwell, takes place during 1992, when AIDS was still an incurable scourge and death casualties were every day events. One cold winter night, when the artist, Dempsey Coates, is on...

Lazarus Jones, a native of Boston and a Vietnam War veteran, travels to Mt. Kenya, East Africa to escape from his haunting war demons and the racism of 1970's Boston.On his journey, Lazarus meets Mukuria who has led a life of privilege in Nairobi, and...

Here is one of those rare and remarkable debuts that herald the appearance of a major new talent on the literary scene. Inspired by real events, Lay That Trumpet In Our Hands is a wise and luminous story about a northern family, a southern town, and the...

Nita Gonzalez takes readers on a terrifying tour of the streets of North Philadelphia, where the code of the streets rules supreme. Told in such vivid detail and with a gritty and compelling style, this story of mayhem in the City of Brotherly Love is...

Bernadette "Bernie" Hunt prides herself on never settling. In school, she was always at the top of her class, and after graduating from Spellman with honors she landed a job at one of Atlanta's top marketing firms. She lives by her father's motto: the...

Bernadette Bernie Hunt prides herself on never settling. In school, she was always at the top of her class, and after graduating from Spellman with honors she landed a job at one of Atlanta's top marketing firms. She lives by her father's motto: the best...

#1 Bestselling Novel, Last Words, is where reality meets Fiction, and the lines in between are blurred by forbidden love. Amelia - 1942: The inside of my closet held the last bit of my freedom before I was torn from my home and shoved onto a dark train...

The towering vertical city of Mahala is on the brink of war with its neighboring countries. It might be his worst nightmare, but Rojan and the few remaining pain mages have been drafted in to help. The city needs power in whatever form they can get it --...

Part epistolary novel laced with flights of magic realism escapist fantasy, part bellettrist polemic debating a shopping list of culture war topics, Last Refuge of a Scoundrel is an unusual, multifaceted and densely textured book meant to linger on your...

Marriage isn't easy--especially without honesty. In this exploration of love, intimacy, guilt, and infidelity, two people learn what happens when their feelings get in the way of the truth. For Sydney Holmes and Brandon Carter, love is losing its...

Not even death can kill you...Dare should be dead.You don't get hit by a high voltage power line in a freak accident and live. Unless the Second Chance program wants you for its own ends, that is. A second life, one last chance, but at the cost of...

Step into the dark and mysterious underworld of the crime-ridden streets of California as Les Plesko's striking and hip debut novel follows a young drug addict through the streets of Venice. Stuck in the daunting and mindless routine of drug use, a young...