Fiction

Detective Inspector Sara Nayar is a goddess. Literally. A Hindu goddess accidentally brought to England during Queen Victoria's reign. Working now as a police detective, Sara survives on humanity's innate faith in law and order.Sheffield is a city of...

Detective Inspector Sara Nayar is a goddess. Literally. A Hindu goddess accidentally brought to England during Queen Victoria's reign. Working now as a police detective, Sara survives on humanity's innate faith in law and order.Sheffield is a city of...

In this stunning departure from her mystery writing, Penny Mickelbury's collection of stories God's Will and Other Lies, attends to the lives of Black women, mostly aging and elderly, all determined to face life with strength and grace.A nearly blind...

The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt Marder: gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. It's 1871, and he's lost his farm, his wife, and his dog to a band of marauding hooligans. With nothing to live on but a desire...

The first in an alternate fantasy series where vampires, werewolves, and goblins rule London. Queen Victoria rules with an immortal fist.The undead matriarch presides over a Britain where the Aristocracy is made up of werewolves and vampires, where...

Joe grew up in an infested project in the urban, ghetto of Bronx, New York with a prostituted crack-head mother and a father he never knew. He had to grow up fast, facing the fact of what people thought about what a thug is, and the fact of his mother...

Monroe is a masterful storyteller. --Philadelphia Inquirer Monroe's use of humor to depict ordinary people with complex and messy lives will keep readers glued to each and every page. --Library Journal These days, Annette Goode Davis has a full...

This haunting coming-of-age story, based in part on James Baldwin's childhood in Harlem, is an American classic. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was Baldwin's first major work. With a potent combination of lyrical compassion and...

This is a story about a girl named Glory McCoy, an aspiring singer with the voice of an angel, and her journey to becoming the best singer and songwriter in the world. During a talent show that Glory was watching, she meets a talent scout named Sonny who...

Young Glory Strair found herself in an impossible situation...pretending to be someone she wasn t for one night. She learned quickly that dressing the part and actually fulfilling the role were two different things and she finds herself faced with a...

African King Taka Olufemi has traveled over four hundred years to find the woman who holds the soul of his murdered queen and he's a little cranky. With a ruby brooch as his vessel, the former king is forced to grant wishes to ungrateful mortals hoping...

For Shannon Johnson, full-time wife, mom and freelance writer, life as she knew it changed one spring afternoon with the ringing of her doorbell. On the other side stood Vaneetra James, former mistress of Shannon's husband, Daniel. With two sons, Shannon...

Unable to match firepower with the competition--Sonny, a coiffed millionaire; Baby Doll, a 300-pound Jesus freak; and Studs, a ruthless lesbian--Giveadamn devises a shrewd scheme. His secret weapon: the Golden Fleece, a fantastical machine that defies...

Mouse Watkins is the leader of the Bad Apples, the funkiest old school soul band in St. Louis. For twenty years, he's been laying down smoking grooves, tasty rhythms, and gutbucket funk in dance clubs up and down the Mississippi, always one break away...

"A harrowing portrait of race relations in America, as beautiful as it is urgent."--Entertainment Weekly"Black satire with bite, like Zora Neale Hurston used to do, with a smile and a sharp elbow. A touch of Paul Beatty, a dose of Dolemite, and a serving...

In the Winter of 2001, 29-year-0ld Walt Steadman survives a shooting in his favorite Boston Café that leaves four people dead. In the aftermath, Walt forms two new relationships: one with Ginger Newton, a privileged, reckless, Harvard undergraduate who...