Fiction

Astonishing. Okparanta's narrators render their stories with such strength and intimacy, such lucidity and composure, that in each and every case the truths of their lives detonate deep inside the reader's heart, with the power and force of revelation...

Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in the Brooklyn Projects, Taylor is a street savvy, curvy girl who loves hard candy and bad boys. But during the summer of 1994, the summer not only brings with it heat, it brings disaster and takes Taylor to places...

HANG MY HEAD AND CRY is Elena Santangelo's second novel featuring Pat Montella. Her first novel, BY BLOOD POSSESSED, was an Agatha Award Finalist for Best First Novel. She is also an award-winning writer of short mysteries and ghost tales. Book...

In the third novel in the New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand year-old Druid Atticus O'Sullivan must take down the Norse god of thunder himself. "A page-turning and often laugh-out-loud-funny caper through a mix of the modern...

It's her first case and it might be her last.Soriya has worked her entire life to become the Greystone--protector of her city, Portents, against the growing shadows of myth and legend. All her efforts are in jeopardy when she is struck down by the...

Keisha Jones had her life all figured out. So she thought. She was on track to getting her career started as a teacher. She assumed she'd marry her high school sweetheart after graduation and have a few babies down the road. But an unplanned pregnancy...

A battle for werewolf territory and rights has Rhett fighting for his life and for the survival of the pack. The last Half Blood --a half human, half vampire hybrid--has been found and Rhett has been chosen as her unlikely Guardian. The pack's survival...

CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLIST "A debut novel as impressive as they come. Tough, wily, dreamlike." --Seattle Times A decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love. In 1976, Tomás Orilla is a...

For the forces of evil, Sam Roberts is catnip. Even during periods of calm, Sam knows that evil is just biding its time before challenging him again. So when he is asked to defend a wealthy shut-in charged with murder, he is suspicious. Why is the...

The explosive sequel to GANGSTA has finally arrived! Blood answers for blood on the streets of Harlem. It's been months since Lou-loc was brutally murdered on his way to freedom and the pain is still fresh. Gutter, Lou-loc's best friend, finds himself on...

What can a black teen from the gang-controlled South End projects of Boston and a seventy-year-old curmudgeonly Italian man, who has given up on life, have in common? Jamiel Russell and Gus Busbi live in the same house but they've never met. They both...

Includes a free bonus: a Kate Daniels novella, "Magic Gifts" The New York Times bestselling Kate Daniels novels have been hailed as "top-notch urban fantasy" (Monsters and Critics). Now, Ilona Andrews delves deeper into Kate's world, and reveals its...

In the Deep South of antebellum Charleston, enslaved Gullah woman Hentie survives the day-to-day sufferings brought on by her cruel master and the white planter society that controls the institution of slavery. From Hentie's abduction and confinement on...

In the Deep South of antebellum Charleston, enslaved Gullah woman Hentie survives the day-to-day sufferings brought on by her cruel master and the white planter society that controls the institution of slavery. From Hentie's abduction and confinement on...

Growth of a Single Cell captures the highs, lows, and development of the poetic talent of Nails. Through this book, Nails utilizes prose to weave thought provoking images and scenarios. His work covers a cornucopia of topics including love, politics,...

A delightfully modern look at what happens for a young woman when tradition, dating, and independence collide, from acclaimed author Sonya Lalli. Adulting shouldn't be this hard. Especially in your thirties. Having been pressured by her tight-knit...