Fiction

It's 1859, and Lani, a 13-year-old Yoruba girl, is torn from the safety of her village in West Africa by marauding men. - this debut novel puts a teenager girl's prospective on the antebellum South with an unusual choice for her existence or freedom...

Is anything easy when you're saving the world?After a demon comes calling and Megan Murphy's bar blows sky-high, she's suddenly on the run with her klutzy day shift bartender, the exceedingly gorgeous Quinn Fitzpatrick.Quinn has been in love with Megan...

The first and only short story collection by William Melvin Kelley, author of A Different Drummer, and the source from which he drew inspiration for his subsequent novels. Originally published in 1964, this collection of sixteen stories includes three...

What happens when a fifteen-year-old secret between three best friends is exposed? Celeste Harper seems to be happily married and living life to its fullest. That's what she wants everyone to believe, but her failure to conceive a baby and the critical...

Justice is blind. Justine isn't. Book two in the Saturn's Daughter series, in which Tina Clancy is gifted with the power to dispense justice...for good or evil. YOU DON'T NEED A LAW DEGREE TO DISPENSE STREET JUSTICE. Tina Clancy hardly has a chance to...

Rafik Schami's award-winning novel. In the classical Arab tradition of tale-telling, here is a magical book that celebrates the power of storytelling, delightfully transformed for modern sensibilities by an award-winning author. The time is present-day...

The ultimate daddy by default--stuck paying child support for a kid who isn't his--is now an advocate for fathers who are being victimized by the system. In this follow-up to Daddy By Default, it's five years since Parker Redman's life changed...

In this gritty page-turner, a young woman on the run finds herself immersed in still more life-threatening danger when she seeks refuge with a perilous man.A life filled with fast money and violence lands twenty-three-year-old Candice Holmes in a witness...

Larry Jackson, better known as Daddy Cool, is a ruthlessly efficient black hit man, equally effective with a gun or a knife in nailing his prey. The only thing that can melt his icy heart is his love for his teenage daughter Janet. But when the smooth...

Nazir who at tha tender age of 11 was sentenced to juvenile life for tha murder of his abusive step-father grew up in tha system. His mother died when he was 14, leaving him to depend on his Nana and trust no one. He was released to tha mean streetz of...

When the Streets call, twelve-year-old Damien answers, with an aspiration to be rich and infamous. Unlike most kids, he does not want to be a doctor, lawyer, actor, or tech mogul. He set his goal with a little more infamy in mind--a drug lord.After his...

CZARFACE'S ULTIMATE ORIGIN REVEALED! Hero to some, villain to others, Czarface's true origins have remained a mystery...UNTIL NOW! Who are the Zarta Ku? And why has their desperate mission brought them to Planet Earth? Meanwhile, Zach and his dog were...

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel "Cuyahoga is tragic and comic, hilarious and inventive--a 19th-century legend for 21st-century America" (The Boston Globe). Big Son is a spirit of the times--the times being 1837. Behind his broad...

*Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award * One of The Millions and BuzzFeed's Most Anticipated Books * A spectacularly inventive debut novel that reinvents the tall tale for our times--"Cuyahoga defies all modest description...[it] is ten feet tall if...

Loathed by those who should love her, can one fierce woman discover the secrets of her unique blood in time to be her own rescuer?Forrest Hesketh desperately clings to humanity. Trapped in an infuriatingly inept wolf form since she was nine years old,...