Fiction

Emille Jackson, nicknames Aunt Millips, was reared a slave girl on a plantation from the age of five. She was a mulatto whose mother was of Ethiopian descent and whose father was a white man she never knew. When she was fifteen her slave owner gave her...

August Wilson (1945-2005) wrote one play for every decade of the twentieth century that explored black life in America for the descendants of slaves. All of his characters seek wholeness, identity, and reconstituted selves after the terror of 250 years...

Winner of the Hammett Prize and the Nero Award From the wealthy suburbs to the remains of Detroit's bankrupt factory districts, August Snow is a fast-paced tale of murder, greed, sex, economic cyber-terrorism, race and urban decay. Tough, smart, and...

Welcome back to 7C.Nothing is where you left it.The first time the employees of Stake Inc. tangled with the tenants of 7C, it almost put the urban vampire-hunting company out of business. Now they're rebranding. Clare was the one who got them into...

A city hidden for five thousand years. A man so ancient his early history is lost to time. A woman who has nothing to lose... Lorhen, oldest and most ruthless of the immortal Timeless, put aside the sword long ago for a quiet life. But peace doesn't last...

Demetrius Morgan, better known as ATL $lim, Southern Hip-Hop's Iconic, lean sipping, trap music megastar. His mumble rap mystery & blatant thuggish behavior was and is unsurpassed to this very day. This tale of the rap game's dark side, explores both the...

At the Mercy of Men: The Story of Elliot Brown, a Maryland SlaveBy: Patrick Dean ColemanAt the Mercy of Men is a novel based on actual people, places, and events related to the life of Elliot Brown, an enslaved African-American who lived from...

Bestselling author Keiichiro Hirano offers a timeless ode to love's fragility and its resilience in this delicate, award-winning novel.Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at the height of his career when he first lays eyes on...

Bestselling author Keiichiro Hirano offers a timeless ode to love's fragility and its resilience in this delicate, award-winning novel.Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at the height of his career when he first lays eyes on...

Bestselling author Keiichiro Hirano offers a timeless ode to love's fragility and its resilience in this delicate, award-winning novel.Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at the height of his career when he first lays eyes on...

At the End of the Day is the exhilarating, heart-pounding, and action-packed follow-up to Nothing Stays the Same--emotional and sometimes stormy journey of several friends as they encounter and weather life's blessings and tragedies. Beautiful Denise...

The 10th Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Awarded by Barbara Kingsolver "What a read this is, right from its startling opening scene. But even more than plot, it's the richly layered details that drive home a...

The 10th Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Awarded by Barbara Kingsolver "What a read this is, right from its startling opening scene. But even more than plot, it's the richly layered details that drive home a...

For years Joan has been trying to forget her past, to find peace and satisfaction in her role as wife and mother. Few in her drowsy California suburb know her thrilling history: as a young American ballerina in Paris, she fell into a doomed, passionate...

A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of I Am Not Sidney PoitierOgden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman's murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to and...

Former nano-soldier Tangie Newsham may be trapped in the hidden realm of Hyfold -- a land of magic beneath the ordinary world -- but it's not all bad. After earning the queen's favor by recovering the lost Scepter of Truth, she's been given the title of...