Fiction

Could there be a timelier gift to quarantined readers...? I doubt it.--The Washington PostA heartening gathering of writers joining forces for community support.--Kirkus Reviews Connects writers, readers, and booksellers in a wonderfully imaginative way...

A superstar in urban lit, Essence bestselling author Danielle Santiago concludes her gripping Harlem trilogy with a sizzling, streetwise novel about an all-female drug cartel. Twenty-year-old Arnessa didn't grow up on the streets. But when her mentally...

Christmas in Neighborlee means magic. This year more than ever. The Fae have come to visit. And hide. And seek true love. Lori is allergic to mistletoe, thanks to a traumatic encounter with Dickens. She comes to Neighborlee to hide from matchmaking...

Set in a colorfully painted but crumbling housing project near a Buffalo, New York, steel mill, this novel full of wisdom, grace and poetry (Newsday) traces two decades in the lives of the project's residents. At the heart of this collective portrait is...

The epic gay Civil War saga continues in this second installment in the award-winning Unmentionables book series. In All to Pieces you'll meet colorful new characters and revisit some of the characters you met in Book 1. Warning: Spoilers ahead if you...

Mya Wilson, a paralegal in St. Louis has spent the last couple of years entertaining married men or rather allowing them to entertain her. Never has she preyed on a married man, it's just what society has offered. No it's not ideal but neither is wearing...

CRAZY IN LOVE...OR JUST PLAIN CRAZY? LeBaron Brown would have to be completely nuts to let a vibrant, intelligent, sexy woman like Phoenix Morgan walk out of his life. But after failing to pop The Question that Phoenix was anticipating on their third...

Jervey Tervalon delivered a marvelous read (USA TODAY) in Dead Above Ground, his national bestselling novel of a troubled Southern family--now his literary landscape shifts to the West Coast, in this compelling portrayal of a young black university...

"When I read a Tiffany L. Warren novel I know I'm going to get two things--a riveting story and a faith boost!" --ReShonda Tate Billingsley They are forty-something, successful, financially set . . . and done with trying to find "perfect" husbands. So...

From award-winning, Essence(R) bestselling author Tiffany L. Warren, the warm, relatable, drama-filled story of three successful, forty-something women who broke all their dating rules in their search for Mr. Right. They found more straight-up...

From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and "one of India's greatest living authors" (O, The Oprah Magazine), a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present day about a son's quest to uncover the...

It should come as no surprise to learn that Palestinian writers themselves have been in the forefront of those who have addressed themselves to the tragedy of their own people, and in a variety of genres and styles... While all these writers display a...

From award-winning author Patricia Raybon comes a compelling new historical mystery series, a riveting puzzle confronting the hidden secrets of class, race, family, and love.Can an amateur detective solve the cold case mystery of her lost father's...

All Her Little Secrets is a brilliantly nuanced but powerhouse exploration of race, the legal system, and the crushing pressure of keeping secrets. Morris brings a vibrant and welcome new voice to the thriller space. --Karin Slaughter, New York Times and...

A National Bestseller "I read it twice, laughing, cringing, and even tearing up." -- Judy Blume, New York Times "Powerful . . . All Grown Up is so intimately [and] sharply observed." -- Vogue "Bravo to Attenberg, who, with hilarity and honesty, tells...