Fiction

Two cultures, embodied in Alma, an ex-nun, and Carmelo, a newly arrived young man from Puerto Rico, hit head-on in this '80s-era story about language and obsession.A Short Joy for Alma Hedman begins as Alma, a troubled postulant nun, leaves her convent...

Merry Gentry, ex-private detective and full-time princess, is now the mother of triplets, a rarity in the high ranks of faerie. And not everyone is happy about it, including Taranis, King of Light and Illusion. He's using the human courts to sue for...

A kidnapped black woman and a sheikh she has on her fingertips. Will she play before escaping?College graduate, Rachel Johnson was kidnapped shortly after her final exam to a beautiful palace in the Middle East. She soon begins flirting with a hot sheik...

This is a story based on true events surrounding the life and times of Elizabeth Jane Jones Davis, known to many as Madea. This story tells of the struggles of the black man living down on the countryside of southern Alabama during the 1950s and 1960s,...

The blood-tingling first novel in Mandy Jackson-Beverly's The Creatives Series! UCLA art professor Coco Rhodes knows little about her family's association with the ancient clandestine organization The Allegiance and wants to keep it that way. She...

The blood-tingling first novel in Mandy Jackson-Beverly's The Creatives Series! UCLA art professor Coco Rhodes knows little about her family's association with the ancient clandestine organization The Allegiance and wants to keep it that way. She...

Tracey Parker cannot escape her destructive past. Even after her divorce and her ex-husband Tony's eventual prison sentence, she still feels the echoes of the abuse she suffered by his hands. With her children in tow, Tracey picks up the pieces of her...

Following the life of newborn infant, Emmanuel, this great contemporary novel of Quebec exposes a painful history central to the new consciousness that emerged in the 1960s known as "the quiet revolution." The story of Emmanuel and his 15 brothers and...

One look across the dance floor. One sexy stranger invited home. One playful bite too many. It's just supposed to be a night out for a bit of fun. But one thing leads to another. And Mina Sun's life is changed forever. When Mina wakes up, all she wants...

This book is about the collective set of circumstances that drove the main character, Nathan, to make the choice to begin robbing banks. Nathan is an ex-con who is doing his best to live a square life and follow the rules. Along the way, he meets a...

Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardWinner of the American Library Association's Sophie Brody MedalFinalist for the National Jewish Book AwardA singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes...

New York Times-bestselling October Daye series - Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire - Top of my urban-paranormal series list! --Felicia Day Things are looking up. For the first time in what feels like years, October Toby Daye has been able to pause...

Under the editorship of the late Robert Nemiroff, with a provocative and thoughtful introduction by preeminent African-American scholar Margaret B. Wilkerson and a commentary by Spike Lee, this completely restored screenplay is the accurate and...

Home. Is it a place or a feeling?When Anu and her family move to a small village in the English countryside, she is desperate to put down roots in her new community. To her dismay, not everyone is welcoming. Is it her? Must she change to fit in?In her...

Letina McDowell is the author of this life revealing written collection. Since the early age of 15, she has demonstrated a work ethic of a true lover of words and expressions. It was in high school when she started placing her thoughts on paper and it...

At the age of forty, Desa Rae Jenkins may be classified as over the hill, but with voluptuous curves in all the right places, she attracts Roc Dawson, one of the sexiest men alive, who happens to be almost half her age. He excites her like no other man...