Fiction

In this third installment of the Tennyson Hardwick series from an award-winning team, Tennyson travels to South Africa and becomes entangled in a web of kidnapping, murder, lies, and espionage. THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS OF CASANEGRA AND IN THE NIGHT OF...

From the Essence bestselling author of Take Her Man comes a chic page-turner starring the 3TsTamia, Troy, and Tashathree New York City It Girls whose lives are about to be turned upside down]] Gorgeous, sophisticated, and successful, Tamia is a sister...

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film--a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't--nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read...

Na’imah just wants to be a good girl and have her name pronounced correctly, but the cold and cruel world just won’t cooperate. With friends like Amber, who wears her jealousy better than her tacky outfits... and Aaron, the boyfriend who prefers weed...

By turns funny, smart, poignant, insightful, and engaging, What Doesn't Kill You tells how Thomasina Tee Hodges loses her job and finds herself. "I really thought I had a handle on life — then it broke off." Opinionated, straight-talking, and...

Synopsis: Drucilla from "The Young and the Restless" exposes the glamorous and drama-filled life of a soap star, on and off the stage, in this funny, beach-read of a novel.Publisher Comments: Calysta Jeffries is the hottest black actress in daytime and...

BET Comedy Award-winner and "New York Times"-bestselling author delivers a moving debut novel about how a bitter and lonely woman rediscovers her ability to give and receive love.

Thirteen original and interconnected stories in the traditions of Junot Diaz and Sherman Alexie. Victor D. LaValle's astonishing, violent, and funny debut offers harrowing glimpses at the vulnerable lives of young people who struggle not only to come of...

Camille Logan feels trapped. After she is sexually and emotionally abused by her foster parents, she turns to the one person she knows she can trust--her boyfriend Chu, a mid-level drug dealer. But when life finally starts looking up for Camille, Chu is...

The late Harris explores the down low culture that made his first novel "Invisible Life" a groundbreaking phenomenon in his latest rip-roaring tale of sex, secrets, and betrayal. Annotation: The late Harris explores the down low culture that made his...

Stringer, whose work has been featured in "The New York Times, Newsweek, Essence," and "Black Enterprise," presents her latest romance novel. "Urban street lit doesn't get any dirtier than Stringer's series (Dirty Red, Still Dirty) about Raven 'Red'...

Hannibal Jones agrees to clear an apartment building of squatters, drug users and dealers, and the homeless, but he finds more trouble in Southeast Washington than he expects. The people holding crack pipes are backed up by people holding guns, and...

After her daughter's disappearance, a world-weary grandmother becomes the guardian of her two streetwise grandchildren--but their no-good father will do anything to get them back. After twenty-nine years of marriage, Hattie has paid her dues. She's now...

From the author of "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" comes a sweeping and emotional family drama that explores the richness and complexity of the love between mothers and daughters.