Fiction

Curtis Black's daughter, Alicia, is all grown up and even more trouble than her rascally father, in this new novel from the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Sin No More" and "Love and Lies."

With the cards stacked against her, Precious has to gamble it all and use the only weapon she has left--her street savvy brains to outwit the most dangerous enemies she's encountered yet. In this game where the winner takes all, who will come out on...

Following the "New York Times"-bestselling novels "Sleeping with Strangers" and "Waking with Enemies," Dickey returns with the final installment in his thrilling trilogy--a fast-paced story about a steamy, seamy underworld of crime that spans the globe.

In this fast-paced novel, a newly appointed judge is caught up in a gritty case involving a brutally murdered woman discovered in Detroit's Eastside--a death no one else seems to care about.

A remarkable talent ("Chicago Sun-Times") delivers a powerful and provocative new page-turner about one woman's search for love in a world where secrets don't always stay hidden, and the choices made in one rash moment can change everything."The question...

EAN: 9780758211590A beautiful home, a successful business, and more women than most men encounter in a lifetime--Kyle Lawson seems to have it all. But when his Native American grandfather dies, Kyle begins experiencing terrifying dreams.

In this anthology, black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred.

2009 Coretta Scott King Book Award Honoree (Author) So many unanswered questions weigh down thirteen-year-old C.J. as he struggles to understand why his father walked out. His father is back now, though C.J. is not as quick to forgive as the other...

The follow-up to his bestselling memoir "Monster," Shakur's vicious, heart-wrenching, and true-to-life novel is a powerful and gripping exploration of the terror of gang life and one man's attempt to free himself. The follow up to his best-selling memoir...

Gideon, the hit man introduced in Sleeping with Strangers, returns in this "high-octane"(Publishers Weekly) thriller to discover that a hit has been taken out on him. Is it the man he left alive in Tampa, the cold beauty who taught him how to kill, the...

The Reverend Curtis Black is turning over a new leafor is he? From "New York Times"-bestselling author Kim Lawson Roby comes a novel featuring her beloved, rascally reverend. Will he be able to live a life without sin?A man who once thrived on wickedness...

Based on the author's experiences working with offenders of domestic violence, an extraordinary novel about one woman's courageous journey to discover her voice, strength, and dignity after drowning in an abusive marriage. After suffering under years of...

With the same erotic force as "Killing Johnny Fry," but grounded in a far darker vision of human nature, "Diablerie" is a transfixing new novel from a powerful writer.In this icy noir from a master of American fiction, the darkest secrets are the ones we...

Now entering mid-life, Vann Sinclair is ready to do for herself after years of doing for others. But the serene life Vann expected with early retirement turns out to be just a dream. Everything happens for a reason, and Vann soon finds unexpected wonders.

James Langston Hughes (1902 -- 1967) With a career that spanned the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and Black Arts movement of the sixties, Langston Hughes was the most prolific Black poet of his era. Between 1926, when he published his pioneering...

Tempest Landry, an everyman African American, is "accidentally" killed by a cop. He is denied access to heaven because of what he considers a few minor transgressions. Through the street-smart Landry, Mosley poses the provocative question: Is sin for...