Fiction

In formally adventurous stories rooted in Zambian literary tradition, Obligations to the Wounded explores the expectations and burdens of womanhood in Zambia and for Zambian women living abroad. The collection converses with global social problems...

As a playwright, director, and performer, Robbie McCauley has been an influential presence in the American avant-garde theatre for many decades. In her work, she consistently confronts uncomfortable truths about race and racism in America with a sharp...

Two lives spiral into a chaotic, fatal pas de deux during a weekend of sex, alcohol and violence--from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series Years ago, Jesse Robinson and Kriss Cummings had a passionate weekend in Chicago, but they haven't...

International Booker-nominated satirist GauZ' returns with a panoramic journey into the colonization of the African interior.In an attempt to avoid life as a factory worker, Dabilly, a young white man in late nineteenth-century France, seeks colonial...

A prominent romance author has a slump in her love life and book sales, but a chance encounter with a hot firefighter helps her reignite her muse in this swoony holiday romance, perfect for book romantics. Saira Wright is a prominent Black romance author...

Old flames are reunited with the burden of their past and a love that still lingers in this heartfelt holiday romance by Jahquel J. Being known as the daughter of the Sageport's town drunk always left Faith Stone defending her mother and herself. Her...

What if toxic pollutants traveled up the socioeconomic ladder rather than down it? A Black biochemist provides an answer in this wildly original novel of pollution, poison, and dark pleasure In Atlanta, Kenny Bomar is a...

Blake Karrington once again takes you on a Southern literary ride with his latest criminal romance. In Deeper than Love, find out what happens when Ciara and Sabrina fail to realize that the answers they seek to close the biggest case of their careers...

A Dark Place is a chilling story about the untold struggles of the disenfranchised and illustrates inspiringly how one man cannot turn his back on the problems of his former community--even though he so desperately wants to leave behind that troubled...

Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive standoffs between mostly good and completely evil converge in a dystopian fantasy that could only be conceived by the inimitable Walter Mosley, one of the country's most beloved and acclaimed writers...

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "[A] richly textured and deeply moving debut" (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice) about one unforgettable Southern Black family and its youngest daughter's coming of age in the 1990s. "A triumph . . . Redwood Court...

Tressa always thought that the best moment in her life was the day she gave birth to her twin boys, Khalil and Hadji, but even better was when she got the news that their abusive father, Lucky, was dead. His death gave the streets freedom and safety and...

A young woman's quest for a better education results in a case of modern-day slavery, written by the award-winning author of Swallow and Everything Good Will Come. In The Good-for-Nothing Girl, Gift, an eighteen-year-old Nigerian, gives an account of how...

Three deadly sins take center stage in this street anthology by some of Urban Books's most popular authors. Book 1: Lust by Treasure Hernandez Amira James has always had everything she ever wanted: the home, the clothes, and the rich lawyer daddy...

Blindspot in America gives a provocative depiction of some of the realities immigrants face in the United States--racism and discrimination--but also their hopes and faith in a country that promises freedom and opportunity to all. Kamao is the son of a...

In Tisa Bryant's Unexplained Presence, readers are spectators of mis-en-scènes in which black subjectivity has been distorted and denied within various visual narratives. Moving from cultural analysis to cinematic (re)creation, Bryant's prose traverses...