General Fiction

Will put Allen in the company of writers such as James Joyce, August Wilson, and Ralph Ellison. --The Philadelphia Inquirer When it was first published fifteen years ago, Jeffery Renard Allen's debut novel, Rails Under My Back, earned its author...

Sometimes it's the unexpected that makes life interesting... Smart, sexy Victoria Small has come to the end of her year off--from men, that is. She's enjoyed her hiatus, the peace, quiet--and no unexpected interruptions. But now she's ready to have...

Trouble comes in threes... One doomed love affair after another has made lovely Alex Walton swear off men. Now, she's determined to try something that maybe she can succeed at: a writing career. Little does she know that a chance meeting with a...

Responsible, mature, employed...everything Avery Beauregard Montgomery is not. Instead, Beau is a natural born charmer. He has breezed through life on his dazzling looks, six-pack abs, and sparkling personality. But this pretty boy's luck has run out...

"A brave triumph of a novel that readers won't forget long after finishing it."--The New York Times Book Review Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Good Morning America * Essence* Esquire * The Root * Bustle * Ebony * PopSugar * Ms. * The...

A sizzling, smart, and utterly engaging novel about sex, love, folklore, and family history from the author of Redemption Song and The Haunting of Hip Hop.With her characteristic sense of humor and a good dose of motherly wit, Bertice Berry spins the...

"A work of extraordinary imagination and sympathy, a journey from slavery to the mountaintop, perfectly realized." --Ken Burns, American filmmaker Born on Emancipation Day, 1863, to a sharecropping family of black and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy never...

In this fast-moving, gritty debut novel, one woman learns that even the strictest rules are made to be broken... At thirty-seven, Tuesday is eager for a better way of life. That means getting out of the game her gentleman's club has been fronting. Her...

A generous and intimate novel from American literature's premier chronicler of middle-class angst in the new South. In Elroy Nights, Frederick Barthelme does a fresh turn on territory he's made his own over the last two decades: a middle-class America...

Savant Black is a protector. More logic than emotion, he places emphasis on his present reality above all. When his sister suggests he speak with a life coach, Savant doesn't believe she will be capable of opening his eyes and mind to any life altering...

With a new introduction, Northup's memoir reveals the living truth of slavery, poverty and racism in a world set apart from elite metropolitan lifestyles. The 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson...

The members of Kingdom Citizens Christian Center believe in sharing the spirit of love and generosity with others. Even so, they can't seem to follow the ten commandments, a fact that suggests it just might be time to add rule number eleven. . . While...

Christina Brinsley is that girl. You know the one: a little bougie, a little opinionated, knows it all, has it all, and is a total perfectionist. But Christina's perfectly crafted world isn't really so perfect. Her third engagement fizzled three days...

Albertina Merci is back in this delightful second book featuring everyone's favorite blues singer turned evangelist! After Albertina's dear friend Mr. Mario, the owner of Mr. Mario's Downhome Café, has a heart attack and then loses his wife to diabetes,...