General Fiction

ONE OF USA TODAY'S "BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER!"Acclaimed author of Island Queen Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire...

With Obscure Boundaries, S.F. Powell explores the isolation of grief and its impact on a family trying to heal, adding an 'evil' stepmother for good measure.Psychiatrist, Dr. Naomi Alexander, delves into territory close to home while treating a family in...

Exquisitely compassionate and witty, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers and desires of Black womanhood, as told through the unforgettable voice of Malaya Clondon. In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the...

With Obscure Boundaries, S.F. Powell explores the isolation of grief and its impact on a family trying to heal, adding an 'evil' stepmother for good measure.Psychiatrist, Dr. Naomi Alexander, delves into territory close to home while treating a family in...

In the vein of The Engineer's Wife and Carolina Built, an inspiring novel based on the remarkable true story of Virginia's Black Wall Street and the indomitable Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who became the first Black...

Chunichi takes you back to the basics in this collaboration of her Blockbuster novels all rolled into one fantastic urban tale. A Gangster's Girl Saga introduces Ceazia Deveareux as she transforms from the good girl gone bad to the ride or die chick you...

Growing up in a Chicago ghetto, seventeen-year-old Donald "Don-Don" Haskill has nothing but time on his hands-time he rarely spends in school, choosing instead to smoke weed and hang out with friends. As a child, he witnessed his father's suicide, and...

Love happens when you least expect it. Derrick knows this all too well after falling for Kea, his best friend's girlfriend. But as fate would have it, he has just found out the love of his life is also his sister. Derrick is devastated by the news, but...

"Ms. Ford knows how to turn up the heat."--Romantic Times BOOKclubBette Ford writes the kind of passionate, emotionally-charged romance novels that readers come back to again and again. In Can't Stop Loving You, she once again explores the risks we take...

"Alive with delicious prose and the cacophony of '90s Harlem, Big Girl gifts us a heroine carrying the weight of worn-out ideas, who dares to defy the compulsion to shrink, and in turn teaches us to pursue our fullest, most desirous selves without shame...

The story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty years--a sparkling novel about the extraordinary resilience of female friendship. "A story rendered with so much heart." --Taylor Jenkins...

Set in Soweto, the urban heartbeat of South Africa, Innards tells the intimate stories of everyday black folks processing the savagery of apartheid with grit, wit, and their own distinctive bewildering humor. Rich with the thrilling textures of township...