General Fiction

What up, doe! Welcome back to the mean streets of Detroit. With all the drama going down in Motown, I knew your nosey self couldn't stay away. Don't worry, you haven't missed a thing. We pick up the story right where we left off in The Real Hoodwives of...

A tragedy upends a family's delicate balance in an emotional novel about secrets, guilt, friendship, race, and reconciliation by Jerry McGill, author of Bed Stuy: A Love Story.Who wants to believe their family could ever be broken?Devon and James Payne...

A tragedy upends a family's delicate balance in an emotional novel about secrets, guilt, friendship, race, and reconciliation by Jerry McGill, author of Bed Stuy: A Love Story.Who wants to believe their family could ever be broken?Devon and James Payne...

Damaged, a gritty and raw urban thriller that will grab you from the very first page, takes contemporary urban fiction to the next level. Mita "Sweet Lips" Cruz never had much chance to enjoy her youth because of her drug-addicted mother's attraction to...

Since 1976 the Before Columbus Foundation has been devoted to the task of redefining our notion of mainstream American literature to reflect this country's multicultural, multi-ethnic richness and diversity. Since 1980 it has sponsored the American Book...

A call from a Baltimore reporter catapults a mother down memory lane in an unconventional coming-of-age story that poses the question: Who are you when your back is against the wall?Sheri Calloway turns a job layoff into an opportunity to finally free...

Twenty-one-year-old college student Alexis Nicole (Full Figured 2) proves once again a talent and insight beyond her years, with an intriguing story of three best friends trying to make their dreams come true in New York City. Fashion editor Skye's...

When their parents are discovered brutally murdered in a ditch, Kenya and London are left orphaned, forced to navigate through the unforgiving streets of Detroit. They might be identical twins, but they are as different as night and day. With one...

Lightning bugs on a summer evening. A lazy river filled from a spring rain. The taste of honeysuckles. The aroma of wild grapes ripe on the vine. A collection of fantasy and contemporary fiction stories set in Southwest Georgia based on the experiences...

From the Booker Prize-winning novelist and screenwriter of Howard's End "Cinematic" and "exquisite" stories of longing, loss, and redemption (Publishers Weekly). In this expansive story collection, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, author of Heat and Dust and the...

The author of the brazenly hilarious, tell-it-like-it-is first novel (Oprah Daily) Queenie returns with another witty and insightful novel about the power of family--even when they seem like strangers.If you could choose your family...you wouldn't choose...