General Fiction

The streets pump blood through Rocko's heart, but his women are the electricity that spreads and causes it to contract. Though he's madly in love with his fiancée, Troi, he can't keep his past mistakes with other women from catching up with him...

At the age of forty, Desa Rae Jenkins may be classified as over the hill, but with voluptuous curves in all the right places, she attracts Roc Dawson, one of the sexiest men alive, who happens to be almost half her age. He excites her like no other man...

At one point, Selah, Vice, and Skye were inseparable...but money will change the very meaning of "friends to the end." Life after losing a loved one can be hard, especially if you're the reason why they are no longer here. These are the times that you...

Three sisters navigate the horrors of the Middle Passage in a powerful historical novel about family, honor, and the will to live, by the author of The Daughter of Union County.Timbuktu, western Africa, 1706. Folashade, the fourteen-year-old daughter of...

After graduating high school in the small town of Brunswick, Georgia, Kimberly Hamilton prays that her future in Atlanta will bring something interesting and not-so-perfect. Mere minutes after graduation, Kim finds herself at the crossroads of life and...

A thrilling debut novel about the perennial temptations of dangerous love, following a jazz musician and an ensemble cast of women--some charmed by him, others scorned--who discover the power of their own voices It's 2013, and Circus Palmer, a...

LaQuette's debut sexy romantic comedy Vanessa Jared's Got a Man tells the story of a woman getting her groove back and getting a second chance at love. Vanessa Jared, a 40-something divorcee, decided that the best way to pull herself out of their...

In a fantastical version of New Orleans where music is magic, a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song in this vibrant and imaginative debut. Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky...

ONE OF TEEN VOGUE'S 25 BOOKS BY BLACK AUTHORS THEY CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS YEARONE OF BETCHES' 22 BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ THIS YEARAs a fan of Grey's Anatomy (and Chicago Med!), I couldn't put down On Rotation, and you won't be able to, either. Shirlene...

This essential one-volume collection brings together some of the most influential and significant works by African-American writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Included herein are such classics as Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life...

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...

A stunning debut from a new voice in Nigerian literature: a mesmerizing, Kafkaesque narrative, informed by the life of musical superstar Fela Kuti. The day a stained brown envelope arrives from Lagos, the exiled musician Taduno knows that the time has...

Jaslyn Davenport is doing her best to get over her ex-boyfriend, Sampson Tate. However, he is hard to forget, especially when Sampson seems to show up everywhere she turns! After one night of passion, Jaslyn must decide if a relationship with Sam is...

"Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literature.--Imani Perry Legendary writer Gayl Jones returns with a stunning new novel about Black American artists in exile Gayl Jones, the novelist Toni Morrison discovered decades ago and Tayari...

For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, community, and resilience, set in the housing projects of Chicago during one life-changing summer.Toya Wolfe is a storyteller of the highest order. Last...