General Fiction

Brown Sugar brings together some of the most acclaimed voices in today's black literary world -- Sapphire, Natasha Tarpley, Reginald Harris, and Pamela Sneed, among them. These titillating stories cover the full spectrum of black experience and identity...

Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, the #1 Essence bestselling authors of Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made now deliver Better Than I Know Myself, a novel in which you'll meet their most unforgettable characters yet. Carmen, Jewel, and Regina could not...

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. The Sensual Seductress, video vixen Paisley Lawrence, and The Prince of Praise, gospel singer Warren Cobb--what an unlikely pair! The media is in a frenzy, and so is Warren's wife, when the two are...

The night fourteen-year-old Chanie Nyrider ran away from her abusive parents, she is offered a new life working as a prostitute. With nowhere to turn, Chanie was drawn into a dark world where she survived until arrested four years later. She was given...

The climactic final volume of The Venom Trilogy by USA Today bestselling author Shannon Mayer.Humble baker turned supernatural Alena Budrene is lovely and lethal, and for the first time, she's owning it. Finally rid of her low-life ex-husband, she's free...

Urban Books superstars Electa Rome Parks and Eric Pete entertain readers with daring and empowering stories about the love lives of full-figured women.Big, bold, and beautiful are three adjectives that describe Erika to a tee. Named after her mother's...

Age is just a number, and whoever said that full-figured women don't know how to bring fire to a relationship was sadly mistaken. College senior Simone Davenport has set herself up for a very secure future, but all her achievements feel more like a duty...

In the Old Country, they called them the Gentry: ancient spirits of the land, magical, amoral, and dangerous. When the Irish emigrated to North America, some of the Gentry followed ... only to find that the New World already had spirits of its own,...

Adeline and Hemi finally have everything they ever wanted. A loving partnership, baby on the way, and who could forget Adeline's beautiful assistance dog, Coco?But... things never stay peaceful for long when magic is involved. Hemi's cousin arrives,...

A construction worker inexplicably walks off a beam, plunging to his death, and a woman on hospice is murdered. Rose Brighton, a Birmingham police detective and a witch of House of Rose, has to find the killer, because the next person on his list is Rose...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! "Brave, fresh . . . unforgettable."--The New York Times Book Review "A celebration of girls who dare to dream."--Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's...