General Fiction

Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents. Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a wealthy white family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS--White Girl Spoiled...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020 "A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it's also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into the work . . . Bump's meditation on belonging and...

La Jill Hunt teams up with her daughter Kamaryn for two stories about beloved characters, Sonya Duncan and CoCo Brown from some of Carl Weber's most popular novels--and these two big, beautiful women are not afraid to live life to the fullest. Married to...

A Pair of Wings is a novel based on the life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman. Arriving in Chicago in 1915 from Waxahachie, Texas, Coleman is among the first wave of African Americans to take part in the Great Migration, the largest movement of Black...

The classic novelization of one of Broadway's most enduring and beloved musicals, updated with a beautiful new cover. Maria is young and innocent and has never known love--until Tony. And Tony, searching for life beyond the savagery of the streets, has...

A reissue of the popular anthology by bestselling authors at one great price, Rosie's Curl and Weave: Four Novellas. Step inside for a day of love, beauty, laughter...and love. Whether you want a cut, weave or braid; a facial, manicure, or massage;...

From the award-winning author of Land of Love and Drowning, an electric new novel that maps the emotional inheritance of one couple newly in love. When Fly and Stela meet in 21st Century New York City, it seems like fate. He's a Black American musician...

D'Vaughn and Kris have six weeks to plan their dream wedding.Their whole relationship is fake.Instant I Do could be Kris Zavala's big break. She's right on the cusp of really making it as an influencer, so a stint on reality TV is the perfect chance to...

The result of their off-limits chemistry? A scandal nobody would suspect! Enjoy this surprise pregnancy story by Maya Blake. A forbidden night...A baby bombshell! Atu Quayson is the rebel in a family that exudes power and influence. Unexpectedly pulled...

Inspired by true events, A More Perfect Union is an epic story of love and courage, desperation and determination, and three people whose lives are inescapably entwined... Henry O'Toole sails to America in 1848 to escape the famine in Ireland, only to...

A devoted small-town mayor confronts an old flame over the fate of a historic inn in this delightful romance from author Joy Avery.Honeybees, history, and small-town charm are what Honey Hill, North Carolina, is all about. Its mayor, Lunden Pierce, will...

A vivid chronicle of an immigrant family challenged by the contradictions of the American Dream. In 1939, Emerson Gardner, a successful Jamaican pharmacist and aspiring doctor, crosses class and social lines and marries Madeline Jans, a free-spirited...

New York Times-bestselling October Daye series - Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire - Top of my urban-paranormal series list! --Felicia Day Things are slow, and October "Toby" Daye couldn't be happier about that. The elf-shot cure has been...

Durastanti casts the universal drama of the family as the sieve through which the self--woman, artist, daughter--is filtered and known. --Ocean Vuong A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Every family has its own...

Secret Society: All We Ask is Trust is the movie tie-in edition for the film Secret Society Celess and Tina are at the top of their game. They've got the looks and the bodies to attract attention from men wherever they go--and they work it. From New...

Can a single father with a challenging past teach his daughter to become a strong, successful woman? Nick Johnson has always been an underachiever and borderline alcoholic. He soon finds himself in over his head when his affair with Vickie, an unhappily...