General Fiction

Ghetto girls birth 'em. Hood rats love 'em. Society fears 'em. Police target 'em. And the penitentiary welcomes 'em. From the coochie to the casket, this troublemaking band of misfits wreaks havoc on the community. They are loyal to no one but themselves...

"Love isn't about how much you say I love you, but how much you can prove it..." Finding love in the club wasn't working for Soraya after she dumped her ex for going to jail, so she tries to find love online. Thousands of women have found love with a...

"Love isn't about how much you say I love you, but how much you can prove it..." Finding love in the club wasn't working for Soraya after she dumped her ex for going to jail, so she tries to find love online. Thousands of women have found love with a...

During my time of being alive, I've always had to ask myself one question...why do I owe people an explanation for myself being black? Why am I seen as a weaponless threat, while the police officers are seen as the weapon holding victims?The thoughts...

What happens when the man you fall for isn't who he says he is? As games are played and disguises are shed in this intriguing story, more than hearts are at stake for a man who toys with others' emotions. Meet Marcel, Camden, and Julian. They're all...

In You Make it Feel Like Christmas, Donna Hill and Francis Ray bring us holiday cheer with two novellas in one volume: Rockin' Around That Christmas Tree and The Wish. Rockin' Around That Christmas Tree by Donna Hill Denise has always been the faithful...

A powerful and "stunning" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) selection of the best of John Edgar Wideman's short stories over his fifty-year career, representing the wide range of his intellectual and artistic pursuits. When John Edgar Wideman won the...

Isabel Preston spent her teenage years with a mother who struggled to pay the bills in their suburban home as she covered up the whereabouts of Isabel's absent father. Fueled with anger, frustration, resentment, and pain in her heart, Isabel loves...

Isabel Preston spent her teenage years with a mother who struggled to pay the bills in their suburban home as she covered up the whereabouts of Isabel's absent father. Fueled with anger, frustration, resentment, and pain in her heart, Isabel loves...

Screenwriter and new voice to fiction Jeff Farley delivers a nostalgic Brooklyn coming-of-age tale about finding love, holding on to dreams, and learning to forgive. It's 1992, Brooklyn, New York. All of the girls had bamboo earrings--at least two pair...

Fired at age fifty, dumped by his wife and grown, college-age children--his wife moved her lover, a UPS deliveryman, into the house as soon as Jack left--Jack Manning is humbled beyond words. Six months later, he's down and out, living in a rented room...

A frighteningly prescient novel of today's America--one man's story of a racially charged real estate experiment in Detroit, Michigan."You get in the habit of living a certain kind of life, you keep going in a certain direction, but most of the pressure...

Anatural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love& Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories showwomen oppressed but not defeated.These are hopeful stories about love, lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the...

Jessica Needs a Fix. Vacillating between a desire to get high and a yearning for a substance-free life, she finds herself alternating between cocaine and yoga, dependence and freedom. Will she be able to let go of her self-abuse and find sobriety one...

Jessica Needs a Fix. Vacillating between a desire to get high and a yearning for a substance-free life, she finds herself alternating between cocaine and yoga, dependence and freedom. Will she be able to let go of her self-abuse and find sobriety one...

Yasmine had been Jonas' biggest supporter long before they were married. Their love marked by a mutual devotion that allowed them both to succeed. Now, after years of selflessly allowing his aspirations to drive their lives, Yasmine finds herself...