General Fiction

Just like any dysfunctional family reunion, loyalty, love, and good times soon turn to bitterness, regret, and promises to never see one another again. At the end of the day, the Banks sisters are no different than any other family in the city of...

Just like any dysfunctional family reunion, loyalty, love, and good times soon turn to bitterness, regret, and promises to never see one another again. At the end of the day, the Banks sisters are no different than any other family in the city of...

New York Times bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with the next edition in the highly successful Banks Sisters trilogy. Meet the Banks sisters--Simone, Bunny, Tallhya, and Ginger. They feel like they are finally in the clear in connection with the...

New York Times bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with the next edition in the highly successful Banks Sisters trilogy. Meet the Banks sisters--Simone, Bunny, Tallhya, and Ginger. They feel like they are finally in the clear in connection with the...

New York Times bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with her most spellbinding story to date: Meet the Banks sisters--Simone, Bunny, Tallhya, and Ginger. The four beauties are living under the same roof by force, but they can't stand each other. Their...

Two brothers . . . Two different sides of the law . . . One hustle. Derek Fuller and Scar Johnson were separated as young boys in the Baltimore foster care system. When they finally reunited, it didn't matter to them that they were operating on different...

From one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary urban fiction comes a gripping, erotic, edge-of-your-seat thriller about four strangers whose lives are about to collide, with explosive and murderous consequences. Alias suffers from a curse that...

Following up on the gritty street drama, it's on and poppin, Deondra Dee Dee Davis is now out of jail on bail and set to find her brother's killer. Don Ruiz, now in control of Don Valdez's territory, discovers from the little black book that Jay and Bee,...

Ray Celestin skillfully depicts the desperate revels of that idiosyncratic city and its bizarre legends in his first novel.--The New York Times Book ReviewThe Axeman stalks the streets of The Big Easy...New Orleans, 1919: In a town filled with gangsters,...

MY HEAD SPINS. I'M LYING IN A BED. WHERE AM I? WHO AM I? A man wakes up in hospital. He has no idea who he is or how he came to be there. The doctor tells him his name, but he doesn't remember it. He remembers nothing. As memories slowly resurface, he...

"This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In this woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman...

First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standard -- and double consciousness -- that ruled the lives of black people in modern America. Republished in 1927, at the...

Recalling the great confessional narratives from St. Augustine to Jean Jacques Rousseau, from Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass to Henry Adams, James Weldon Johnson relates the emotionally gripping tale of a mixed-race piano prodigy who can pass...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man takes place in post Reconstruction era America and follows the story of a young biracial male. Johnson poses a complex dilemma: because the Ex-Colored Man, which is the only name by which the...

Originally published in 1912, this novel was one of the first to present a frank picture of being black in America Masked in the tradition of the literary confession practiced by such writers as St. Augustine and Rousseau, this autobiography purports to...

Lenna has been hiding from the Guild since she was born. If they knew about her magic her life would be forfeit. She must brave the possibility of discovery by entering the Guild under the guise of a human recruit after her father goes missing. She...