General Fiction

Things that are and are not, she thinks, and the dog is a snake.In this fantastic and fantastical debut, C.J. Lavigne concocts a wondrous realm overlaying a city that brims with civic workers and pigeons. Led by her synesthesia, Verity Richards...

In the grinding poverty of the post-war prairies, little Amélie Marchand always seems to be in the way. The youngest daughter of dirt-poor French-Canadian farmers, she must negotiate linguistic tensions, familial secrets, and the coldness of her unstable...

In the grinding poverty of the post-war prairies, little Amélie Marchand always seems to be in the way. The youngest daughter of dirt-poor French-Canadian farmers, she must negotiate linguistic tensions, familial secrets, and the coldness of her unstable...

Have you ever wondered how truthful your mate really is?Chanel Martinez, a five-foot-nine bombshell with a devastating secret will trick the average playa on the spot. Between credit card scams, wild nights on the town, and her over-the-top lifestyle, no...

They beat the odds and turned their lives around. But now three best friends will go head-to-head with ambition, deception--and each other . . . Derrick. Ricky. Jamal. One's responsible; one's still a player; one's upwardly-mobile. Sentenced to the...

...more than a page-turning narrative; it's an embrace of the Kinyarwanda greeting amahoro--'peace.'--Oprah.com An evocative page-turner and an eye-opening meditation on the ways we survive profoundly painful memories and negotiate the complexities of...

A darkly erotic novel about a good girl gone bad.When Irina -- Romanian by birth but brought up by American parents who have never understood her -- arrives at college she quickly abandons ordinary student life for an affair with an older, mysterious...

Dr. Shari Thomas has it all. She has a thriving medical practive, a renowned Cardiologist love interest, Kevin Mason, and a young son that means the world to her. Derrick rawlings is a successful businessman who is forced to return to town to run the...

Shonda Cheeke's provocative follow-up to the critically acclaimed Another Man's Wife welcomes readers back into the world of Yani, Alex Chance, and the ever-popular Asia Fenton as they strive to stay strong in the face of tough choices, unexpected...

In these nine globe-trotting tales, Mia Alvar gives voice to the women and men of the Philippines and its diaspora. From teachers to housemaids, from mothers to sons, Alvar's stories explore the universal experiences of loss, displacement, and the...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY HARPER'S BAZAARBOSTON GLOBE SUMMER READING PICKNAMED A MOST-ANTICIPATED READ OF THE YEAR BY MS. MAGAZINE Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that devastated West Africa, this poignant, timely fable reflects on...

HER CROWN WAS TAKEN. SHE WILL RISK IT ALL TO GET IT BACK.Get bitten by the international award-winning IN THE BLOOD's suspense, compelling characters, and darkly humorous take on the classic horror genre, featuring Marie Antoinette.2018 Silver Stake...

Los Angeles has no ghettos, according to some. And that is nearly true. But even behind the sun-kissed façade of privilege in its Black upper middle class is a harsher reality.... So begins the tale of Dorian Moore, a seductive young man who provides...

In Our Words: Queer Stories from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Writers is a thoughtfully curated collection of short stories at the intersection of racial and queer identity. Comprising both the renowned and emerging voices of Black, Indigenous,...

Long-listed for the 2018 Man Booker PrizeShort-listed for the 2018 Gordon Burn PrizeShort-listed for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics, Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City...

With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm,...