General Fiction

In this stunning departure from her mystery writing, Penny Mickelbury's collection of stories God's Will and Other Lies, attends to the lives of Black women, mostly aging and elderly, all determined to face life with strength and grace.A nearly blind...

The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt Marder: gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. It's 1871, and he's lost his farm, his wife, and his dog to a band of marauding hooligans. With nothing to live on but a desire...

The first in an alternate fantasy series where vampires, werewolves, and goblins rule London. Queen Victoria rules with an immortal fist.The undead matriarch presides over a Britain where the Aristocracy is made up of werewolves and vampires, where...

Joe grew up in an infested project in the urban, ghetto of Bronx, New York with a prostituted crack-head mother and a father he never knew. He had to grow up fast, facing the fact of what people thought about what a thug is, and the fact of his mother...

Monroe is a masterful storyteller. --Philadelphia Inquirer Monroe's use of humor to depict ordinary people with complex and messy lives will keep readers glued to each and every page. --Library Journal These days, Annette Goode Davis has a full...

Young Glory Strair found herself in an impossible situation...pretending to be someone she wasn t for one night. She learned quickly that dressing the part and actually fulfilling the role were two different things and she finds herself faced with a...

For Shannon Johnson, full-time wife, mom and freelance writer, life as she knew it changed one spring afternoon with the ringing of her doorbell. On the other side stood Vaneetra James, former mistress of Shannon's husband, Daniel. With two sons, Shannon...

Unable to match firepower with the competition--Sonny, a coiffed millionaire; Baby Doll, a 300-pound Jesus freak; and Studs, a ruthless lesbian--Giveadamn devises a shrewd scheme. His secret weapon: the Golden Fleece, a fantastical machine that defies...

Mouse Watkins is the leader of the Bad Apples, the funkiest old school soul band in St. Louis. For twenty years, he's been laying down smoking grooves, tasty rhythms, and gutbucket funk in dance clubs up and down the Mississippi, always one break away...

"A harrowing portrait of race relations in America, as beautiful as it is urgent."--Entertainment Weekly "Black satire with bite, like Zora Neale Hurston used to do, with a smile and a sharp elbow. A touch of Paul Beatty, a dose of Dolemite, and a...

In the Winter of 2001, 29-year-0ld Walt Steadman survives a shooting in his favorite Boston Café that leaves four people dead. In the aftermath, Walt forms two new relationships: one with Ginger Newton, a privileged, reckless, Harvard undergraduate who...

Two Essence(R) bestselling Urban Books authors have teamed up to bring the Motor City drama in this latest installment of the popular Girls from da Hood Series.All the Way In by Treasure HernandezBorn into the struggle, Sonya Mills and Melody "Ham" Tatum...

Urban Books' popular Girls From da Hood series is back, bringing readers more dramatic tales about the lives of some tough, resourceful women who can hold their own when things get rough on the streets. This time, family bonds are put to the test. Jakki...

Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Paste, LitHub, Real Simple2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist: Best FictionLonglisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize"Incandescent...A searing portrait of what feminism...

Anya was thrilled to be reunited with her father, legendary giant the Bodach. The rest of the world, not so much.With Chris by her side and her powers at their peak, Anya, the Queen of Winter, did the unthinkable and freed her father and brothers from...

COULD YOU FIND A MUSEUM FOR A MONSTER?OR A JAZZ BAR FOR A JABBERWOCK? Zoe Norris writes travel guides for the undead. And she's good at it too -- her new-found ability to talk to cities seems to help. After the success of The Sbambling Guide to New York...