General Fiction

Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and...

Five daring voices in African American literature explore the sizzling, wildly popular genre of erotica in this unique collection edited by the author who "cleverly delivers all that her name stands for: Never Tell Your Secrets" (Zane). Dare to embrace...

Lee Cotton is a black boy born white-skinned in segre­gated Eureka, Mississippi, in 1950. Over the course of Lee's first twenty years, he will fall in love with the daughter of a local Klansman, get kicked senseless and left for dead on a freight...

Herbert Simmons' first novel, winner of the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship in 1957, relates the violent rise and fall of 18-years-old Jake Adams, whose Buick Dynaflow, custom-made suits, and attractiveness to women are all the fruits of...

Urban Fiction. Life is hard for kids in the inner city. Corner Boy tells the story of a young man trying to find a way out of the hood.

Discover a never-experienced fictitious story of growing up in the agrarian South during the Civil Rights era. Set in the farming community of Corn Hollow, Tennessee, the story takes place from the early 1950's to early 1970's. Corn Hollow is told...

Discover a never-experienced fictitious story of growing up in the agrarian South during the Civil Rights era. Set in the farming community of Corn Hollow, Tennessee, the story takes place from the early 1950's to early 1970's. Corn Hollow is told...

Cora has it all--wealth, loveliness--but she doesn't have a man. They just keep dying on her.She is the immortal Greek goddess Persephone, living in a Malibu beach house in the twenty-first century. And no matter how much therapy she undergoes, nothing...

Sara should be happy. She has what every girl wants: a man who loves her, a beautiful home, and wealth beyond imagining. She rescued her brother from the Peacekeepers, destroyed the Iron Queen, and doesn't have to go to her boring job any more. And yet...

For Constance Verity, saving the world isn't the hard part. It's keeping her new, ordinary life from falling apart along the way that's going to be tricky. This is the next book in the witty Constance Verity trilogy, which Booklist named a Top 10...

Consequences is a compelling tale of death and murder told by a writer with a solid imagination. Amid the intrigue and romance, the reader is gripped from the opening scene to the shattering conclusion. The story is rife with incredible and hair-raising...

She promised herself just one night of passion with her best friend's brother, but what happens next? Find out in this explosive launch to the Locketts of Tuxedo Park series from Yahrah St. John! When a winning bachelor bid leads to unexpected...

Jashi Anyua has been arranged to be married to the leader of her nation, the Great Faresh. To help her escape the unwanted engagement, her future husband's enemies offer her an out - if she agrees to spy on her intended, they'll give her a new identity...

After taking a slug to the crown, street hood Menace has been out of commission for two long years. Now fully healed, he aims to pick up where he and Speedy left off, and there's no time like the present. With Menace on the "disabled list," Speedy has...

Menace and Speedy are two local dope slingers with much in common, but two things in particular. They're both young and hungry. Business is booming, and while most people in their position would be satisfied, Menace and Speedy aren't "most people." They...

A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing--and for the conjuring of curses--are at the heart of this dazzling first novel WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times -...