With the 1987 publication of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Black American Woman Novelist Hazel Carby produced a groundbreaking cultural history of nineteenth-century African American women, and an unapologetic black feminist intervention...

Black nationalist ideas have been debated and discussed over the centuries, and have shaped black religious, cultural, economic and intellectual thought. But how is black nationalism popularly understood? And how should we reckon with the unique position...

"Perfectly balancing sweetness and steam." --Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Stuck in the Country with You She's a good girl trying to rebuild her restaurant. He's a felon trying to rebuild...everything. Second chances have never been so sweet. ...

One night of sweet escape. Or the first taste of love?Fabulous, single and almost forty, Ivy Daniels is ready to embrace the life she put on hold while raising her orphaned nieces. With them grown and running Bishop Honey Bee Farm, Ivy embarks on a...

A stunning novel of post-war Paris that interweaves a coming-of-age story, a cross-cultural romance, and a portrait of the international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history Paris, 1947. The city, recovering from the Nazi occupation,...

Sometimes the power of love . . . A.J. Grayson has come a long way from adopted orphan to fast-rising executive at a cutting-edge technology firm. Now an anti-terrorist agency wants to use the revolutionary artificial intelligence system she developed to...

The new edition of a modern classic by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Mary Monroe! The acclaimed God series comes to a dazzling conclusion as two lifelong friends face their biggest betrayals yet--and learn that putting your trust in...

An explosive portrait of Dirty South revenge, triple-dealing, and crimes of passion as a suburban mom's high-end criminal past comes back to haunt her, endangering her children--and propelling her into a high-stakes game she remembers all too well . . ...

After ten years behind bars, a woman walks free--but freedom comes with its own sentence in this bold and unsparing novel by national bestselling author Kimberly Brown. After serving a ten-year sentence for killing her mother's boyfriend, Alayah Chambers...

When Tami's husband's infidelity becomes too much to bear, she seeks love in the arms of another man. Tami has played the fool one too many times and has had just about enough of her cheating husband's promises. When her husband of four years, Messiah,...

Ridah is faced with the dire consequences of her choices, messing with the hood's finest. She is no stranger to betrayals and backstabbing, and the stakes keep rising... When Ridah discovers being pregnant, she prays that God will somehow favor her, and...

Three of Urban Book's most exciting novelists team up to tell the tales of the streets and the women who run them. Summer Fling in New York (Racquel Williams): It's something about them island boys that have the American girls going crazy!Good girl Naomi...