A dark, intoxicating thriller where a woman who built her life on control is forced to face the one thing she can't command--her own heart--for fans of The Perfect Ruin and The Wife Before by Shanora Williams. Rayne Feathers learned the hard way that...

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel 2026 prize "Brutal and unforgiving, but aching with so much emotion." --People In this sinister and surreal Southern Gothic debut, a woman escapes into the uncanny woods of southern Georgia and must...

Two people on the hunt for justice One shared enemy to defeat Going undercover is the only way Jade Rashaad can solve her aunt's cold case murder. However, the infamous podcaster's plan requires a partner, and the one suited for the job is a man Jade...

An eloquent and original exploration of the Atlantic slave trade--now featuring the essay "Venus in Two Acts" and a new introduction by Dionne Brand.A monumental work of first-person history, Lose Your Mother traces the legacy of the Atlantic slave trade...

From NAACP Image Award-nominated author Elise Bryant comes a tender, funny novel following a type-A teen whose meticulously coordinated life unravels when she develops a chronic illness.Jubilee Foster is busy. Between caring for her two younger siblings...

From the author of the acclaimed Invisible Generals comes the unsung history of the first Black US senators--two men who overcame fierce resistance to help America forge a multiracial democracy. In 1870, a mere five years after the end of the Civil War,...

A dazzling and heartfelt YA novel in verse by Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner, Arriel Vinson, about a Black girl majorette healing from loss, while discovering how to dance to her own beat. It's hard to plan for the future when...

Both intimate and epic in scope, Freedom Summer is a story about memory, identity, generational pain, and the cost of freedom. Freedom Summer is a historical drama set against the turbulent backdrop of the American Civil Rights Movement during the summer...

"In her latest, Riley provides a fresh take on high seas adventure through the eyes of the courageous, swashbuckling, based-on-a-real-life female pirate Jacquotte Delahaye. The research Riley has done on this 1600s saga is truly remarkable, second only...

From the critically acclaimed and award-winning creators of Crown and I Am Every Good Thing, Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James, comes an illustrated nonfiction young adult homage to Black athlete activists throughout history.This is not your typical...

For readers of Nekesia Afia, Jacqueline Winspear, Avery Cunningham's The Mayor of Maxwell Street, a thrilling, Harlem Renaissance-set mystery featuring a liberated, educated, Black woman in Jazz Age New York...and the Prohibition-era gangsters and...

From a New Yorker staff writer and PEN award winner, a blend of memoir, history, and reportage on one of the most complex and least understood states in America. "In Alabama, we exist at the border of blessing and disaster...." Alexis Okeowo grew up in...