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...

In the tradition of Studs Lonigan and A Stone for Danny Fisher, a transporting historical saga about three young men coming-of-age on New York City's rapidly changing, vibrant, challenging, sometimes heartless Upper West Side as they walk a fine line...

At the darkly glamorous height of the Roaring 20s, an independent Black intellectual and her bi-racial foster child are immersed in the vibrant world of the Harlem Renaissance - and a shocking murder on Striver's Row - in this thrilling Jazz Age mystery...

Food, family, love, and laughter make for the perfect recipe in this sweet picture book from acclaimed author Shauntay Grant. Taking place over the course of a summer day, we follow a young girl as she and her family gather at her nana's house for a...

'[Casteel] captures everyday encounters with people and places in works that invite recognition of our shared humanity.' - MacArthur FoundationThe first monograph on Jordan Casteel, one of the most critically acclaimed artists working todayJordan Casteel...

SPECIAL 100TH BIRTHDAY EDITION OF THE CLASSIC BESTSELLER"What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent. . . . I've got to be a star1 I have to be a star like another man has to breathe." --Sammy Davis, Jr. Originally published in 1965,...

Revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking book on Black women in comic artThe 2018 release of Marvel's blockbuster Black Panther film catapulted African American comics and animation into the limelight, with strong Black women characters at the...

Redressing the woeful under-recognition of a pioneering Black queer architect and artistPublished with Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. This is an experimental illustrated reader exploring the work and legacy of...