Fiction

This extraordinary union of poetic text by Ntozake Shange and monumental artwork by Kadir Nelson captures the movement for civil rights in the United States and honors its most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott. Ages: 4-9Publisher Comments: Walking many...

"Deeply empathetic yet unflinching in its gaze...an unforgettable exploration of responsibility and redemption."--Celeste Ng   A searing and compassionate new novel about a young Black nurse's shocking discovery and burning quest for justice in...

"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my...

A 50th anniversary edition of Margaret Walker's best-selling classic with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni "Chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondage." --New York Times Book Review Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of...

Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Smith's third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and the political, and an honest look at people's deceptions.

"Perfect Peace" is the heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family's attempt to grapple with a mother's desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have. From this point forward, his life becomes a bizarre...

"Real, raw, magnificent--Before I Let Go is the beautiful angst I love to read." --Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times bestselling author Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade...

A beautiful boxed set brings together the great sci-fi writer's two award-winning Parable books The perfect gift for fans of Octavia Butler, this boxed set pairs the bestselling Nebula-prize nominee, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, which...

A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this hard-nosed, wise, funny novel (Los Angeles Times). Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and...

Praise "An absolute gem of a first novel and the sort of book that will delight not only hard-core mystery fans, but also those who visit the genre only casually in search of an occasional literary entertainment . . . Wife of the...

From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive...

With In Search Of Satisfaction, Cooper gracefully portrays men and women, some good and others wickedly twisted, caught in their individual thickets of want and need on a once-grand plantation. In Yoville, a legal town-ship founded by the very rich for...

The Good House is the critically acclaimed story of supernatural suspense, as a woman searches for the inherited power that can save her hometown from evil forces. The home that belonged to Angela Toussaint's late grandmother is so beloved that the...

In a world without white people, what does it mean to be black? One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world...

A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America's most brilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of his centenary Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the...

Named a Must Read for the SummerThe New York Times - The Washington Post - The Boston Globe - Time - AARP - Town & Country - St. Louis Post-Dispatch   "McBride's pages burst with life... This endlessly rich saga highlights the different ways...