Fiction

An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom Saints is a powerful blend of fact and imagination reminiscent of E.L. Doctorow's classic novel Ragtime and...

The success of John Henrik Clarke's American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one stories...

Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and...

Aza Comics brings you a story for the ages...a sci-fi/fantasy novel with illustrated action scenes!Every 1,000 years a Keeper is chosen by the Gods to protect the universe. But what happens if that person decides they want the universe for themselves?In...

PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD FINALIST   ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Slate - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews - Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel   Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school...

"The electrifying fiction debut that has been called 'a modern Mrs. Dalloway.'"--THE ATLANTIC "Mind-bending and utterly original."--Brandon Taylor "Slim in the hand, but its impact is massive."--Ali Smith One woman. One day. One decision. A blistering,...

The first in a thrilling new series from Emmy Award-winning TV Host and Journalist Tamron Hall, As The Wicked Watch follows a reporter as she unravels the disturbing mystery around the deaths of two young Black women, the work of a serial killer...

A bold and gripping graphic history of the fight for women's rights by the New York Times bestselling author of Hood Feminism "A beautifully drawn, hold-no-punches, surprisingly deep dive through the history of women's rights around the world, which will...

The epic gay Civil War saga continues in this second installment in the award-winning Unmentionables book series. In All to Pieces you'll meet colorful new characters and revisit some of the characters you met in Book 1.Warning: Spoilers ahead if you...

A collection of 36 extraordinary stories originally told on stage, featuring work by writers, entertainers, thinkers, and community leaders. Spanning comedy and tragedy, Alien Nation brilliantly illuminates what it's like to be an immigrant in America...

Before there was E.L. James's 50 Shades of Grey, there was Zane's Addicted. Once described as "the hottest paperback in the country" by the New York Times and now a major motion picture distributed by Lionsgate, this wildly popular novel by the Queen of...

Falling for the enemy never felt this good in the debut novel of LaQuette's Devereaux Inc. series. She's ruthless in business, but vulnerable in his arms. Trey Devereaux is out to prove her corporate mettle to her skeptical father. When she sees a...