Fiction

The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying saga--as moving and indelible as The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, The Turner House, and The Love Songs of W. E. B. DuBois--that explores three generations of a family...

Author Virginia Black burst onto the queer speculative fiction scene with her powerful debut, Consecrated Ground. Now Joan of Crows returns to Calvert in this high-octane thriller that pits good versus evil in a penultimate showdown.War witch Joan...

When obsession meets revenge, no one is safe in this gripping new sequel to The Loyal Wife by national bestselling author B. Love. A dangerous obsession. Simmering tensions. Twisted vendettas . . . Detective Jones is back on the scene, obsessed with...

One impulsive act can set events into motion that lead you down a path you never knew you needed to walk. Avion has the weight of the world on her shoulders. Everyone relies on her to hold it together and keep the family moving, but when she seeks a...

A marriage on the rocks, a missing friend, and a tangle of shocking lies converge at a peaceful North Carolina lakefront cottage in this irresistibly twisty new psychological thriller from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shanora Williams...

When a kingpin is betrayed by his friend, the whole city will turn upside down as they go head-to-head. When he was young, Curtis Griffin, a.k.a. Cane, formed a clique called the CMB. As a young boy, Curtis Griffin, a.k.a. Cane, had street knowledge...

How do you beat a trick at his own game? You become the treat. Amber Halloway is what some would call "forbidden fruit" because she is so stunning. When her father is murdered by the local kingpin's mob, she uses her beauty to her advantage. Step 1:...

"A gracefully told and sharply observed debut." -Kiley Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age and Come and Get It "The Tiny Things Are Heavier is a profound, lasting debut, and it's also just such a sincere blast to read." -Kaveh...

A vivid firsthand record of the struggle for legal equality and dignity in the face of segregation and racial terror from 1919 to 1976 W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified "the problem of the color-line" as the defining issue in American life. The powerful...

Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its own right, now with an updated preface adding additional context about the author's incredible...

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year - NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Debut Literary Work"This is a tender, deeply perceptive tale of what kin owes kin, and how we might work to mend old wounds together."--ElleIn this stunning debut novel, four...

ONE OF THE MILLIONS' MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024 "This is an astonishingly accomplished novel...Just stunning." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Magnificent" - Publisher's Weekly, starred review NOW IN PAPERBACK A stirring, unsparing novel about...