Fiction

Damion and Devon are identical twins. But it's their differences that set them onto diverging life paths, resulting in their eventual estrangement. Devon grapples with his identity. He's black, and a low-level aide to a Republican congressman. He's...

2019 Over the Rainbow Booklist Selection for Nonfiction.Poets Audre Lorde and Pat Parker first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years later. Over the next fifteen years, Lorde and Parker shared ideas, advice, and confidences...

The Sound is set in the 1820s, in the violent and lawless world just before the English established colonial law in Western Australia. It is a historical fiction about the men of many nations who made their way across the southern waters of Australia...

He can go where the law can't. Do what the law won't. He is judge. He is jury. He is death.Women start disappearing from the streets of quiet Duncanville thrusting street detective Jon Dough into a desperate search for them. Jon investigates only to...

BRANCHES OF THE TREE OF LIFE is the first comprehensive volume of poems by Abiodun Oyewole, many of them never before published. Oyewole's poems are powerful, often political, always lyrical and profoundly moving. Over the course of his forty-year career...

SORROWLAND ORACLE by Ayodele Nzinga is a compendium of spells, incantations, prayers, and their translations into the event of being Black in modernity while standing at the crossroads of revolutionary transformation and the birthing of a new paradigm on...

In this thrilling mystery from "master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley (National Book Foundation), Detective Easy Rawlins has settled into the happy rhythm of his new life when a dark siren from his past returns and threatens to destroy the peace...

A powerful novel of Africa's history and the men and women who determined its fate. From the East came Islam. From the West, the slave trade. The battle for Africa's soul had begun... "A wondrous novel about a period of African history few other writers...

"Taj McCoy's writing positively crackles with energy, wit and humor." --Jayci Lee, author of Booked on a FeelingIn this spicy new rom-com, an ambitious entrepreneur working to get her speakeasy supper club off the ground is pushed off balance when her...

As they are about to transition into adulthood, college seniors find themselves embroiled in a juicy love triangle.  Eric and Reneece are seniors in college, preparing for the journey of adulthood. While Reneece believes the relationship between...