Fiction

Acclaimed children's author Nana Brew-Hammond makes her highly anticipated return with this soaring and profound story about love and understanding told through three generations of one Ghanian family.Determined to avoid the pain and instability of her...

Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2024"Extraordinary . . . a powerful and poignant exploration of the African diaspora and global Black identity . . . This book moves like the storm Sennaar begins it with." --New York Times A Real...

Two opposites. Undeniable attraction. Three mobsters. An offer they can't refuse. It sounds like trouble as Jackson Jones and Mackenzie Cunningham, reluctant partners and two of the best private investigators in Los Angeles, return to solve their most...

From the author of Lore of the Wilds comes the exciting and passionate conclusion, as Lore navigates Fae magic amid looming dangers that threaten to destroy her world.Lore Alemeyu wakes up to discover she's on a ship in the middle of the ocean. Held...

A clever and hilarious new mystery about a mother who thinks she has to do it all--even solve a murder--from the author of It's Elementary After rage quitting her job, Mavis finally has time to get all the rest she's been putting off. Or she should have...

Love doesn't disappear. It waits in the silence.After making a heartbreaking decision, Shonté May Smith finds herself alone-her once-passionate relationship with Brooklyn now broken by distance, secrets, and emotional silence. But even in the quiet, her...

Affectionately considered an urban mashup of ABC's "A Million Little Things" and NBC's "This is Us", the stories of Markus, Brittney, Angel, Shay, and Maxine continue in this follow up to 2021's "Hard Conversations: Breadcrumbs to the Past". Each of them...

"Black and Tan Fantasy" is the title of a song written by Duke Ellington and Bubber Miley in 1927. The racial discord through the early 20th Century came to a head by the 1960s. Much like the song, the story alternates between two men-one White, one...

Power. Loyalty. Scandal. Blood.Fresh off surviving a political firestorm, Gregory "Big Tex" Thomas sets his sights beyond City Hall-with a bold run for Governor of Texas. But just as he steps into the spotlight, the shadows rise around him. A smear...

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature brings together an extraordinary array vast in scope and deep in cultural and historical significance. Preeminent scholar and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr., who presided over the book's...

In this dark, immersive tale steeped in atmosphere and drama, the author of Theatre of Marvels returns to Victorian London to tell the story of a young Black female doctor's dangerous quest to find the truth that unearth the secrets of the past. London,...