Fiction

An electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constrictionThis collection of innovative, penetrating, and lively essays features swimming pools and poets, road trips and museums, family dinners and...

A mysteriously chilling and provocative page-turner for devotees of supernatural and suspense thrillers. Cora was born with a veil. She is able to discern spirits and wield the power of both the dark and the light as well as the ability to heal. Her...

Tainted is part of a three-part series full of juicy drama, lust, and revenge. Driven by the need to avenge the rape of her nine-year-old sister at the hands of drug lords, Monica Deitrich has spent a decade training for a career in law enforcement. When...

From "master of language" (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman, a reissue of the revered trilogy that launched his career--two novels and story collection all set in Wideman's own hometown. Damballah, Hiding Place, and Sent for You Yesterday provide a...

Gabby Davenport spent the first fifteen years of her life in the suburbs, living a privileged and sheltered existence. When her mother dies unexpectedly, she is forced to move from her middle class neighborhood into Cumberland Projects in Brooklyn...

The final, posthumous installment of the ground-breaking Harlem Detectives series, a novel of explosive, apocalyptic violence, and a startling vision of the effects of racism in America The roots of racism and persecution in Tomsson Black's ancestry are...

In this page-turning installment of the classic Harlem Detectives series, a woman dies at a con man's religious street revival, and her elusive pile of cash vanishes Alberta Wright drops dead on the street during a sermon by the charismatic con man Sweet...

In this gripping installment of the maverick Harlem Detectives series, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones investigate a series of seemingly unrelated, brutal crimes. A gold Cadillac, about as large as an ocean liner, rocks a woman to the pavement in...

* Most Anticipated by Vulture.com, The Millions, and Lit Hub * From the Ernest J. Gaines Award-winning author of Everywhere You Don't Belong, a touching, timely novel--called a "tour de force" by Katilyn Greenidge (Libertie) and "wry and astonishing" by...