Fiction

"A formidable and lasting contribution to American literature." --Chicago TribuneOriginally published in 1938, Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of novellas, was the first book from Richard Wright, who would go on to win international renown for his...

Banished by her grandfather at the age of eighteen, Spring Lee has survived scandal to claim her own little slice of Paradise, Wyoming. She's proud of working her ranch alone and unwilling to share it with a stranger -- especially one like Garrett...

A grime-theatre mash-upToo black for my white friends, but too white for my Black friends. Growing up mixed race in Newport, I fell into a cloud of grey.Absent Black father, ducking the police, working out what it means to be a man. I was struggling to...

New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber and Essence(R) bestseller La Jill Hunt return with a story of love, money, power, and respect in the next edition of the popular Family Business series. Five years ago, Orlando Duncan created the perfect drug...

A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white rust belt town. But she's not the first--and she may not be the last. ... It's watching. Liz Rocher is coming home ... reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memories of...

A harrowing and spellbinding story about family, the complications of mixed-race relationships, misplaced loyalties, and the price athletes pay to entertain--from the critically acclaimed author of Three-Fifths Xavier "Scarecrow" Wallace, a mixed-race...

The deaths of unarmed Black male citizens at the hands of police from Eric Garner's in New York City in 2014 to George Floyd's in Minneapolis in May 2020 provide the impetus behind Louis-Philippe Dalembert's latest novel, a re-imagining of events leading...