Fiction

Egypt in the twenty-sixth century BC. The young pharaoh Cheops wants to forgo the construction of a pyramid in his honor, but his court sages hasten to persuade him otherwise. The pyramid, they tell him, is not a tomb but a paradox, designed to appease...

From a bold voice in African fiction comes a satirical and unputdownable reimagining of an overlooked episode in Cameroon's colonial past.Cameroon, 1929. As colonial powers fight for influence in Africa, French military surgeon Eugène Jamot is...

Lifelong friends Dana and Sylvia often share their dirty little secrets, but Sylvia isn't happy about having to cover up Dana's ongoing affair with Lewis. Sylvia despises the man her friend is creeping with. In addition to sexing Dana, Lewis believes...

In a working-class city with roots deep in the Confederacy, five men will endure seven deadly weeks that will forever alter their perceptions of the world. These haunting events transpiring over the summer of 1948 will irrevocably mark their...

A couple's tranquil life abroad is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their son's widow and children, in the latest from Somalia's most celebrated novelist. For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've led a peaceful, largely...

Skylar and Brinay Williams are the true definition of "sisters from another mother." The product of an extramarital affair, Brinay has always been the outsider in her father's family. When her mother dies unexpectedly, Brinay seizes the opportunity to...

Nothing's worse than watching the love of your life be with someone else, especially when that someone is your best friend. When twenty-five-year-old Matise Jackon tells her best friend, Jordan Heart, the kind of woman she thinks he should be with, she...

Flora Smith, Jamaican scientist and head of tiny NGO Environment Now, dedicates her life to getting Jamaicans to care about the natural environment. At the opening of Limbo, Flora is confronted by the nagging reality of not having enough money to keep...

When journalist Patrick Bracken returns to Gohen, the Irish village where he was born, he knows the eyes of the townspeople are on him. He has come home to investigate two deaths that happened decades earlier when he was a child, deaths that were ruled...

"Doing time." For prison writers, it means more than serving a sentence; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one's humanity. For the last quarter century the prestigious writers' organization...

Elite investigator Zoe Harrington isn't about to be fooled twice. She knows all the tempting by-any-means-necessary games FBI agent Carver Banks will use to close a case. So when he needs her help with a missing persons case, she's happy to charge him...

Urban Books' popular Around the Way Girls series is back, bringing readers more dramatic tales about the lives of some tough, resourceful women who can hold their own when things get rough on the streets. Growing up poor and biracial, Shannon never quite...