Fiction

When four men vie for her attention, an ambitious personal chef has to figure out how to keep the heat contained in the kitchen in this delectable new novel from the bestselling author of the sexy kitchen romance ("Publishers Weekly") "Recipe for Love...

From a disciple of the late Chinua Achebe comes a masterful and universally acclaimed novel that is at once a taut, literary thriller and an indictment of greed's power to subsume all things, including the sacred. Foreign Gods, Inc., tells the story of...

Mengiste's epic tale chronicles the lives of a father and his two sons, their betrayals and loyalties, and a family's unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia's revolution.'When John D’Agata helps his mother move to Las Vegas one summer, he begins to follow a...

Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the most talked about--and praised--smash hit of 2007 follows the adventures of a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd plagued by a family curse.

Shanika Ann Jenkins is the pride of her African-American family; smart, beautiful, and born with blue eyes and blonde hair. Though her grandmother and father are happy because she represents years of passing down light skin and marrying well, Shanika's...

The most comprehensive collection to date of Baraka's work, spanning almost 40 years of a brilliant career, in which he has produced more than 12 books of poetry, 26 plays, eight collections of essays and speeches, and two books of fiction.Amiri Baraka -...

From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and...

Although best known as a poet and pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes proves himself one of modern literature's most revered and versatile African-American authors with Not Without Laughter, a powerful classic novel. This is a...

New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces an astonishing character (Los Angeles Times Book Review) in this acclaimed collection of entwined tales. Meet Socrates Fortlow, a tough ex-con seeking truth and redemption in South Central Los...

*Pre-order by June 17th to receive a signed bookplate and exclusive character art print*  Who gets to tell this story? The sinner who lived it? Or the saint who stole it? Sin Sackey is driven by the same hardwired need as every eldest...

In this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve, one American woman’s vision in post WWII Germany will tie together three people in an unexpected way.Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American...

IMPORTANT NOTE: ONLY THE PAPER BACK EDITION IS PART OF THE EXCLUSIVE BLACK BOOKSTORE PRE-ORDER CAMPAIGN.  NOT THE HARDCOVER.  THESE ARE UNSIGNED A scorching second-chance romance between a talented screenwriter and a phenomenal musician from...