Fiction

Marrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco's ancient storytelling tradition. For nearly a thousand years, storytellers have gathered in the Jemaa el Fna, the legendary square of the city, to recount ancient folktales and fables to rapt audiences...

Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship...

Supervillains and mad scientists are on the loose and only the world's worst superhero duo can save us! Eric and Woody Henderson have been a lot of things - fractious foster brothers, washed up failures, and, ever since the freak accident that gave them...

Rosie "Aunty" Lee--feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant--is back in another delectable, witty mystery set in Singapore.Slightly hobbled by a twisted ankle, crime-solving restaurateur Aunty Lee...

Blackboard bestselling author Beverly Jenkins delivers another heart-pounding romantic suspense that is guaranteed to thrill. Regina Kane no sooner buries her father when two men claiming to be from the US State Department corner her. They say her father...

A Justice Hustlers Novel Two gorgeous sisters. Only one plays by the rules. But now they'll have to put their differences--and their lives--on the line, to help the exploited. Sisters from Trinidad, Violet and Lily have never had much in common...

Wearing her shades, a black Stetson, and snakeskin cowboy boots, security agent Maxine Max Blake is the baddest thing walking. Ex-marine, ex-cop, and a whole lotta 'tude, Max doesn't have time for anything but her job. Her latest assignment: to protect...

A Times Book of the Year, 2019 THE SECOND WORLD WAR IS OVER. BUT THE WORLD IS FAR FROM SAFE. As victorious Russian troops sweep across East Prussia, a group of desperate children face a new battle. Confronted by critical food shortages and the onset of a...

CRITTER WRANGLER RULE 7: SOME MONSTERS JUST NEED TO DIE.Someone is plotting to put all gargoyles in jail...or six feet in the ground.For decades gargoyles have patrolled the night in Montreal Ward. They are dubbed Guardians by the humans and fae who live...

From the New York Times bestselling author of From a Drood to a Kill comes the next Secret Histories adventure, now in paperback! The name is Drood, Eddie Drood, also known as Shaman Bond. My family has been safeguarding humanity for generations, facing...

First published after the author's death in 2008, this provocative novel charts the late-in-life sexual awakening of a retired army officer who embarks on a dangerous affair with a male servant. Captain Ni'mat, a reservist from the Egyptian army defeated...