Fiction

A vivid and moving novel based on the incredible life of real estate magnate Josephine N. Leary--a previously untold story of passion, perseverance, and building a legacy after emancipation in North Carolina.Josephine N. Leary is determined to build a...

A sizzling reunion will change one billionaire's life forever in this shocking secret baby romance by Maya Blake! "He'll take his place as my heir. And you'll live as my wife." Eighteen months after one incredible night, tycoon Ekow Quayson can't get...

** Library Journal's Editor's Pick! ** The Story of One Man's Enormous Will to Triumph over the Unjust System that Enslaved Him during the Seminal Years of the American Republic Philadelphia 1793. Hercules, President George Washington's chef, is a...

Shortly after his mother's death in the early 1970s Ricardo Deveaux leaves college and walks off his job. Without knowing why or what lies in store for him, he packs a few clothes in a backpack and hitchhikes across two thirds of the country to the only...

A New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Village Voice, The Globe and Mail Jonathan Lethem, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the MacArthur Fellowship whose writing has been called...

A quartet of essays on great European cities from the groundbreaking thinker Georg Simmel These brilliant essays, from one of Germany's greatest and most influential thinkers, are beautifully written and highly readable portraits of three Italian cities:...

"Intriguing...A thoughtful, intelligent work...The novel traces the yeasr from he '50s to the ate '80s, from Eisenhower to George Bush....She writes with simple eloquence about small-town life in the South, right after the start of the great social...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - From the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. "This potent book...

In a series of brilliant variations, William Gass presents a man's life--futile, comic, anarchic--arranged in an array of vocabularies, altered rhythms, forms, and tones, with music as both theme and structure. It begins in Graz, Austria, in 1938, when...

From Sylvia Day, the #1 New York Times and international bestselling author of the Crossfire(R) series comes this steamy series starting with Eve of Darkness Years ago, Evangeline Hollis spent a blistering night with a darkly seductive man she can't...

A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream--the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy New...