Fiction

B-More Careful takes sex, lies, and betrayal to the next level in this action-packed, fast-paced, suspense-filled novel. Growing up on the cold, mean, inner-city streets of Baltimore is Netta, leader of an all-girl clique called the Pussy Pound. With no...

"A fine legacy series . . . in the spirit of her late father, Tony."--Booklist An ancient mystery resurfaces with ramifications for the present day in this gripping chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series from New York Times bestselling author...

A mysterious relative. Secret superpowers. A city that needs saving.21-year-old Melbourne Alloway is desperate to escape her controlling and abusive father. When she's contacted by a relative she didn't know she had, Mel leaps at the chance to escape and...

''K'wan does a masterful job of keeping readers on their toes right up to the very last page.'-Publishers Weekly Animal 4 Re-Issue featuring Bonus material. From the moment Animal's former lover Red Sonja showed up on his doorstep, he knew trouble...

A stellar quarterback, an ambitious sportscaster. What happens when rising stars collide?In And This Too Shall Pass, Harris takes us into the locker rooms and newsrooms of Chicago, where four lives are about to intersect in romance and scandal. At the...

Top-notch street lit...one of the top urban fiction novels of the year. - Library Journal All he ever wanted to be was a Good Son ... Shai Clark was an all-American basketball player with aspirations of one day making it to the NBA, but that all changed...

From the author of Halsey Street, a sweeping novel of legacy, identity, the American family, and the ways that race affects even our most intimate relationships.   A community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county...

Written in 1928, The Set-Up is a long narrative poem about the boxing underworld - a hard-boiled tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. When the work was first published it made the bestseller list, and in 1949 it was turned into an award-winning...

It's the beginning of the end for Netta, the self-proclaimed leader of the Pussy Pound, as she lay in a hospital bed, in a coma, fighting for her life. As her life flashes before her eyes, Netta comes face to face with her own bad karma as she tries to...

"A harrowing portrait of race relations in America, as beautiful as it is urgent."--Entertainment Weekly "Black satire with bite, like Zora Neale Hurston used to do, with a smile and a sharp elbow. A touch of Paul Beatty, a dose of Dolemite, and a...

Kat is a tough, independent woman who makes her living as a professional poker player. She is single, childless and happy about it. But when her best friend, Josie, commits suicide, she names Kat as the temporary guardian of her ten-year-old son, David,...

Best friends face down a tragedy in this beloved novel from #1 Essence bestselling authors Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made. Gayle Saunders and Patricia Reid were total opposites who chose each other as best friends...