Fiction

"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace." MALCOLM X In Harlem's tumultuous history, there are many tragedies. For those growing up in this part of New York City, a young man known simply as Fritz from West 112th...

Follow the amazing journey of a music store owner Joe Higdon, whose journey was filled with and joy also sadness; his walk in life led him in 1924 to open the legendary Hollywood Music Store in Jacksonville, Florida, in the historic African American...

Ben Aaronovitch's bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series - "The perfect blend of CSI and Harry Potter." --io9 Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of Police Constable Peter Grant or the Folly--London's police department for...

A subversively comic, genre-bending satire of bourgeois life by an essential Chinese American voice A Penguin Classic It's Depression-era New York, and Mr. Nut, an oblivious American everyman, wants to strike it rich, even if at the moment he's...

The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own tortured past. The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts...

Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe--with help from her loyal associate, Grace...

It is said that every man is haunted by one mistake...The year is 881. Ten years have passed since fifteen year old Ceridwen set out from her Priory home to make her own life. She has known love and loss, triumph and heartbreak. Yet the Circle which has...

It is said that every man is haunted by one mistake... The year is 881. Ten years have passed since fifteen year old Ceridwen set out from her Priory home to make her own life. She has known love and loss, triumph and heartbreak. Yet the Circle which has...

It's 1993, and the technology industry is on the verge of introducing a groundbreaking new technology called the Internet. The rules for this high-stakes game are clear: Get on board or get left behind. Intellect Technology Inc. has brokered a...

The sequel to Durty South Grind--an erotic novel about 500 spirits forever linked through love and devotion as they travel through a maze of deceit and mischief from the upper classes to the underbelly of Atlanta. The Grind Don't Stop offers a raw...

An isolated, high mountain village of indigenous people called the Mokie lose their Shaman. A Shaman has guided their lives since time out of memory. With no Shaman to guide them, they abandon their old traditional ways. The young Mokie people grow up...

ALL NEW EDITION WITH BONUS STORY, "THE FIX". Perry Samson loves drugs. He'll take what he can get, but raw atlys is his passion. Shot hard and fast into his testicles, atlys helps him forget that he lives in an abandoned Baltimore school, that his...

The 1970s. Austin, Texas. In which two Mexican brothers from South Tejas move to Austin to seek a degree from the famous University of Texas. While there, they become radically sensitive to the separation of "whites" and browns" in the overall scheme of...

The West Wing meets Entourage when "one of the most provocative political bloggers in the country" (The Philadelphia Tribune) exposes the stunning implications a historical bid for the presidency has on the candidate's inner circle. Michigan governor...

"Haunting . . . To read The Good Negress is to fall under a spell, to open a window, to fly." --Los Angeles Times Book Review Twenty years after its initial publication, The Good Negress continues to be an important part of the literary canon, as...

Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed DiggsWinner of the National Book Award for FictionFrom the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave...