Fiction

Set in Kansas City, Missouri, during the Jazz Age of the 1920s and '30s, Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic evocation of childhood and parental love told through the eyes of a remarkable boy, Amerigo Jones. This vivid portrait of an era marred by racial...

Karen Siplin, whose first novel, His Insignificant Other, earned her critical praise from her peers and fans, presents Such a Girl -- a sexy and engaging new novel. In Such a Girl, Siplin brings to vivid life the story of a woman who ends a love affair...

The Rev. Jonah Dove is the son of a legendary Harlem minister, and a man troubled in both mind and spirit. He feels himself unworthy and incapable of taking up the burden of running his church from the larger-than-life figure who is his father. He is...

Set between the 1920s and the present day, STRIVERS AND OTHER STORIES explores a range of African-American and Southern voices reflecting characters striving towards their versions of the American dream. In 15 stories, we meet teachers and doctors, train...

Caleb Fleischer bags groceries and slays monsters. Armed with his magical tome and scythe, Caleb has spent his whole life keeping the small town of Orion, Illinois safe from mystical threats. But all he wants, all he's ever wanted, was to live a normal,...

Life on a Georgia sugar plantation is anything but sweet when deep-rooted secrets begin to unearth. An unwanted guest vows to destroy plantation owner and freed man, Charles Delaney. That's if Delaney's headstrong, debutante daughter isn't the cause of...

Business brings them together. Will desire tear them apart? Find out in Essence bestselling author 's latest romance! Turning business into pleasure could cost them more than their professional partnership. To save her family business, Lexi Randall...

Street Wealthy is a fictional story with several episodes and seasons about a young man J. R. Jones who always stands up to life's challenges no matter how big or tough it is. He always applies every mistake he makes or every lesson he learns to his next...

Street Wealthy: Season 2A continuation of Season One that follows the life and journey of J.R Jones and his team, as they are still trying to overcome challenges and making moves to become wealthier, while J.R maintains being king of the streets.

For some, the allure and power of the streets are elusive but yet, a wonder to behold. Some engage in this lifestyle of self-destructive criminal behavior, knowing one day it might cost them their family, freedom, or something even far more valuable . . ...

They risked it all for the love of the dough, then wrote chart-topping songs about it. But can this crew escape their past? For Reece and Qwess, being rap superstars was the dream, but in real life nothing moved without the money. So they formed the...

The underworld streets of Oakland California is no place for the weak . . . power, loyalty, and respect is taken, not given. There's an old saying. Being a gangster will put you in one or two places--in prison or a casket.Slim has made a name for himself...

Clawing his way to the top, pimp Earl the Black Pearl believes he is untouchable, but when someone puts a hit on his friends, he has to fight back to save his own life. In this, his fourth novel, Donald Goines tests the tensile strength of a ghetto spawn...

In this, his fourth novel, Goines tests the tensile strength of a ghetto spawn who clawed his way to the top and fights like hell to stay there. He's known as Earl the Black Pearl, and he's left the homeboys behind--way behind. He's cool, sharp as an ice...

From the author of his truly candid memoir, Inner City Miracle, comes the fast-paced thriller about a judge who is caught up in a gritty case involving a brutal murder that no one else seems to care about. Detroit was once considered the murder capital...

Cannon always considered himself an average guy who like anybody else in the game wanted the cars, ice, girls, money, and fame. He told himself once he reached a certain point you get out, but at what cost. And with the help of his girl Tessa's dad, Tayo...