Fiction

Using pop culture to convey the atmosphere, George Pelecanos portrays characters caught in an intricate web of drugs and violence in the mean streets of Washington, D.C., in 1986.

Words and images come together in a collaboration between celebrated poet Ntozake Shange and an acclaimed group of photographers, to result in this stunning celebration of contemporary Black life in America. From the first publication of The Sweet...

This diner in Plainview, Indiana is home away from home for Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean. Dubbed The Supremes by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they've weathered life's storms for over four decades and counseled one another through...

A hot steaming cup of coffee from Starbucks and watching the sunset behind the lake from my bedroom window would be great right now...But unfortunately, I'm still serving a life sentence in this prison. See, the older we get the more that we're supposed...

No! I wasn't raised in the church. It didn't happen until my mother fell ill and God took her away from me for no reason at all. Cancer, they say. But I needed to hear it from God, so I began talking with him every day until my friends started calling me...

In this follow-up to Nothing New Under the Sun (2011), some of our favorite characters are figuring out how to move on from prior losses, disappointments, challenges, and failures while navigating new relationships and successes. Reunite with Charlie...

- Pat Cunningham Devoto's most recent novel, Out of the Night That Covers Me (0-446-52751-3, Warner hard-cover, 1/01), has over 60,000 copies in combined print and was highly praised in the New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Book World, among...

From the author of A Brooklyn Story and one of USA TODAY's celebrated "New Voices of 2011," comes a new novel which exposes the over-the-top decadence--and corruption--of Wall Street's elite. Hailed as one of USA Today's New Voices for her 2011 literary...

After doing a 5-year bid, all ex-drug dealer Breeze wants is a normal life with the love of his life and his children. Determined to stay on a straight and narrow path, he follows all the rules of his probation, and even works a full-time job as a...

In this thrilling, plot-twisting tale, a grieving painter receives an unexpected visitor in his travels who turns his world upside down for a novel that will change your views on storytelling forever.As a painter travels the world, he mourns the death of...

A street thriller of kidnapping, murder, trickery, and love that will have you at the edge of your seat. After 7 years of prison, multi-millionaire drug mogul Kane Garrett is back on the streets. But instead of diving back into the drug game, he's...

In this sequel to Harlem's Dragon, Detective Chemah Rivers unravels an intriguing case with a most beguiling witness. Detective Chemah Rivers is a single father juggling the daily pressures of work and home life, and to add to that pressure, he is also...