Fiction

When three young friends, Porsha, Frankie and Sahara, decide to sublease an apartment from a mutual acquaintance, life becomes one big party for the girls. But the party comes to an abrupt end when they find out they've been fleeced for their money and...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020 Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence "A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it's also social commentary at its finest, woven...

Everything Worth Fighting For: An exploration of being Black in America takes the reader on a journey of discovery into the many layers of Black life. From coming to understand the value in elder wisdom to struggling with the dangers facing Black youth,...

You're twelve years old. A month has passed since your Korean Air flight landed at lovely Newark Airport. Your fifteen-year-old sister is miserable. Your mother isn't exactly happy, either. You're seeing your father for the first time in five years, and...

From the acclaimed author of Chasing the Sun comes a new novel about immigration and the depths to which one Mexican American family will go for forgiveness and redemption.The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he's already dead--an...

Eve Mann arrives in Ideal, Georgia, in 1972 looking for answers about the mother who died giving her life. A mother named Mercy. A mother who for all of Eve's twenty-two years has been a mystery and a quest. Eve's search for her mother, and the father...

"A delight and highly recommended." --Booklist "Showcases the truth and fullness of people of color." --Book Riot In the tradition of Best American Short Stories comes Everyday People: The Color of Life, a dazzling collection of contemporary short...

Meet the members of the Love, Joy, Peace, and Deliverance Community Choir, a group of young adults joined together through their passion for singing the Lord's praises--although their hearts are far from the things of God.Patrice Russell was raised in...

Davion and Shala Jones have it all. A good marriage, a wonderful son, Shala's loving parents, a luxurious home, great friends, and the fancy cars we all want to drive. They both work hard to have the life they live. Davion is the owner of a prestigious...

LIVIN' THE LIFE . . . One of the hottest young veejays to hit music television, Caroline Isaacs is a prodigy at the top of her game. She hosts her own show where she interviews A-list celebs and dons threads from topshelf designers; she and her...

New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark's iconic Thug series takes readers into the streets-and into the heart of a criminal world where even love can be a dangerous choice... Having escaped from the hard streets where deals go down on the...

"Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep" is a rich collection of the work of post-World War II African-American poets. It brings together the voices of the most important African-American poets of our time, beginning with the highly influential Robert Hayden and...