Fiction

Stringer, whose work has been featured in "The New York Times, Newsweek, Essence," and "Black Enterprise," presents her latest romance novel. "Urban street lit doesn't get any dirtier than Stringer's series (Dirty Red, Still Dirty) about Raven 'Red'...

Hannibal Jones agrees to clear an apartment building of squatters, drug users and dealers, and the homeless, but he finds more trouble in Southeast Washington than he expects. The people holding crack pipes are backed up by people holding guns, and...

After her daughter's disappearance, a world-weary grandmother becomes the guardian of her two streetwise grandchildren--but their no-good father will do anything to get them back. After twenty-nine years of marriage, Hattie has paid her dues. She's now...

From the author of "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" comes a sweeping and emotional family drama that explores the richness and complexity of the love between mothers and daughters.

Tori Carter is a sassy, multi-tasking diva who prefers for her life to run as smooth and hitch-free as the events she coordinates. No drama, no problems—that's Tori's idea of the good life. Her tendency to plan everything to the max has made her the most...

From the bestselling author of The Wind Done Gone comes a timely new novel of political intrigue, family secrets, and espionage, steeped in our country's racial history and framing our unique political moment. Arden Jones Jr., eminent black neocon and...

God's love works to bring a broken family back together again in this compelling, emotional novel from a talented debut author.

Featuring a reprint of Alice Walker's short stories "Roselily" and "Am I Blue?", this little gift book carries a serious message about censorship. Holt's Introduction decribes past forms of literary censorship in the United States and places the...

What happens when you mix a beautiful, money-hungry diva, a jealous best friend, and one soon-to-be wealthy man who is blinded by love?

Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a...

Shelly Winston is back with a vengeance. When she finds out that the man she s always wanted for herself is about to get married, she decides to do what she should have done nearly two years before get him back by any means necessary. After all, Brian...