Fiction

2009 Coretta Scott King Book Award Honoree (Author) So many unanswered questions weigh down thirteen-year-old C.J. as he struggles to understand why his father walked out. His father is back now, though C.J. is not as quick to forgive as the other...

The follow-up to his bestselling memoir "Monster," Shakur's vicious, heart-wrenching, and true-to-life novel is a powerful and gripping exploration of the terror of gang life and one man's attempt to free himself. The follow up to his best-selling memoir...

Gideon, the hit man introduced in Sleeping with Strangers, returns in this "high-octane"(Publishers Weekly) thriller to discover that a hit has been taken out on him. Is it the man he left alive in Tampa, the cold beauty who taught him how to kill, the...

The Reverend Curtis Black is turning over a new leafor is he? From "New York Times"-bestselling author Kim Lawson Roby comes a novel featuring her beloved, rascally reverend. Will he be able to live a life without sin?A man who once thrived on wickedness...

Based on the author's experiences working with offenders of domestic violence, an extraordinary novel about one woman's courageous journey to discover her voice, strength, and dignity after drowning in an abusive marriage. After suffering under years of...

With the same erotic force as "Killing Johnny Fry," but grounded in a far darker vision of human nature, "Diablerie" is a transfixing new novel from a powerful writer.In this icy noir from a master of American fiction, the darkest secrets are the ones we...

Now entering mid-life, Vann Sinclair is ready to do for herself after years of doing for others. But the serene life Vann expected with early retirement turns out to be just a dream. Everything happens for a reason, and Vann soon finds unexpected wonders.

James Langston Hughes (1902 -- 1967) With a career that spanned the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and Black Arts movement of the sixties, Langston Hughes was the most prolific Black poet of his era. Between 1926, when he published his pioneering...

Tempest Landry, an everyman African American, is "accidentally" killed by a cop. He is denied access to heaven because of what he considers a few minor transgressions. Through the street-smart Landry, Mosley poses the provocative question: Is sin for...

"Essence"-bestselling author Murray brings back her most notorious character, the equally beloved and despised Jasmine Larson Bush, from "A Sin and a Shame."

Now in paperback, following the phenomenal success of Dirty Red, Essence bestselling author Vickie Stringer is back with a sizzling sequel filled with the notorious cast of characters--Red, Bacon, and Q--who made Dirty Red a smash hit. Vickie Stringer...

Written in prison and based on real-life experiences, the novel that launched the writing and publishing career of the bestselling author of Still Dirty, Dirty Red, and Imagine This..."the reigning queen of urban fiction" (Publishers Weekly). Let That Be...