Fiction

Nick Johnson has always been an underachieving, borderline alcoholic...but he soon finds himself in over his head.When his affair with Vickie, an unhappily married homemaker, results in an accidental pregnancy. Vickie abandons Nick, leaving him to raise...

A Failure to Communicate, S. Andrea Allen's debut collection of short fiction and essays, focuses on how communication, or the lack thereof, impacts Black women's lives. The stories range from the humorous to the heartbreaking: one woman wins a bake-off...

This literary communication entitled A Dying Man's Plea, written by Connor C. Quantrell, represents a form of life the author himself experienced while growing up in the Southside of Chicago with his parents in the 1960s and '70s. One of the book's...

As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, André Brink's classic novel, A Dry White Season, is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance, the human condition, and the heavy price of morality. Ben Du...

One of the great jazz novels of any era, A Drop of Patience tells the story of a blind horn player's journey through the themes of race, blindness, and music. At the age of five, Ludlow Washington is given up by his parents to a brutal white-run state...

Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation's circumscribed public discourse on race. --New York TimesFrom the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character and White Guilt...

Enchanted by lies, abducted for truth.In Mandar, humans and mythics have learnt to work together, but sometimes a magical creature goes rogue. As a Tracker for the government, Seraphina's job is to locate rogues, gather intel and report back to the...

Blood hid in shadow, hear nature's spirit.Tracker Seraphina has found her way back to Mandar City from the dragon's mountain. But with her recent memories missing, she has no idea what happened on her journey. Sera wrestles against her amnesia as she...

From the bestselling author of The Submission: A young Afghan-American woman is trapped between her ideals and the complicated truth in this "penetrating" (O, Oprah Magazine), "stealthily suspenseful," (Booklist, starred review), "breathtaking and...

Weddings always have their fair share of drama, but this one comes on the heels of the highly controversial 2009 Iranian election and ensuing Green Wave protests.When the matriarch of Sarah's family arranged her marriage to Ali, it was with the intention...

Life as I knew it ended the day I accepted my fate.In its place is an existence even the wildest imagination could never fathom. Strange creatures walk among us, plotting our demise, and I've come to find that the fate of our world rests squarely on my...

The stunning, thought-provoking first novel by a lost giant of American literature (The New Yorker) June, 1957. One hot afternoon in the backwaters of the Deep South, a young black farmer named Tucker Caliban salts his fields, shoots his horse, burns his...