Fiction

"Forna, recipient of a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Ancestor Stones, returns to Africa's troubled conscience in this admirable if uneven outing. Adrian Lockheart is a well-meaning English psychologist who embarks on a temporary post at a Sierra Leone...

About the Author: Marlene Jones has been writing short stories, plays and poetry since age 8. She is currently working as an elementary school teacher and is recording a Jazz/Gospel album to be released early next year. She resides in Ontario, Canada...

A satirical novel of the Harlem Renaissance.This roman clef centers on Niggeratti Manor, fashioned after the Harlem rooming house in which Wallace Thurman once lived with other black artists and writers. Thurman's second novel is one of the most potent...

The adult son of Ethiopian immigrants sets out to retrace his mother and father's trip and weave together a family history that will take him from the war-torn Ethiopia of his parents' youth to his life in the America of today. From the prizewinning...

Publisher Comments: The infamous Reverend Curtis Black's sordid past is no secret, as his wife, Charlotte, is well aware. But when Curtis' long-time mistress and mother of his illegitimate two-year-old, dies, he and Charlotte have no choice but to raise...

In a city where power struggles take place daily on Capitol Hill, another power struggle is taking place beyond the monuments; namely between Damion Eric Cross, his girlfriend Crystal Renee Leonard and his girlfriend, Madison Paige Robinson. You can only...

"With the lyricism she was lauded for in More Than You Know, Story has crafted a post-Katrina New Orleans from a fumy cloud of sad jazz and Creole spices. Though this time out her descriptive lushness meshes uneasily with the patchy, if intense, tone and...

An "Essence"-bestselling author spins a hilarious, inspiring novel of mistakes and second chances, heartache and love, sin and salvation--with an appearance by the beloved Sister Betty."Walker's (Somebody's Sinning in My Bed) latest hilarious faith-based...

The author of "Kinky Gazpacho" delivers a smart, funny, and surprising novel that shows what can happen when a woman who wants it all finds a nanny good enough to make her perfect dreams come apart at the seams.

The Reverend Curtis Black is turning over a new leaf--or is he? From "New York Times"-bestselling author Roby comes a novel featuring her beloved, rascally reverend.A man who once thrived on wickedness and counted on forgiveness, Curtis Black has changed...

In this third installment of the Tennyson Hardwick series from an award-winning team, Tennyson travels to South Africa and becomes entangled in a web of kidnapping, murder, lies, and espionage. THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS OF CASANEGRA AND IN THE NIGHT OF...