Fiction

BET Comedy Award-winner and "New York Times"-bestselling author delivers a moving debut novel about how a bitter and lonely woman rediscovers her ability to give and receive love.

Thirteen original and interconnected stories in the traditions of Junot Diaz and Sherman Alexie. Victor D. LaValle's astonishing, violent, and funny debut offers harrowing glimpses at the vulnerable lives of young people who struggle not only to come of...

Camille Logan feels trapped. After she is sexually and emotionally abused by her foster parents, she turns to the one person she knows she can trust--her boyfriend Chu, a mid-level drug dealer. But when life finally starts looking up for Camille, Chu is...

The late Harris explores the down low culture that made his first novel "Invisible Life" a groundbreaking phenomenon in his latest rip-roaring tale of sex, secrets, and betrayal. Annotation: The late Harris explores the down low culture that made his...

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...