Fiction

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life takes readers behind the velvet rope and inside A-list nightlife. At thirty-five, Destiny Day is at the top of her game. Having escaped her hardscrabble beginnings in the small Midwestern town she calls "East Boogie,...

Uwem Akpan was born in a village in Nigeria and currently teaches in Zimbabwe. After studying philosophy and English at Creighton and Gonzaga universities, he studied theology for three years at the Catholic University of East Africa. He was ordained as...

A true-to-life love story nestled between wisdom and simplicity, "Sense of Love" unearths the complexity of love in ways everyone can relate to. Narrated by alternating male and female points of view, its characters are determined to use the good sense...

Faith-based fiction doesn't get better than Billingsley's entertaining soaps, notable for their humor, wonderful characters, and challenging life situations that many readers, Christians or not, can identify with.--"Publishers Weekly."

A brand- new mystery series from one of the country's best-known, best-loved writers: a new character, a new city, a new era. A new Walter Mosley.

A candid, cautionary tale of how a quest for romance can unintentionally transform a person into someone new, "Six Days in January" is an eye-opening, emotionally charged glimpse into the heart of an African-American man.Just after midnight on a bitterly...

Raised in the steamy bayous of New Orleans in the early 1900s, LeRoi "King" Tremain, caught up in his family's ongoing feud with the rival DuMont family, learns to fight. But when the teenage King mistakenly kills two white deputies during a botched raid...

This haunting, exquisitely written story about mothers and daughters and the power of healing and forgiveness marks the stunning debut of a new novelist.

Two "Essence"-bestselling authors and reigning stars of urban lit team up to deliver a duo of scintillating drama-filled tales about life on the streets. This two-in-one volume includes Clark's "Enemy in My Bed" and Swanson's "Keeping My Enemies Close."

The bestselling author of B-More Careful, Shannon Holmes, delivers Bad Girlz, another wild adventure into the streets. The setting this time is the Badlands, one of the toughest and poorest communities in Philadelphia. Bad Girlz takes you into the...

It's 1939 and Easy and Mouse are young men just setting out in life--Easy has yet to develop his skill for unraveling the secrets of others, and Mouse has yet to kill his first man. But all that will soon change. In the beginning there was Ezekiel Easy...

An acclaimed suspense writer's latest chilling tale examines how the daughter of a musician and jazz club owner finds her life changed when she becomes haunted by the ghost of Scott Joplin.