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Contemporary Literary Fiction. Black Diaspora Fiction. Romance and Domestic Suspense.Scarlet Yearnings: Beyond First Glance is a genre-blending short story collection that explores what happens after attraction. Across twelve interconnected stories set...

The legendary urban lit author returns with a new character, a new city, a new series, as AUWA Books makes its first foray into fiction. Toussaint Batiste is returning home to the City of Brotherly Love hoping he can, for once in his life, outrun his...

"A beautiful and subversive take on the afterlife, as razor-sharp as it is deeply moving." --Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of The Many Daughters of Afong MoyGrammy-nominated singer-songwriter Amerie's dazzling, satirical adult debut tells...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The Nerd Daily, Queerty, She Reads, and more! A cinematic, razor-sharp novel following a backlot fixer's daring investigation into the suspicious death of a closeted Black actor within the glamorous world of...

A LIBRARY READS PICKFrom the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of Lakewood and The Women Could Fly, a dazzling novel about two brilliant sisters and what happens to their undeniable bond when a mysterious and possibly perilous new world beckons...

The beloved novel about a New York City girlhood that heralded a renaissance in Black women's literature, with a new foreword by Nicole Dennis-Benn, the bestselling author of Patsy and Here Comes the Sun One of The New York Times Magazine's 25 Most...

A collectible hardcover edition of the beloved novel about a New York City girlhood that heralded a renaissance in Black women's literature, with a new foreword by Nicole Dennis-Benn, the bestselling author of Patsy and Here Comes the Sun One of The New...

Combining the political intrigue of She Who Became the Sun with the gorgeous world-building of Children of Blood and Bone, Birth of a Dynasty is the start of a thrilling epic fantasy trilogy centered around three families' fight for power in Ahkebulin, a...

A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law--a prosecutor and a madam--who team up to bring down notorious gangster Lucky Luciano, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the million-copy bestseller The Personal...

For readers of Homegoing and Frying Plantain, a stirring intergenerational saga stretching from the Caribbean to Canada where womanhood and mothering demands what the body wants to forget.Woven together with folklore and memory, We've Been Here Before...

"A thought-provoking thriller filled with jaw-dropping twists that kept me racing through the pages." --Gigi Pandian, USA Today bestselling author of the Secret Staircase MysteriesA twisty thriller about a woman who vanishes from a luxury hotel, and the...

"A thought-provoking thriller filled with jaw-dropping twists that kept me racing through the pages." --Gigi Pandian, USA Today bestselling author of the Secret Staircase MysteriesA twisty thriller about a woman who vanishes from a luxury hotel, and the...