General Fiction

At the darkly glamorous height of the Roaring 20s, an independent Black intellectual and her bi-racial foster child are immersed in the vibrant world of the Harlem Renaissance - and a shocking murder on Striver's Row - in this thrilling Jazz Age mystery...

"A most important novel."--The New York Times Book ReviewA new edition of Louise Meriwether's classic novel about a young Black girl's coming-of-age in Harlem in the 1930s, featuring new writing celebrating Meriwether's life, work, and activism. Francie...

The Witness of Nina Mvungi is a collection of seven stories by contemporary Swahili writer Esther Karin Mngodo translated by the award winning Translator from the Swahili, Jay Boss Rubin. It is the first full-length book of fiction by award-winning...

The heart wants what the heart wants. No matter how many times you tell yourself that you're better off without that person, a part of you will never be able to let go. Everyone has that one person that they always think about, no matter who he or she is...

When you find yourself captivated by someone genuine, love can become a whirlwind. Legacy is young, intelligent, and possesses a figure that drives men wild. Having faced many challenges in her life, she struggles with commitment--until she crosses paths...

This heart-pounding Southern gothic horror debut from Beatrice Winifred Iker, takes readers to Bricksbury University, the oldest and most storied HBCU in the nation. But as one student is about to find out, a long history comes with a legacy of secrets. ...

The spellbinding conclusion to the international bestseller Forged by Blood delves deeper into Nigerian mythology as the Oluso uprising comes to a head...and the young woman caught in between comes to her breaking point. Return to this highly...

Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a Black father he's never known, and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two year-old Bobby Saraceno has passed for white his entire life. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has hidden the...

In intertwined stories, A Ladder of Bones tells a series of narratives that take place in West Africa, Canada, the United States and the Caribbean. Siaka becomes a child soldier in Sierra Leone after being compelled to shoot his six-year-old brother...

Finalist for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary PrizeSet against the backdrop of 1970s Nigeria teetering between post-colonial dependency and self-rule, Before the Mango Ripens examines the enduring themes of faith, disillusionment, and the search for...

By turns gritty and heartbreaking, this bold novel from legendary author Donald Goines, the OG Master of Urban Lit, tells the story of a young man awakened to vengeance in the aftermath of a brutal crime against his sister . . . George Jackson was a...