General Fiction

A sizzling, smart, and utterly engaging novel about sex, love, folklore, and family history from the author of Redemption Song and The Haunting of Hip Hop.With her characteristic sense of humor and a good dose of motherly wit, Bertice Berry spins the...

"A work of extraordinary imagination and sympathy, a journey from slavery to the mountaintop, perfectly realized." --Ken Burns, American filmmaker Born on Emancipation Day, 1863, to a sharecropping family of black and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy never...

In this fast-moving, gritty debut novel, one woman learns that even the strictest rules are made to be broken... At thirty-seven, Tuesday is eager for a better way of life. That means getting out of the game her gentleman's club has been fronting. Her...

A generous and intimate novel from American literature's premier chronicler of middle-class angst in the new South. In Elroy Nights, Frederick Barthelme does a fresh turn on territory he's made his own over the last two decades: a middle-class America...

Savant Black is a protector. More logic than emotion, he places emphasis on his present reality above all. When his sister suggests he speak with a life coach, Savant doesn't believe she will be capable of opening his eyes and mind to any life altering...

The members of Kingdom Citizens Christian Center believe in sharing the spirit of love and generosity with others. Even so, they can't seem to follow the ten commandments, a fact that suggests it just might be time to add rule number eleven. . . While...

Christina Brinsley is that girl. You know the one: a little bougie, a little opinionated, knows it all, has it all, and is a total perfectionist. But Christina's perfectly crafted world isn't really so perfect. Her third engagement fizzled three days...

Albertina Merci is back in this delightful second book featuring everyone's favorite blues singer turned evangelist! After Albertina's dear friend Mr. Mario, the owner of Mr. Mario's Downhome Café, has a heart attack and then loses his wife to diabetes,...

The story of a girl tempered in a crucible of abuse and neglect, Neecey's Lullaby is a superbly crafted narrative in the spirit of the bestselling novels Push and Bastard Out of Carolina. Growing up in Chicago in the 1950s, Neecey once felt that her...

Spanning from the joyous peak of the 1930s jazz era to the Great Depression and civil rights movement, Long Gone, Come Home weaves a poetic tale of love, life, and loss as one woman learns the true meaning of home. Birdie Jennings dreams of a big life...