General Fiction

In Bigglesweigh, old people are starting to die. Retired nurse, avid gardener, and renowned cake maker Miss Hortense has lived in Bigglesweigh, a quiet suburb of Birmingham, England, since she emigrated from Jamaica in 1960. She takes great pride in her...

In Bigglesweigh, old people are starting to die. Retired nurse, avid gardener, and renowned cake maker Miss Hortense has lived in Bigglesweigh, a quiet suburb of Birmingham, England, since she emigrated from Jamaica in 1960. She takes great pride in her...

In this poignant retelling of The Great Gatsby, set amongst L.A.'s Black elite, a young veteran finds his way post-war, pulled into a new world of tantalizing possibilities--and explosive tensions. In 1945, Charlie Trammell steps off a cross-country...

Julie Murphy's If the Shoe Fits meets Talia Hibbert's Take a Hint, Dani Brown--USA Today bestselling author Danielle Allen brings another steamy, witty novel about finding the perfect partner--and how sometimes what you're looking for is right in front...

"Incandescent...full of sentences I want to cut out and glue to my forehead." --Kaveh Akbar, New York Times bestselling author of Martyr! "A novel of crime--with a gripping pace, propelled by a question that needs answering--and a timeless coming-of-age...

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama. When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father's car accident, he finds his...

Singer-songwriter and filmmaker Be Steadwell's lyrical debut is Practical Magic meets Black Cake in this warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about three sisters, a vision of princes, true love, and revolution, and one very complicated year of...

Finalist for the 2012 NAACP Image Award in Literature!George is an ace at interlacing the real dramas of the world...the book's slim length and flyweight depth could make it an artifact of this particular zeitgeist in American history. Playas and haters...

PARADISE ONCE TRACES THE AFTERMATH of the massacre by Spanish forces of the fictional Maima village in Cuba in 1513. Some believe the destruction of Maima is the result of angering the cem?es--Ta?no spiritual entities--when foreign practices, contrary...

"One of our greatest living authors."--Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston Globe Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who returns to Jim Crow and searches for a mythical ideal Set in...

A dedicated journalist unearths a generations-old family secret--and a connection to a string of missing girls that hits way too close to home--in this gripping debut novel. In the wake of her grandmother's passing, Sydney Singleton finds a hidden...

"The exhilarating must-read fantasy debut of the year." --Tasha Suri, World Fantasy Award-winning author An unforgettable tale of revenge and rebellion unfolds when an inexperienced king implements a doomed plan to end a thousand-year war in this...

Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. As infants they were adopted into different families, Clara sent to live with a successful, upper-class couple, and...

Following a harrowing disappearance, a woman returns home to her family--and a life-changing secret in a powerful novel about betrayal, resilience, and love's unbreakable bonds.After fifteen years in captivity, Nova Lefleur is free, back home, and...