General Fiction

In this twisted tale of love, murder, and family secrets, nothing is ever as it seems. Identical twin sisters Tokyo and India are as opposite as night and day. India is content with going to college and planning a family, while Tokyo runs a...

When a young Black man sees his brother's dreams shattered, he takes to the streets to start a war. Even if that's exactly what "the system" expects in this bold action-packed urban thriller from Donald Goines, the OG master of urban lit . . . It's not...

When a daring travel vlogger impersonates her lookalike to complete a bucket list task at an exclusive resort, she never expects to fall in love with the billionaire owner while hiding behind a web of lies in this twisty romance from USA Today's...

Winner of the Lee Smith Novel PrizeBehind the Waterline takes readers to the home of a teenager and his grandmother in a New Orleans neighborhood on the eve of Katrina, where there are few resources and little warning of what is about to happen, in this...

When a high IQ is paired with the savvy street smarts of a kingpin, the streets get turned upside down. Thomas Richard is what some would call a genius. Born and raised in Inglewood, California, Thomas grew up in a Blood neighborhood and was somewhat...

Take a ride with the Love Family as the saga unfolds. After the death of their young brother, the Love Siblings are forced to come together to bury their family member. Behind the pain of their loss is deceit and a course of events that may be...

"It's a knockout." --Publishers Weekly, starred review From RuPaul's Drag Race winner and host of HBO's We're Here comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom,...

Brimming with unpredictable twists and scandals, the latest Depression-era Alabama novel from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe tells of a mistreated wife who finally finds the love she's longed for--only to be plunged into...

From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a powerful autobiographical novel about a black family tortured by colorism as it strives to live up to the myth of the Black middle class in white, post-war America Lillian Taylor has three...

From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a masterful autobiographical novel about the injustices of the prison system and the humanity that flourishes despite it Jimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery. Terror and...

She's got everything planned--including when she'll have kids. Until something completely unplanned turns her world upside down. World-famous Whitney "Sahara" Richardson is at the top of her game. With four Grammys, an Oscar nod, and a billion-dollar...

Murder on Demand, the new book in the delightful Morning Show Murders series from bestselling author and TV news icon Al Roker, finds Billy Blessing investigating a suspicious boating accident in Long Island.Ten years have passed since Billy Blessing's...

Perfect for "fans of dark, laugh-out-loud family dramas" (Bust magazine), this is a heartwarming and hilarious novel about three generations of a Nigerian Canadian family grappling with their matriarch's sudden passing while their auntie insists that her...

Sometimes making history means breaking some rules... Don't miss the powerful new historical fiction novel Inspired by the incredible true story of Althea Gibson, the first Black athlete to win a Grand Slam title in 1956. --------------------- New...

Blue Basin Island is the final resting spot of formerly enslaved Africans whose souls have flown from Earth--not to heaven or purgatory but toward freedom and a new life. Lucille, the island's seamstress, takes two forms. She lives among the inhabitants...

Now available in paperback! Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns with an outrageous new tale of Depression-era Southern drama starring identical twin sisters with a talent for switching lives and hiding the scandalous...