General Fiction

The author of City of Refuge returns with a startling and powerful novel of race, violence, and identity set on the eve of the Civil War.The year is 1855. Blackface minstrelsy is the most popular form of entertainment in a nation about to be torn apart...

Money. Love. Family. When it all falls away and she's left with nothing, one unlikely woman must save herself so that she can save humanity.When Alena Ford is exiled from the whitewashed Upper East Side paradise she hid behind and forced to face both the...

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, A Feather on the Breath of God, is a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.With a new introduction by Susan Choi,...

Nick Johnson has always been an underachieving, borderline alcoholic...but he soon finds himself in over his head.When his affair with Vickie, an unhappily married homemaker, results in an accidental pregnancy. Vickie abandons Nick, leaving him to raise...

A Failure to Communicate, S. Andrea Allen's debut collection of short fiction and essays, focuses on how communication, or the lack thereof, impacts Black women's lives. The stories range from the humorous to the heartbreaking: one woman wins a bake-off...

This literary communication entitled A Dying Man's Plea, written by Connor C. Quantrell, represents a form of life the author himself experienced while growing up in the Southside of Chicago with his parents in the 1960s and '70s. One of the book's...

As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, André Brink's classic novel, A Dry White Season, is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance, the human condition, and the heavy price of morality. Ben Du...

One of the great jazz novels of any era, A Drop of Patience tells the story of a blind horn player's journey through the themes of race, blindness, and music. At the age of five, Ludlow Washington is given up by his parents to a brutal white-run state...

Enchanted by lies, abducted for truth.In Mandar, humans and mythics have learnt to work together, but sometimes a magical creature goes rogue. As a Tracker for the government, Seraphina's job is to locate rogues, gather intel and report back to the...

Blood hid in shadow, hear nature's spirit.Tracker Seraphina has found her way back to Mandar City from the dragon's mountain. But with her recent memories missing, she has no idea what happened on her journey. Sera wrestles against her amnesia as she...

From the bestselling author of The Submission: A young Afghan-American woman is trapped between her ideals and the complicated truth in this "penetrating" (O, Oprah Magazine), "stealthily suspenseful," (Booklist, starred review), "breathtaking and...