General Fiction

It's 1988. Fresh out of residency training, Dr. Laura Hampton is determined to modernize obstetric care in rural Stephens County, NC. The challenges are many, not simply the resistance to her uppity northern Negro aggressiveness from physicians at the...

A powerful dark science fiction collection in a stunning edition, bringing back the revolutionary Afrocentric Sauútiverse. Co-editors Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton and Cheryl S. Ntumy bring us a powerful and haunting collection of short stories from the...

Jordan Peele and Jeff Vandermeer meet The Overstory in comedy writer Allison Mick's darkly humorous debut eco-horror novel, as a Black woman returns home to the redwood forests of northern California, only to unearth the monsters that lurk among the...

"The greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time." --The New Republic "A beautiful novel...its writing is so fresh, its projection of character so immediate and full, its events so compelling, and...

"In her latest, Riley provides a fresh take on high seas adventure through the eyes of the courageous, swashbuckling, based-on-a-real-life female pirate Jacquotte Delahaye. The research Riley has done on this 1600s saga is truly remarkable, second only...

A major hardcover compendium of poetry and fiction by the legendary Black American poet of the Harlem Renaissance One of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes may be best known as a poet, but he was also a...

Jasmine and T have a lot to learn about love, loss, and the importance of family.When Jasmine's best friend, Leslie, is diagnosed with cancer, there's no other place to run but straight into the chaos. She doesn't hesitate-fiercely holding Leslie's hand...

Janae Sanders is a dedicated single mother who lives for her son, James. But when she runs into her secret HS crush, Adam, at her 20-year reunion, they spend the night making up for lost time, and she remembers the part of herself she's forgotten since...

"Perfectly balancing sweetness and steam." --Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Stuck in the Country with You She's a good girl trying to rebuild her restaurant. He's a felon trying to rebuild...everything. Second chances have never been so sweet. ...

One night of sweet escape. Or the first taste of love?Fabulous, single and almost forty, Ivy Daniels is ready to embrace the life she put on hold while raising her orphaned nieces. With them grown and running Bishop Honey Bee Farm, Ivy embarks on a...

A stunning novel of post-war Paris that interweaves a coming-of-age story, a cross-cultural romance, and a portrait of the international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history Paris, 1947. The city, recovering from the Nazi occupation,...

Sometimes the power of love . . . A.J. Grayson has come a long way from adopted orphan to fast-rising executive at a cutting-edge technology firm. Now an anti-terrorist agency wants to use the revolutionary artificial intelligence system she developed to...