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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This "powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. “A masterwork...

He would do anything to protect her. For Hunter, guarding celebrities and moguls has always been easy, but watching over Zola could be the one job that ruins him. She's a different type of danger - the sort that could break his heart. Although they grew up together, in their adult...

Over one million copies sold! The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! “Historical fiction at its best!”* A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal...

Shortlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction Named one of the best New Novelists for 2025 by The Observer. Bradford, December 1962. A precocious Mercy makes her reluctant entrance into the world, torn from the warm embrace of her mother’s womb, to a chaotic household that seems to have...

Sometimes family is found in the most unlikely of places . . . In the small college town of Troy, Alabama, amidst the backdrop of 1967, Katia Daniels lives a life steeped in responsibility. At the Pike County Group Home for Negro Boys, she pours her heart into nurturing the young lives under her...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal...

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century...

Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Octavia E. Butler paints a stunning portrait of an all-too-believable near future. As with Kindred and her other critically-acclaimed novels, Parable of the Sower skillfully combines startling visionary and socially realistic concepts. God is change. That is...

Holland Alistair is the gorgeous computer prodigy who took the real estate game by storm. Arrogant. Surly. Eyes of steel. He meets me on the worst day of my life and gets his fern kicked. Literally....

REESE'S BOOK CLUB MAY 2023 PICK A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young...

When Jeremiah Jackson discovers Deliverance, a beautiful runaway slave, hidden in his wagon, a protective spirit rises within him.

The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century. “A remarkable book…From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and suspense, the book takes hold of the...

I'm a protector, and my family is my responsibility. When it comes to my team, I'm the same way. They are family and the reason that me and Capone are able to do us in the streets, knowing they are tucked away safe. As a man, you sometimes fall short, and something—someone—falls through the cracks.

Instant I Do could be Kris Zavala’s big break. She’s right on the cusp of really making it as an influencer, so a stint on reality TV is the perfect chance to elevate her brand. And $100,000 wouldn’t hurt either....

In this “engrossing” (Los Angeles Times) novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, a grieving young man is drawn into the orbit of a charismatic cult leader who forces him to reconsider why people give up control—and what it takes, ultimately, to find...

Oprah’s Book Club 2018 Selection Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by...

He's a heartbreaker with a scorecard. She's his dirty secret. No need to ask... he is A Smooth Operator!

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.” –The New York Times Book Review "Fantastic… a book that feels alive on the page." –The Washington Post From the New York-Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, the beloved novel about young love and a big secret...

A swooning photographer and a double-crossing superhero come together with electrifying chemistry in an out-of-this-world romantic comedy by the author of All Superheroes Need PR.

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 trees.... Jasmine Bay is a nurse for an...

December 1840. Surgeon turned piano-player Benjamin January is looking forward to a peaceful holiday with his family. But the arrival of an old friend brings unexpected news—and unexpected danger. Persephone Jondrette has found Arithmus: a Sudanese man with extraordinary mental abilities who...

Masked balls, duels, and murder: musician, sleuth, and free man of color Benjamin January is caught up in a shocking crime in this gripping nineteenth-century mystery set in New Orleans. February, 1841. It's Carnival season in New Orleans. Free man of color Benjamin January—a surgeon turned...

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of Laymon's essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity....

The Cartel runs Miami, and loyalty to their organization runs deep, but when someone breaks the rules, things may be beyond repair....

Divided by loyalties, brought together by war. September, 1943. Tuscany, Italy. In the hilltop town of Barga, everyone holds their breath. Even the bells fall silent. Everything Vittoria Guidi knows and loves is at risk. German troops occupy the mountains around her home, as America's Buffalo...

L-Trey and his crew are just kids playing ball, laughing, and growing up together. But when life starts to test them—with pressure, choices, and the weight of the world around them—they begin to realize something powerful

Sonny Rollins is one of the towering masters of American music, a virtuoso of the saxophone, and an unequaled improviser whose live performances are legendary and who has reshaped modern jazz over the course of a career lasting more than sixty years. A turning point in that legendary career came...

Cadence Samuels has always believed in numbers, formulas, and solid foundations; after all, she's a Geotechnical Engineer who builds dams, not dreams. After too many dating disasters and lukewarm talking phases, she's officially done gambling with her heart. She's a pretty, nerdy, plus-sized...

Four lives connected by one secret. Paige spent nearly a decade working through then overcoming the traumas of her childhood. Now as a beloved Elder in her church who values her relationship with God above all else, she has learned to love herself and looks forward what life has in store for her. Still, she finds herself unprepared for the challenge she's faced with when a door from her past is flung open, spilling secrets even she was unaware of. Elder Brandon Tatum is looking forward to his new ministerial career in the City of Angels.

Marrying one of the most powerful men in Miami was supposed to lead to a life of love and happiness for Marissa. Instead, her marriage turned into a war zone, and the love she once clung to turned into a weapon used against her. Yaseer inherited a financial empire and built his legacy on dominance and discipline. Between raising his daughter and expanding his empire, women have stayed at the bottom of his priority list until the moment he laid eyes on Marissa. His fixation on the wild-eyed beauty is instant, and for a man like Yaseer, wanting something meant owning it completely.

Pressure Mensah thought he had control. Four women remain—Pluto, Kashmere, Toni Roc, and his ex Ka'mari—and every one of them pulls him in a different direction. Pluto shakes him the most. When Pressure goes back home with her to see about her little sister, Zurie, he's faced with a side of her that refuses to bend, and that unshakable strength forces him to question everything he thought he wanted. Kashmere is toxic at times, loud, and addictive, the type of woman who can ruin a man yet make him feel alive in the same breath. She is chaos dressed as comfort, and Pressure can't let go.

Private investigator Sonny Rush, the newest resident of Haven, California, knows that this fogbound coastal hamlet is every bit as dangerous as her hometown of Los Angeles. And when teenager and repeat runaway Honor Butler shows up at Sonny’s door with terror in her eyes, Sonny is immediately pulled into a new case that lands close to home.

The widow of a tech mogul is determined to give her wealth away—and keep one secret from the journalist tasked with telling her story. A hot new take on the billionaire romance. When Ndidi Davis’s husband unexpectedly dies, she’s left bereft—and with $2.1 billion in the bank. She...

Book #14 in the Shepherd Security Series. Shepherd Security field engineer Laura Lee ‘Lah-lee’ Saxton declined Operator training. She also voiced her opposition to working in the Operations Center as an analyst. She failed to complete and submit her required coursework to earn her FBI Credentials. Although she is a top-notch electrical engineer, she was the first person at Shepherd Security to ever be placed on disciplinary probation.

The Occasional Poet is a collection of odes written & performed by Angela for special people on special occasions.

A second chance with the single dad might seem like fate—but he’s exactly what I should avoid. I’ve loved Ethan Bishop since freshman year— the day we met at a high school basketball game. Those five years together? Unforgettable. He was my first love, my one and only. But while I was wild at heart, his presence kept me grounded—until his family decided I wasn’t good enough for him.

Miles never expected a second chance with his first love, but living under the same roof rekindles a connection neither of them can ignore. Just as they begin imagining a future together, unsettling truths from their past threaten the fragile bond they’re rebuilding. While Miles vows to be there for Evette through the uncertainty, he must also confront the fallout from a night of passion with a willing duo and a coworker whose obsession grows increasingly unpredictable.

Bloomsbury presents Writing Black Panther by Howard Rambsy II, read by Greg Lockett A timely look at contemporary African American creative works through the lens of Ta-Nehisi Coates's ground-breaking entry into the comic book industry. Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates’s presence...

Megan joins a sorority Theta Kappa Rho hoping for community, but the initiation rituals clash with her Christian faith. Torn between acceptance and conviction, she must make a decision that will redefine her identity—and challenge everything she thought she needed. A powerful, suspense-filled novel about standing firm when the world expects you to fold.

Under the glow of a winter moon, Kina Okafor begins the only story she has left to tell—her own. At sixteen, raised in a devout Christian home where women are taught to be “helpers” and the moon is called the lesser light, Kina makes a quiet, radical decision: she will not live a smaller life. She will not borrow her brightness. She will burn with her own fire. What follows is a decades-long journey of ambition, sacrifice, love, estrangement, success, doubt, and reckoning.

Larger-than-life actress Jayana “Yana” Gardner arrives in New York certain her big break has finally come. She’s got a casting director boyfriend, an ensemble role on Broadway, and just enough hope to believe things are falling into place. Then everything falls apart. One breakup. One lost job. One eviction later, Yana is single, unemployed, and very much not thriving in a city that does not care.

Y’all are invited to dig into a steamin’ plate of meatloaf. The diner’s well-worn red chairs have cradled folks from every corner of Willow Bluff—Jessie’s podcasting bestie, Tee, Old Mr Higgins, two mighty mischievous kittens, Biscuits and Gravy, and every tattling townsperson in between—so when the mayor turns blue after a bite of Jessie’s famous shrimp and grits, she finds herself in seriously hot water…

Tammy Pierre is called upon to help solve a murder that appears to involve Obeah — a form of voodoo practiced in Trinidad. Her father’s Trinidadian roots give the police reason to bring her in, but a black candle ritual offers little else to go on. Then, as one after another victim is found, their only connection leads her to the island, a convent once used as an orphanage, and the strange figure then known as Sister Constance. On her return to London, Tammy keeps digging, despite warnings and an intimidating surveillance of her apartment.

In 1934 St. Louis, Missouri, Pamela, outwardly a young, white socialite (but inwardly an unsettled late adolescent), is about to give birth to her first child. To assist in the delivery, she searches for the 'colored' midwife, Miss Minnie, who attended her own birth in 1911. She and her...

From The Unexpected Diva author Tiffany Warren—a dishy and dramatic novel of the Harlem Renaissance and its most famous Black debutante, Yolande Du Bois, daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois, whose spectacular wedding to poet Countee Cullen was the society event of the year...even though the bride and...

Will Rell and Tye have the happy ending they deserve, or will the whispers of the past tear these couples apart? Find out in this explosive finale...

It’s New Year’s Eve and hundreds of people are flocking to the city into the affluent areas all the way down into the sewers below. The party is on, and Mia’s job is going to be popping. She works at Valkyrie House, a brothel that invites absolute debauchery, but also a place Mia calls home. In a city under the crooked leadership of the Five Families, Mia has managed to carve out a good life in the gloomy capital city of Julilie.

After losing her husband, Sienna Parker has been living a shadow of her former life, paralyzed by anxiety and guilt over not being the mother her young son deserves. When her sister, Maya, suggests a fresh start in a small town, Sienna agrees. Oak Mountain turns out to be nothing like she...

Mariano "Reno" DeLuca uses his skills and resources to create safe havens for women who find themselves in dangerous situations. Unfortunately, a surge in criminal activity in the Chatham area threatens the women's anonymity and security, including the mysterious beauty who landed on the...

As the saying goes: when it rains, it pours. Story and Mercy have been through their fair share of ups and downs, and they’ve tried to remain strong through it all, but feel as if they can’t catch a break. When shots are fired, it’s unknown who the intended target is, but this action shatters everyone’s lives in the blink of an eye and we’re left wondering if Story and Mercy will ever get the chance to get their happily ever after. Find out who’s left standing when the smoke clears in this action-packed story of love.