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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...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025 by Pride Best New Books of Spring 2025 by Bustle Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by LitHub Biggest Books of March by Book Riot Most Anticipated Books of March by Goodreads Featuring two new songs written for the...

Dr. Allison Hall is staring down the prospect of her first Christmas in a new town and her first without her son, who is spending the holiday with her ex. As the new doc on the block, she's on duty for the Christmas shift and glad of it. When one of her favorite patients lands back in the hospital, and it looks like this might be his last Christmas, she hopes she can help connect him to his estranged daughter. Dante Price thinks Allison should mind her own business. He's a nurse - and admittedly a bit of a Christmas Scrooge.

Felicity Veneto never asked to be a pawn in her family's war, but when her freedom is traded for peace, she's thrown into the arms of Khalil Bulgari, the man she hates almost as much as she craves. Trapped in his luxurious cage, she knows survival means playing the part of the dutiful fiancée… until she can find a way out. Khalil didn't become the Bulgari enforcer by trusting pretty faces and fake tears. He sees through Felicity's games. However, the more she schemes, the deeper she gets under his skin. And the more he tries to control her, the more dangerous she becomes.

Famous rapper Villain and his rowdy entourage are headed to his bachelor party in Brazil when his private jet crashes on a remote island. The only survivors are he and Ariana, the beautiful, older, no-nonsense in-flight concierge who can't stand him. Stranded with no rescue in sight, they have no choice but to work together if they want to survive. What begins as a fragile truce soon ignites into passion and forges a path to trust, understanding, and a love neither of them expected to find. But when rescue finally comes, reality hits hard.

In the savage streets of Miami, where loyalty is life and betrayal is paid in blood, Romel "Trouble" Volkov runs the city as the ruthless head of a powerful mafia family. Hardened by a past that taught him emotions equal weakness, he built an empire on fear and control. His heart? Locked away behind ice-cold walls. His life? Tied to an arranged marriage with a woman he doesn't love, all to keep the family's power intact. Then comes Jermany. Bold. Unapologetic. A free spirit with fire in her soul and a softness Trouble never knew he craved. She doesn't just see him, she feels him.

Cuando Roman Carruthers, el hijo mayor de la familia y un genio de las finanzas, vuelve a casa tras el accidente de coche de su padre, se encuentra a su hermano pequeño, Dante, endeudado con criminales peligrosos, y a su hermana Neveah agotada de mantener unida a la familia y su negocio. Neveah, que dirige el Crematorio Carruthers en Jefferson Run, ve la muerte de cerca todos los días. Pero la mortalidad se acerca aún más a la familia cuando queda claro que el accidente que dejó a su padre en coma no fue tal, y que la imprudencia de Dante los ha puesto a todos en un verdadero peligro.

The only kind of relationship Everly Love Miller is interested in having with men is one in which emotions don't factor into the equation. The last thing she's looking for is love. The pretty labor and delivery nurse learned the hard way that many men were attracted to women like her, but often behind closed doors. As long as it's mutually beneficial, Everly keeps their secrets—and her heart—to herself. It's the ideal arrangement: she calls all the shots and everything remains perfect in her world. Montréal Hamilton doesn't give a damn about Everly's list of rules and regulations.

The man known as the King of the Zoo has spoken his truth. He laid his cards on the table and prepared his friends for his impending death. Time is running out, but Chevy is determined to reach Toussaint and fulfill a lifelong dream. However, the one person he feels he needs by his side has gone missing. Even though the team is aware of Chevy's sickness, they rally together to aid him in finding a resolution and motivate him to seek treatment. Their final hope rests with Zaria, who they believe can change the King's life.

The Evans Family is flying out for a much-needed vacation in one week. Before then, they plan to take a break from their busy careers. But what's a week-long break with the Evans clan without a little drama?

Detective Zora Beckers is called to a particularly brutal murder case. Several unidentifiable bodies are found in a junkyard. In addition, brutal bank robberies have been keeping the entire city on edge for weeks. At first, Zora and her colleagues have no useful leads. And then the detective, along with her young friend Tim, becomes embroiled in a bank robbery and is pursued by the merciless perpetrators. Zora's colleague Benno takes over the further developments to help the two. But events continue to escalate, reaching a new dimension beyond their imagination.

From the comfort of friendship emerges a longing for more … Dr. Jasmine Jones and ex-pro football player Darren Manning have been best friends their whole lives. But when family and friends start planting doubts that their close friendship is stopping them from finding true love, Jasmine comes up with a plan for them to start dating other people. What she doesn't expect is the surprising jealousy and confusion she feels watching Darren fall for someone new. After years of unrequited pining, could Darren finally have a chance at winning over the girl he's always loved?

In her life, there have only been three lovers. But Leslie doesn’t lament the meager number, she only truly mourns the second one. In her youthful arrogance, she turned him away, thinking there would be many more chances. Now, she lives two lives—one in the present, and another plagued by bittersweet memories of the past. But maybe, even now, it will be possible to reconcile the two.

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 circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding.

When a desperate woman escapes a dangerous situation and seeks refuge in Wintermoon, she finds herself irrevocably bonded to a possessive wolf shifter in this fated mates, forced proximity romance.

God is change. That is the central truth of the Earthseed movement, whose unlikely prophet is 18-year-old Lauren Olamina. The young woman's diary entries tell the story of her life amid a violent 21st-century hell of walled neighborhoods and drug-crazed pyromaniacs—and reveal her evolving Earthseed philosophy. Against a backdrop of horror emerges a message of hope: if we are willing to embrace divine change, we will survive to fulfill our destiny among the stars.

My name is Sia Reynolds. I’m a girl with an unsettling past, and the outlook of my future seems even bleaker. I need a job to get my life back on track so when my best friend (and only friend) Lettie suggests I work for her more than abrasive father I have little choice but to take her up on the offer. I had no idea that meant committing to a life of secrecy bathed in blood…

Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning White boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes she's been given a challenge.

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession based on the hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author. “As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the...

Yoshiro escaped a career of crime with the mafia after they killed his family. For five years, he's dropped out of life. All he wants this Christmas is to be left alone. Then, Ebony and her kids accidentally crash onto his property during a snowstorm. For three years, they've been running from her husband - who's been more monster than man. The storm picks up. They are forced to remain with Yoshiro until it dies down. And the threat of Ebony's monster remains, lurking within the shadows and threatening her safety. But Yoshiro knows all about death and blood.