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LagoonAfter word gets out on the Internet that aliens have landed in the waters outside of the world’s fifth most populous city, Lagos, Nigeria, c...KindredA modern Black woman is pulled through time to face the horrors of slavery in this “Great American Novel” about racism, sexism, and white su...RunnerMartha’s Vineyard, 1923. The sea was the gift that kept on giving to Lena Jameson’s father, Earl, a fisherman turned successful rumrunner wh...Give Her Love. Give Her PowerEven bad boys are capable of having good hearts. Give her Love. Give her Power. travels to the slums of Channing City and places a magnifyin...Before I Should LeaveI didn’t expect anything.
Not a conversation.
Not a connection.
Definitely not… him.
It was supposed to be a smooth, simple ride to the ai...Claimed By A Blue Eyed MenaceShe was promised to power. He was born to kill.
Parker Whitmore was raised in a world where image is everything and loyalty is law. As the ...This Bitter EarthThis powerful sequel to Bernice L. McFadden’s bestselling debut Sugar follows a young African-American woman back to her Arkansas hometown, ...The Perfect RuinA brutal tragedy ended Ivy Hill’s happy family and childhood. Now in her twenties and severely troubled, she barely has a life—or much to li...People Like Us**Two Black writers - with stories to tell, and some they'd rather forget.**
One wins the big prize, gets the book tour, walks into the spo...Paradise"Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked ...The Water DancerYoung Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysteri...Audre & Bash Are Just FriendsMeet Audre. Junior class president. Debate team captain. Unofficial student therapist. Desperately in need of a good time.
Meet Bash. My...Before I Let GoA divorced couple confronts grief, co-parenting, and unresolved love while rebuilding trust.A MercyA powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize--winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that ...The Book of Night WomenFrom a young writer who radiates charisma and talent comes a sweeping, stylish historical novel of Jamaican slavery that can be compared onl...The DeepYetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live ...The ForsakenThe Chairman of the Vampire Council is dead, and Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, and the Unnamed One himself are out for revenge aga...The Portable Promised LandThis inspired collection of stories is cause for celebration. With stunning language and dazzling characters, Touré introduces Soul City-a w...The WonderAs a child Lucas thought that all children who'd lost their parents lived on water. Now a restless young man still living with his sister De...Song Yet SungFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of The Color of Water comes a powerful page-turner about a runaway slave and a determined slave c...The WickedNew, deadly enemies of the Vampire Huntress join forces with the old in the battle that will lead to the Armageddon in The Wicked, the eight...Her Little Black BookIt's less than a week before Sonya Morrison's wedding when she decides to pass her legendary little black book on to her cousin Courtney And...FatedIn "Only For The Moment," Aari, a compassionate forensic social worker, opens her home to Syx, a guarded stranger in need. Their brief yet p...The Wife BeforeSamira Wilder has never had it easy, and when her latest lousy job goes south, things only promise to get harder. Until she unexpectedly mee...Gotta Jones For Ya: An Unhinged RomanceImagine giving a n*gga some p*ssy ONE TIME and yeah, the d*ck was bomb. But then, he starts stalking you and popping up at your job, the gym...Cinnamon KissIt is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled,...Gloves OffSometimes, life hits you with obstacles that cause you to take your gloves off and fight a different kind of fight.
Hemi and Prue have been...Song of SolomonMilkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his l...DawnOne woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-win...Clay's ArkFrom the acclaimed author of the Earthseed series, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates toget...HomeWhen Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, ...White TeethAt the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie an...Tar BabyJadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Bla...Heart of A Goon IIGoon has always known loving Zoya comes with a price, but it’s one he’s willing to pay for the woman he’s loved since the first time he laid...The CursedFrom the national bestselling author L. A. Banks comes a walk on the wild side with The Cursed, the ninth novel in the popular Vampire Huntr...26aA hauntingly beautiful, wickedly funny, and devastatingly moving novel of innocence and dreams that announces the arrival of a major new tal...Death of the AuthorThe future of storytelling is here.
Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or l...Apex Hides the HurtThe town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to re...The Heaven & Earth Grocery StoreIn 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find w...The DarknessThe Darkness descends with the arrival of the Armaggedon in the tenth novel of L. A. Banks's bestselling Vampire Huntress Legend series.
Af...The Temple of My FamiliarA visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales.
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