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Where the Wildflowers Grow

Where the Wildflowers Grow

From acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris comes a poignant story of survival and redemption that questions what it means to stop existing and start living. Leigh is the last of...

Kin

Kin

An unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy....

Score, Book 2

Score, Book 2

A scorching second-chance romance between a talented screenwriter and a phenomenal musician. You never forget your first love. Isn’t that what they say? Verity Hill knows this truth intimately. She...

Where the Wildflowers Grow

Where the Wildflowers Grow

From acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris comes a poignant story of survival and redemption that questions what it means to stop existing and start living. Leigh is the last of...

Cool Machine, Book 3

Cool Machine, Book 3

An exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of Harlem Trilogy. 1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin...

Fire Sword and Sea

Fire Sword and Sea

The real Pirates of the Caribbean were Black, and women! From Vanessa Riley, acclaimed author of Queen of Exiles, comes a sweeping, immersive saga based on the life of the...

The Reformatory

The Reformatory

A gripping, page-turning horror novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where...

The Great Mann

The Great Mann

In this poignant retelling of The Great Gatsby, set amongst L.A.’s Black elite, a young veteran finds his way post-war, pulled into a new world of tantalizing possibilities—and explosive tensions....

People Like Us

People Like Us

People Like Us is Jason Mott’s electric new novel. It is not memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason’s life. And while rooted in reality, it explodes with...

O Sinners!

O Sinners!

An engrossing novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, where a grieving young man is drawn into the orbit of a charismatic cult leader who...

Great Black Hope

Great Black Hope

A gripping debut from an electrifying new voice about an upwardly mobile and downwardly spiraling Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamourous parties and sudden consequences, a...

Sweet Heat

Sweet Heat

Two exes. One summer wedding. Zero chance of escaping the heat. Prepare to laugh, swoon, and fall head over heels with this irresistible standalone romance from bestselling author Bolu Babalola....

Casualties of Truth

Casualties of Truth

A riveting literary novel with the sharp edges of a thriller about the abuses of history and the costs of revenge, set between Washington, D.C., and Johannesburg, South Africa. Prudence...

I Think They Love You

I Think They Love You

With his funny, big-hearted adult rom com debut, bestselling, award-winning YA author Julian Winters shows sometimes fake dating your ex can turn into a second chance. When Denzel “Denz” Carter’s...

A Little Kissing Between Friends

A Little Kissing Between Friends

Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the studio to the flirty femmes she fools around with. Her ever-rotating roster...

Reel, Book 1

Reel, Book 1

Neevah Saint is ready for the spotlight. After months as an understudy, this is her night to shine. She never imagined he would be in the audience. Canon Holt. Famous...

This Could Be Us

This Could Be Us

Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who’s never met a...

Someone Like Us

Someone Like Us

The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by unexpected loss, addiction, and the enduring emotional pull toward home. After abandoning...

The Kiss Countdown

The Kiss Countdown

Risk-averse event planner Amerie Price is jobless, newly single, and about to lose her apartment. With no choice but to gamble on her shaky start-up, the last thing she needed...

The Partner Plot

The Partner Plot

Two former high school sweethearts get a second chance in this marriage of convenience romance by Kristina Forest, author of The Neighbor Favor. To Violet Greene, fashion is everything. As...

Between Friends and Lovers

Between Friends and Lovers

To her countless Instagram followers Josephine Boateng is the dazzling Dr. Jojo—and her opinions on health, growth, and self-love matter. Her message: be smart (she has a medical degree after...

Sex, Lies and Sensibility

Sex, Lies and Sensibility

There’s never a good time to learn you are your father’s secret child—especially not at the reading of his will. With their father’s affairs laid bare and Nora’s sensible reputation...

Masquerade

Masquerade

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman’s fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths...

Dances

Dances

At twenty-two years old, Cece Cordell reaches the pinnacle of her career as a ballet dancer when she’s promoted to principal at the New York City Ballet. She’s instantly catapulted...

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