Fiction
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (A D Hunter Mystery)
Finalist for the 2012 NAACP Image Award in Literature! "George is an ace at interlacing the real dramas of the world...the book's slim length and flyweight depth could make it an artifact of this particular zeitgeist in American history. Playas and...
$15.95
The Lunatic
In this outrageously out-of-order, hilarious novel, the reader discovers that lunacy is by no means restricted to the village madman, and that goodness and forgiveness may be rarer qualities, found in unexpected places.Aloysius is tolerated by neighbors but forced to...
$15.95
The Lost Treasures of R&B: The D Hunter Mysteries, Book 3 (HB)
Nominated for the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize for Fiction"This is a fine mystery and [protagonist] D Hunter is as world weary, yet steadfast, as Philip Marloew, Spenser, Dave Robicheaux, or Easy Rawlins. A definite yes to purchase...
$24.95
The Lost Treasures of R&B: The D Hunter Mysteries, Book 3
Nominated for the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize for Fiction"This is a fine mystery and [protagonist] D Hunter is as world weary, yet steadfast, as Philip Marloew, Spenser, Dave Robicheaux, or Easy Rawlins. A definite yes to purchase...
$15.95
The Gospel According to Cane
Nominated for the 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction!Publishers Weekly has named The Gospel According to Cane a 2012-13 "Notable African-American Title""A mother's love is unbreakable, as Frank O'Connor Award–nominee Newland demonstrates in his latest novel...The storytelling is as captivating as the story...
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The Freedom Artist
An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri. An NPR Best Book of 2020! "With the stark power of myth, this political allegory evolves into an...
$16.95
The Family Mansion: A Novel
"The brutalities of Jamaica's past and the myriad social and cultural contradictions that contributed to it are conveyed with a genuine fondness for this complicated and conflicted place. A surprising, and surprisingly sophisticated, approach to historical fiction."--Publishers Weekly“Jamaica-born Winkler opens...
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The Duppy
"Every country (if she’s lucky) gets the Mark Twain she deserves, and Winkler is ours, bristling with savage Jamaican wit, heart-stopping compassion, and jaw-dropping humor all at once."—Marlon James, author of John Crow’s DevilWith his characteristic outrageousness, Anthony C. Winkler defies...
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The Darkest Hearts (A D Hunter Mystery) HB
Trap music, human trafficking, malt liquor, and the tyranny of President Trump collide in the fifth installment of Nelson George's D Hunter mystery series. "Once again, my brother Nelson George comes through in the clutch like he's batting clean-up. I've...
$37.95
The Darkest Hearts (A D Hunter Mystery)
Trap music, human trafficking, malt liquor, and the tyranny of President Trump collide in the fifth installment of Nelson George's D Hunter mystery series. "Once again, my brother Nelson George comes through in the clutch like he's batting clean-up. I've...
$37.05
The Book of Harlan
Bernice L. McFadden has been named the Go On Girl! Book Club's 2018 Author of the Year WINNER of the 2017 American Book Award WINNER of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee (Fiction)! A Washington Post Notable Book of 2016...
$16.95
The Accidental Hunter (A D Hunter Mystery)
"A gritty noir set in the world of New York City's hip hop culture, The Accidental Hunter introduces bodyguard-for-hire D Hunter...The violence and chaos that follows proves George to be the equal of his forebears; it's hardly a surprise that the book...
$17.95
Tango for a Torturer
Aldo Bianchi, a former Argentine revolutionary now living in Italy, travels to Havana, where he meets the beautiful Bini, a sultry student with great charm and panache working the hotels. Bianchi soon discovers via his liaison with Bini that his...
$15.95
Tales of the Out & the Gone: Short Stories
Comprising short fiction from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century—most of which has never been published—Tales of the Out & the Gone reflects the astounding evolution of America’s most provocative literary anti-hero.The first section of the book, “War Stories,” offers...
$16.95
Tales (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)
"Always a step ahead, Baraka in 1964 recorded a reading of his provocative poem, 'Black Dada Nihilimus,' to the avant-garde jazz of the New York Art Quartet. Tales, a collection of impressionistic short stories, reads like an angry James Joyce. I...
$15.95
Swing
"Wise librarians will stock up and 'swing' this one over to erotica fans."--Library Journal"This newest offering from Miasha packs quite a punch...This erotic thriller keeps the drama and the sex coming from start to finish."--Library Journal (Erotica column)"A sleazy little gem...
$11.95
Song for Night
"Not since Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird or Agota Kristof’s Notebook Trilogy has there been such a harrowing novel about what it’s like to be a young person in a war. That Chris Abani is able to find humanity, mercy, and even,...
$14.95
She's Gone
A prominent Jamaican reggae singer falls in love with an African American woman while on tour in South Carolina. The two struggle to forge a relationship across a cultural and psychological divide in a story that spans from Jamaica to...
$16.63
Queens Noir (Akashic Noir)
Brand-new stories by: Denis Hamill, Malachy McCourt, Maggie Estep, Megan Abbott, Robert Knightly, Liz Martínez, Jill Eisenstadt, Mary Byrne, Tori Carrington, Shailly P. Agnihotri, K.j.a. Wishnia, Victoria Eng, Alan Gordon, Beverly Farley, Joe Guglielmelli, and Glenville Lovell.Includes the story "Bucker's...
$19.95
Providential
Longlisted for the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry"The Caribbean policeman is a character both foreign and familiar at the center of this intimate debut poetry collection. Combining Jamaican patois and American English, it tells the story of violence, loss,...
$15.95