Fiction
Caught Up (HB)
One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2015"Holmes...is a noted pioneering street lit author. His smooth-flowing narrative mixes crime, sex, and sassy street language, giving his protagonists a true life-in-the-streets feel. This will more than satisfy serious readers of urban fiction."--Library...
$23.95
Caught Up
"Holmes...is a noted pioneering street lit author. His smooth-flowing narrative mixes crime, sex, and sassy street language, giving his protagonists a true life-in-the-streets feel. This will more than satisfy serious readers of urban fiction."--Library Journal (Starred Review, Pick of the Month)"I...
$12.95
Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth (Akashic Noir)
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. This volume presents the first nonfiction collection in the series, curated by acclaimed novelists Tim McLoughlin and Thomas Adcock.Brand-new stories by: Robert Leuci, Dennis Hawkins,...
$15.95
Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Noir Anthologies)
On the heels of the stunning success of the Summer '04 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir, this second volume digs deeper into the criminal history of New York's punchiest and most alluring borough. Brooklyn Noir 2 offers short stories by the classic authors who blazed the...
$16.95
Brooklyn Noir (Akashic Noir Anthologies)
Brooklyn Noir is on fire! It is an Edgar Award finalist for "The Book Signing" by Pete Hamill; winner of the MWA's Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for "Can't Catch Me" by Thomas Morrissey; a Shamus Award finalist for "Hasidic Noir"...
$15.95
Bronx Noir (Akashic Noir)
Fiction by Marlon James, Kevin Baker, and more: “Captures the immense diversity . . . from the mean streets of the South Bronx to affluent Riverdale” (Publishers Weekly). Set amid landmarks like Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Zoo, in crowded streets or leafy enclaves,...
$16.29
Boundaries
"Boundaries is told in spare and transcendent prose. [...] As always, Nunez delivers a unique and riveting perspective on Caribbean life as well as immigrant life in general."--The New York Amsterdam News"Many moments of elegant, overarching insight bind the personal...
$22.95
Black Orchid Blues
Lanie Price, a 1920s Harlem society columnist, witnesses the brutal nightclub kidnapping of the "Black Orchid," a sultry, seductive singer with a mysterious past. Price, a female 1920s version of Dominick Dunne, soon finds herself elbows-deep in a story in...
$15.95
Black Lotus 2: The Vow (HB)
After the death of a police officer, assassin Kahllah (aka the Black Lotus) is forced out of retirement in an attempt to clear her name while outrunning a mysterious enemy. "Black Lotus 2: The Vow is full of the cinematic action...
$24.95
Black Lotus 2: The Vow
After the death of a police officer, assassin Kahllah (aka the Black Lotus) is forced out of retirement in an attempt to clear her name while outrunning a mysterious enemy. "Black Lotus 2: The Vow is full of the cinematic action...
$14.95
Black Lotus
Selected for the Library Services for Youth in Custody 2015 In The Margins ListOne of Library Journal's Best African American Fiction Books of 2014"[A] heart-thumping thriller...K'wan does a masterful job of keeping readers on their toes right up to the very...
$12.95
Bivouac
The death of a Jamaican man's father raises questions about the father's political endeavors, and about the plight of 1980s Jamaica. Kwame Dawes has been named a 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize Recipient in poetry "Few other novels encapsulate Jamaica's political upheavals so well....
$15.95
Bedrock Faith
One of Roxane Gay's Top 10 Books of 2014One of Booklist's Top 10 First Novels of 2014One of the Chicago Reader's Favorite Books of 2014A Women's Book Group Discussion Selection, Women & Children First BookstoreOne of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Books to Pick Up...
$16.95
Becoming Abigail: A Novella
"Compelling and gorgeously written, this is a coming-of-age novella like no other. Chris Abani explores the depths of loss and exploitation with what can only be described as a knowing tenderness. An extraordinary, necessary book."—Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban"Abani's...
$15.95
Around Harvard Square
Race, class, and hormones combine and combust when a Harvard freshman and his two friends attempt to join the staff of the Harpoon, the school's iconic humor magazine. Around Harvard Square is the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work...
$14.95
Anna In-Between (HB)
"The award-winning author of Prospero's Daughter has written a novel more intimate than her usual big-picture work; this moving exploration of immigrant identity has a protagonist caught between race, class and a mother's love."—Ms. MagazinePraise for Prospero's Daughter:"Gripping and richly imagined . ....
$22.95
Anna In-Between
"A psychologically and emotionally astute family portrait, with dark themes like racism, cancer and the bittersweet longing of the immigrant."--New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice)"Nunez has created a moving and insightful character study while delving into the complexities of identity...
$15.95
An Unkindness of Ghosts
"Harrowing and beautiful, this is SF at its best: showing the possible future but warning of the danger of bringing old prejudices and cruelties to that new world. While a story about enslaved people in space could be a one-note...
$15.95
All or Nothing: A Novel
A “funny, relentless, haunting, and highly readable” novel about one man’s desperate gambling addiction (ForeWord Magazine). P is a school bus driver in Florida, and six month ago he won a hundred grand at the casino. What his wife and family...
$15.95
Adios Muchachos
Alicia is a smart, confident and gorgeous prostitute in Havana. She is not a street-walker. Rather, she displays her wares on bicycle, seducing men through the irresistible pull of her fine derrière. John King, her new client, is a Canadian businessman...
$15.95