New York Times best seller. This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls “a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction". Now a FOX TV series! Named one of Paste’s best horror books of the decade. Na...

The Passage

Featured on Oprah's Summer Reading List  For readers and listeners of Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing and Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, this extraordinary historical debut novel follows three fierce Southern women in an unforgettable ...

Call Your Daughter Home

The #1 New York Times bestselling series! In this breathless third installment to Victoria Aveyard’s #1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen series, rebellion is rising and allegiances will be tested on every side.  Mare Barrow is a prisoner, powerle...

King's Cage

Trying to put past hurts behind you is hard when your ex is a fool, but buoyed by child support and alimony, Jo Walker is moving forward with her life, pursuing a career, raising her little girl, and trying to live in peace. She believes she has all ...

Let Me Love You

You know her voice. Now hear her story.  Audible has teamed up with Rolling Stone to produce an uncompromisingly honest Audible Original that honors the life and legacy of the incomparable Aretha Franklin. Aretha’s universal appeal was evident from t...

The Queen

For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pa...

The Premonition

An intoxicating new romance by Alexandria House - available in audio first!  Stable, safe, predictable - all words that aptly describe Professor Nadia Day’s life. An existence she’s carefully crafted for herself despite her unconventional upbringing ...

Teach Me

With a cameo by Mindy Kaling, Regina Hall performs this captivating romantic comedy with a thrilling sci-fi twist! Trinity Jordan leads a quiet, normal life: working from home for the Hive, a multifunctional government research center, and recovering...

The A.I. Who Loved Me

You’ll never forget this emotional, steamy, funny new romance by rising star Alexandria House - available in audio first!  Brooklyn Dembélé is still piecing her life together after her divorce and the loss of a lifestyle she’d dreamed of since childh...

Temper Me

"Elaine gifts us all with a beautifully intimate and powerful retelling of her ever-unfolding journey. In sharing her joys, pitfalls, adventures, self-doubt, and successes, she reminds us that through uncovering and discovering the many facets of our...

More Than Enough

NBA player Leland McClain, the baby of the McClain family, is tall, handsome, talented...and spoiled. He's a man who gets what he wants, and what he wants is the lovely Kimberly Hampton.   Kim Hampton is the director of a community center, a woman wh...

Let Me Hold You

Neil McClain is the screw-up, the one everyone hopes will win but expects to lose. He wants to live a better life, one that his late mother would be proud of, but his belief in himself is weak. Sage Moniba is in need of a major miracle, or she'll be ...

Let Me Free You

Nolan McClain is the smart one, the driven one, the one who goes for what he wants, meticulously plans his steps, and thinks he has his life all mapped out...until he lays eyes on Bridgette Turner.    Bridgette Turner is just as driven and focused as...

Let Me Show You

Instant New York Times Best Seller An Oprah Book Club Selection Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction • a Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction • Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • Longlisted for the Aspen Wor...

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

She's the only sister in a family of alpha males. Loved, treasured, and sheltered by her brothers, Kat McClain is working to heal the pain of a failed marriage to a man she loved from her teenage years and move on with her life, but she's a woman, sh...

Let Me Please You: A McClain Family Novella

Aminata Diallo is the beguiling heroine of Lawrence Hill's Someone Knows My Name. In it, Hill exquisitely imagines the tale of an 18th-century woman's life, spanning six decades and three continents. The fascinating story that Hill tells is a work of...

Someone Knows My Name

 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  “Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.” (The New York Times Book Review) "Luminous… engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss." (People, Pick of the Week)  "Fantastic… a book that feels alive on the page." (The Washin...

The Mothers

A debut of extraordinary distinction: through the trials of one unforgettable family, Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration, a story of love and bitterness and the promise of a new America.  In 1923, 15-year-old Hattie S...

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

32 Candles is the slightly twisted, utterly romantic, and deftly wry story of Davie Jones, who, if she doesn’t stand in her own way, just might get the man of her dreams. Davie—an ugly duckling growing up in small-town Mississippi—is positive her lif...

32 Candles

A new provocative love story from the New York Times best-selling author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things.  "The story of Zee and Gentry is the reason we read." (Brunonia Barry)    Their journey will break them - or save them. A moving and compli...

The Reckless Oath We Made

New York Times best-selling author Eric Jerome Dickey delivers his next delectable, erotic romance.  They call themselves the Blackbirds. Kwanzaa Browne, Indigo Abdulrahaman, Destiny Jones, and Ericka Stockwell are four best friends who are closer th...

The Blackbirds

In the gripping sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future.  Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the ...

The Book of Etta

The pre-Civil War South comes brilliantly to life in this masterfully written novel about a mysterious and charismatic healer readers won’t soon forget....  Mississippi plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield loses her daughter to cholera after her hu...

The Healing

Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of black society, and when she falls for no-name Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man s...

A Kind of Freedom

Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, the Washington Post, BookPage, NPR, the Guardian, Variety, New York Publ...

The Other Americans

A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must for all those interested in the nature of Black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on Black women during slavery, the devaluation of Black womanhood, Black male sexism, ...

Ain't I a Woman

The New York Times best-selling author checks in to the hotel of readers' dreams for an ardent romantic adventure that lasts just One Night.  For one night a couple checks in to an upscale hotel. The pair seem unlikely companions, from opposing strat...

One Night

A powerful, timely debut, The Turner House marks a major new contribution to the story of the American family.  The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over 50 years. Their house has seen 13 children grown and gone - and some returned; it has see...

The Turner House

“If you enjoyed An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, read The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls...an absorbing commentary on love, family, and forgiveness.” (The Washington Post) “A fast-paced, intriguing story...the novel’s real achieveme...

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls

Meet Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean in the New York Times best-selling novel.... Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat is home away from home for this inseparable Plainview, Indiana, trio. Dubbed "The Supremes" by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they w...

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the...

Billions & Billions

When 26-year-old Reese accepts a position as a grad assistant, she has no idea an unpleasant encounter with a student will lead to the discovery of what she calls "the trifecta": fine, intellectual, and a little bit rude - three qualities she finds i...

Getting Schooled

Neighborhood tensions reach a breaking point in the finale of New York Times best-selling author Mary Monroe's captivating series that sweeps listeners back to 1930's Alabama and into the lives of two neighboring couples whose deceitful friendships a...

Across the Way

A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing - and for the conjuring of curses - are at the heart of this dazzling first novel Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York...

Conjure Women

Not all heroes wear capes and uniforms...or see themselves becoming the villain.  As his sophomore year wraps up, Hugo Malalou - aka Aegis - is living his best life. He’s working with Lady Liberty to protect San Miguel, acing all his classes, and cas...

Gods of Wrath

From the NAACP Image award winner and national best-selling author Victoria Christopher Murray comes a novel inspired by the seven deadly sins about a woman caught between an entertainment mogul with a shady past and his childhood friend who is out f...

Lust

In this addictive novel set in the Depression-era South, New York Times best-selling author Mary Monroe transports listeners to a small Alabama town where home is not always a sanctuary, and two neighboring families let pleasantries mask increasing r...

Over the Fence

All Devyn wants - besides a tall, fine husband and eventually a few babies to fulfill her "about to turn thirty, running out of time, cute black family" dreams - is to finish her yearlong internship at University Hospital. She's excited about the exp...

Pulling Doubles

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy. “A rhapsodi...

Memphis

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott “From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, st...

Invisible Child

Belle Palmer is finally free! Separated from her father on the harrowing escape, Belle is lost and alone until she finds shelter with the Bests, the first free family she's ever known. For the first time in her 16 years, Belle can speak her mind - ex...

Belle

In the stunning climax of New York Times best-selling author Mary Monroe's Lonely Heart, Deadly Heart series, the tension - and the heat - reach unforgettable heights as two restless women go after the ultimate satisfaction...and a killer desire prep...

The Devil You Know

A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. Gabrielle Wilson has the perfect life: a Beverly Hills mansion, a loving family, and a massively successful PR firm. When her father admits that an affair he had years before resulted ...

Envy

Winner of the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Named a Best Book of 2020 by O Magazine, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Real Simple, The Guardian, and more Finalist for: The Story Prize, The L.A. Times Book Prize, The Aspen Words Literary Prize, The...

The Office of Historical Corrections

Justin and Toni were friends.   Besties, with a whole list of life rules developed over a friendship that started when they were kids. As long as they stuck to the rules, even when they blended a business relationship into the friendship, things went...

Bending the Rules

"This claustrophobic, horror-leaning tour de force is highly recommended for fans of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation and Andy Weir’s The Martian." (Publishers Weekly)  A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity ...

The Luminous Dead

Beloved writer J. California Cooper has won a legion of loyal fans and much critical acclaim for her powerful storytelling gifts. In language both spare and direct yet wondrously lyrical, Life is Short but Wide is an irresistible story of family that...

Life Is Short but Wide

From the number one best-selling author of A Game of Thrones - a chilling mystery set on a seemingly haunted spaceship, soon to be an original series on Syfy. This is the definitive edition of an electrifying tale that combines the deep-space thrills...

Nightflyers

In this striking new novel by the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly and Monday’s Not Coming, Tiffany D. Jackson tells the story of three Brooklyn teens who plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he's still alive...

Let Me Hear a Rhyme

Josephine "Jojo" Best has it all figured out. Just 17, she's been to college, she has her own hairdressing shop, and nothing will distract her from her goals. That is, until handsome George Brooks begins to pursue her. Then the return of her childhoo...

Josephine

A startling debut about class and race, Lakewood evokes a terrifying world of medical experimentation - part The Handmaid’s Tale, part The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. One of The Millions’ Most Anticipated Reads (The Great First Half 2020 Books)...

Lakewood

The life and work of the legendary "Pope of Voodoo", Marie Laveau - a free woman of color who practically ruled New Orleans in the mid-1800s  Marie Laveau may be the most influential American practitioner of the magical arts; certainly, she is among ...

The Magic of Marie Laveau

The award-winning author of The Personal Librarian, Lust, Envy, and Greed delivers an unforgettable story of a marriage caught at the crossroads of passion and rage—the inspiration for the Lifetime movie event of the same name. Chastity Jeffries and ...

Wrath

A rebellious boy's journey through the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family - this is the riveting story of a generation told through one dazzlingly poetic new voice.  MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents...

Buck

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! From National Book Award finalist and New York Times best-selling author Jason Reynolds comes a genre-defying new novel that serves as an homage to sharing the stories we all hold within ourselves.

Look Both Ways

What does it mean when the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence is your father and also your slave master? Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thomas Jefferson’s children, but their mother is a slave, so they must keep their father’s id...

Jefferson's Sons

Did you know that many of America's Founding Fathers - who fought for liberty and justice for all - were slave owners?  Through the powerful stories of five enslaved people who were "owned" by four of our greatest presidents, this book helps set the ...

In the Shadow of Liberty

E. Lynn Harris' blend of rich, romantic storytelling and controversial contemporary issues like race and bisexuality have found an enthusiastic and diverse audience across America. His second novel, Just As I Am, picks up where Invisible Life left of...

Just As I Am

Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old, and her mother thinks she's the most important person in the whole world. She is.... Anthony Carter doesn't think he could ever be in a worse place than Death Row.... He's wrong. FBI agent Brad Wolgast thinks s...

Passion, money, and a deliciously devious twist: Greed is the newest novel in award-winning author Victoria Christopher Murray’s Seven Deadly Sins series - “the drama of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” (Booklist). You can’t put a price on love....

Greed

A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity and the contemporary middle class in these compelling, boundary-pushing vignettes. Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of new, utterly...

Heads of the Colored People

One woman's fight to provide hope for the hopeless...  Seven ex-cons who changed her heart forever…  For Brenda Spahn, entrepreneur and businesswoman, wealth was a lifestyle - until a brush with the law threatened to send her to prison. In those dark...

Miss Brenda and the Loveladies

Harris serves up a treat that will capture and enchant audiences everywhere - a big, bold, and irresistible novel about football, family, and secrets. Brady Bledsoe and his mother, Carmyn, have a strong relationship. A single mother, faithful churchg...

Just Too Good to Be True

An inspiring exploration of the goddesses of the West African spiritual traditions and their role in shaping Yoruba (Ifa), Santeria, Haitian vodoun, and New Orleans voodoo.   Throughout Africa and beyond in the diaspora caused by the slave trade, the...

Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens

Despite being born into slavery, Linda Brent enjoys a happy childhood - until the deaths of her parents and kind mistress leave her an orphan and the property of the lascivious Dr. Flint. Linda becomes the target of his unwanted advances, which she t...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (AmazonClassics Edition)

"If you love a good enemies-to-lovers trope, run - don’t walk - to the nearest bookstore or library near you." (BuzzFeed) "I couldn’t put it down!" (New York Times best-selling author Simone Elkeles) When Tyson Trice finds himself tossed into the wea...

A Love Hate Thing

How Ruffhouse Records founder Chris Schwartz overcame poverty, abuse, and addiction to start one of the most pivotal labels in hip-hop history and launch the careers of some of music's biggest stars "All respect to Chris Schwartz. He is a great visio...

Ruffhouse

New York Times best seller For anyone who wants to see how today’s best and brightest got it right, got it wrong, and came out on top.   What was the tipping point for Malcolm Gladwell? What unscripted event made Meryl Streep who she is? In this insp...

The Best Advice I Ever Got

Striking a perfect balance between heartfelt emotions and spot-on humor, this debut features a pop-culture enthusiast protagonist with an unforgettable voice sure to resonate with listeners. Alice had her whole summer planned. Nonstop all-you-can-eat...

Let's Talk About Love

Trayvon Martin’s parents take listeners beyond the news cycle with an account only they could give: the intimate story of a tragically foreshortened life and the rise of a movement.  “A reminder - not only of Trayvon’s life and death but of the vulne...

Rest in Power

One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them.  Reyna knows...

Improvement

"I'm here to take you to live with your father. In Tokyo, Japan! Happy birthday! In the Land of the Rising Sun, where high culture meets high kitsch, and fashion and technology are at the forefront of the First World's future, the foreign-born teen e...

My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

"A heartfelt, hopeful, and humorous exploration of the importance of learning to love yourself...a joy to read.” (Booklist, starred review) A delicious curvy romance about a plus-size sweetheart who gets a full-life makeover after a brutal breakup. S...

Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell

Faking this relationship should be a piece of cake. Retta Majors is having a bad day - but that’s to be expected when your ex gets engaged to your cousin. Instead of (totally) freaking out, Retta decides to attend the wedding with her amazing, faithf...

Make a Scene

"The Gilda Stories is groundbreaking not just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays them - communally, unapologetically, roaming fiercely over space and time." (Emma Donoghue, author of Room)  "Jewelle Gomez sees right into the hear...

The Gilda Stories

Found: one baby - and the boss' future bride?  Tiny and helpless, the abandoned newborn that venture capitalist Marcus Warren finds during a morning run takes him by surprise. So does the sudden longing for his capable assistant, Liberty Reese, who r...

His Forever Family

From the best-selling author of the Bright Side series comes a thought-provoking, eye-opening story about the complexity of family, the devastation of loss, the destruction of depression, and the unequivocal power of kindness and perspective. An Amaz...

The Other Side

It is 1937 and Amabelle Desir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastien, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry. But...

The Farming of Bones

Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talent - and Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such ...

Baking Cakes in Kigali

Meet your new favorite kickass heroine in this daring YA series by New York Times best-selling authors Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre, a thrilling yet romantic futuristic adventure perfect for fans of Claudia Gray's A Thousand Pieces of You.  Petty cri...

Honor Among Thieves

A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest "This is the last possible moment in hist...

What Can I Do?

From the author of the best-selling The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues, an exuberant and poignant new audiobook of passions, family, and forgiveness.  When a late-life love affair blooms between Mr. Fo...

The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues

Diane McKinney-Whetstone's nationally best-selling novel, Tumbling, immersed us into Philadelphia's black community during the civil rights era, and she returns to the city in this new historical novel about a cast of 19th-century characters whose co...

Lazaretto

“In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.” (Zadie Smith)  An O: The Oprah Magazine "Top 15 Best of the Year"  A Well-Read Black Girl’s Pick  Tenderness a...

How to Love a Jamaican

An epic account of one remarkable woman's quest for justice from the New York Times best-selling author of The Widow of the South and A Separate Country.  In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock - the "Wi...

The Orphan Mother

For women entrepreneurs (and anyone sick of the status quo), this smart, unapologetic collection delivers 50 proven hacks to leapfrog over obstacles and succeed in business. Think the most critical factor for becoming a great entrepreneur is grit, ri...

Leapfrog: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs

From bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes a treasure trove of answers to questions about our world.  Was there an Atlantis?  What's the smallest country in the world?  What's the difference between a jungle and a rain forest?  Kenneth C. Davis, ...

Don't Know Much About Geography: Revised and Updated Edition

The Newbery Honor Award Winner and New York Times best seller Roller Girl is a heartwarming tale about friendship and surviving junior high through the power of roller derby - perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Smile! For most of her 12 years, As...

Roller Girl

Black women are beautiful, intelligent, and capable - but mostly they embrace strong. Esteemed clinical psychologist Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler praises the strength of women while exploring how trauma and adversity have led to deep emotional pain and ...

Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen

A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and envision new futures for America - from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more.  In these tumultuous t...

A People's Future of the United States

When Kynan McGrath approached me about joining Jameson Force Security, I jumped at the chance. Just call me Dozer Burney, one half of the genius duo who keeps the team at the forefront of security technology. The move from NASA to Jameson also put me...

Code Name: Revenge

"An unflinchingly honest, eye-opening, heartful story that's sure to keep readers talking." (Angie Thomas, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Hate U Give and On the Come Up) "Romantic, funny, hopeful, and unflinchingly real." (Becky...

Full Disclosure

For survivors of PTSD and repeated relational trauma - and the people who love them. Gretchen Schmelzer watched too many people quit during treatment for trauma recovery. They found it too difficult or too frightening or just decided that for them it...

Journey Through Trauma

The inspirational account of the creation of a path-breaking inner-city middle school in Brooklyn, New York, by the magnetic young principal who rocketed to national fame via Humans of New York.  When 13-year-old Vidal Chastanet told photographer Bra...

The Bridge to Brilliance

An action-packed tale full of romance, royalty, and adventure, inspired by the story of Anastasia. Perfect for fans of Six of Crows, Cinder, and the cult classic television show Firefly.  Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw...

Heart of Iron

Inspired by the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil righ...

What Happened, Miss Simone?

The new edition of an American masterpiece, this is the harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early 20th century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery. A literary classic that remains vital to our understanding of th...

Corregidora

Sharp claws keep you safe. That’s the brutal lesson Thorne learned as a young wolf-shifter. Abandoned as a child, singled out by an evil uncle, and then forced to work for the ruthless Order of the Well, Thorne’s anger was a weapon as much as his cla...

The Solace of Sharp Claws

For fans of the oral history genre phenomenon World War Z, a worldwide plague of insomnia creates a devastating new apocalypse.  Remember what it's like to last an entire night without sleep? That dull but constant headache. The feeling of your brain...

Sleep Over

Brought to you by Penguin.  'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell fall in the air right before the leaves change and the wind turns cold.' In January 2020...

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