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Just as Alex Cross is beginning to feel that life is good and he is finally coming out of the depression he's been in since the death of his wife, he is called to Union Station train terminal - a man is on the loose, firing at random into the swarming crowds of travellers. Psychopath Gary Soneji...

For many years, Kreed Dolla was the heart of his family and the field's best. The Demon's star running back had fame, wealth, and a supportive wife. However, an affair, a careless mistake outside the game, destroyed everything. Heartbroken and betrayed, Masai left, taking the kids and seeking a...

After a tragic loss, private investigator Nona Taylor swore off romantic entanglements and distanced herself from the world. Once a year, on New Year's Eve, she attends church to beg God for forgiveness, haunted by the guilt of driving her twin sister to her death. Attorney DeMarcus Johnson is...

A Black cop turned PI. An unspeakable crime. A Californian beach town ready to combust. "Aaron Philip Clark is a storyteller of immense talent" —Stephen Mack Jones "In a time of growing distrust for all levels of law enforcement, Trevor Finnegan is the hero our country so desperately needs"...

His days were spent running a multi-million-dollar software company and being a single father to his nine-year-old autistic daughter. Love wasn't on his mind. Love wasn't in his plans. Love was an afterthought… until he met his new nanny. Could the new nanny be the one to defrost his frigid heart? Life hadn't been kind to Onyx Score. In the blink of an eye, she lost everything she had worked hard for. Determined to figure it out on her own, she returned to her hometown of Ravenstone Creek to start over again. Love wasn't in her plans. Love was a distraction she didn't need.

Tunnel vision: defective sight in which objects cannot be properly seen if not close to the center of the field of view. Dyson Chambers had a promising future until one event changed the course of his life and how people viewed him for years to come. That all changed when he reconnects with the feisty, bubbly beauty that is Aubrie Rose Johnson. The labels placed on him are none of her concern because all she sees is Dice. Without missing a beat, the two water their blooming friendship. Serving as thorns to protect the other from anything that threatens their happiness, family included.

Ciara thought her life was complete with her husband, Kairo, and her quiet life in the Bronx. That was until she found out that Kairo had opened up a credit card in her name to wine and dine his mistress. Shortly after that discovery, Kairo's mistress's husband shows up at their door, and someone loses their life. When Ciara thought her life was over as she knew it, a sexy, handsome, gangsta came into her life by the name of Hov, also known as the king of the city.

Rue Chambers, an up-and-coming journalist, pursues the seemingly impossible task of taking down Bordeaux Behavioral Hospital. After a mysterious car accident leaves her with more questions than answers, Rue is determined to uncover the truth about the corrupt facility… and report it to her followers. As she pieces together the fragments of several recent crimes with questionable outcomes, she realizes that someone will stop at nothing to keep her silent. With every step closer to the truth, Rue must navigate a web of deceit, betrayal, and danger.

A little boy is awakened in the middle of the night by his drunken father, confessing he'd just murdered the boy's mother. When the twisted semblance of family they have left begins crumbling, his foster sister, a ten year old zombie, begins putting the family back together in a way only the dead can.

Liam always believed that his love for Kami could withstand any obstacle. But a shocking message threatens to unravel their lives, forcing them to confront hidden truths and the fragility of their relationship.

A BBC BEST BOOK OF 2024 A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this coming of age novel about self-acceptance, sexual awakening, and first love set in a Nigeria on the verge of criminalizing same-sex relationships “Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s writing has a certain delicacy...

A poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California woke up no light is a Black girl’s saunter turned to a woman’s defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and...

A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape, in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia—“a gripping novel about standing up to impossible odds” (People, Best New Books) The rebel . . . the socialite . . . and the...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, People, Los Angeles Times, NPR, and more Winner of France’s Prix du Premier Roman Étranger “An inventive ode to self-determination and also a surrealistic vision of Black life as forged within the crucible of American history . . . [written...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in this “coming of age story that captures the soul of America” (The Washington Post), the debut novel from The New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Vinson Cunningham...

From Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical saga about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings. “Intimate, tender, and fiercely epic.”—Tomi Adeyemi, author of Children of Blood and Bone Lore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings: warrior...

In the first book of a visionary fantasy trilogy with its roots in the mythology of Africa and Arabia that “sings of rebellion, love, and the courage it takes to stand up to tyranny” (Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree), three women band together against a cruel...

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 husband refuses to treat her for what he...

Walter Mosley’s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve. Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins finds his life in transition. He’s ready—finally—to...

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 WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times NPR Parade Book Riot ...