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"A small-town Midwestern community suffers and seeks salvation in Jackass Flats, a dead-end section of Hawthorn, Missouri. The neighborhood has a checkered past; not long after its founding, the pastor's wife was found shot between the eyes, and Pastor Stephen Shrine was hanged by members of...

A new edition of Alice Childress’s classic novel about African American domestic workers, featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay First published in Paul Robeson’s newspaper, Freedom, and composed of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge, Like One...

Interracial Romance Stories: My White Sugar Daddy (BWWM) (c25,000 word novella) Warning: This book features hot & steamy Erotic sex scenes and so should only be read by Adults. Tasha is a young, pretty African-American woman who has always had a lust for an older man, especially an older...

What happens when two small-town girls’ lives collide in the Big Apple? Meet Lindsay and Charlie. Two smart and fabulous African American single girls who work hard and play hard, only to find their careers and love lives taking tragicomic turns. Lindsay, a successful television executive,...

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   James Baldwin’s commanding prose remains as pressing in its compassionate portrayal of marginalized figures today as it was during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement.   In “Come Out the Wilderness,” an essential and tremendous classic...

In this outrageous novel from Joe Ide, "the best thing to happen to mystery writing in a very long time" (New York Times), the case of a young artist's missing mother sets IQ on a collision course with his own Moriarty. Isaiah Quintabe--IQ for short--has never been more successful,...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Tarzan Series (8 Tarzan Novels in 1 volume)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Tarzan ("...the Apeman") is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani...

African American blogger Black Nympho owns her sexuality and blogs about every detail of her active sex life so when she gets an assignment that takes her to the Caribbean what follows is an exploration of the erotic joys to be had on each island. Part erotic fiction, part travel guide, this is the...

**BWWM Romance Box Set ** Book 1 Falling For A Billionaire African American Beauty meets Business Tycoon Dynasty Jasmeka was definitely beautiful. Her chocolate brown skin and hazel eyes in the backdrop of her long semi perm jet black hair she had a figure that any man...

From a captivating voice in African American women’s fiction comes the scintillating, fast-paced story of a woman caught between love and lust, loyalty and betrayal—while trying to stay true to her heart. When Melanie Sparks befriended local strip club owner Cecil Patrick, she knew her...

Ishmael Reed’s parody of slave narratives—the classical literature of the African American tradition—which redefined the neo-slave genre and launched a lucrative academic industry Some parodies are as necessary as the books they answer. Such is the case with Flight to Canada, Ishmael...

Library of America presents a classic novel of the Harlem Renaissance: Wallace Thurman's anguished, provocative look at prejudice and exclusion in Jazz Age Harlem. The Blacker the Berry (1929), Wallace Thurman’s debut novel, broke new ground as an exploration of issues of “colorism,”...

A magnificent collection of stories that bravely and honestly explore issues of race, class, sex, love, and being lesbian in America Ann Allen Shockley’s work has been widely praised for its honest portrayals of lesbian life, and now the author takes an even closer look at the singular world...

A shining star of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes is one of modern literature's most revered African-American authors. Although best known for his poetry, Hughes produced in Not Without Laughter a powerful and pioneering classic novel. A fascinating chronicle of a family's joys and...