African American category: 7736 books

Detective Jaz Ballantine loses the best friend he has ever had when his foster brother is murdered. When bodies pile up in the morgue, Jaz realizes that he has a serial killer on his hands - with one significant difference. This one has a completely different method of operating: All of the...

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872—1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known authors in America, and the first African American to earn a living from his poetry, fiction, drama, journalism, and lectures. This original collection includes the short novel The Sport of the Gods, Dunbar’s...

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872—1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known authors in America, and the first African American to earn a living from his poetry, fiction, drama, journalism, and lectures. This original collection includes the short novel The Sport of the Gods, Dunbar’s...

Kimberly Jordan never meant to hurt anyone. But once a DNA test reveals her longtime boyfriend, Damien, is her half-brother, plus she finds out she’s pregnant, she will go to any length to hide her horrible secret. Unfortunately for Kent Davenport, he’s the perfect fall guy for her plan,...

A 2014 Finalist Award Winner in the African American Fiction category of the Indie Next Generations Awards. Frenzied. Overburdened. Stressed. Overwhelmed. These are just a few ways to describe college senior Anaya Goode's life. Add to this no career prospects following a looming graduation, and Anaya...

Katana is a beautiful African-American woman, born and raised in the notorious section of New York City - Brooklyn. During her childhood, she endured the unfortunate and saw what most children have not. At a very young age, Katana had already concluded that life wasn’t fair. However, at age 27,...

In these fifteen superb stories, this essential author of African American fiction gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, in scenes shifting between uptown New York and rural North Carolina. A young girl suffers her first...

The first novel from National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward, a timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict—“a lyrical yet clear-eyed portrait of a rural South and an African-American reality that are rarely depicted” (The Boston Globe). Where...

This novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, and the second...

 ALEXIS AND THE ROBIN HOOD is part of the new Steam Books Romantica line of novelettes and novellas, three to five times longer than our normal short stories, with room for more steamy romance and character development! Living a life of a con man and thief, Jack gets a tip for a job that at...

Stressed Naomi is having one of those “Murphy’s Law” kind of days—everything that can go wrong is going horribly wrong. Traumatized by events from the night before, she ends up distracted at work—to the point that it gets her fired. Her continued distraction leads to more catastrophe as...

Alaska Black Gold Box Set This book (BWWM, Interracial, African American, and Multicultural) is for individuals 18 and over. Alaska Black Gold Part 1 Chance Gold:  “If I want a woman, I order one.” Chance Gold never met a woman he couldn’t walk away from,...

For the desire of money, murder, love, sex, and power, a Caucasian pimp stops at nothing to succeed on the mean streets of Hollywood CA. This unique story has strong fascinating characters not stereotypes. Growing up in Compton Dollar Bill is an ambitious child always trying to make a dollar...

A children's book about an African American boy who embarks on a journey to seek how butterflies are made. In his quest he finds a scientist who has a well-kept secret This book is a fun fiction that all children under the age of 12 will enjoy. It will teach them how to care for others and learn new things