Product Description: "Exhilarating drama that increases your pulse with every mind-blowing scene." --RT Book ReviewsWhen con-mami Mink LaRue joins forces with her slick-tongued look-alike Dy-Nasty Jenkinsto run a hustle on the super-rich Dominion oil family, what can possibly go wrong?With the conniving Philadelphia stripper Dy-Nasty seeking to dip her fingers into the same pot of gold, Mink knows she has to play her hand right...read more

After a three–year stint behind bars, Khalid is determined not to go back to his gangbanging ways. All he wants is to get a job and settle down with the right woman.   Shay has always been there for him, but she plays hard to get. Beautiful, sophisticated, quick-witted—Shay is definitely a class act with a ghetto heart.   Kiani is every man’s dream—gorgeous, caring, giving, and supportive. She lives in the right neighborhood, but has dangerous street ties.   Loving both of these women is not easy, especially when he discovers that one of them is bent on revenge, and the other is testing his loyalty. Will Khalid be able to resist the temptation of the streets when everything and everyone around him wants to pull him back in?

Product Description: This new story in the exciting series created by Shaquille O'Neal and illustrated by Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent award winner Theodore Taylor III, encourages kids to find their own true talents. Like most kids, Little Shaq doesn't love trying new things, especially if he might not be very good at them...read more

Product Description: In the third and final installment of The Fix Trilogy, two worlds that have been running parallel finally collide. Persia Chandler has managed to get her life back on track. Things are calm at home, she s preparing to leave for college, and she is even feeling confident enough to start dating again...read more

Product Description: Can You Keep a Secret? Bonus Novella InsideMaster storyteller Mary Monroe begins her Lonely Heart, Deadly Heart series with a page-turning tale of seduction and shocking surprises, as two unhappy women fulfill their every erotic dream—and find a desire that kills…   As teenagers, best friends Lola Poole and Joan Procter concocted a scheme to escape their boredom, pass the time between boyfriends—and bring in some money...read more

Product Description: Before there was the family, there was just the business. From the minds of New York Times bestselling authors Carl Weber and Eric Pete comes the game-changing prequel to their blockbuster Family Business saga. Travel back to a small Southern town where, before there was Duncan Motors, there were the Duncan brothers: Louis, aka Sweet Lou, a lover of ladies and life ...read more

Product Description: “A dramatic tale of betrayal.” —BooklistIn this scandal-filled series, Cydney Rax delivers a sexy tale of a doubting wife, a seductive challenge, and explosive consequences no one will ever see coming…   Something's wrong with her perfect marriage, but Kiara Eason isn't sure what...read more

Product Description: Life is complicated for a group of five friends living in the inner city. Tammy is starting to feel the pressure of being a single mother of two girls. Chris, her kids' father has been incarcerated for the past five months, not making Tammy's situation any better...read more

Product Description: “A great story about His ability to turn even the worst situation into a blessing.” —Kimberla Lawson Roby, New York Times bestselling authorHow far will faith and love go when an ambitious man finds himself in the fight of his life—with a woman who knows the other side of goodness all too well…Fifty-year-old Alabama congressman Lawrence Rudolph Simmons will do whatever it takes to get re-elected—even switch parties from Democrat to Republican...read more

Product Description: “A comedic story that will leave fans clamoring for more.” —ReShonda Tate Billingsley An inspiring, devilishly funny tale of hope, secrets—and hard-knock faith that can make the most impossible situations right…For Sister Betty, the marriage proposal from trustee Freddie Noel is a once-in-a-lifetime surprise blessing...read more

Product Description: **THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED SACRED LIES, DEBUTING JULY 27 ON FACEBOOK WATCH**A hard-hitting and hopeful story about the dangers of blind faith—and the power of having faith in yourself. Finalist for the Morris Award. The Kevinian cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust...read more

Product Description: “Never underestimate the power of a woman who wants something badly enough.” —Library JournalWhen Jacqueline Tate meets Randall Atwater, he’s everything she’s read about—brainy, witty, handsome, and cool. And after a week spent with the most fascinating man she’s ever known, there’s no way she can give him up...read more

This “luminescent” (Kirkus Reviews) story of anger and art, loss and redemption will appeal to fans of Lisa Graff’s Lost in the Sun and Vince Vawter’s Paperboy.NOMINATED FOR 16 STATE AWARDS!AN ALA NOTABLE BOOKAN ILA TEACHERS CHOICEA KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Arthur T. Owens grabbed a brick and hurled it at the trash picker. Arthur had his reasons, and the brick hit the Junk Man in the arm, not the head. But none of that matters to the judge—he is ready to send Arthur to juvie forever. Amazingly, it’s the Junk Man himself who offers an alternative: 120 hours of community service . . . working for him. Arthur is given a rickety shopping cart and a list of the Seven Most Important Things: glass bottles, foil, cardboard, pieces of wood, lightbulbs, coffee cans, and mirrors. He can’t believe it—is he really supposed to rummage through people’s trash? But it isn’t long before Arthur realizes there’s more to the Junk Man than meets the eye, and the “trash” he’s collecting is being transformed into something more precious than anyone could imagine. . . . Inspired by the work of folk artist James Hampton, Shelley Pearsall has crafted an affecting and redemptive novel about discovering what shines within us all, even when life seems full of darkness. “A moving exploration of how there is often so much more than meets the eye.” —Booklist, starred review “There are so many things to love about this book. Remarkable.” —The Christian Science Monitor

Product Description: Out of all the divas at New Day Temple of Faith, Unique has to be the most colorful one--she and her mother Lorain, that is. Never one to hold her tongue in the name of keepin' it real, it's no surprise that Unique has not been saved all her life...read more

Product Description: Cynthia Gibbons doesn’t blame folks for calling her the “Ice Queen.” They don’t know the secret she’s kept for twenty years—that she once fell crazy in love with a guy who had no money, a guy who broke her heart in the worst possible way...read more

Product Description: “A spicy mixture of family scandal, mother-daughter betrayal, and good-for-nothing men.” —Publishers WeeklyEveryone from Louisiana to Florida knows Mama Ruby—a small-town girl who became one of the South’s most notorious and volatile women...read more

Kayla Hopkins is young, beautiful, and can't win for losing. That's why everyone calls her the Drama Queen. She doesn't go looking for drama, it just happens to find her. Take, for instance, her love life. Kayla's not satisfied with just one man. She has two--one she's in love with and another she's pregnant by. It's a ready-made formula for disaster, but will Kayla see it before everything blows up in her face? Her track record says no, but her friends and family can only hope. Terrell Sims has just turned his life around, gotten a new job, and the girl of his dreams, but when a problem he thought he had taken care of comes back to haunt him, he might just lose everything he's worked so hard to gain.

Product Description: Explodes like a shot to the heart. Lisa Black, "New York Times "bestselling author "In this thrilling debut novel from Carrie H. Johnson, one woman with a dangerous job and a volatile past is feeling the heat from all sides "READY, AIM She sweats every detail as a forensic firearms specialist and as a forty-something single mother...read more

Product Description: From New York Times bestselling author Zane comes a thrilling erotic novel, set in the same world of Addicted and Nervous, featuring a beautiful but emotionally damaged pop star hell-bent on vengeance against the people responsible for her traumatic past...read more

Coretta Scott King Award winner * ALA Notable Book * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year * ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year * Washington Post Best Books of the Year * The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon Book * Three starred reviews * CCBC Choice * New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing * Amazon Best Book of the YearThe Coretta Scott King Award–winning Gone Crazy in Alabama by Newbery Honor and New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gaither sisters as they travel from the streets of Brooklyn to the rural South for the summer of a lifetime.Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother Big Ma and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles’s half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven’t spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that’s been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible.Powerful and humorous, this companion to the award-winning One Crazy Summer and P.S. Be Eleven will be enjoyed by fans of the first two books, as well as by readers meeting these memorable sisters for the first time.