The author, the first Black executive secretary of the NAACP, offers a fictionalized account of his life and looks at the consequences of denying one's heritage.

It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret. But it's not the secret of his affair, at seventy-one, with Faunia Farley,...

Longlisted for The Story Prize & the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
A fearless collection of stories that celebrate the humor, darkness, and depth of emotion of the queer and trans experience that's not typically represented: liminal or uncertain identities, queer conception, and queer joy
In this exuberant, prize-winning collection, queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming characters seek love and connection...

When a woman is framed for murder, her ex-fiancé will do anything to save her in this romantic suspense novel of danger, faith, and lasting love.
Danielle Corbit doesn't understand why someone would want to steal her identity. As a single mother running a small business, she's never considered herself all that special. But after discovering a dead body on the Oregon coastline, she's attacked by a dangerous hacker who will stop at nothing...

"Between grad school and multiple jobs, Naledi Smith doesn't have time for fairy tales--or patience for the constant e-mails claiming she's betrothed to an African prince. Sure. Right. Delete! ... Prince Thabiso is the sole heir to the throne of Thesolo, shouldering the hopes of his parents and his people. At the top of their list? His marriage. Ever dutiful, he tracks down his missing betrothed. When Naledi mistakes the prince for a pauper, Thabiso...

"An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative following nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah's Witness upbringing"--

"It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom's awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately drawn into Ming's orbit, and on the cusp of graduation, he's already mapped out their future together. But shortly after they move to London to start...

A stirring and ambitious debut that traces the history and future of a small group of islands off the coast of Virginia through the lives of generations of the women who live there --

Suffering from amnesia, Ciara, masquerading as her dead twin, Niamh, who is about to be crowned High Priestess, must fool Niamh's adopted family and friends, the coven and the murky Shadow Cabinet, soon discovering that her past has not forgotten her, including her former lover, a renegade warlock.