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Embark on a haunting journey into the depths of the human soul with Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad’s timeless literary masterpiece.

After walking away from everything he loved a decade ago, Winter King no longer recognizes the man he's become—the man who tried burying the pain of his past underneath a billion-dollar smile, women, and work.

Returning to her hometown for a class reunion was supposed to be a brief escape for Willow. A chance to breathe between the cracks of her carefully constructed life and the relationship she left hanging in limbo. Benjamin Davis knows permanence. It’s in every line he draws at his tattoo studio and in the promises he keeps to his daughter. His life is structured, stable, and predictably imperfect. When they cross paths at a local bar, neither expects the immediate pull between them, or the impossible choice it presents.

Entrepreneur Noah Chambers, aka Mr. Black Atlanta, always gets what he wants. So when he falls in love with Genesis Savell and asks her to marry him, he's certain she'll say yes. She doesn't. Instead, she insists they take a break from each other. That's when Noah knows there's something else going on, and he has every intention of finding out what.

There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by one of the darkest chapters of world history—the trans–Atlantic slave trade.

In this breathtaking companion poetry collection, inspired by the evolution of our brightest star, Tramaine Suubi offers poems alluding to the history of how it came to be and its effects on each human life. Listeners will discover poems exploring everything from the gimmicks of capitalism to the false promises of tranquility.

A Murder of Hate takes listeners deep into this thrilling collision, where the stakes couldn’t be higher. Boston detectives Lisa Garcia and Basudde "Bus" Erias, two fierce rivals, are thrust into the heart of a chilling investigation when the niece of an African president-an exchange student in Boston-is brutally murdered. As they dig deeper into the case, they uncover more than just a killer; they expose the dark and deadly connections between Washington's power players and the ruthless dictators they secretly support.

In the heart of 1980s Pittsburgh, as the crack cocaine epidemic ravages the streets, Michael "Shine" Ferrell is a rising player in the city's cutthroat underworld. Hungry for more power, he sets his sights on expanding his empire—only to clash with a ruthless rival who controls the city's darkest corners. But it's not just the streets that threaten to swallow him whole. A betrayal at home shakes the foundation of the little he holds dear, forcing Shine to navigate deadly alliances and personal ruin as the epidemic spreads like wildfire.

Kylo Harper hated everything about Teddy Shaw from the moment she met him. He was everything she didn't want in her life. For Teddy, it was a fight to keep his feelings in check since they were only supposed to be temporary. Both were in need of something, but didn't know what until they stopped running and realized it was each other.

Everyone knows Simone "Simi" Teagues not only as one of the top-ranked WNBA players in the league but also as the Baton Rouge Bayou’s resident pretty girl, and she leans into it. She’s flirty, outgoing and has no problem attracting the attention of others…both good and bad.

Tasha considered herself too powerful and successful to let a man wreck her emotionally. But Brock Carlton, the smoking hot, dirty-talking plumber that comes over to fix her pipes and changes her mind about country boys. After a quick repair, her hot plumber takes one look at Tasha’s curve and yearns to put in overtime. By the end of the night, her busted pipes aren’t the only thing in her house getting drenched.

Durotimi “Timi” Seriki dreams of a better life beyond the bustling streets of Lagos, where survival is an art and opportunity feels just out of reach. Raised in a hardworking family that has seen both prosperity and downfall, Timi watches the American Dream play out on his television screen, fueled by stories of those who have left Nigeria in search of something more.

Young Kendi desperately wants beautiful purple lotus blommoms to wear in her puffy hair at festival. But her father, Odinegwo, a respected village elder, has other plans in mind. A rift develops between the beloved father and daughter threatening the small, tight knit family’s unity until the father’s plans begin to unfold teaching his beloved Kendi Nkem to dream of more than she ever thought possible.

Nairobi moves to the beat of Gengetone—bass-heavy, raw, unapologetic. The kind of sound that rattles matatu windows, spitting stories of the hustle, the wins, the losses. It’s loud, it’s real, just like the streets. And no one owns them like Vee—fast, fearless, and running the game like she was born for it. VEE: Matatu Diaries is a high-energy urban fiction set in the streets of Nairobi.

The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama - and the son of its most revered preacher. Proper and prosperous, Hubert is glad to finally have a wife, even one with Maggie's background. For Hubert has a secret he desperately needs to stay hidden. And Maggie's unexpected charm, elegance, and religious devotion makes her the perfect partner in lies....

Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh north. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, "with the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady." Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from a handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved.

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This novel “transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious” (People).

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.

Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, narrated by Dominic Hoffman.

Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery, one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow.

The year is 1969. In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon called Sportscoat shoots - for no apparent reason - the local drug-dealer who used to be part of the church's baseball team. The repercussions of that moment draw in the whole community, from Sportscoat's best friend - Hot Sausage - to the local Italian mobsters, the police (corrupt and otherwise), and the stalwart ladies of the Five Ends Baptist Church.