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You've been given everything you could have ever want. Penthouse on Park Avenue, access to the family's money, and switching foreign cars like underwear. The youngest of your siblings, raised by your older brother after your parents died, and given clear instructions on what is expected of you and your role within the family. Working under Corleon D. Bruster since you were seventeen, you've become a force to be reckoned with.

When Rickey Laurentiis debuted in 2015 with Boy With Thorn, the poetry world heralded the arrival of an astonishing new lyric talent. “Call Rickey Laurentiis’ stylistic range virtuosity or call it correctly, necessity,” Terrance Hayes wrote. In the past decade, as Laurentiis has transitioned, her ideas of the lyric and poetry have transformed, as has the America in which she lived. This staggering, irreverent, gentle and erotic book is a record of that ten-year journey. It draws on, expands, and then fractures the many poetic traditions which informed Laurentiis’ poetics.

Layla Smart was raised by her pragmatic Midwestern mother to dream medium. But all Layla’s ever wanted is a career in dance, which requires dreaming big. So when she receives a prestigious offer to be the choreographer-in-residence at Briar House, an arts program in rural Vermont, she leaves behind Brooklyn, her job, her friends, and her husband to pursue it.

For the first time, a single volume brings together renowned author Terry McMillan’s previously published short fiction and nonfiction pieces, as well as never-before-seen works. Before McMillan found success as a novelist in the early 1990s, she published provocative, boundary-pushing short stories, capturing the struggles and triumphs of Black life in America with vitality and honesty, from the workaday factory man’s malaise in “The End” to the cast-aside lover’s resolve in “Touching” to the elderly woman’s wiles in “Ma’Dear.”

At the end of part two, Camarih learned a startling secret involving two men she used to love. What she doesn't know is that the messenger is harboring another shocking secret that they aren't quite willing to let her in on just yet. Feeling confused and overwhelmed, she turns to the only person who has had her back since her first love was murdered, even though unsure if he'd be willing to involve himself due to the circumstances. In addition to such a heavy weight, suspicious leeches resurface, ready to suck Camarih and her beau dry unless she complies with their wishes.

From award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Kosoko Jackson comes his adult speculative debut, a stand-alone novel blending time travel and globe-hopping adventure, art history, and dark fantasy about magical paintings and the lengths people will go to collect them, destroy them…or be destroyed.

Feel the guilt a twin feels for his lost sibling, or how it feels being a young child growing up in a Jim Crow state. Celebrate love grown old, enjoy the rocking spirit of praising the Lord in church. Engage in the fear of what one man can do to a country. Remember the joy of celebrating the first black president, and the accomplishment of homeownership. All this a more in Aubrey E. Drummond’s First book of poetry, Boy Kant You Read.

The small kingdom of Komenda has ventured into the slave trade. The king looks to his most trusted advisor, Chimezie, to manage the rival tribesmen captured from the local countryside. As an entrepreneurial man the king sees the wealth of his European contacts and realizes the potential of the trade. He seeks to increase his wealth and expand his kingdom. Charging Chimezie with a mission, he dutifully follows the slave trade to the New World. What he finds makes him doubt his mission. The deeper he goes, the clearer the picture becomes.

"The AI Revolution Will Not Be Televised," winner of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award, follows David, a self-taught stock trading expert teaching Black women in Harlem to achieve financial independence despite systemic barriers. He makes investing accessible with YouTube videos blending trading strategies and classic R&B music. Through his website, ThePriceBandit.com, David empowers women to invest in AI stocks and seize opportunities in the fourth industrial revolution.

Da den unge rigmandsdatter Lucilla stikker af hjemmefra og beder Annis om hjælp, bliver der vendt op og ned på hendes liv. Ikke nok med at han er det mest ubehøvlede menneske, Annis nogensinde har mødt, så er han også den første mand, der nogensinde har fanget hendes opmærksomhed … Fine fornemmelser af Georgette Heyer er en historisk roman fra 1972, der tager os med tilbage til Jane Austens univers af intriger, kærlighed og spændinger i Regency-periodens England.

The small Caribbean Island has turned into Cartel land and Aries is at the head of the bloodshed. Her son was brutally murdered and she fights through depression and the burden of guilt as she tries desperately to find the truth. She's prepared to paint the town red to find the reason behind the murder. An unpredictable enemy surfaces and she begins to reevaluate everything that she thought she knew. She turns back to the life that she vowed to leave behind, but she is broken. She's broken into tiny pieces and at every moment, danger is present.

Devastated by betrayal, Kandice returns to her small hometown to start over as a single mom and teacher. But as her reawakened bond with Rebekah, her former high school friend, deepens, Kandice can't ignore the growing feelings she’s tried so hard to suppress. Rebekah has always regretted letting go of the woman she loved. When fate brings Kandice back to town, betrayed and with a child in tow, Rebekah wonders if there’s still a chance for them. Meddling friends, family drama, and rivals for love seem determined to pull them apart.

TANA-MARA: The Saga of Jackson Cornwall Harlow, opens with a family who settled a small farming community in Grassy Cove, Tennessee during the Civil War. A ruthless band of renegade guerillas posing as Union soldiers destroy the settlement, but not before William Harlow sets his oldest son, Jackson, bareback on a horse to escape the brutal murder of his family. Days later, Jackson appears at a tobacco plantation in Jimtown, Kentucky, and is taken in by a family of slaves. Jack’s horse dies from sand colic, and he finds himself stranded on the plantation.

Set in 2040, where mega-corporations dictate global affairs, the Zaragoza Consultancy Agency (ZCA) stands at the pinnacle of power. Their annual Zaragoza New Beginnings Scholarship (ZNBS) is a beacon of hope for two underprivileged scholars from each country, offering unparalleled education and career prospects. Yet, beneath this facade lies a web of secrets, and past scholars are eerily silent about their experiences.

Sir Waldo Hawkridge, der i London er kendt som Legenden – blandt andet på grund af sine store sportspræstationer og gode manerer – skal til Yorkshire for at se på en ejendom, han har arvet. Den rige og filantropiske Sir Waldo har planer om at istandsætte det store hus og lave det om til børnehjem. Mens han er der, møder han den smukke og temperamentsfulde, men også egoistiske, adelsfrøken Tiffany Wield, og hendes langt mere elegante, unge guvernante Ancilla Trent.

Hver morgen klokken 6.20 tager den tidligere soldat, Trevis Devine, toget sydpå til Manhattan og det arbejde som analytiker i et investeringsfirma, han hader. Og hver aften kører han hjem igen. Sådan tager den ene dag den næste, indtil han en morgen modtager en anonym mail: Hun er død. Devines kollega og ekskæreste, Sara Ewes, har – tilsyneladende – hængt sig i lagerrummet på sit arbejde.

Efter sin fars tragiske død bliver Kate Malvern inviteret til at flytte ind på godset Staplewood af sin fornemme og skrappe tante, Lady Minerva Broome. Her møder Kate sin smukke, men også til tider dæmoniske, fætter Torquil. Minerva styrer slagets gang på Staplewood med hård hånd. Der er langt mellem de få gæster, der besøger godset, og selv familiemiddagene er stive og formelle. Alene og isoleret på det store gods har Kate ingen at betro sig til, og den eneste faste gæst, Torquils fætter Philip, bryder sig tilsyneladende ikke sig om hende.

Abigail Wendover er en velbegavet og smuk ung kvinde, der vælter sig i beundrere, som hun imidlertid ikke interesserer sig synderligt meget for. Helt anderledes står det til med Abigails unge niece Fanny, der naiv og uskyldig, som hun er, forelsker sig i lykkejægeren Stacy Calverleigh, som ikke har nogen skrupler med at udnytte den unge pige. Abigail forsøger at overbevise Fanny om, at Stacy ikke er den, hun tror, men den unge pige vil ikke tro hende.

Kriminalassistent Rasmus Berg og hans kolleger i Drabsafdelingen bliver sat til at efterforske et groft røveri i Lokalbanken i Herlev. Arbejdet skrider langsomt frem og bliver hele tiden afbrudt af nye sager, der kræver opmærksomhed. Drabet på en ung mand i Bagsværd, et selvmord i Hareskoven og en hjemløs, der bliver skudt på Søborg Torv – er hændelserne forbundet?

Aimee has no desire to go to her fifteenth high school reunion... She doesn't remember high school fondly as the chubby, unpopular black girl who was constantly teased. Her night gets even worse when she runs into the man who made her life a living hell in high school. He was the star quarterback, six-foot-five, blue-eyed, and Italian with a traumatizing mean streak. Avoiding him won't be easy.