Fiction : African American

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1950s, Fearless Jones is the story of Paris Minton, a book-loving black man who runs into trouble when a beautiful woman walks into his second-hand bookstore looking for the previous tenant. Before he knows it, simple lust has gotten Paris into trouble so deep that he has to go get his good friend Fearless Jones out of jail to help him. Fearless is a World War II veteran who earned his name fighting Nazi soldiers, and then ran into trouble trying to get along in racist America after the war. more...

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Tracy Ellison, heroine of the bestselling Flyy Girl, returns in this sizzling sequel. Flyy Girl is returning to her East Coast roots, armed with over-the-top beauty, unstoppable attitude, and new mountains of cash. This homecoming stirs up difficult questions about her past loves, ambivalent family ties, and artistic ambitions. more...

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The place is the United States. The time, the near future, 2020-2040. Here, justice is blind and the ranks of the disenfranchised have swollen to a toxic level. High tech rules the day while human nature, for better or worse, remains constant. In nine interwoven tales, Mosley paints a keen if fictional portrait of what the future could hold if our own political climate continues. From Ptolemy Bent, the child genius whose act of mercy lands him in the world's first privatized prison, to Fera Jones, a heavyweight champ who gives up the ring for a political career, characters appear and reappear in different storylines as everyone tries to survive a fast and furious Futureland. more...

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God Sends Sunday is the first of three groundbreaking novels by Arna Bontemps, arguably one of the most versatile black writers of the twentieth century. Bontemps inaugurated his long and remarkable career in the Harlem Renaissance era when he was awarded three poetry prizes and established lifetime kinship with such noted figures as Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. God Sends Sunday was inspired by Arna Bontemps's great-uncle Buddy, whose down-home folk spirit animates this racy story of Little Augie, an irrepressible black jockey of the romantic 1890s. As a frail, undersized youngster, Little Augie leaves his grown sister's home and with luck and charm rises to fame and fortune on the Mississippi River racetrack circuit. But sudden wealth and hopeless rivalry for a beautiful woman change Little Augie's character and set him on a path of self-destruction. more...

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Danielle Santiago's Little Ghetto Girl: A Harlem Story was an Essence magazine #1 bestseller, a compelling portrayal of the challenges young women face in ghettos across America. Now Santiago's putting it down again, better than ever, moving on from the little girl to the grown woman in Grindin', the second in her trilogy of Harlem Stories. more...

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