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Read by Dion Graham (AudioFile Golden Voice & Audible Hall of Fame narrator) A stellar addition to the Amistad list: a beautiful coming-of-age novel from MWA Grand Master and PEN and Edgar Award-winner Walter Mosley that explores love in all forms—romantic, familial, and platonic, centered on...

Just as Alex Cross is beginning to feel that life is good and he is finally coming out of the depression he's been in since the death of his wife, he is called to Union Station train terminal - a man is on the loose, firing at random into the swarming crowds of travellers. Psychopath Gary Soneji...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the bestselling author of Homegoing comes a searing novel of love and loss, addiction and redemption, straight from the heart of contemporary America. As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape...

Meet Heaven: a young girl who is loving, submissive, and beyond appreciative of her husband, Ross. As a teenager, Heaven lived solely for her sister, Divine, and her daughter, Sunshine. Because her mother is mentally ill and her father ran off, Heaven had to do some unimaginable things just to feed the family. Then came Ross, and everything changed. He wasn't some filthy rich, dope boy that some young girls dream of, but Heaven felt like Ross was her blessing.

He's the wild one. The dangerous one. The one she should've stayed away from... far away. Riot King doesn't follow rules. He breaks them, rewrites them, and dares anybody to say something about it. After Creed shook up the King empire, Riot's been keeping his distance, stacking money, moving...

The year is 2030. Annabeth works a stable job at CRONUS, a time travel company that caters to wealthy clients. Life is harsh, but she’s willing to keep her head down—until a vision of a past that never happened leads her to question everything she knows. They call it madness, but she’ll learn to call it memory.

In the spring of 1880, five lives arrive at the edges of the Port Washington Narrows. Piapach has been reading these tideflats for fifty years, recording the shore in cedar bark notation that no land office will ever recognize. Nathaniel Sargent crosses from Tacoma in a Croatian fisherman's dory, carrying a phrase he will never translate and an axe he intends to use. William Webster drives a fence post into the Illahee clay and finds something his mind declines to name. Charles Mitchell watches from the stern rail of a Mosquito Fleet steamer as the survey stakes go ashore.

When escape isn’t enough, can love teach us how to feel again? After years of abuse, 25-year-old Selene Lewis finally breaks free, finding refuge with her college best friend, Sam, in Hawaii—the first place that feels like safety. She hopes to rebuild quietly, to rediscover the woman she lost to trauma. But healing is rarely simple…and neither is the life waiting for her.

Left for dead. Saved for a purpose. When gang life finally catches up with Charles, he wakes up in a hospital bed - shot, abandoned and sure that his story is over. But God isn't finished with him yet. A chance encounter with a compassionate ER nurse plants a seed of hope that initiates a miraculous story of grace, salvation, and the power of one redeemed life to change many. Through Charles' journey from darkness to light, from death to life, listeners will discover that no one is beyond God's reach and that true transformation is always possible.

Blush and Bone is an exclusive collection of dark fiction, horror, and extreme horror stories. With a haunting selection of flash fiction, extreme horror, and cosmically inspired short fiction, it is a delicious and dark sampling of the range of Candace Nola. “Nola’s ability to tell a story is unmatched. Each book proves she is well on her way to becoming a legend.”—Kristopher Rufty, author of OLD SCRATCH.

She's playing chess. They're playing checkers. Janet grew up watching her father rule the streets. The King taught her everything: how to think, how to move, how to survive. Then someone killed him.

Lucille Walker has made a lifetime hobby out of minding everyone’s business but her own. From the preacher’s wild daughter to the women down at Pearline’s beauty shop, she sees everything… and judges twice as hard. But when Lucille’s world snaps in two, she finds herself trapped in a nightmare she can’t recognize.

A thrilling, darkly comic journey of a Black musician making his way from the trenches of the Somme, to the jazz clubs of Harlem, to the illicit inner sanctum of Woodrow Wilson’s White House, by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of James. In 1918, Arthur Champion is one...

رائعة الادب العالمي... تروي قصة فتاة بسيطة دمّرها الحب، في بداية حياتها، ورمى بها بين أحضان رجل أحبها بعمق ولكنها لم تمنحه سوى الكراهية والإنتقام. تفاصيل هامة، وأحداث مؤثرة ومثيرة ترويها الكاتبة في هذه الرواية، التي تحمل في طياتها صوراً من المجتمع الأميركي ككل ومجتمع ولاية جورجيا بشكل خاص.

A sly, thrilling novel of a murder that rocks Manhattan’s Black elite at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, making them question who they are, what they want, and where the bodies are buried—from the award-winning author of Conjure Women What I won’t tell 'em is this—...

From Wanda M. Morris, award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets, a riveting new thriller following two detectives investigating a baffling string of murders and child abductions in the wealthy suburbs of Atlanta. Tom and Olivia Henley settle in for a cozy evening at home in the sort of...

‘I absolutely loved this… I don’t think I’ve ever related to a story more… I laughed and cried… A really great read!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sade Sodipo is ready to meet ‘the one’ and finally fulfil the Nigerian Dream. So far God hasn’t performed that little miracle quite yet, but...

The brilliant second audiobook from the acclaimed author of In Every Mirror She's Black follows three women as they try to navigate life, love, prejudice and privilege in Stockholm. The three women's lives begin to overlap in the most unexpected of circumstances. Is it possible that the answer to their problems—though it seems impossible—lie in one another's hands?

Sloane: Dominic Alexander is my late husband's best friend and the last man that I should want. For the last ten years, he's taken a sick pleasure in making me feel paper thin, like my existence is of no consequence to him at all. But now, things are different. After a drunken night, and a surprisingly sexy act of heroism, he's started to be . . . nice. Treating me like something other than the embodiment of his annoyance, which would be nice if it didn't make me feel things I swore to never feel for another man after my husband died.

Declan Danger has always gone along to get along, keeping his twenty-year relationship afloat. But his world flips upside down when his girlfriend insists on opening their relationship. In the midst of spiraling, he encounters the alluring Mistress Elle.