Modern and contemporary fiction Books

After serving a five-year sentence in the Feds, JAMICHAEL returns to the wild and merciless streets of Memphis, Tennessee, where the odds are stacked against him like never before. PHOENIX, his fiercest rival, and the leader of the Duffle Bag Cartel has...

In the fast-paced inner city of the ATL, JAHROME sets out to get his bank up. Not only is he charismatic, smooth talking and ambitious, he's about that gunplay, anytime, any day. When a vicious attack is aimed at his sister, Jahrome must step away...

THE SOUL OF A MONSTER never sleeps. DOLLAR knows this better than anyone; therefore, he sleeps with one eye open, while expecting karma to strike coldly and without mercy. But nothing he anticipates can prepare him for the return of his ex...

On a day of earthquake and rain, a young man gets bad news. Ripden, his childhood friend, has been swept away by a landslide. He makes his way back to Malbung, the village of his birth, and the memories come rushing back: growing up together, harsh...

On a dreary September morning, Dave Sanders's life turns upside down when his missing son, Eli, appears on his doorstep. Missing for fourteen years, Eli's reappearance forces Dave to re-live the moment his wife ran off with their son, and abandoned their...

At thirty-five, Channing Hart was starting to reap the rewards of hard work and sound investing. He revelled in sitting around the big table at Clancy's Tavern. Talk radio without the microphones. The last place you could mouth off without being...

Dia Mittal is an airline call center agent in Mumbai searching for an easier life. As her search takes her to the United States, Dia's check­ered relationship with the American Dream dialogues with the expe­riences and perspectives of a global South...

Nakia is young, but she knows exactly what she wants in life at least she thinks she does. She has a budding career, a handsome boyfriend who loves her and dreams of getting married and starting a family. After hinting to her boyfriend that she wants a...

Ginny Stowe spent years tending a childhood hurt that dictated her college study and work. Can time with an island visitor with ties to her past heal lingering wounds and lead her toward a happy Christmas ... and more? Ben Daniels intends to hire a new...

Fitness instructor Abby Stanton adores her boyfriend, Luke Huntington-even enough to go to church with him, though she's long since abandoned the faith she had as a child. Luke is convinced that Abby is the one for him and that she'll find her way back...

If all goes according to plan, tonight will be Jack Current's last. The young engineer is at the end of his emotional rope and plans to take his own life. But first, a bar crawl through his downtown Cincinnati neighborhood is in order.Accompanying him...

In this tale, Solo is a young man on a fast path to nowhere. His mother, Valerie, isn't having it. The verdict is given! After realization that staying home hustling for petty cash isn't an option, Solo seeks employment. An interview was granted but on...

 A story of blood, kin, and betrayal. Will brothers make it to the top from nothing? Or will the love of money be more important than family? Who will have the last say so in this wicked tale! Blood is blood, no matter how it's spilled.

Anquan, a man in his twenties, decides to separate from his wife Janessa after two years of marriage. His reason for doing so is simple, he isn’t happy. Can you blame him? It wasn’t what he envisioned for his life. Anquan begins to test the...

Homer grows up knowing he looks different than most kids in his neighborhood. Although both his parents are African American, his appearance more closely resembles a Caucasian. As he struggles to fit in with others in his African American race, Homer...

"There's a Small Hotel" is a novel set in the Hotel Marcel in Paris near the Eiffel Tower. The narrator, an attractive American woman in her 60s, can see over the treetops from her balcony, a row of apartments, that when lighted from within at night,...

William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer. Henry's short stories are renowned for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.

Reverend Ralph Watson serves as a minister of the Enoch Baptist Church. He is very devoted to the members of the church and life for him, his wife Jane, and his family are heavily involved with them. First a kidnapping and then a murder happens in this...

The hilarious, sparkling and endearing diaries of a thirty something Christian, Theodora Llewellyn.

No one thinks of murder on Christmas Eve.Last Christmas, Everleigh Greene witnessed a man climbing out of a window in the house next door. Turns out the man had something other than burglary on his mind that night. Now he's now on trial for the attempted...

Sevyns Life: A Story About The First Black Billionaire Transgender Woman is an intriguing memoir that provides fascinating insights into the rags-to-riches journey of its protagonist, Sevyn. Born and raised in the Cabrini Green housing projects in...

"Absinthe and Faith" is a captivating collection of short stories that delve into the intricacies of the human experience across varied landscapes and emotions."The Poet": Follow a wandering poet as he traverses the globe, discovering the raw passion and...

Bible stories are often told with a straight retelling of the scriptural text with very little emotion or motive emphasising what the story is trying to convey - the very real personal story contained with.Volume Three sees even more stories come to...

《只有一个乳房的女人》是一部关注女性乳房健康的情感小说，颇具人文关怀，有很强的社会现实意义。主人公江娜娜换衣服时，无意间摸到自己的乳房里有硬块，被吓得六神无主的她慌忙赶去医院检查。经诊断，医生告诉她只是有些乳腺增生。虚惊一场的她为了缓解乳房的疼痛，就开始学起了游泳，并因此结识了正处在人生低谷期的许光荣。此时的许光荣也正在为乳房而苦恼不已，妻子胡梅梅因乳腺癌被切除了一侧的乳房，因此总觉得自己失去了吸引力，变得郁郁寡欢。事实上也确实如此，妻子胸前的那一大片红疤，给许光荣留下了很深的阴影。就在此时，儿子小辉的意...

This is the city tourists don't see and most New Yorkers - the ones with jobs, the ones with money, the ones who own homes - don't even know about. It's the city where the hookers and pimps and strippers live and survive, where the predators exist and...

From the ruthless ghettos of America, across the border to the treacherous villages of Mexico, Lupe "PESO" Martinez is a product of both pestilent countries. His entire life, Peso has been against all odds. He is always willing to do whatever it takes to...

Whoever said love was pain knew how difficult relationships are, but they left out the part about love being savage. It can make you and destroy you in the same breath. So, beware!For David Bishop love has been illusive since he lost his first love, and...

Armed with bold ambition and womanly willpower, The Butterfly Mafia has managed to seize the keys that could unlock the doors of a drug lord's dream.As a Queen who is governed by a creed of integrity, Asha can't help but acknowledge the dangers attached...

WOLF is trying his best not to answer the call of the streets in Yonkers, N.Y. But when his little sister is killed by a local gangsta, he has no choice but to avenge her murder. Is Wolf built to go gunshot for gunshot with one of the city's most...

After being banished from the LACROSS clan, SYMONE starts her own family to show New Yorkers that she can be even more dangerous and brutal than her sister, JAMILA. But this decision leads to major beefs. When Jamila is released from prison, she's intent...

When GIANNI KINGSLEY is sentenced to a long prison term at a penitentiary known as "Bloody Beto", he learns that life on the inside is about much more than serving time. Drugs, money, and violence is as prevalent as it was in the streets. And status is...

RYAN has paved a path with blood, death and destruction. Now that he's embarked on this sinister journey, there is no turning back. The Grim Reaper demands that Ryan finishes the gruesome game he started. No matter the consequences.Ryan's position in the...

After brutally murdering her own father, BELLA teams up with KIKI in an alignment of OTF and the Mexican Cartel. The two queenpins go on a bloody, well-calculated quest to take over the underworld. When the girl's orchestrated moves come to light, VINNIE...

DRAYEZ has dope boy dreams and the albatross around his neck that comes with having a money-hungry baby mama who's pressuring him to get money or get lost. Fed up with being broke, Drayez decides to get on his grind and once he links up with VAN, there...

LUKE and SYNCERE appear to have finally put the drama behind them and are living their best lives in spite of Luke's past infidelities. Syn is thriving and Luke is doing big things, but there are dark clouds looming. CALICO may be dead but his...

TAURUS thought he had witnessed every kind of cold blooded treachery imaginable until he walked in on his brother and his woman having sex on his living room floor.The emotions that raged inside of him were volcanic, and he wanted to kill. Family over...

From birth they were taught by their father to have cold hearts and no compassion. Often they were pitted against one another in an effort to determine which brother was strongest and more fit to take over the family's Underworld business when their...

MACAL is a mouthwatering, successful and wealthy man. On the surface, he is a woman's dream come true. But when it comes to love and commitments, he is nothing more than a lying dog. When Macal's many infidelities are exposed, will his wife...

Hailed as one of the best authors of street lit, Ca$h is back with this gritty, vicious and compelling tale of a young beautiful career woman who is deeply in love with a thug…….and she can’t let go.Shorty Got a Thug is a stunning...

This time, the odds are stacked against TAURUS like never before as he goes up against his father and his brother in a mind-twisting battle that will numb your soul.As soon as K.O. and JUICE are released from prison, they track down Taurus and snatch out...

Mother in Name Only is the transparent, sometimes painful, and always poignant portrait of Myrna Kaye-held inside for almost her entire life. She is a modern, educated woman who confesses her innermost reflections on a life sculpted in the '50s and '60s...

Eric G. Müller's classy title, Meet Me at the Met, invites readers to follow a rich tale of romance, idealism, scandal, and emerging self knowledge. The novel has a double story-the living of a life and the process of writing that life-both tales...

Welcome. Welcome to my story. I'd shake your hand only, well, it's just a story. My story.Who am I? I guess you want to know that. Well, I'm that presence following you home. That presence you can feel just behind your right shoulder but can never see...

A warm and witty collection of gentle stories of Cotswold life, set in Wendlebury Barrow, the village featured in the bestselling Sophie Sayers Cozy Mystery series.But you won't find any murder mysteries or crazy crimes in these stories - just uplifting,...