Penny Mickelbury | Where To Choose | On tough, Washington, D.C., defense attorney Carole Ann Gibson’s first day back at Jacaranda Estates, the multiracial housing complex in Los Angeles w
Lillian Smith | Strange Fruit | One of the very earliest paperback Lesbian novels published in America. Also one of the earliest Signet books, whose numbering started at 660. Wonderf
Shay Youngblood | Soul Kiss | Soul Kiss, an eloquent first novel from well-known African-American playwright Shay Youngblood, opens as seven-year-old Mariah Kim Santos is un
Rebekah Weatherspoon | Better Off Red | Every sorority has its secrets…And college freshman Ginger Carmichael couldn’t care less. She has more important things on her mind, like maintainin
Tanai Walker | Sacred Fire | Tinsley Swann is cursed to change into a beast for seven days, every seven years. She keeps her distance from the world, and has more of a relationshi
Staceyann Chin | The Other Side of Paradise | No one knew Staceyann’s mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother’s house in Lottery, Jamaica, on Ch
Barbara Smith | Home Girls | ‘The girls from the neighborhood and from the block, the girls we grew up with. . . we are not strangers and never have been. I am convinced that Blac
