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GreedAn uncontrolled, intense and selfish desire for increase in the acquisition of material gain. It could be for social value, status, power and ...

Facsimile of 1929 Edition. Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African ...

Emma Lou was born black. Too black for her own comfort and that of her social-climbing wannabe family. Resented by those closest to her, she runs f...

2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Illustrated Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Fire...

2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. With an additional note by the Author and a Critical Commentary by George S. Schuyler. Set during the Harlem Rena...

Roy Glenn returns with another action-packed saga in the Mike Black universe, which launched over two decades ago. The war with the Troka Clan, an ...

In this different type of love story, New York City gangster Mike Black has it all. His violent rise to power earned him the nickname "Vicious Blac...

In this prelude to Cold Blooded, Mike Black and his wife, Shy, are trying again to put that life behind them, raise their children, and spend the r...

2015 Reprint of 1929 Edition. This novel, associated with the Harlem Renaissance, is considered groundbreaking for its exploration of colorism and ...

Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclai...

Following the death of Freeze, Mike Black and Bobby Ray are back in control of their organization. It seems like old times. But even though times a...

Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclai...

Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclai...

For the first time in more than a decade, Kenyatta's Last Hist is now back in print, along with the previous titles in the series, with a whole new...

From bestselling authors E. Lynn Harris and RM Johnson, the evocative story of twin brothers--one a straight man, the other gay--who find each othe...

"The Blacker the Berry" is the provocative and illuminating 1929 novel by Harlem Renaissance author Wallace Thurman. The novel follows the life of ...

Way Past Cool was the first -- perhaps the only -- novel of urban American black life in the early 1990's: the era of collapsed structures, lost dr...

A redemptive, healing novel, Two Cities brings to brilliant culmination the themes John Edgar Wideman has developed in fourteen previous acclaimed ...

In this shocking novel of a young girl alone on the streets, godfather of urban lit Donald Goines delves into yet another facet of the ghetto exper...

"Captivating." --Jane Ciabattari, NPR Book Concierge: Best Books of 2015 "Incomparable charisma and verve." --The Root, Best Fiction of 2015 "Lean,...

Camillio Jones takes over his hood drug trade as soon as he comes home from prison but that's only the beginning of his plan. His buy from us or hi...

From hip hop kingpin and #1 New York Times bestselling author 50 Cent comes a gritty novel that dares to tell the truth about the Life on the Stree...