Hannah Payne’s life has been devoted to church and family. But after she’s convicted of murder, she awakens in a new body to a nightmarish new life. She finds herself lying on a table in a bare room, covered only by a paper gown, with cameras broadcasting her every move to millions at home, for whom observing new Chromes–criminals whose skin color has been genetically altered to match the class of their crime–is a sinister form of entertainment.

Michelle LeBeau, the child of a white American father and a Japanese mother, lives with her grandparents in Deerhorn, Wisconsin–a small town that had been entirely white before her arrival. Rejected and bullied, Michelle spends her time reading, avoiding fights, and roaming the countryside with her dog Brett.

A story of body and spirit, rooted in the hungers of flesh and of the soul, The Kid brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones. We meet him at age nine, on the day of his mother’s funeral. Left alone to navigate a world in which love and hate sometimes hideously masquerade, forced to confront unspeakable violence, his history, and the dark corners of his own heart, Abdul claws his way toward adulthood and toward an identity he can stand behind.

Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties.

Clinton Ray, or “Black”, along with his friends Face, Penny and Zero all learn how to live life in the streets of Chicago in the novel, Blackface, by Q.B. Wells. The author introduces you to Black’s life early on in the novel and the daily strife he and his mother encounter as they struggle to [...]

After suffering from years of physical abuse, Selena is finally free from the demons of her past, or at least she thinks she is. The single mother of four daughters, her daily struggle includes making a way out of no way and trying to come to terms with what her life has become. Determined not to follow in her mother’s troubled footsteps, Dara longs for a life of a different caliber, but can’t seem to work past her own issues of identity, her mystery father, and a love that gives her more than she can take. In this soul-stirring piece, mother and daughter attempt to find their way out of the fog-and eventually towards each other.

Cydney Rax is back with a contemporary fiction novel about relationships. This time it’s best friends and a man. Sound familiar?

26A by Diana Evans introduces readers to the lives of identical twin sisters. Bessi and Georgie are intricately connected from even before the womb, as the author so uniquely illustrates. The story is set in England, in a suburb of London called Neasden, their address being 26 Waifer Avenue (the “A” signifying the attic where [...]

As told to author, Dave Eggers, in What is the What, Valentino Achak Deng, recounts his walking journey from the war-torn Sudan and how he eventually arrived in the United States . In this epic novel, that made it to the New York Times bestsellers list, we are introduced to one of the “Lost Boys”, [...]