Showing results for "Ghost" in African American

Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence best-selling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening. In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by otherness. Featuring an award-winning novella and 15 stories, Ghost Summer: Stories is sure to haunt and delight.

Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, whom they consider to be less than human.

Brought to you by Penguin. Some houses keep their secrets. This one keeps its dead. The dark, atmospheric Southern gothic ghost story longlisted for Goodreads’ Horror Book of the Year 2024 Louisiana, 1962. The Duchon estate looms over New Orleans, a crumbling relic of Southern charm. Its walls...

PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist​ Shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A “rich, ambitious debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Will an ancient curse darken the skies over Camino Island? Bruce Cable and Mercer Mann are about to find out. Don’t miss John Grisham’s forthcoming thriller, The French Illusion! Mercer Mann, a popular writer from Camino Island, is back on the beach, marrying...

AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award Winner In this sexy, page-turning debut, a high-powered publicist receives a threatening message and must confront her secret mystical past as ghosts prepare to invade our world. "A must-read book for fans looking for a fresh, authentic voice in urban fantasy...

Due to a traumatic family event on a past winter, Ivy doesn’t do emotions, love, or Christmas. Unfortunately, this year her best friend is having a destination Christmas wedding in Lapland, Finland—a winter wonderland full of holiday spirit. There, the air is fresh, crisp, and full of magic. Additionally, Ivy is the maid of honor, and she’ll be walking down the aisle with her best friend’s brother, Saint. He’s the only man in this world that has been able to warm her cold heart. Somehow, she’ll try to avoid this wretched holiday and her feelings for Saint.

"A beautiful and subversive take on the afterlife, as razor-sharp as it is deeply moving." —Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Amerie’s dazzling, satirical adult debut tells the story of a Black man who walks...

Three women uncover the secrets of a Georgia plantation that embodies the intertwined histories of Indigenous and enslaved Black communities—the fascinating debut novel, inspired by a true story, of the National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of All That She Carried...

Bic Green, a.k.a. Black Ghost, is a world-class contract killer. Tormented by his inner demons, he clings to absolution from his evils by channeling his funds toward his goddaughter, Gracie, to help in her quest to cure cancer. In his final job, Bic plans each murder meticulously, creating elaborate ways to make each death look accidental.

Charles Davids is a probationary firefighter working his first week out of the academy. For Charles, quietly battling his lack of confidence is a daily challenge as his new officers coach him on life as a New York City firefighter. The men love to tease and prank the new guy, but when it comes to drilling and training, they’re clear that the job is no joke. As is said in the fire service: "let no man’s ghost return to say my training let me down."

Pain is a survival mechanism of fundamental importance. It plays a crucial role in our lives, and eventually molds us into whoever it is that we become. At least it did for Zuri. After her world is brutally destroyed, she feels she has nothing left to hold on to but the fading dream of escaping the ghetto. Young, beautiful, and naïve, she is drawn into the world of sex and money, working at a hole in the wall strip club in South Philly.

On the brink of curing cancer, Gracie Green is eager to advance to human trials and share her findings with the world. But the FDA, special interests in Big Pharma, and a host of other people who stand to lose billions if cancer is cured, have other ideas. They hire Jaco Ivanov, an expert assassin and ex-CIA operative, with one mission - wipe Greentech from the face of the Earth! Hunted by an expert killer and framed for a terrible crime, Gracie finds herself on the run. There's only one thing none of them accounted for - the Black Ghost.

Gemma Daniels has never been quite the “down to earth” woman her adoptive parents raised her to be. She even has a unique gift: she can see ghosts—and she likes helping them settle their unfinished business. But the hotter-than-hot stranger she impulsively kisses on a bet is not only a phantom, he's determined to help her. And the only way Gemma can explain his presence is to pretend they’re a real-life couple. Levi Walker lived—and died—to save his sister. Now he’s got a second chance at life if he assists Gemma in reuniting with her own long-lost sibling.

Haunted by his traumatic past and determined to track down his estranged father for revenge, legendary assassin Bic Green has no easy task killing the infamous drug kingpin Clarence Green. Traveling deep into the heart of the New Orleans bayou, he knows that one of them isn’t walking away alive.