Jaime Lincoln Smith

Marcus, a young baseball pitcher, learns that perfect games only come with a lot of practice--and some strikeouts.

"An amateur online sleuth must enlist the help of a jaded PI to clear her name while taking down a shady tech start-up in this exhilarating romantic caper. Famed Reddit detective Fiona Addai is great at solving problems -- online, that is. Cold cases, reality TV scandals, everyone calls on @Princess_PI. It's her way of escaping her strict religious life at home and the memory of her brilliant brother's sudden death. But when the sheltered sleuth tries...

"A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays, published as introductions to anthologies...

Casino owner Ian Westmoreland thought he had seen the last of Brooke Chamberlain, until she checked into his resort claiming to need a little R & R. Brooke had betrayed him years before, and Ian was willing to bet there was more to her visit than she would admit. No woman had even come close to igniting the heat and passion inside him as Brooke once had. And if Ian was going to discover what Brooke was hiding, what better way than through seduction?...

First published in 1930, "Not Without Laughter" is the debut novel by Langston Hughes and a deeply personal, semi-autobiographical tale of an African-American family in rural Kansas. Langston Hughes, born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, spent much of his youth in Lawrence, Kansas and it is here that he set his first novel. "Not Without Laughter" tells the story of young Sandy Rogers as he grows from a boy to a young man and focuses on his "awakening...

A celebration of basketball by way of the 100 greatest players to ever grace the court in the history of the NBA, from The Athletic's foremost basketball writers and analysts the game has to offer. Over the course of 100 luminous player profiles, the best sports newsroom on the planet paints vivid portraits of the game's most compelling characters. There's George Mikan, who was cut from his high school team because he wore glasses, then went on to...

In order to keep his twin daughters with him while he travels and works, widowed dad Parnell Cabot needs a wife of convenience and Rose Woods wants the job. She also wants Parnell. Rose makes him an offer he can't refuse. Parnell wants nothing more than a strict business affair, but the intense sexual chemistry between them dictates otherwise, and Rose tests Parnell's level of endurance at every prefect moment.

His story is unprecedented in the world of golf. Born to a family of migrant laborers, Calvin Peete dropped out of school in the eighth grade, went to work picking crops, first swung a golf club at the age of twenty-three-and rose to the top of the PGA. In “Calvin Peete: Golf's Forgotten Star”, Gordon Hobson tells for the first time Peete's incredible story. Hobson recounts how, when Peete joined the lily-white PGA tour in 1976, he stood out...

WHEN DANGER ARRIVES, REAL MEN TAKE ACTION. Detective Andrew Logan hears that Detective Antonia Oliver is back in town. It's been four years since they were involved in a hot, heavy, and steamy affair. Andrew's life gets complicated when Toni is assigned as his new partner. Paired together, they try hard to ignore the sexual chemistry that's stronger than ever between them. One homicide investigation turns deadly and Toni's life is in danger. Andrew...

Sebastian Garcia, Juliet Okofor, and twins Angus and Celia McNeil could not be more different from one another. But when they accidentally discover an enchanted house that once belonged to the great magician Moriarty Mortimer, everything changes. Legend has it that somewhere inside the mysterious mansion is the most powerful book of magic ever known, and the kids aren't the only ones hoping to find it. Someone unexpected wants to use it for their...