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41) Remembrance
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Volunteering at a soup kitchen during the Christmas season to navigate midlife doubts, Beatrice Powell finds unexpected comfort in a relationship with a homeless man, Charles Davenport, who was driven to a life on the streets after the devastating loss of his family.
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"I was born to grow, / alongside my garden of plants, / poems / like / this one" So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of love, environmental devastation, the sorrow of rejection, greed, poverty, and the sweetness of home. The poems embrace our connections while celebrating the joy of individuality,...
43) Foolish Hearts
Author
Series
Jackson Falls volume 4
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"Full of drama among the beautiful and powerful, the series would make a fabulous soap opera."—The Philadelphia Inquirer
All they need is a second chance...
It's been three years since Ashiya Waters walked away from Russell—and made the biggest mistake of her life. She knows she shouldn't dwell on the past. Love isn't meant to last...and nobody taught her that better than her own family. But...
All they need is a second chance...
It's been three years since Ashiya Waters walked away from Russell—and made the biggest mistake of her life. She knows she shouldn't dwell on the past. Love isn't meant to last...and nobody taught her that better than her own family. But...
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"Brenda Jackson writes romance that sizzles and characters you fall in love with."—Lori Foster, New York Times bestselling author
Some things shouldn't be left to chance...
Victoria Madaris is next on her great-grandmother's matchmaking list—which suits her just fine. She's laser-focused on her career and doesn't have time to concentrate on her love life, too. Knowing that Mama Laverne is vetting unsuitable candidates—like...
Some things shouldn't be left to chance...
Victoria Madaris is next on her great-grandmother's matchmaking list—which suits her just fine. She's laser-focused on her career and doesn't have time to concentrate on her love life, too. Knowing that Mama Laverne is vetting unsuitable candidates—like...
45) Queenie: a novel
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Language
English
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Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places ... including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Acclaimed for her moving depictions of interracial love, bestselling author Sandra Kitt delivers a passionate and provocative tale of modern romance
An artist trapped in an unfulfilling relationship, Leah Downey wants more out of life. But she plays it safe, never venturing too far from her comfort zone . . . not since the night she was mugged at knifepoint.
Beginning a relationship with a perfect stranger is completely out of character...
An artist trapped in an unfulfilling relationship, Leah Downey wants more out of life. But she plays it safe, never venturing too far from her comfort zone . . . not since the night she was mugged at knifepoint.
Beginning a relationship with a perfect stranger is completely out of character...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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In bestselling author Sandra Kitt's provocative urban romance, light-skinned Patricia Gilbert's identity becomes even more complicated when she falls in love
With her youthful appearance and light skin, African American high school counselor Patricia knows how it feels to be an outsider in her own world. Her racial identity has always been questioned because she also appears white, making it difficult for Patricia to be accepted for who...
With her youthful appearance and light skin, African American high school counselor Patricia knows how it feels to be an outsider in her own world. Her racial identity has always been questioned because she also appears white, making it difficult for Patricia to be accepted for who...
48) Hidden Riches
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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In this family drama of estranged siblings reunited by a funeral, "readers will laugh, cry, and be glad they got to know Ana Mae and her crazy life" (Booklist).
After a lifetime spent scrubbing and mending for others, Ana Mae Futrell has passed away. Her siblings have reluctantly returned to their North Carolina hometown to bury the older sister they never really bothered to know. For instance, they didn't know she'd won...
After a lifetime spent scrubbing and mending for others, Ana Mae Futrell has passed away. Her siblings have reluctantly returned to their North Carolina hometown to bury the older sister they never really bothered to know. For instance, they didn't know she'd won...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and "one of our greatest living writers" (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It's been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she's almost a new person now-an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Jazz-age Chicago comes to vibrant life in Denny S. Bryce's evocative novel that links the stories of an ambitious chorus girl and a modern-day film student, both coming to grips with loss, forgiveness, and the limitations-and surprises-of love.
"Why would I talk to you about my life? I don't know you, and even if I did, I don't tell my story to just any boy with long hair, who probably smokes weed.
You wanna hear about me. You gotta tell me...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Can you really have the best of both worlds?
He's rich, successful—and has been faithfully married to his longtime girlfriend for nearly one gruelingyear. Because for Dr. Dorian Graham, too many women is never too much—no matter how loyal his wife, Shantae, has been since their college days. So when she proposes they celebrate their first anniversary by each spending a no-questions-asked, no-consequences...
He's rich, successful—and has been faithfully married to his longtime girlfriend for nearly one gruelingyear. Because for Dr. Dorian Graham, too many women is never too much—no matter how loyal his wife, Shantae, has been since their college days. So when she proposes they celebrate their first anniversary by each spending a no-questions-asked, no-consequences...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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Halia Watkins, the owner of a well-loved soul food restaurant in Prince George's County, Maryland, investigates after a smooth-talking, shady entrepreneur turns up murdered in her kitchen, right next to her cast iron frying pan.
Welcome to Mahalia's Sweet Tea--the finest soul food restaurant in Prince George's County, Maryland. In between preparing her famous cornbread and mashed potatoes so creamy "they'll make you want to slap your Momma," owner...
53) Here for You
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Emotional, poignant women's fiction from acclaimed inspirational romance author Pat Simmons featuring a hero and heroine who are better at taking care of other people than themselves, a dark moment that shakes their faith, and a profoundly satisfying happy ending.
Caregivers sometimes need a little TLC too.
Rachel Knicely's life has been on hold for six months while she takes care of her great aunt, who has Alzheimer's.
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Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Once the streets pull you in, they own you. Or at least that's the way it's been for Nautica. Growing up in the 'hood, all she's ever known is the fast life—fast money ill-gotten through scandals and relentless scheming. But when a big scam nearly finishes her off, she decides to seek more out of life than the "hustle" and tries to make a new life for herself on the East Coast. It isn't long, though, before she falls in with Manny, a drug kingpin,...
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Series
Black girls must die exhausted volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"Masterfully written and pitch perfect, Black Girls Must Be Magic is, simply, magic."—Good Morning America
In this highly anticipated second installment in the Black Girls Must Die Exhausted series, Tabitha Walker copes with more of life's challenges and a happy surprise—a baby—with a little help and lots of love from friends old and new.
For Tabitha Walker, her grandmother's old adage,
...56) The perishing
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she's from, only a fleeting sense that this isn't the first time she's found herself in similar circumstances. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She'll go on to become the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times,...
57) Accident Prone
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Misery loves company. More than an old cliché, those words become an obsession for Phoebe DuChamp.
Once the popular and pretty all-American high school sweetheart, Phoebe lost it all when she married the wrong man soon after graduation. Harold, the star quarterback and king of the playboys, has made Phoebe's life miserable for ten years.
Instead of divorcing Harold, Phoebe finally devises a way to make his life miserable too. Her plot backfires,...
Once the popular and pretty all-American high school sweetheart, Phoebe lost it all when she married the wrong man soon after graduation. Harold, the star quarterback and king of the playboys, has made Phoebe's life miserable for ten years.
Instead of divorcing Harold, Phoebe finally devises a way to make his life miserable too. Her plot backfires,...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Perfect for readers looking for a darker twist on Bridgerton, this first in a vibrant, inclusive historical mystery series from an acclaimed author Vanessa Riley portrays the true diversity of the Regency-era, as an aristocrat whose skin color and notorious family history have left her with few friends she can rely on is named as the prime suspect in a murder case...
"A great read to add to your current must-read lists." —Essence...
"A great read to add to your current must-read lists." —Essence...
59) Breakfast in Bed
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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The national bestselling author of The Inheritance continues her "female bonding romance series like the Bride Quartet by Nora Roberts" (Kirkus Reviews).
Sometimes you go in search of a new beginning. Other times, it finds you. Tonya Martin enjoys her job as a professional chef for a Wall Street bank—until the day she finds herself suddenly downsized. But a spontaneous trip to New Orleans opens up a new opportunity....
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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This "masterful epic" spans decades and oceans from Trinidad to the American frontier during the tumultuous days of westward expansion (Publishers Weekly).
Trinidad, 1796. Young Rosa Rendón quietly rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, she does not intend to cook and keep house, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she views as her birthright. But when her...
Trinidad, 1796. Young Rosa Rendón quietly rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, she does not intend to cook and keep house, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she views as her birthright. But when her...
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