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61) Darius Jones
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison links two beloved series in a riveting tale of envy and seduction that has basketball star Darius Jones up against a woman who takes being a fan to the next level.
Darius Jones is living the good life. He's got a chance to become the league's most valuable player, he's crazy in love with his wife, and his relationship with his mom has never been better.
But Darius also...
Darius Jones is living the good life. He's got a chance to become the league's most valuable player, he's crazy in love with his wife, and his relationship with his mom has never been better.
But Darius also...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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The Compton Crook Award-winning author weaves her trademark blend of science fiction and dark humor in this dazzling story that continues the imaginative saga begun in Escaping Exodus, in which a society lives in the belly of a beast—and an entire civilization's survival depends on a pair of uneasy allies who must come together for one epic battle.
63) Notorious
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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"Kiki captures the heat of the streets." —Wahida Clark, New York Times bestselling author
After the drama in Playing Dirty, Yoshi Lomax is on the run, but trouble follows her wherever she goes. . .
When things get too hot in Miami, criminal lawyer Yoshi figures she'll be safe if she goes home to Norfolk, Virginia, for a little while. But the streets there are just as mean, and a sistah needs to keep her head to avoid getting...
After the drama in Playing Dirty, Yoshi Lomax is on the run, but trouble follows her wherever she goes. . .
When things get too hot in Miami, criminal lawyer Yoshi figures she'll be safe if she goes home to Norfolk, Virginia, for a little while. But the streets there are just as mean, and a sistah needs to keep her head to avoid getting...
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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National bestselling author Kiki Swinson burns up the page with calculating characters,ingenious plot twists, and a ruthless depiction of Southern conniving, rising-and taking the final hard fall. Now she brings you back to the start of wild-card lawyer Yoshi Lomax's career, where her first elite white-shoe-law job puts an inescapable target on her back...
No one suspects...
Never one to play by any rules, Yoshi Lomax is determined to make good...
65) Difficult women
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English
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"Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted...
66) The sacrifice
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English
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When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades.
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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A “wonderful novel” steeped in the folklore of the South from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Women of Brewster Place (The Washington Post Book World).
On an island off the coast of Georgia, there’s a place where superstition is more potent than any trappings of the modern world. In Willow Springs, the formidable Mama Day uses her powers to heal. But her great niece, Cocoa, can’t...
On an island off the coast of Georgia, there’s a place where superstition is more potent than any trappings of the modern world. In Willow Springs, the formidable Mama Day uses her powers to heal. But her great niece, Cocoa, can’t...
69) Lean on me
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Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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"Tabitha Knicely loves her career as a pharmaceutical rep, but even her health care knowledge isn't much help with the daily challenges she now faces caring for her aunt with Alzheimer's. Her once organized lifestyle is in disarray and her patience is tested. On Sunday mornings, when Aunt Tweet drags her to church, though Tabitha isn't a believer, the peaceful presence of faith is a welcome relief. Marcus Whittington believes in second chances, so...
70) Until I Met You
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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'Fresh, flirty and gloriously escapist.' Alex Brown, #1 bestselling author of A Postcard from Paris Will a tropical escape lead to a perfect romance? It was meant to be the holiday of a lifetime for Samantha: the launch of her travel blog, her best friend's wedding and – hopefully – her own marriage proposal. Until she finds herself on her way to Tobago – single. Disillusioned with his corporate job on Wall Street, Roman is starting afresh in...
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English
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"It's 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters from starvation or die at the hands of an abusive husband. Retta is navigating a harsh world as a first-generation freed slave, still employed by the Coles, influential plantation proprietors who once owned her family....
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HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston was living in New York as a fledgling writer. This collection of stories, found in archives after her death, reveal African American folk culture in Harlem in the 1920s. This book includes eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem gems.
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Nothing could reform this bachelor-except it looks like he just met his match. Don't miss this reader favorite from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson.
Blade Madaris has watched the men in his family surrender their single status one by one, and he has no plans to join them. But the gorgeous attorney he meets at his cousin's wedding would make a fine notch on his bedpost. And when circumstances bring them together for six months,...
74) Redeeming Waters
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English
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Must a young woman choose between her commitment to her marriage. . .and to God?
Brianna was ten years old when she first met twenty-five year old David R. Shepherd, a devout and gifted gospel recording artist who would ultimately become world renowned megastar, King d.Avid. He left an impression on Brianna she would never forget. And they were destined to meet again. . .
Brianna's best friend, Alana Norwood, hasn't had the best...
Brianna was ten years old when she first met twenty-five year old David R. Shepherd, a devout and gifted gospel recording artist who would ultimately become world renowned megastar, King d.Avid. He left an impression on Brianna she would never forget. And they were destined to meet again. . .
Brianna's best friend, Alana Norwood, hasn't had the best...
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Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Things are falling apart in the Richardson household. Angry arguments between Celine and her husband, Keith, have become routine. She resents that he's working long hours and staying out all night, and he accuses her of not giving him the attention he deserves. Their marriage is at a crossroads and Celine worries how her 10-year-old daughter, Kassie, will be affected.
But the situation turns devastating when Celine is diagnosed with breast cancer....
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured,...
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HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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A startling debut about class and race, Lakewood evokes a terrifying world of medical experimentation-part The Handmaid's Tale, part The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Electric Literature: One of 55 Books by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Color to Read in 2020 Lit Hub & The Millions: Most Anticipated Books of 2020 Ms. Magazine: Anticipated 2020 Feminist Books Refinery29: Books by Black Women We are Looking Forward To Reading One of The Millions'...
78) After The Dance
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English
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It's Her Game . . .
Here's my deal--I'm not knocking myself out to find Mr. Right anymore. As far as this thirty-something sistah is concerned, it's now about reciprocity, not romance. A brother doesn't have to whisper promises he won't keep or make me any kind of commitment. All he needs to do is respect my boundaries, rock my world--then step the hell on before anyone gets too attached. That's why the last man I need to be trying to hook-up with...
79) Dead dead girls
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The start of an exciting new historical mystery series set during the Harlem Renaissance from debut author Nekesa Afia. Harlem, 1926. Young black women like Louise Lloyd are ending up dead. Following a harrowing kidnapping ordeal when she was in her teens, Louise is doing everything she can to maintain a normal life. She's succeeding, too. She spends her days working at Maggie's Café and her nights at the Zodiac, Harlem's hottest speakeasy. Louise's...
80) Sisters in Arms
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English
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"Grace Steele and Eliza Jones may be from completely different backgrounds, but when it comes to the army, specifically the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), they are both starting from the same level. Not only will they be among the first class of female officers the army has even seen, they are also the first Black women allowed to serve. As these courageous women help to form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, they are dealing with...
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