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41) Rumor Has It
Author
Series
Rumor novels (Cheris F. Hodges) volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Liza Palmer couldn't be happier when her best friend and sorority sister, Chante Britt, and her closest guy friend, Robert Montgomery, hit it off. And she's beyond thrilled when they announce their engagement. Robert is an up-and-comer running for the North Carolina senate. Chante is a partner at a prestigious law firm. They're a power couple made in heaven—until Liza discovers Robert in a compromising position—with another woman. . .
Liza...
Liza...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
Meet the Atlanta Westmorelands in four classic stories of love, family loyalty and passion from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson!
The Westmorelands always get what they want!
Firefighter Storm Westmoreland is legendary for sweet-talking any woman into his bed, but something about Jayla Cole leaves The Perfect Storm wanting more... While Dana Rollins owes Jared...
The Westmorelands always get what they want!
Firefighter Storm Westmoreland is legendary for sweet-talking any woman into his bed, but something about Jayla Cole leaves The Perfect Storm wanting more... While Dana Rollins owes Jared...
43) The Upper Room
Author
Series
Mama Ruby novels volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
The "magnificent, funny, and terrifying" debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of God Don't Like Ugly (The San Francisco Chronicle).
Mama Ruby's known for taking things that aren't rightfully hers, like her best friend's stillborn infant, who she brought back to life and christened Maureen. She's also rumored to have done away with her husband. Some fear her, others try their best to avoid...
Mama Ruby's known for taking things that aren't rightfully hers, like her best friend's stillborn infant, who she brought back to life and christened Maureen. She's also rumored to have done away with her husband. Some fear her, others try their best to avoid...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
Sometimes life's most fulfilling journeys begin without a map
An executive at a New York cosmetics firm, Sarah has had her fill of the interminable hustle of the big city. When her husband, Josh, is offered a new job in suburban Virginia, it feels like the perfect chance to shift gears.
While Josh quickly adapts to their new life, Sarah discovers that having time on her hands is a mixed blessing. Without her everyday urban struggles,
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Let romance keep you warm this winter
Will this billionaire bachelor say "I do" to love? Find out, only from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson!
He desires her more than any other woman. But falling in love isn't part of the plan.
The arrangement is simple: a two-week getaway, then a marriage of convenience. Until Garth Outlaw's potential bride...
Will this billionaire bachelor say "I do" to love? Find out, only from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson!
He desires her more than any other woman. But falling in love isn't part of the plan.
The arrangement is simple: a two-week getaway, then a marriage of convenience. Until Garth Outlaw's potential bride...
Author
Series
Girls from da hood volume 10
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Urban Books' popular Girls From da Hood series is back, bringing readers more dramatic tales about the lives of some tough, resourceful women who can hold their own when things get rough on the streets. This time, family bonds are put to the test.
Jakki and School Boy are more than first cousins; they're best friends and partners in crime with a reputation for getting theirs by any means necessary. The pair are ultimately forced to defend not only...
Jakki and School Boy are more than first cousins; they're best friends and partners in crime with a reputation for getting theirs by any means necessary. The pair are ultimately forced to defend not only...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
'Demands to be read and reread, for its humour, generosity of spirit and clear-sighted vision' Evening Standard
'Gurnah zooms in on individual acts of violence ... and unexpected acts of kindness' Daily Telegraph
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Demoralised by small persecutions and the squalor and...
'Demands to be read and reread, for its humour, generosity of spirit and clear-sighted vision' Evening Standard
'Gurnah zooms in on individual acts of violence ... and unexpected acts of kindness' Daily Telegraph
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Demoralised by small persecutions and the squalor and...
48) Lost Daughters
Author
Series
Mama Ruby novels volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A spicy mixture of family scandal, mother-daughter betrayal, and good-for-nothing men" from the New York Times bestselling author of God Don't Like Ugly (Publishers Weekly).
Everyone from Louisiana to Florida knows Mama Ruby—a small-town girl who became one of the South's most notorious and volatile women. Now Mary Monroe reveals how Mama Ruby's past haunts the family she's left behind . . .
Mama...
Everyone from Louisiana to Florida knows Mama Ruby—a small-town girl who became one of the South's most notorious and volatile women. Now Mary Monroe reveals how Mama Ruby's past haunts the family she's left behind . . .
Mama...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
Mahalia's Sweet Tea boasts the most flavorful soul food in all of Prince George's County, Maryland. But as events at the beauty industry's leading trade show turn ugly, owner Halia Watkins needs to bite into an unsavory new item on the menu—murder!
When the chicest hair convention of the year gets cooking in town, so does business at Mahalia's Sweet Tea. Halia can barely handle the influx of customers looking to satisfy...
When the chicest hair convention of the year gets cooking in town, so does business at Mahalia's Sweet Tea. Halia can barely handle the influx of customers looking to satisfy...
50) A Stallion Dream
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Has this Stallion met his match...
In and out of the courtroom?
Collin Stallion plans to give back to the community by volunteering to exonerate someone wrongfully convicted of crime. His partner in the high-profile case—powerhouse attorney London Jacobs—isn't impressed by the seductive bachelor. Until passion ignites. But with an adversary threatening Collin's family legacy and London's ex-fiancé sworn to...
In and out of the courtroom?
Collin Stallion plans to give back to the community by volunteering to exonerate someone wrongfully convicted of crime. His partner in the high-profile case—powerhouse attorney London Jacobs—isn't impressed by the seductive bachelor. Until passion ignites. But with an adversary threatening Collin's family legacy and London's ex-fiancé sworn to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber takes readers back to church, where preaching isn't always enough, nothing goes better with the Word than a song—and it's time for some hard-earned lessons in love, brotherhood, and betrayal.
Bishop T.K. Wilson has done all he can to make First Jamaica Ministries a success. But with his last choir director getting caught in a scandal, attendance and cash flow are down. To fill the pews
...52) Loving Donovan
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
A long-awaited reissue of this deeply thoughtful novel about hope, forgiveness, and the cost of loving Donovan, a complex man with a shattered history
"Bernice L. McFadden was one of the best writers to emerge in the post–Waiting to Exhale explosion that introduced at least a dozen Black female novelists. Loving Donovan has generated near-cult status among readers. After more than a decade since it
...53) Crazy in Love 2
Author
Series
Crazy in love volume 2
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been four years since the tragic suicide-death of Yadira Cruz and thirty-eight year old Correction Officer Sean Daniels' life was finally on the right track. He was married to the beautiful Milan; he had a successful law enforcement career, a supportive family and great friends. But when Sean's ex-lover, Brandi Wallace suddenly re-enters his life, he sees everything that he worked so hard to build flashing before his eyes.
Brandi is a very...
Brandi is a very...
Author
Series
Shady sisters volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
The Shady Sisters Trilogy
In this sexy page-turner from Lutishia Lovely, a conniving seductress embarks on a spectacular finale as her need for revenge—and for the object of her obsession—reaches a boiling point . . .
After a nightmarish two years, Nathan Carver thinks he can relax. His sister, Sherri, and her husband, Randall, are once again enjoying life and time with their family. Then they get bad news. Jacqueline...
In this sexy page-turner from Lutishia Lovely, a conniving seductress embarks on a spectacular finale as her need for revenge—and for the object of her obsession—reaches a boiling point . . .
After a nightmarish two years, Nathan Carver thinks he can relax. His sister, Sherri, and her husband, Randall, are once again enjoying life and time with their family. Then they get bad news. Jacqueline...
55) Bad Blood
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman is not about to let her scheming ex-fiancé toss her aside without payback in this revenge tale by a New York Times–bestselling author.
Seth Garrett's family taught him that anything less than the best simply isn't an option. Now he's out to prove he can be the most successful Garrett—and Rachel McNeal fits the bill. She's pretty, hard-working, good in bed—and willing to finance his dreams. He
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal. 1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter....
57) Hair Love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A New York Times Bestseller and tie-in to Academy-Award Winning Short Film "Hair Love"
"I love that Hair Love is highlighting the relationship between a Black father and daughter. Matthew leads the ranks of new creatives who are telling unique stories of the Black experience. We need this."
- Jordan Peele, Actor & Filmmaker
It's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair...
"I love that Hair Love is highlighting the relationship between a Black father and daughter. Matthew leads the ranks of new creatives who are telling unique stories of the Black experience. We need this."
- Jordan Peele, Actor & Filmmaker
It's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. But after years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface. Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the...
59) 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...
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English
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Dre Ross has one more shot. Despite being a successful political consultant, his aggressive tactics have put him on thin ice with his boss, Mrs. Fitz, who plucked him from juvenile incarceration and mentored his career. She exiles him to the backwoods of South Carolina with $250,000 of dark money to introduce a ballot initiative on behalf of a mining company. The goal: to manipulate the locals into voting to sell their pristine public land to the...
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