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"Solenne Bonet is DoS--a Descendant of Slave--and has always known that her destiny would be in the service of men. At school, it is what she has been trained for, waiting for an algorithm to assign her to a white man, one of the thousands who sign up to be contract holders. She knows that there are girls who hope to be more than Maid or Mammy, who whisper about how they will get a white man to sign their freedom, how they will be sweet, but not sweet...
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2024.
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English
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"When fifteen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald's mother dies at the height of the Depression in 1932, the teenager goes to work for the mob to support herself and her family. When the law finally catches up, the "ungovernable" adolescent is incarcerated in the New York Training School for Girls in upstate New York--a wicked prison infamous for its harsh treatment of inmates, especially Black ones. Determined to be free, Ella escapes and makes her way back...
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Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Four friends, three struggling relationships, and one final wish: find your happiness. Both heartwarming and heart-wrenching, Sheryl Lister invites readers to take a trip of a lifetime with her new women's fiction novel that reminds us all to live without regrets"--
5) Brooklyn
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2024.
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English
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"Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to get what she wants. The question isn't who murdered her; the question is who wouldn't? Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away, Brooklyn remembers the events that shaped her into the cold, calculating creature she became. Brooklyn learned...
6) Swift River
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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"What if the price of knowing who you are is losing the only family you've ever known? Summer, 1987. On the sweltering streets of the dying New England mill town of Swift River, sixteen-year-old Diamond Newbury is desperately lonely. It's been seven years since her father disappeared, and while her mother is determined to move on, Diamond can't distance herself from his memory. When Diamond receives a letter from a relative she has never met, she...
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Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with the next edition in the highly successful Banks Sisters trilogy.
Meet the Banks sisters-Simone, Bunny, Tallhya, and Ginger. They feel like they are finally in the clear in connection with the recent bank robberies-until their mother shows up demanding her share at gunpoint. She threatens to snitch them out if they don't come correct. The situation becomes a bloody mess, and now, two sisters...
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Summer beach ; 3
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English
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"The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin transports readers to Highland Beach in the captivating third novel of her New York Times bestselling Summer series"--
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The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
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Mead mishaps ; 3
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When a spirited young woman with a penchant for adventure finds herself locked away in a dragon's tower, she realizes that fate has a peculiar sense of humor when it comes to her romantic prospects"--Page 4 of cover.
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2024.
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English
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"In this sweeping second chance romance from debut author Myah Ariel, the unexpected spark of two former flames may force them to choose between their dreams and each other. Kaliya Wilson has paid her dues. But all the years behind the reception desk at a flashy film studio have only pushed her movie-making dreams further out of reach. That is, until a surprise reunion presents an opportunity that could make her career, or break her heart...a second...
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Mulholland Books, Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend in New York City. Breanna's new boyfriend, Ty, took care of everything--the train tickets, the dinner reservations, the rented four-story luxury rowhouse in Jersey City with a beautiful view of the Manhattan skyline. But when Bree comes downstairs their final morning, she's shocked. There's a stranger laying dead in the foyer, and Ty is nowhere to be found. A Black woman alone in a new city, Bree is...
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Bramble, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Approaching her thirtieth birthday, Aaliyah seeks love through a dating app with her friends’ support, but finds unexpected connections amidst the lies, catfishing, fetishizing and overall chaos of online romance.
15) Baddest apple
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Melodrama Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Apple is still unable to settle down and focus on being a mom, especially when she hears about Queenie, a hardcore former drug mule. Apple can't resist trying to reclaim the title of Queen of New York." --
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[Mia Black]
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Que and Jazmine tried to get out of town before the people from Que's past could find them, but now that's out the question. After slipping up with concealing their identities, the two lovers are captured by the very people they were hiding from. Now Que and Jazmine will be forced to do the unthinkable! --
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Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"In early 1945, Dorothy and 800 African American WACs arrive at their post in England where they are tasked with processing mail sent to GIs from their loved ones back home, an estimated 17 million pieces, and with their outlooks changed forever, return to the U.S. as the catalysts for change in America."--
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[Mia Black]
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"After dealing with a toxic relationship, the last thing Jazmine wants to do is jump into another one. Yet one unexpected encounter with a sexy stranger causes her to rethink that decision. Will this mysterious man be the one who will save her from her past or make her life more complicated than it already is?Find out what happens in part one of Loving The Wrong Man!"--Back cover.
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Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The Water Wars have scrambled the world. Flood refugees are on the run. Disrupters and the nostalgia militia roam the roads wreaking havoc. Invisible Darknet Lords troll the Internet, solidifying their power, while Cinnamon, her three Circus-Bots, and two dogs work with a community of farmers, Motor Fairies, and Wheel-Wizards to provide housing, health care, and education for flood refugees. As Cinnamon confronts threats from the Darknet Lords and...
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[Mia Black]
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"After finding out Que's shocking secret, Jazmine she decides to go against her better judgment and follow her heart. She is willing to stay by his side and hold him down. Yet when Que's haunting past reappears and threatens the both of them, Jazmine finds herself on the run. Now she is at the crossroads, is their love worth losing everything she worked so hard for? Find out what happens in part two of Loving The Wrong Man!"--
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