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Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The author of New York Times best-selling novels, Mary Monroe is especially adept at capturing the tumultuous highs and lows of the unforgettable characters who populate her books. In She Had It Coming, it's the best of times and the worst of times for Dolores Reese, who's married to two different men in two different cities.
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English
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"As the Civil War rages between the states, a courageous pair of spies plunge fearlessly into a maelstrom of ignorance, deceit, and danger, combining their unique skills to alter the course of history and break the chains of the past... Elle Burns is a former slave with a passion for justice and an eidetic memory. Trading in her life of freedom in Massachusetts, she returns to the indignity of slavery in the South--to spy for the Union Army. Malcolm...
83) Big girls do cry
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English
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When plus-sized beauty Isis and her sister, Egypt, start a new chapter of the Big Girls Book Club in Richmond, Virginia, they discover that drama follows them everywhere as they deal with family issues, scandalous new members, and betrayal.
84) The beach house
Author
Series
Book club ; 2
Language
English
Description
"It's been almost a year since Leah Berkley Kent left her lavish Richmond home to spend two months on Coates Island, North Carolina. There she found friendship with two extraordinary women, Kayana and Cherie. Together they formed a summer book club, meeting weekly at the Seaside Café. Leah also found the courage to finally stand up to Alan, her domineering husband of twenty-eight years. With her twin sons now grown, Leah decides to return to Coates...
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English
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The owner of a multimillion-dollar multimedia firm, Madison Tyler enjoys her no-strings attached relationship with Granville Washington, but when she tries to break things off, he refuses to let her go and will do whatever it takes to make her see that he is the perfect man for her.
89) Long past summer
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English
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"When an old photograph of her and her childhood best friend, Julie, is used as the cover of a high-profile magazine, successful lawyer Mikaela Marchand, brought on to defend the magazine when Julie sues, must confront her past--and her unresolved feelings for the photographer."--
Author
Series
Crystal ; 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
The second novel about the unforgettable Crystal women, a family battling to stay together as desire, deception, and ever-elusive happiness threaten to tear them apart...
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Language
English
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Description
Avery and her family escape the violent streets of Los Angeles to a more gentrified existence in suburban West Covina, but her life is soon interrupted when her violent cousin Keith moves in with her family, triggering a series of events that will follow Avery throughout her life.
92) Who's loving you
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Language
English
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Starting a new life in Atlanta, Georgia, former prostitute and madam Honey Thomas falls in love with Grant Hill, but when he discovers her past, he wants nothing to do with her, forcing her to revert to her old tricks to prove her love.
93) Passin': a novel
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Essence best-selling author and winner of the Nubian Literary Award, Karen E. Quinones Miller was also named Author of the Year by Turning Pages Book Club.
Passin' introduces Shanika Ann Jenkins, a light-skinned black woman who decides to remake herself. Shanika is blonde and beautiful. But after being rejected for a job she makes an incredible choice: to use her God-given assets to become the white woman she always imagined she could be.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This contemporary urban novel from best-selling author Cheryl Robinson breaks the mold with its complex and dynamic female protagonist. Olena Day's first love died tragically, and her college boyfriend left her for another woman. Now a successful, independent 43-yearold, she begins a passionate relationship with Matthew, a man 18 years her junior. Can a relationship finally end happily-ever-after for Olena-or will it be torn apart once again?
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Series
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English
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"The first in a thrilling new series from Emmy Award-winning TV Host and Journalist Tamron Hall, As The Wicked Watch follows a reporter as she unravels the disturbing mystery around the deaths of two Black girls; the work of a serial killer terrorizing Chicago. When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she's one step closer to her dream: a coveted anchor chair on a national network....
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English
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"At 33 years old, Tabby receives an unexpected diagnosis that brings her picture-perfect life crashing down, jeopardizing the keystone she took for granted: having children. The fight is all consuming, demanding a steep price that forces an honest reckoning for nearly everyone in her life. As Tabby soon learns, her grandmother's age-old adage just might still be true: Black girls must die exhausted." --
98) Beloved
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; 268
Language
English
Description
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
100) Dances: a novel
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English
Description
"Promoted to principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, Cece Cordell, a young black woman, still feels like she doesn't belong, and, despite her dream achievement, is faced with a choice that may derail her career, sending her on a pilgrimage to find her missing older brother and reclaim the parts of herself lost in the pursuit of her art."--
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