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BRING ME A DREAM
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Author:Robyn Amos
Jasmine White is tired of people questioning her ability to do her job. She knows she's the best bodyguard in the business, and she'll tell anyone who asks. And now she's got to take sass from her new client Spencer Powell, the late-night radio jock who calls himself "the Sandman." Someone's threatening the Sandman -- and if Jasmine messes up this high-profile assignment, he'll tell everyone about it!But sexy-cool Spencer's not so sure he wants a woman protecting him -- even one as fine as...
Retails:$6.50
ISBN: 0380815427
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MISTRUSTFUL
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Author:C. R. Jackson
After sacrificing his childhood in order to gain a good education and a college scholarship, Davis Virginia soon finds himself attending college in Atlanta, Georgia. With a lustful desire to make up for all of the fun he missed as an adolescent, he quickly becomes the centerpiece of a few sexual fantasies.
Three enterprising women enter his life. Each of the women are drawn by his over-developed muscular physique but they eventually fall for the innocent, trustful, and intelligent boyish nature that defines his character. Now the once composed and determined young man has become a confused play toy for three older females-one of which, is extremely ferocious.
In a struggle to maintain her independence, one of the women battles sexual urges to keep a platonic relationship with him while another readily gives into his chiseled physique in attempts to capture an orgasmic state of euphoria. The third female desperately tries to keep her past from ruining the best relationship she has ever had.
He eventually learns a lot from the ladies but will his attempts to keep all three succeed? Can his sensible but over-protective mother watch him now that he's away in college? Will he finally rescue himself from a world of newly found erotic pleasures so that he can continue his matriculation through college? Can he be rescued at all?
Retails:$12.00
ISBN: 1930231067
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4 GUYS AND TROUBLE
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Author:Marcus Majors
When four young men make a pledge to their dying fraternity brother to take care of his little sister, Bunches, a delightful story unfolds. Each of these successful African American men takes his responsibility as a brother seriously, giving gifts and advice as well as compliments and scolding. As Bunches matures from their friend's little sister into a young woman, the men find it increasingly difficult to accept her independence... and when one of them falls in love with her agains his better judgment...
Retails:$6.99
ISBN: 0451410173
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NO MORE MR NICE GUY
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Author:C. Kelly Robinson
Mitchell Stone has had it! No more Mr. Nice Guy. Sick and tired of dates that end with a pat on the back, he's decided it's time to even his odds with the ladies and become the type of man they really seem to want: a mysterious, mischievous, deceitful Dog! With the help of his �Player� instructors, Tony and Trey, he's dipping his toe into a stream of booty calls, baby-mamas, and sexual spin, winning over every woman who crosses his path!
Nikki Coleman has had it, too! The men in her life have been good for one thing: disappointment. There's her high school sweetheart, Barry, a successful attorney who got someone else pregnant and derailed Nikki's early hopes of marriage. Then there's Jomo, a guitarist who's great in bed-except Nikki's not the only one he's great in bed with. There's Mitchell Stone, an old friend and fellow executive at her record company, who's handsome but just a little too nice. Last but not least, there's her father, Gene Coleman, who took a few years to acknowledge that, yeah, she's his. Now that a case of sexual harassment has Nikki on the verge of losing her job and with it her entire career in the music industry, the lack of a strong man in her life is even more painful. She can survive on her own, but in her heart she wants a Mr. Right to stand by her side and help her ride out the storm.
Retails:$13.95
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TALK OF THE TOWN
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Author:Traci Howard, Danita Carter
Tracie Howard and Danita Carter's sizzling debut, Revenge Is Best Served Cold, broke "exciting new ground in African-American fiction" (Kimberla Lawson Roby). Now they're back-and so are their invincible heroines-in a sexy new novel of romance and wealth...Manhattan style.
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ALWAYS TRUE TO YOU IN MY OWN FASHION
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Author:Valerie Wilson Wesley
A trio of great single women is being driven to distraction; they have one thing in common -- Randall Hollis, a successful art dealer at the top of his game. Randall is rich, handsome, and charming -- the true-to-life dream lover of these smart, independent women who all find themselves passionately involved with him during the same seven-month period. There's Medora Jackson, an artist who has loved Randall since college and is now desperately trying to cut him loose. But turning Randall Hollis out of her life will end up being far more difficult than she thinks. There's Ana Reese-Mitchell, a wealthy widow and art collector who is haunted by the death of her best friend and the specter of her cruel late husband. She hopes Randall Hollis will be her second chance at love. And there's ambitious Taylor Benedict, a graduate student in art history who is coming to terms with her parents' divorce and problems from her childhood that she can't chase away. She's sure that Randall Hollis will be the first rung on her ladder to success. Randall Hollis is a man for all seasons, representing a different fantasy for each of the women who love him. As the novel unfolds, each woman will discover more about herself than she bargained for. And each, along with the errant Randall himself, will finally know the true meaning of love and the peace that comes with forgiveness.
Retails:$23.95
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RISING
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Author:Darnella Ford
Rising, a suspense thriller based in Northern Michigan, reveals the cryptic tale of Symone Huston, a young woman forced to spend Thanksgiving Day with the man who raped her years ago. As the evening wears on, violent flashbacks reduce Symone from guest to savage and what would have been just another Thanksgiving dinner winds up making history as The Last Supper.
Book Review: Rising by Darnella Ford: This book ia amazing. The autthor takes you into the mind of a child that seen everything that life as to offer (good and bad). If you grow up during the time that crack was rising in the black community then this the book for you. Or if you have inner demon in you the you must read this book. I highly recommend this book (well writing).
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ONE CRAZY A++ NIGHT
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Author:The Urban Griot(AKA Omar Tyree)
The year in 1995. The place is the hills of western Pennsyvania. The issue is trespassing. But who would have thought that a black couple, simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, would end up running for their lives from an angry white mob in the 1990's
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AND ON THE EIGHTH DAY SHE RESTED
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Author:J.D. Mason
What happens after the abuse ends? This is the question fueling one African American woman's journey on the road to self-discovery. Ruth Johnson has finally left her abusive husband of 14 years and jumped feet first into "What the hell do I do now?" oblivion. As much as she'd like to, Ruth finds that letting go of the past is easier said than done. Over the years, dodging the bullets of her husbands anger has become second nature and Ruth soon realizes that long after the physical scars disappear, the emotional scars have lingered on and shaped her into the woman she has become. But is this the woman she truly is? It's not easy learning to love yourself when you've been taught to believe you aren't worth loving. However, Ruth quickly begins to see the truth buried deep beneath the lies. The truth that little treasures are sometimes where you least expect to find them; in the company of good friends, winning the battle in fighting for a worthy cause, spending a quiet night alone sipping on a cup of hot tea, listening to some good jazz, and finally...falling in love. Ultimately, the return of her ex-husband and another of his vicious attacks is no longer powerful enough to break Ruth and her new foundation.
Retails:$13.95
ISBN: 0312309899
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GRACE
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Author:Elizabeth Nunez
Justin Peters is a Harvard-educated professor of British and classic literature who reads Shakespeare to his four-year-old daughter, Giselle. A native of Trinidad and the product of a strict, English-style education, Justin and his focus on the works of �Dead White Men� receive little professional respect at the public Brooklyn college where he teaches. But whatever troubles he might have at work are eclipsed when he realizes his wife, Sally, has begun to pull away from him, both physically and emotionally.
Harlem-born Sally Peters, a mother on the verge of turning forty, is a primary school teacher who believes that joy is a learned skill, and that it takes strength to be happy. After a life of tragic losses, Sally thought she had finally found that strength when she met Justin.
But now, Sally wants something more. And Justin is angered by her uncertainty about their life and frightened by the thought that perhaps Sally never stopped loving the ex-boyfriend for whom she wrote fierce poems. Is he, Justin wonders, responsible for helping Sally find meaning in her life-a life that seems to him most fortunate? If Sally and Justin�s union is to survive, both must face the crippling echoes of their own pasts before those memories forever cloud and alter their future.
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CRAWFISH DREAMS
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Author:Nancy Rawles
The luminous, uplifting story of a woman who cooks up a plan to bring her family back together and discovers that love, sharing, and a dash of daring are the secret ingredients that can turn dreams into reality.
Camille Broussard can remember a time when she had more pep in her stride and her single-story house was one of the nicest homes in the cozy, well-kept neighborhood of Watts. Her kitchen overflowed with the fragrant aromas of Creole cooking, and the taste of her divine crawfish, rich gumbos, and delicious pralines had family and friends begging for seconds and thirds. The devastation of the Watts riots and the ravages of Reaganomics, however, changed everything. Her neighbors have fled, the church pews are nearly empty at Sunday mass, and her own children have turned their backs on Watts and on the pride and values Camille instilled in them.
Her grandson Nicholas has just finished serving time for a crime he knew better than to commit; her politically active lesbian daughter, Grace, is struggling with an identity crisis; and Yvette, her na�ve, sexually cloistered daughter, has a husband whose secrets threaten to destroy the bond between mother and daughter. But despite how far they have strayed, Camille is not ready to give up on the family who has nourished her as she has nourished them. So she decides to combine her love of family and her love of cooking into one great enterprise. She opens Camille�s Creole Kitchen and recruits her family to help her get the restaurant on its feet. As the business gradually grows, Camille not only restores her family�s spirit and sense of purpose, she also recovers her own lost dreams.
Retails:$21.95
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ALL THE TROUBLE YOU NEED
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Author:Jervey Tervalon
All Jordan Davis wants is a smooth ride, speeding his Triumph along the 101, living the beautiful life among the beautiful people of Santa Barbara. But trouble seems to find him at every turn in the road. There's Trisha, the seductive twenty-two-year-old virgin from the glamorous foothills...Mary, the angry white girl whose defiance is a definite turn-on...and Daphne, an exotic, forbidden student, and keeper of shadowy secrets. They all want to define him, limit him, turn him into what they want him to be. But for Jordan, the ultimate question is what does he want out of life -- and can a man truly create a destiny that isn't defined by his race or his past?
Retails:$13.00
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DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE
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Author:Packer
Packer dazzles with her command of language-surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. With penetrating insight that belies her youth-she was only nineteen years old when Seventeen magazine printed her first published story-Packer takes us to a Girl Scout camp, where a troupe of black girls are confronted with a group of white girls, whose defining feature turns out to be not their race but their disabilities; to the Million Man March on Washington, where a young man must decide where his allegiance to his father lies; to Japan, where an international group of drifters find themselves starving, unable to find work.
Retails:$24.95
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