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~ JUNE'S PROMOTIONAL BOOKS ~
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SAXUAL FEELINGS
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Author:Luke Thomas
Maurice LaSalle is a player--of women and the saxophone. A gifted musician, he is the driving force behind MoJazz, a neo-soul jazz band on the verge of their big break. Along with his best friend and partner in rhyme and crime, Jamal Groover, Maurice has more women than he can count. Guided by his mentor, Simon, and the memory of his mother, Maurice knows right but constantly does wrong.
Then Ebony Stanford struts into Maurice's life and he begins to play a new tune. Ebony, still reeling from a nasty divorce, has just about given up on men, but when Maurice hits the right notes she can't help but fall for his charms.
While Maurice and Ebony get closer, Jamal is busy charming his way into as many bedrooms as he can. When a stalker threatens his life, Maurice encourages him to slow down but Jamal's carnal nature prevails over any traces of good sense.
Just as Maurice is contemplating turning in his player card for good, stupidity overrules his judgment and throws his harmonious relationship with Ebony into discord. When it seems as if things couldn't get any worse in his world, tragedy befalls and his life is changed forever.
In his sexy, powerful, and comedic debut, Luke Thomas shows the consequences of our choices and the winding road that two people travel on their way to making beautiful music together.
Retails:$12.95
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THE PAPER CHASERS
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Author:Mark Anthony
Paper Chasers in a bona fide street banger! The story is set in the summer of 1991, at a time when the crack epidemis was wreaking havoc in just about every sity in America. It focuses on the lives of The Fourth Crew, a close-knit gang of ballers from Queens, New York. Paper Chasers intricately chronicles the thought and action of the drew, and the repercussions af the fast money lifestyle.Book Review: Paper Chasers: The book to sum it all up was well written but it wasnt interesting or cetchy to keep me fixed on it. It sounds like someone is sitting right in front of me and telling me their life story and what they have learned from it. i purchased to get a thrill and that is not what i recieved. I love it though because i live within the game and truly understand it from a personal view.
Retails:$14.95
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BEFORE I LET GO
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Author:Darren Coleman
Set in Washington, DC Before I Let Go is the story of three different types of men who happen to be best friends. The novel takes a shocking look at how these men view and deal with love and sex.Nathan Montgomery con only be described in one way. He is a DOG with an obsession for conquering as many women as possible. When he breaks his own rules and falls for two women at the same time, all hell breaks loose.Brendan Shue is the type of man every woman claims to want ... at least until they get one. He is sensitive, loyal, and caring ... the only problem is that he could be the poster child for 'Good Guys who love Bad Girls'. Cory Dandridge has his head on straight. He's successful, smart, and handsome. The only thing he's guilty of is being a typical man. He's never gotten over his first love, and when he moves back to his hometown he has to face feelings and secrets in ways that will change his life forever.
Retails:$14.95
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BEST BLACK WOMEN'S EROTICA
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Author:Blanche Richardson (Editor), Iyanla Vanzant
Cleis Press's Best Lesbian Erotica and Best Women's Erotica series top bestseller lists, raising and exceeding the standards and expectations of readers of erotic fiction with each new edition. Now the African-American women's erotica market will discover the same level of literate, provocative sex writing in this debut collection of a new series. Best Black Women's Erotica showcases the hottest, most arousing, and most surprising erotic literature by African-American women writers. Representing a wide range of styles and voices, these 14 new stories offer a steamy assortment of fiction from popular authors such as Nikki Giovanni, Bertice Berry, Tananarive Due, Renee Swindle, Lori Bryant-Woolridge among others.
Retails:$14.95
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BEST BLACK WOMEN'S EROTICA 2
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Author:Saniya Bashir(Editor)
Best Black Women�s Erotica 2 showcases the hottest, most arousing, and most surprising erotic literature by African American women writers. Representing a wide range of styles and voices, these 25 stories offer steamy fiction from popular authors such as Sapphire, Jacqueline Woodson, Sharon Bridgforth, and others. For all women � heterosexual, bisexual, and lesbian � this book offers black women's sexuality in all its fullness and variety.
Retails:$14.95
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THE BRIDGE
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Author:Solomon Jones
Sometimes, Philadelphia Police Detective Kevin Lynch feels he has spent his whole life trying to put his past firmly behind him. But a frantic call for help from a childhood friend whose child has gone missing changes all that.
Now Lynch must summon the courage to return to his childhood home, the infamous projects known as The Bridge. As the case unfolds and the search for Kenya, the missing girl, intensifies, the secrets guarded by her family and friends begin to emerge. And the hidden truths are more sinister and malevolent than Lynch could ever imagine, and once again, The Bridge threatens to be his downfall.
Retails:$23.95
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PIPE DREAM
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Author:Solomon Jones
The lawyer turned on the tape recorder, handed his client a cigarette, and lit it for him. Black drew hard, squinting as the smoke rushed into his lungs.
-"Where do you want to start?"the lawyer said, lighting a cigarette of his own.
-"I guess there�s only one place to start; at Broad and Erie."
-Johnny Podres, a politician whose record against corruption had been propelling him straight to the mayor�s office, is found murdered in a North Philly crack house.
Samuel Jackson, a.k.a. Black, a drug addict who knows better, a man embittered by the fact that he can�t seem to escape from his addiction to crack cocaine or, for that matter, from himself. Though he was once a family man with a wife and son, Black�s only concern these days is getting his next high, that is, until he stumbles across a friend and fellow addict, Leroy, and both become prime suspects in the Podres murder. Black and Leroy hook up with two female pipers: Clarisse, a registered nurse who is slowly losing to crack any semblance of a respectable life, and Pookie, who already has lost it.
Retails:$13.95
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THE NIGHT BEFORE THIRTY
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Author:Tajuana Butler
Sorority Sisters, a novel about five women on the verge of turning thirty, whose lives are changed forever when they meet through a national radio contest
At first glance, you couldn�t find five women more different.
Catara is a personal shopper in New York who dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Embarrassed by her weight, she lets a lack of self-confidence derail her goals. In Atlanta, Lashawnda has gone from a string of bad relationships with men into one with a woman that doesn�t seem much better. Elise is realizing her dream of opening up a gymnastics school in Louisville, Kentucky, but between working and taking care of her grandmother, she can�t find much time to nurture herself. Tanya�s relationship with her boyfriend is at the breaking point. She�s ready to leave Chicago and fast city living to settle down and have a family, but her man isn�t on the same page. Alecia lives in Los Angeles and has been getting by on her looks for a long time, but when her (married) boyfriend makes it clear that his wife comes first, she has to realize that beauty fades and she must prepare for her future.
But these women do have something in common they all share the same birthday and are about to turn thirty. When the number one syndicated black radio show in the country sponsors a Night Before Thirty Getaway Weekend, these women meet, and while their time together is brief, the impact they have upon one another�s lives is everlasting
Retails:$19.95
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SOMEBODY'S SOMEONE
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Author:Regina Louise
This poignant memoir of one abandoned child's wrenching search for some-one to love--and to be loved by--gives compassionate voice to the plight of abused and unwanted children everywhere. What happens to a child when her own parents reject and abandon her? At birth, Regina Louise is deposited by her mother in a foster home where she grows up with the constant specter of severe beatings and other harrowing abuses. But at 10 years old, this extraordinarily bright and resilient child strikes out on her own. Set adrift, she re-encounters her mother, who chooses the men in her life over her daughter's safety, and is then foisted upon a father she has never known, who is at first indifferent and then emotionally abusive. She inhabits over 30 foster and group homes in her painful quest to be loved. Distinctive and arresting, Regina's story offers a scalding look at the life of a child no one wanted--and her discovery of the love that for so long had eluded her.
Retails:$23.95
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THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW
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Author:Richard Wormser
1880 and 1954, African Americans dedicated their energies, and sometimes their lives, to defeating segregation. During these times, characterized by some as "worse than slavery," African Americans fought the status quo, acquiring education and land and building businesses, churches, and communities, despite laws designed to segregate and disenfranchise them. White supremacy prevailed, but did not destroy, the spirit of the black community.
As the twenty-first century rolls forward, we are losing the remaining survivors of this pivotal era. Rich in historical commentary and eyewitness testimony by blacks and whites who lived through the period, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow is a poignant record of a time when indignity and terror constantly faced off against courage and accomplishment.
Retails:$17.95
ISBN: 0312313268
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