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1) Think twice
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Series
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English
Description
Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connelly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that's what Bennie believes, until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin. Alice underestimates Bennie, though, and the evil she has unleashed in her twin's psyche, as well as Bennie's determination to stay alive long enough to exact revenge.
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Series
Desperate duchesses series volume 3
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English
Description
Harriet, Duchess of Berrow, is tired of her title and the responsibilities that come along with it. Enough with the proper tea parties and elegant balls; what Harriet wants is to attend an outrageous soiree where she can unleash her wildest dreams and desires. But to attend such an event - especially if the event in question is Lord Justinian Strange's rollicking fete, filled with noble rogues and rotters, risqué ladies and illicit lovers - would...
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English
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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English
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“Ellison sought no less than to create a Book of Blackness, a literary composition of the tradition at its most sublime and fundamental." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., TIME
From the renowned author of the classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth is brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise. With a new introduction by National Book Award-winning author and scholar...
From the renowned author of the classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth is brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise. With a new introduction by National Book Award-winning author and scholar...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While investigating the murder of a presidential candidate in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan discovers a link to the death of a 7-year-old girl ten years earlier and is led to one of the wealthiest families in all of San Francisco whose powerful influence hinder his quest for the truth.
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Series
Victorian mysteries (Karen Odden) volume 1
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English
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Disguising herself as a man to earn money for school, a musician stumbles upon the operations of a notorious and deadly crime ring.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When white silver screen icon Kitty Karr Tate dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the three Black St. John sisters, it prompts questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty's affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty's journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could-and between a cheating fiancé and fallout from a controversial...
8) Africaville
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English
Description
Colvin chronicles three generations of one family rooted in a historic Nova Scotia. Established in the late eighteenth century by former slaves, the small community of Africanville lies on a rocky bluff just north of Halifax. Its settlers hahil from haiti, Trinidad, and the American South, and include Jamaican rebeles exiled by their British masters. By the turn of the century, Africanville is a vibrant, hardscrablle community home to hardworking...
11) Forbidden
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English
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Rhine Fontaine is building the successful life he's always dreamed of--one that depends upon him passing for White. But for the first time in years, he wishes he could step out from behind the facade. The reason: Eddy Carmichael, the young woman he rescued in the desert. Outspoken, defiant, and beautiful, Eddy tempts Rhine in ways that could cost him everything ... and the price seems worth paying. Eddy owes her life to Rhine, but she won't risk her...
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English
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Lena Aldridge is wondering if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn't worked out. Instead, she's stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho and her married lover has just dumped her. But Lena has always had a complicated life, one shrouded in mystery as a mixed-race girl passing for white, in a city unforgiving of her true racial heritage. She has nothing to look forward to--until a stranger offers her...
14) Dark secret
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
15) Passin': a novel
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
16) Ruslan: a novel
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
18) Wages of sin
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Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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