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Innkeepers (Rochelle Alers) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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A widowed attorney, still stinging from her late husband?s infidelities, returns home to the Garden District in New Orleans and convinces three of her friends to help her turn her family?s 200 year-old DuPont House into an inn.
2) Mama Ruby
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Growing up in Shreveport, Ruby Jean Upshaw is a girl who knows what she wants and knows how to get it. By fifteen, the preacher's daughter has developed a taste for fast men and cheap liquor. But when she discovers she's in the family way, Ruby's scared for the first time in her life. Hiding it, she gives birth at the home of Othella Mae Cartier, daughter of the town tramp, who talks Ruby into giving the child away.
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Prince Thabiso is the sole heir to the throne of Thesolo, shouldering the hopes of his parents and his people. At the top of their list? His marriage. Ever dutiful, he tracks down his missing betrothed. When Naledi mistakes the prince for a pauper, Thabiso can't resist the chance to experience life--and love--without the burden of his crown.
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"A Los Angeles transplant, Sister Louise 'Lou' LaSalle feels right at home in Briar Coast, New York. After all, her beloved nephew, Chris, works at the college founded by her congregation. But while Sister Lou has always played by the rules, she's about to have her faith in herself tested - by murder."--
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Pub. Date
2019
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English
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With the Lenten season fast approaching, Sister Louise "Lou" LaSalle looks forward to a final day of indulgence before giving up her favorite sweets. But one Briar Coast resident won't get the chance to repent. Opal Lorrie, the mayor's director of finance, was just found in the parking lot of the Board of Ed--with a broken neck.
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2017
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From the moment their eyes meet across the crime-scene tape, ex-con-turned-bodyguard Quasar Patterson knows he has to see Dr. Randi Fuller again. The renowned psychic investigator can foresee danger for others, but not for herself. That makes Quasar doubly determined to watch over her -- the closer, the better -- as she's drawn into a dangerous gang rivalry. Her psychic gift and their blinding chemistry tell Randi that she and Quasar are fated to...
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2014
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English
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Sheridan, Kendall, and Asia bonded at a church prayer group and helped each other overcome heartbreak. Eight years later their exes are back, wreaking havoc. Sheridan's husband, who left her for a man, has reappeared with his fiancée -- a woman! Kendall's ex-husband married her sister, and they're forced to reunite when her father is diagnosed with cancer. Asia has done her best to move away from her married boyfriend, until a kiss rekindles old...
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1986, the heart of the Cold War. A young black woman working in an old boys' club, Marie Mitchell's FBI career has stalled out and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. Given the opportunity to join a task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic revolutionary president of Burkina Faso whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention, she says yes. In the year that follows Marie observes Sankara,...
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Innkeepers (Rochelle Alers) volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"Sometimes you go in search of a new beginning. Other times, it finds you. Tonya Martin enjoys her job as a chef for a Wall Street bank, her East Harlem walk-up, and the freedom to live and love by her own rules -- right up until the day she finds herself downsized. But a spontaneous trip to New Orleans opens up a new opportunity. With time on her hands and her daughter soon graduating college, Tonya has the chance to reach for her own long-cherished...
10) Room service
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Pub. Date
2018
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English
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"Sometimes you go in search of a new beginning. Other times, it finds you. Tonya Martin enjoys her job as a chef for a Wall Street bank, her East Harlem walk-up, and the freedom to live and love by her own rules -- right up until the day she finds herself downsized. But a spontaneous trip to New Orleans opens up a new opportunity. With time on her hands and her daughter soon graduating college, Tonya has the chance to reach for her own long-cherished...
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Ken Swift novels volume Prequel
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"Ken is twenty-one, hurting people for cash to try to pay his way through college, when he lays eyes on Jimi Lee, the woman who will change the course of his entire life. What's meant to be a one-night stand with the Harvard-bound beauty turns into an explosion of sexual chemistry that neither can quit. And when Jimi Lee becomes pregnant, their two very different worlds collide in ways they never could have anticipated"--Amazon.com.
12) The bridal suite
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Innkeepers (Rochelle Alers) volume 4
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English
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"With her besties in the Big Easy, Nydia Santiago is second-guessing staying behind in New York City. So when Jasmine Washington calls with the exciting news that she s getting married, Nydia happily rushes to New Orleans to be her maid of honour. Once she visits the lovely Garden District estate her friends are transforming into a luxury inn, she s wistful to join them in their venture. Then she meets the sexy engineer in charge of the renovation....
13) The black market
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Black market (Kiki Swinson) volume 1
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English
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"Pharmacy worker Misty Heiress gets in over her head when her theft of opioids to help ease the pain of her cousin turns into a lucrative criminal enterprise and soon spirals out of control" --
14) Queenie: a novel
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2019.
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Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle-class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places ... including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming...
15) One house over
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Neighbors (Mary Monroe) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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A solid marriage, a thriving business, and the esteem of their close-knit Alabama community--Joyce and Odell Watson have every reason to count their blessings. Their marriage has given well-off Joyce a chance at the family she's always wanted--and granted Odell a once-in-a-lifetime shot to escape grinding poverty. But all that respectability and status comes at a cost. Just once, Joyce and Odell want to break loose and taste life's wild side, without...
16) Remembrance
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"Charles thought he had it all--until a devastating betrayal and the shattering loss of his family drove him to living on the streets. Beatrice is the first person who's truly cared about him. And little by little, he's finding reasons to care about rebuilding his life--and risking a sudden, courageous choice. Drawn to Charles and the temptation of a second chance, Beatrice is faced with the hardest of decisions. But his insight, secrets, and the...
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"Isabel Lincoln is gone. But is she missing? It's up to Grayson Sykes to find her. Although she is reluctant to track down a woman who may not want to be found, Gray's search for Isabel Lincoln becomes more complicated and dangerous with every new revelation about the woman's secrets and the truth she's hidden from her friends and family. Featuring two complicated women in a dangerous cat and mouse game, Rachel Howzell Hall's And Now She's Gone explores...
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Catalina Cove volume 3
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English
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"Bryce Witherspoon's heart races every time she sees Kaegan Chambray. Everyone in town knows they can't stand each other, but the truth is, even though the man broke her heart ten years ago, she still feels that irresistible, oh-so-familiar jolt of desire. When Kaegan returned to Catalina Cove to run the family business, he knew there'd be no avoiding Bryce. The woman he thought he'd one day marry was instead the biggest heartbreak of his life. But...
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If I Can't Have You volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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This is the story of two women, a sizzling wager, and the fallout that's turned lives upside down. With the only man they've ever wanted at stake, who will go one step too far to claim him? Sindy Singleton isn't about to lose Chicago DuBois to Madison again. Enlisting the help of Chicago's worst enemy is the fastest way she knows to expose Madison's most brazen deception yet. But Madison has more than one devastating card to play ...
20) Peril & prayer
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Pub. Date
2018
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English
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"This year's Advent retreat has been booked for the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Hermione of Ephesus at the pastoral Briar Coast Cabin Resorts in New York. But when the combative Sister Marianna practically loses her religion arguing over minor details with resort co-owner Autumn Tassler, Sister Louise 'Lou' LaSalle blessedly steps in as peacemaker. Only days later, Autumn is found strangled in her office, and hot-headed Sister Marianna becomes...
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