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"[This] thought-provoking novel continues the Reverend Curtis Black series" with the New York Times–bestselling story of his scandalous newlywed daughter (Booklist).
Readers who just can't get enough of the Reverend Curtis Black—the charming con man and insufferable womanizer who stars in Sin No More, The Best-Kept Secret, and other acclaimed, bestselling novels by Kimberla Lawson Roby—are going to love his...
Readers who just can't get enough of the Reverend Curtis Black—the charming con man and insufferable womanizer who stars in Sin No More, The Best-Kept Secret, and other acclaimed, bestselling novels by Kimberla Lawson Roby—are going to love his...
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Kimberla Lawson Roby returns with another moving and triumphant novel about a woman who, against all odds, battles the most blatant kind of workplace discrimination while dealing with a crumbling marriage and a trusted friend's betrayal.
On the surface, Anise seems to have it all: a successful career, a solid marriage, and good friends. But when she applies for a promotion at work, she loses out to a white colleague who isn't nearly as qualified
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In 1944, four friends, part of the only unit of Black women to serve overseas in World War II, work tirelessly to reunite soldiers with their loved ones through the letters they write and find things taking a personal turn when a backlogged letter upends their lives.
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"Delilah Monroe and her husband Rocky always dreamed of their three daughters making it big in show business as a musical trio. After Rocky's death, Delilah's determination is even stronger. However, her daughters--Roxanne, Veronica, and Alisha--aren't so sure. Roxanne is a cruiseline entertainer, while Alisha writes jingles for an ad agency by day and secretly composes her own songs at night. Veronica, whose dancing is better than her singing, is...
45) The black market
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Black market (Kiki Swinson) volume 1
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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" --
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In this 1983 short story about race and the relationships that shape us through life, Twyla and Roberta, friends since childhood who are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem as they grow older, cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them.
Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, roommates in the St. Bonaventure shelter. After losing touch, they meet several times by accident. Seemingly...
47) Broken places
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"Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to eke out a living in the Windy City. But when she stumbles across the dead body of a respected member of the community, it's up to her to prove a murderer is on the loose." -- Publisher annotation.
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Tyndale House Publishers
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In the winter of 1923, Professor Annalee Spain?a daring but overworked theologian at a small Chicago Bible college?receives a cryptic telegram calling her home to Denver to solve the mystery of the murder of her beloved but estranged father.
49) 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...
50) Queen sugar
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"A mother-daughter story of reinvention--about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana. Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los Angeles. They arrive just in time for growing season...
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2023.
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After losing her child and seeing the world as an increasingly dangerous place, a young Black woman from Boston decides to construct a separate society at an abandoned restaurant in Western Massachusetts. She locates a benefactor and soon it all begins to take shape, but it doesn't take long for problems to develop.
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If I Can't Have You volume 3
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2014.
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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 ...
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God don't novels volume 2
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New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe's heart-stopping tale about a woman who's suffered too much to give up on herself, even if everyone else has. . .
Growing up, Annette Goode thought all men were as low-down as the father who abandoned her, including the boarder who abused her for years and the men she slept with to earn the money she needed to run away from her life. Now, after decades of heartache and severing ties with her...
Growing up, Annette Goode thought all men were as low-down as the father who abandoned her, including the boarder who abused her for years and the men she slept with to earn the money she needed to run away from her life. Now, after decades of heartache and severing ties with her...
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In bestselling author Mary B. Morrison's steamiest novel yet, the timing finally seems to be right for Darius Jones and Fancy Taylor—but what they discover about one another may surprise them. . .
Fancy knows this time around things will be different with Darius. Before she gets intimate with the man, she's going to get to know him—then she'll get her share. . .
As far as relationships go, Darius has a past of his own. Currently...
Fancy knows this time around things will be different with Darius. Before she gets intimate with the man, she's going to get to know him—then she'll get her share. . .
As far as relationships go, Darius has a past of his own. Currently...
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Spirited, successful Venus Johnston is back—in the long-awaited sequel to Nappily Ever After.
Venus feels history repeating itself, and she’s not loving it. She ended a relationship with Clint because he couldn’t commit, cut off her long, processed hair, and started on a new path with a new boyfriend. But she’s been with Airic for more than two years, and they still haven’t set a wedding date. When a temporary...
Venus feels history repeating itself, and she’s not loving it. She ended a relationship with Clint because he couldn’t commit, cut off her long, processed hair, and started on a new path with a new boyfriend. But she’s been with Airic for more than two years, and they still haven’t set a wedding date. When a temporary...
56) Lost daughters
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When her new husband Mel and her daughter Lorretta, an aspiring model, run off together, claiming they are in love, Maureen Montgomery must confront her tragic past to find the strength to overcome this devastating betrayal and make a new life for herself that is all her own.
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When August, an anthropologist who has studied the funeral traditions of different cultures, revisits her old neighborhood after her father's death, her reunion with a brother and a chance encounter with an old friend bring back a flood of childhood memories. Flashbacks depict the isolation she felt moving from rural Tennessee to New York and show how her later years were influenced by the black power movement, nearby street violence, her father's...
58) Promise
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2018.
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A devastating tornado rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression. Dovey, a black laundress, searches for her family. At the McNabb house she find the daughter of the house, Jo, who suffered a head wound. When a baby is found in the wreckage is it Jo's baby brother, Tommy, or Dovey's light-skinned great-grandson, Promise? The two women-- one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager-- are...
59) Somewhat saved
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Sister Betty volume 4
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When Mother Sasha Pray Onn and Mother Bea Blister, members of the Ain't Nobody Saved but Us--All Others Goin' to Hell church, are sent to the Mothers Board Conference in Las Vegas, things get hilariously out of control.
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Waiting to exhale volume 1
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Savannah Jackson is attractive, educated, and, at age 36, still unmarried. Bernadine Harris has 11 years of marriage, but a 24-year-old bookkeeper has her husband. Robin Stokes is a successful professional recovering from a dead-end love affair. Gloria Matthews owns Oasis, one of the few hair salons for black women in Phoenix. Each of these African-American women is leaning on the others while "waiting to exhale, " waiting for that man who will take...
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