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22) Buddha baby
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"If love really is a choice, how do you decide where your loyalties lie? It's the countdown to midnight on New Year's Eve and Nur is steeling himself to tell his parents that he's seeing someone. A young British Pakistani man, Nur has spent years omitting details about his personal life to maintain his image as the golden eldest child. And it's come at a cost. Once, Nur was a restless college student, struggling to fit in. At a house party, he meets...
Author
Series
Marriage game novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Opposites attract in this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about a free-spirited lawyer who is determined to find the perfect match for the grumpy bachelor at her cousin's wedding. After a devastating breakup, celebrity-obsessed lawyer Zara Patel is determined never to open her heart again. She puts her energy into building her career and helping her friends find their happily ever afters. She's never faced a guest at the singles table she couldn't...
28) Strange fruit
Author
Publisher
Reynal & Hitchcock
Pub. Date
[1944]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nonnie, a light-skinned and educated black woman, becomes beloved mistress of a white male in a small Georgia town.
30) Ties that tether
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At twelve years old, Azere promised her dying father she would marry a Nigerian man and preserve her culture, even after immigrating to Canada. Her mother has been vigilant about helping - well, forcing - her to stay within the Nigerian dating pool ever since. But when another match-made-by-mom goes wrong, Azere ends up at a bar, enjoying the company and later sharing the bed of Rafael Castellano, a man who is tall, handsome, and . . . white. When...
31) A good man
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
456 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Former professional athlete Sonya Richardson agrees to appear on a reality dating program to show America what a real black woman is like, but she is thrown off her game by former pastor John Bond, the show's "designated white guy."
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Erlana is torn between three different men--Roger, a white soul brother; Karl, a tattooed entrepreneur; and Juan, a passionate lover--and soon finds herself forced to make a tough choice when her juggling act gets too hot to handle.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On Jess's first day at Goldman Sachs, she's less than thrilled to learn she'll be on the same team as Josh, her white, conservative sparring partner from college. Josh loves playing the devil's advocate and is just ... the worst. But when Jess finds herself the sole Black woman on the floor, overlooked and underestimated, it's Josh who shows up for her in surprising--if imperfect--ways. Before long, an unlikely friendship--one tinged with undeniable...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Iraq War veteran Sam Blackman with his prosthetic leg and his no-nonsense private eye partner Nakayla Robertson love their investigations which always carry a thread from the past - and they love each other. An interracial couple in the new South, the Asheville, NC, pair has surrounded themselves with a terrific support team including an unorthodox lawyer and a veteran cop. They deploy humor both to bind them together and to deflect insults. Plus,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to the principles of the Nantucket Quaker community in which she was raised, where simplicity and restraint are valued above all, and a woman's path is expected to lead to marriage and motherhood. But up on the rooftop each night, Hannah pursues a very different -- and elusive -- goal: discovering a comet and thereby winning a gold medal awarded by the King...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
viii, 291 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Smart, sexy Victoria Small has come to the end of her year off- from men, that is. She's enjoyed her hiatus, the peace, quiet- and no unexpected interruptions. But now she's ready to have someone to come home to. And her timing is perfect, as not one, but two, handsome possibilities enter her life. Ted, a powerful, blue-eyed CEO sends a thrill of excitement through her that shocks Victoria out of her comfort zone. Meanwhile, Parker, a talented surgeon,...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Hope Warren doesn't do happily-ever after. Or optimism in general. After a breakup that shredded her self-esteem, and earning a so-far-useless art degree, the only thing she's (barely) living for is a dream home way out of reach. So when outgoing Irishman Dylan Healy keeps getting in her face, she's sure there's a catch. He's challenging her idle creativity. He's as kind as he is charismatic. And he's sparking a hunger Hope didn't know she had. Suddenly...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The plan is to leave. As for how, when, to where, and even why--she doesn't know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff writer at a prestigious tech publication, she reports on the achievements of smug Silicon Valley billionaires and start-up bros while her own request for a raise gets bumped from manager to manager. When her long-time boyfriend, J, decides to move to a quiet upstate New...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An unforgettable novel from an award-winning author about an ambitious young agent's daring fight to protect blacklisted writers in McCarthy-era Hollywood and her passionate relationship with an African American journalist. Outraged by her grandfather's illicit affair with Empire Pictures' latest femme fatale, Roxanne Granville forsakes her position as Hollywood royalty and rejects the man who raised her, determined to strike out on her own. Backed...
Author
Publisher
Arcade, Crime Wise
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 325 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Karissa Glover is a movie producer who moves into a decrepit but functional old mansion in the West Adams Heights area of Los Angeles, where black celebrities of yesteryear--Hattie McDaniel, Louise Beavers, and others--once resided. The former owner was a white actress, Blair Kendrick, who often starred as the 'bad girl'--a femme fatale--in films noir of the 1940s. However, Blair's career was cut short when she was tragically killed by the mob after...
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