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741) A blessing & a curse
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"First ladies of the Baptist church and sworn frenemies Rachel Jackson Adams and Jasmine Cox Larson Bush are stunned to learn they may have more in common than they thought--like who's their daddy--in the scandalous new collaboration between national bestselling and award-winning authors ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray. A heated American Baptist Coalition election. A murky murder cover-up. An outrageous reality TV show. What...
742) Sisters & lovers
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Beverly, Charmaine, and Evelyn are three sisters living in the same city, but in very different worlds. They have at least one thing in common though: in their own corners of Washington, D.C., they are reaching their personal breaking points. Beverly, twenty-nine, is successful, reluctantly single, and perennially disappointed. Evelyn, thirty-seven, is educated and ambitious, with a husband, two great kids, and a house in the suburbs; but the secure...
743) Pride
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The 7 Deadly Sins series that inspired several Lifetime original movies continues with this unputdownable novel following mortgage broker Journee Alexander as she tries to escape the secrets of her past without losing all she has worked to build in the present. Journee Alexander grew up believing that the only person she could depend on was herself. After being abandoned by her mother, burning bridges with friends, and narrowly escaping bad business...
Series
Publisher
Urban
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In Someone else's guy, after a humiliating public divorce from Sean King, stockbroker to the stars, all Valencia McKoy has left is her hair salon, The Real McKoy. She drowns her sorrow in gallons of butter pecan ice cream, until a friend finally convinces her to see a psychiatrist. Dr. Alexander Thornton finds it hard to keep his composure when the stunning, curvaceous Valencia walks into his office. As Alex finds himself falling for his patient,...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar....
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Keyshia wasn't your typical hood chick from the bricks. And with beauty, education, and a hustler's ambition, she proved just about everyone who doubted her wrong. Making it to the top wasn't easy, but with her brother Ru, and his crew behind her, she was destined to make it happen. But she soon learns what goes up must come down and that having a few secrets of her own may just come back and bite her in the ass along with tearing her relationship...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 338
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Few Black cartoonists have entered national syndication, and before Barbara Brandon-Croft, none of them were women. From 1989 to 2005, she brought Black women's perspectives to an international audience with her trailblazing comic strip Where I'm Coming From. From diets to day care to debt to dreaded encounters with everyday racism, no issue is off-limits. This remarkable and unapologetically funny career retrospective holds a mirror up to the ways...
752) The banks
Author
Publisher
TKO Studios LLc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For fifty years the women of the Banks family have been the most successful thieves in Chicago by following one simple rule: never get greedy. But when the youngest Banks stumbles upon the heist of a lifetime, the potential windfall may be enough to bring three generations of thieves together for one incredible score and the chance to avenge a loved one taken too soon."--Amazon.
753) Alice in Leatherland
Author
Publisher
Black Mask Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Alice, a young writer of children's story books, is hurtled out of her fairytale-like life when she discovers her girlfriend has been cheating on her! Charmingly defiant, she leaves her small forest town and leaps into a new adventure to seek love (and find herself) in the fast life of San Francisco. There, her concept of pure, magical love will be completely overturned-but her biggest challenge won't be reckoning with other people's sexual drive,...
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