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"An award-winning journalist, TV political analyst, and creator of TheGrio documentary, Afro-Latinx Revolution: Puerto Rico, recounts her experiences as an African American and Puerto Rican woman, reflecting on her improbable journey from Syracuse to Harvard, hedge fund boardrooms to newsrooms, and beyond in pursuit of America's infinite opportunities. Part inspiring memoir, part cultural analysis, with remarkable self-determination, Natasha S. Alford...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When fifteen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald's mother dies at the height of the Depression in 1932, the teenager goes to work for the mob to support herself and her family. When the law finally catches up, the "ungovernable" adolescent is incarcerated in the New York Training School for Girls in upstate New York--a wicked prison infamous for its harsh treatment of inmates, especially Black ones. Determined to be free, Ella escapes and makes her way back...
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Summer Beach ; 3
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin transports readers to Highland Beach in the captivating third novel of her New York Times bestselling Summer series"--
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Mulholland Books, Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend in New York City. Breanna's new boyfriend, Ty, took care of everything--the train tickets, the dinner reservations, the rented four-story luxury rowhouse in Jersey City with a beautiful view of the Manhattan skyline. But when Bree comes downstairs their final morning, she's shocked. There's a stranger laying dead in the foyer, and Ty is nowhere to be found. A Black woman alone in a new city, Bree is...
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Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with the next edition in the highly successful Banks Sisters trilogy.
Meet the Banks sisters-Simone, Bunny, Tallhya, and Ginger. They feel like they are finally in the clear in connection with the recent bank robberies-until their mother shows up demanding her share at gunpoint. She threatens to snitch them out if they don't come correct. The situation becomes a bloody mess, and now, two sisters...
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Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The Water Wars have scrambled the world. Flood refugees are on the run. Disrupters and the nostalgia militia roam the roads wreaking havoc. Invisible Darknet Lords troll the Internet, solidifying their power, while Cinnamon, her three Circus-Bots, and two dogs work with a community of farmers, Motor Fairies, and Wheel-Wizards to provide housing, health care, and education for flood refugees. As Cinnamon confronts threats from the Darknet Lords and...
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[Mia Black]
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"After finding out Que's shocking secret, Jazmine she decides to go against her better judgment and follow her heart. She is willing to stay by his side and hold him down. Yet when Que's haunting past reappears and threatens the both of them, Jazmine finds herself on the run. Now she is at the crossroads, is their love worth losing everything she worked so hard for? Find out what happens in part two of Loving The Wrong Man!"--
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[Mia Black]
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Que and Jazmine tried to get out of town before the people from Que's past could find them, but now that's out the question. After slipping up with concealing their identities, the two lovers are captured by the very people they were hiding from. Now Que and Jazmine will be forced to do the unthinkable! --
12) Baddest apple
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Melodrama Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Apple is still unable to settle down and focus on being a mom, especially when she hears about Queenie, a hardcore former drug mule. Apple can't resist trying to reclaim the title of Queen of New York." --
13) Ti amo
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Battaglia mafia ; 2
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The Diva's Pen
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Let there be war... Don Giovanni Battaglia will have his revenge. A bloody Mafia war has ravaged the southern region of Italy. Every man, woman, and child born under the name Calderone must be made to atone. That is the law. After two years of blood and bullets, the men sworn to follow without question find themselves wanting peace. But how can there be peace when the one person able to save their Don from the destructive path he is on is beyond their...
14) Destino
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The Diva's Pen
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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"Mira Ellison is poised to have it all. In 1989, she is the first prominent African American fashion designer redefining change for both beauty and style among the renowned in Italy. That happens until the evening she meets a tall, mysteriously charming Sicilian businessman who orchestrates a friendship that awakens a wicked sexual heat she has long forgotten. Who is he really? What harm could a little fling in one of the most beautiful countries...
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Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Genevieve Francis, a twenty-five-year-old Black reporter, assumed she'd go into her fourth year at her newspaper job with a bigger story than the latest seasonal ice cream flavor. Instead, she's relegated to doing copy edits and sensitivity reads on the articles her white colleagues write. So when Gen finally gets the opportunity to cover a prominent CEO's gala, she leaps at the chance--this will be her biggest assignment to date. The only problem:...
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Mead mishaps ; 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When a spirited young woman with a penchant for adventure finds herself locked away in a dragon's tower, she realizes that fate has a peculiar sense of humor when it comes to her romantic prospects"--Page 4 of cover.
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[Tanisha Stewart]
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Mia thinks her life is completely normal. She has a loving boyfriend, great and supportive friends, and a close relationship with her mother. Things take an interesting turn, however, when she is almost run down by a car one day. Then come messages from an untraceable number. Not to mention the heartbreaking secret that is revealed shortly thereafter. Suddenly, everything that Mia thought was right in her life goes wrong. She has no idea why, but...
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Vanderbilt University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"This volume tells the stories of Black working women who resisted employment inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the 1940s to the 1970s. The book explores the job-related activism of Black Midwestern working women and uncovers the political and intellectual strategies they used to dismantle unjust structures, and transform their lives.
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Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Cowboy Ross Burris has an image problem, and he needs to fix it in a hurry. When sports reporter Celeste Montgomery comes to town for an interview, opportunity knocks—and Ross answers. He can’t believe it when he proposes to the city girl, but no one is more surprised than Celeste when she actually says “I do!” to the sexy rodeo star. But she quickly realizes she’s made a terrible mistake, because all she wants is to make her fake Mr. a...
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