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"A heart-pounding, curvy romance about an indie bookstore owner who finds herself in a love triangle when she meets the author she's had a crush on for years ... and his best friend"-- Provided by publisher
"Zora has committed every inch of her life to establishing her thriving DC bookstore, making it into a pillar of the community, and she just hasn't had time for romance. But when a mystery author she's been crushing on for years agrees to have...
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"Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and...
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"Saira Wright is a prominent Black romance author who has been signed to the most prestigious publisher of African American works, Brownstone Literature. Her career has been successful for the past five years. However, she's in a slump, and so are her sales and reviews. The romance she has been known for seems to be zapped out of her stories . . . and her love life. Eager to get Saira back on top of the charts, her publisher has given her an ultimatum--write...
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"In 1919, as civil and social unrest grips the country, there is a little corner of America, a place called Harlem where something special is stirring. Here, the New Negro is rising and Black pride is evident everywhere...in music, theater, fashion and the arts. And there on stage in the center of this renaissance is Jessie Redmon Fauset, the new literary editor of the preeminent Negro magazine The Crisis. W.E.B. Du Bois, the founder and editor of...
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Andrew Wilson has it all: a great house, a great job as a mystery writer, and all the money he can handle. But he's missing one thing: someone to share it all with. One day while writing at a small Georgia coffee shop, he meets Mika Woods, a sophisticated woman who seems to be the answer to Andrew's prayers. After a hot night of passion, Andrew regrets his decision and wants to take things slowly. But slow is not Mika's speed, and suddenly Andrew's...
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"Alessandra Fleming has spent most of her life running from her past. Her budding photography career, her life in Manhattan, all serve to distract from the secrets and guilt she's never been able to face. Then the call. Her estranged father is in the hospital... and Alessandra must return home to Sag Harbor, crumbling the first wall between her past and her present. For some, coming home is a relief. For Alessandra, it's a reminder of the family she's...
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"People Like Us is Jason Mott's electric new novel. It is not memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason's life. And while rooted in reality, it explodes with dreamlike experiences that pull a reader in and don't let go, from the ability to time travel to sightings of sea monsters and peacocks, and feelings of love and memory so real they hurt. In People Like Us, two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that...
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"The return to print of a classic novel of postwar American literature credited with being the most accurate fictional portrayal of the promises and bitter disappointments that heralded the expatriation of Black intellectuals and artists. The protagonist of John Williams's angry and brilliant novel The Man Who Cried I Am is Max Reddick, a Black American writer-a gifted novelist, a journalist, and a presidential speechwriter-who has spent his career...
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"As a teenager, Foxx made the tragic mistake of experimenting with drugs. By the time Foxx became an adult, he was consumed with a habit and greed. Unfortunately, his inability to make the right decisions allowed his friends in the underworld to lead his life further into self-destruction. Sometimes the most dangerous decision you can make is whom you associate yourself with. Fortunately, with his faith in God and family, he was able to become The...
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