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Pub. Date
2022.
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"Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
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The lives of an ostracized gay Southern boy, a wealthy Connecticut woman, and an African-American chef converge in a chic Manhattan café, in a tale ranging from 1920s North Carolina to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and the present day.
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Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
306 pages
Description
Taking incrementally greater risks to pursue the love and excitement they have always craved, best friends Lola Poole and Joan Proctor-Riley are drawn in by the fantasy life of seemingly kind and responsible trucker Calvin, whose talented sexual healing leads to the revelation of a deadly secret.
25) Our Gen: a novel
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Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In the Gen, an upscale fifty-five-plus community, Cynthia befriends two other black residents, as well as a woman who everyone assumes is from India, creating a camaraderie that becomes the catalyst for secrets to be exposed.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 24 cm.
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A recently divorced therapist spots a man standing on the edge of a bridge and convinces him to join her for coffee instead of jumping and the pair spend a cathartic weekend sharing secrets and angsts.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2016.
Physical Desc
610 pages ; 24 cm
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A historical tale inspired by the decades-long relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings details their first encounters in late-eighteenth-century Paris and the inconsistent values that shaped their affair.
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Publisher
William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"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...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages ; 21 cm
Description
When Bea and her husband Lonnie move to an upper-class neighborhood, she relies on her childhood best friend Awilda to help her cope with the pressure she is feeling, and when secrets threaten to ruin her new life, she must find the courage to continue on.
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"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....
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
270 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Just when it appears that all her hard work on Barack Obama's presidential campaign is about to pay off with a White House job, thirty-five-year-old Ida B. Wells Dunbar finds herself on Washington, D.C.'s post-election sidelines even as her twentysomething counterparts overrun the West Wing. She returns home to Atlanta, and her controversial civil rights icon father, Reverend Horace A. Dunbar.
34) Life after death
Author
Series
Coldest Winter ever volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm.
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With her jail sentence coming to a close, Winter is ready to step back into the spotlight and reclaim her throne.
35) Sin of a woman
Author
Series
Curtis Black novels volume 14
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The new novel in Kimberla Lawson Roby's beloved New York Times bestselling Curtis Black series. Raven Black is bouncing back after her very public divorce from Dillon. He's done everything he can to discredit her, but she's learned from her mistakes and him. In fact, she's become her ex-husband in more ways than one and is slowly but surely leading those connected to her down a terrible path of destruction. Playing with the lives of innocent people...
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Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
[42] p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, leading many others to freedom, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.
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Publisher
Feminist Press, at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin's second novel follows Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother that he'll marry within the tribe. But when Zach falls for Cleo, an African American activist grappling with her own inherited trauma, he must reconcile the family he loves with the woman who might be his soul mate. A New York love story complicated by the legacies and modern tension of Jewish American and African...
39) Dead dead girls
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Harlem, 1926. Young black women like Louise Lloyd are ending up dead. Following a harrowing kidnapping ordeal when she was in her teens, Louise is doing everything she can to maintain a normal life. She's succeeding, too. She spends her days working at Maggie's Café and her nights at the Zodiac, Harlem's hottest speakeasy. Louise's friends might say she's running from her past and the notoriety that still stalks her, but don't tell her that. When...
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Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"She just witnessed her uncle's murder, she's running for her life, and now Dr. Katelyn Lyda is face-to-face with a man who could be her salvation. It's too bad Sebastian Caine is one of the bad guys...skilled at separating prized possessions from their owners. Sebastian is after an ancient relic. But he reconsiders the job when he finds himself staring at the wrong end of a gun. The lady with her finger on the trigger seems to have everything he...
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