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Ethic 5

Ashley Antoinette - Ashley Antoinette Incorporated
Format: Paperback

Life has never been easy for Ethic. Since he was a young boy he has battled loss after loss while struggling to navigate through a treacherous world. When he met Alani Lenika Hill he knew that he had met the woman who would love him back to life. They have weathered a storm together and their...
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Black Buck

Mateo Askaripour

There's nothing like a black salesman on a mission. An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks...
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The Cat and The City

Nick Bradley - Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback

In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways. But the city is changing. As it does, it pushes...
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Wounded

BURGESS - Urban Renaissance
Format: Paperback

Samantha Miller didn't have an easy start. Molested as a child and subsequently forced into prostitution by her drug-addicted mother, Samantha learned at an early age that men were not to be trusted. Being constantly preyed upon taught her to be a predator. Her target was women straight...
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Side Chick Nation

Aya de Leon - Dafina
Format: Paperback

A Justice Hustlers Novel She's beautiful, unpredictable - and on the run from dangerous men. But this ex-side chick is ready to risk everything to help others in trouble . . . Fed up with her married Miami boyfriend, savvy Dulce has no problem stealing his drug-dealer stash and fleeing...
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Vexed 2: Twisted Faith

Honey
Format: Paperback

Jay has come face to face with the demons from her past, and her health is on the decline. Lonely, sick, and depressed, she reaches out to an unlikely source for help. Jay finds guidance and compassion in Pastor Gavin Monroe, the prison chaplain and counselor. He teaches her about forgiveness...
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Street Banditz

CJ Hudson - Urban Books
Format: Paperback

Michael "Red" Roberts and "Bulletproof" Bobby Walker form a deadly combinationmaking money and holding down their territory. But when Bobby meets a girl that captures his heart, it causes a rift between him and his cousin. It all comes to a head when Bobby has to make...
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Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost: A Novel

David Hoon Kim - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

When Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room, she's already dead, leaving a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend, Henrik Blatand, an aspiring translator, these remnants are like clues, propelling him forward in a search...
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Deacon King Kong: A Novel

James McBride - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting.In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses...
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Hot Stew

Fiona Mozley - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

Brilliant young British writer Fiona Mozley turns her keen eye from the gothic woods of Yorkshire to the streets and pubs and cafs of contemporary London in this much-anticipated follow-up to her debut novel, Elmet. In the middle of the bustle of Soho sits a building. It isn't particularly...
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The Nightmare on Trap Street

C. N. Phillips - Urban Books
Format: Paperback

Sometimes death births new life, and that is fact for sisters Rhonnie and Ahli Malone. After facing the wrath of Madame, the young women take on the job of being security detail for none other than Sadie Thomas, the head of The Last Kings. With a new drug, Vita E Morte doing numbers under...
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Property of the State

Kiki Swinson - Dafina
Format: Hardcover

Kiki Swinson's novels crackle with breakneck triple-twists, no-limits characters, and an unforgettably brutal portrayal of Southern life. Now she shatters all expectations as a young woman serving time must survive a prisoner-abuse conspiracy . . . Trust no one She killed her abusive...
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Public Enemy #1

Kiki Swinson
Format: Hardcover

Too much to prove...A former journalist with a knack for unraveling dirty secrets, Khlo Mercer figures if she's going to risk her life, she might as well make big money as a private investigator. But this reckless newbie needs a major case to make her name--and really show she can handle...
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The Education of Nevada Duncan

Carl Weber - Urban Books
Format: Hardcover

Nevada Duncan is the heir to the Duncan and Zuniga crime family fortunes, but before he can take the mantle of power, he has to be educated about the family business. So, with the encouragement of his father and grandfather, he enrolls in his father's alma mater, Chi's Finishing...
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Influence

CARL WEBER - Urban Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Business crime series comes a deliciously provocative legal page-turner about the Hudson family.When famed attorney Bradley Hudson learns of his youngest son Langston's arrest for drug trafficking, he immediately assembles...
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Virtuous Deception 2: Playing for Keeps

Leiann B. Wrytes - Urban Renaissance
Format: Paperback

When Michelle tunneled into her family's history, she triggered a truth bomb that exploded into an inferno scorching everyone in its wake. When the smoke cleared, Michelle had lost her father to the grave and her mother to a truth so painful recovery seemed improbable. Teetering along the edge...
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