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A Princess in Theory: Reluctant Royals

Alyssa Cole · Avon
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

From acclaimed author Alyssa Cole comes the tale of a city Cinderella and her Prince Charming in disguise . . .Between grad school and multiple jobs, Naledi Smith doesn't have time for fairy tales ... or patience for the constant e-mails claiming she's betrothed to an African prince....
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A Sister's Secret

CYDNEY RAX · Dafina
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

In the wake of a major loss, five sisters agree to meet on the regular to keep it real. But secrets they never saw coming will challenge them and everything they counted on . . . Savvy and decisive, Burgundy Reeves feels blessed with a good husband and a successful career. She is the sister...
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Along Came a Savage

Joe Awsum · Wahida Clark Presents Publishing, LLC
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

After marrying her college sweetheart and building a successful drug empire, life for Taylor Washington, aka Tay Tay, looked perfect. The first few years, her husband Wayne treated her like a queen and showered her with riches that the cocaine brought them, but as the years passed, his abusive...
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An American Marriage: A Novel

Tayari Jones · Algonquin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could...
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Bad Men and Wicked Women

ERIC JEROME DICKEY · Dutton
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Affairs of the heart can be lethal in New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey's latest sensual novel.As a low-level enforcer in Los Angeles, Ken Swift knows danger, but nowhere does he feel it more than in his tangled romances. Divorced from one woman, in love with another,...
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Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories

Venita Blackburn · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 155
Format: Paperback

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain. The stories tumble into a universe of the jaded and the hopeful, in which men and women burdened with unwieldy...
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Down the River unto the Sea

Walter Mosley · Mulholland Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From trailblazing novelist Walter Mosley: a former NYPD cop once imprisoned for a crime he did not commit must solve two cases: that of a man wrongly condemned to die, and his own.Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief,...
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Foolish

ANNA BLACK · Urban Renaissance
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

November is on the right track to success, and she looks forward to living the lifestyle she always dreamed she’d have as an advertising agent. After suffering through countless roommates and ending up in and out of her parents’ home while in school, her dream condo is within...

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His Secret Son

Brenda Jackson · Harlequin Desire
Pages: 224
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Three nights with a Texan ... and one pregnancy surprise! Only from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson! The Texas rancher and navy SEAL who fathered Bristol Lockett's son died a hero's death ... or so she was told. Yet when Laramie "Coop" Cooper strolls into...
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It Started in Paradise

Nicki Night · Harlequin Kimani Romance
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Two rivals. One desire. Stunning, sensual Puerto Rico is the perfect place to combine business with pleasure. Yet Chloe Chandler can't indulge her attraction to Donovan Rivers when they cross paths at a convention. Heir to an exclusive Long Island venue, Donovan is vying to host the same...
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Knucklehead

Adam Smyer · Akashic Books
Pages: 340
Format: Paperback

"This book is bold in how it treats the reader as an insider to the reality of American blackness. It can be, in turns, lyrically poignant, cynical, hilarious, and infuriating."--Foreword Reviews, Starred Review"In this comic debut novel, lawyer Marcus Hayes careens through...
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Love, Lies, and Consequences

BLAKE KARRINGTON · Urban Renaissance
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Savannah Zaher has always prided herself in making the right decisions for her life, from the time she packed up her things to attend college and law school in California to coming back home ten years later grown, focused, and with a career she's always dreamed of. Only her best...

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Strategic Seduction

CHERIS HODGES · Dafina
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Alicia Michaels needs a major career reboot, so she's got no time for romance. But starting over in Atlanta is an uphill battle for the cautious PR rep - especially after she teams up with wealthy Richmond Crawford on a make-or-break project. For one thing, the risk-taking entrepreneur...
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