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Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets...When his little cousin is murdered, Nate shuns the graffiti murals, candlelight vigils, and Twitter hashtags that are commonplace after these senseless deaths. Instead, he leads 3 grief-stricken friends on a mission of retribution, kidnapping the descendants of long-ago perpetrators of hate crimes, confronting the targets with their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A standalone novel about Stranger Things's Lucas, and his journey of coming into his own personality, interests, and identity"--
The thrilling adventure of Stranger Things continues where season three left off, with fan favorite Lucas Sinclair finally telling his own story in his own words.
Author
Series
Cartel novels volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Cartel series is back and more deadly than ever. Las Vegas. A city built on obscene wealth and corrupt deals, cunning entrepreneurs, and the ruthless mob. The Cartel's plan to open a casino will rake in cash, but comes with great sacrifice. The stakes have never been this high, and rules of the game have never been this hard to manipulate. And when one dead girl, one scorned wife, and one hole in the desert launch a chain of catastrophic events,...
Author
Series
Six gems volume 4
Publisher
Harlequin, Afterglow Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A corporate workaholic facing a health scare asks a former high school classmate and current yoga studio owner to help him get into shape and win back the one who got away, despite really getting on each other's nerves.
Author
Series
Rainbow days volume 3
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With her puppy Coco's help, Zoya gives her room a glittery makeover.
Author
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Kinisha Jordan has always been a socialite, treating society like her personal revolving door. She doesn't dwell on people that have no place in her life. She simply moves on, trying her best not to let it affect her. However, seeing her friends find happiness and love is starting to weigh on her. Lonely nights are beginning to take a toll on her, and she finds herself in an undesirable predicament. Things spiral out of control, and she starts to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Love and loss aren't unfamiliar territory to Nyimah Deveraux. She's learned to live after losing the love of her life and found the courage to love again. The man she moves on with keeps her pockets lined but doesn't know how to love her correctly. Cree Baptiste is the head of the infamous Baptiste Crime Family. He has more riches and power than the average man, but he yearns for the right woman to take her place by his side. When fate aligns the...
8) Outdrawn
Author
Publisher
[Deanna Grey]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Noah Blue's finally got her foot in the door. After clawing her way to the top of the charts with her webcomic, she's garnered enough attention to earn a full-time position at a comic company re-launching their cult classic comic: Queen Leisah. Queen Leisah is predicted to be an instant bestseller with movie deals already in the making. Things are falling into place. There's nowhere to go but up ... as soon as she gets one person out of her way....
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sunny Behre has four siblings, but only one is a murderer. With the death of Sunny's mother, matriarch of the wealthy Behre family, Sunny's once picture-perfect life is thrown into turmoil. Her mother had groomed her to be the family's next leader, so Sunny is confused when the only instructions her mother leaves is a mysterious note: 'Take care of Dom.' The problem is, her youngest brother, Dom, has always been a near-stranger to Sunny...and seemingly...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and '60s America. In this...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nea and Amber are two college freshmen attending Clinton Hill University in South Carolina. The roommates come from different worlds: Nea is from Brooklyn, New York, and Amber is from a small town called Tyron, North Carolina. They build a friendship in the first semester of school but take different directions regarding love. Nea is coming off the death of her boyfriend, who was murdered before her eyes two weeks before her first day of classes....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"In 1950s PHILADELPHIA, fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC., with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. But William hails from one of...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
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