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Author
Series
Broken Earth novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.
2) The fix
Author
Series
Fix novels volume 1
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Persia reunites with her old Harlem friends, a situation that becomes dangerous when she starts dating a drug dealer who brings her into his world of sex, money, and drugs.
Author
Series
Black Lotus volume 2
Language
English
Description
It's been months since Kahllah El-Amin hung up her pistols and retired from the murder-for-hire business, leaving behind her days of dealing in death and espionage in favor of a quiet desk job. After so many years of searching, Kahllah has finally found peace. But when a police officer is murdered and a familiar flower is left at the crime scene, all signs point to it being the work of the Black Lotus. Someone is trying to frame her! The case is handed...
Author
Series
Black Lotus volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Detective James Wolf earned the nickname Lone Wolf from his inability to work with a partner. He's a hard cop who doesn't mind bending the rules to the point of breaking them to make a case, which is why Internal Affairs is digging in his backyard, looking for buried bones. People are starting to wonder: Which side of the law is the Lone Wolf really hunting for? His career hanging on by a thread, he needs a major show of good faith to keep employed...
Series
Girls from da hood volume 8
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Three girlfriends who vow to escape the ghetto find that life gets in the way and no one will help them but themselves.
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Language
English
Description
Before there was the family, there was just the business. From the minds of New York Times bestselling authors Carl Weber and Eric Pete comes the game-changing prequel to their blockbuster Family Business saga. Travel back to a small Southern town where, before there was Duncan Motors, there were the Duncan brothers: Louis, aka Sweet Lou, a lover of ladies and life . . . and a man you did not want to cross; Lawrence, aka Larry, a screw-up as attracted...
Author
Series
Baller bitches volume 2
Publisher
A King Production
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Continues the stories of three African American women, Diamond, Kennedy, and Blair, as Diamond tries to keep past secrets from ruining a current relationship, Kennedy juggles career and friends, and rising star Blair struggles with a love triangle.
11) Heist 2
Author
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In "The Last Heist," Shannon must use her wiles to stay out of her wronged husband's way, and in "Caked Up," Harlem, in an effort to help his ill daughter, must try to recover his stashed loot before his former partner-in-crime.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books / Atria
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
English
Description
Sharp-tongued, quick-witted Porsche worships her sister Winter. Cut from the same cloth as her father, Ricky Santiaga, Porsche is also a natural-born hustler. Passionate and loyal to the extreme, she refuses to accept her new life in group homes, foster care, and juvenile detention after her family is torn apart. Porsche - unique, young, and beautiful cries as much as she fights and uses whatever she has to reclaim her status. Unselfish, she pushes...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood that shaped her into the groundbreaking science-fiction...
Author
Publisher
Life Changing Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
V.I.P. is an explicit tale of two beautiful women both determined to become very important people 'by any means necessary'. After living in a world where you're only cool if you're the wife of an athlete, or a current T.V star they are both suddenly faced with jealousy and lies. Neither realize ...fame comes with a high, and sometimes deadly price tag. Meet India, the star struck, money hungry honey from Brooklyn, who's dead set on marrying someone...
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Travel back to a small Southern town where, before there was Duncan Motors, there were the Duncan brothers and their tough-as-nails women. After a hard fought battle, they've vanquished their rivals and taken their place as the leaders of Waycross, Georgia's criminal enterprises. Their rise to the top is not without problems, though, as outside forces enter the scene and the Duncans are rocked by the murder of one of their own. No one knows who the...
17) Pimping fictions: African American crime literature and the untold story of Black pulp publishing
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Publisher
One World/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A collection that celebrates the contributions of African-American authors features short stories and novel excerpts by Michael Thomas, Jacqueline Woodson, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, Stephen Carter, and Christopher Paul Curtis.
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An incisive, intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators, edited by Book Riot columnist and librarian Jessica Pryde. Romantic love has been one of the most essential elements of storytelling for centuries. But for Black people in the United States and across the diaspora, it hasn't often been easy to find Black romance joyfully showcased...
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Glory Edim launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library with this vital anthology celebrating stories from such luminaries as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Since founding the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club in 2015, Glory Edim's profile has skyrocketed. From her roots in a Brooklyn-based community to a massive online following, she has been heralded as the literary tastemaker for a new generation. With On Girlhood, Edim has beautifully curated a canonical...
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