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Welcome to the world of Duncans. By day they are upstanding citizens running one of New York's most respected car dealerships; but by night, they're criminals who control most of the East Coast drug traffic. No matter whether they're on their day or night jobs, one thing is true about the Duncan's: there is never a dull moment to be found. Baby momma drama has taken over the Duncan clan as a mad scramble ensues to find out who has fathered the Duncan...
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Family business volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Presents the first book in a new trilogy from the author of "The Choir Director."
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Branch Avenue boys volume 1
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English
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"Derrick. Ricky. Jamal. One's responsible; one's still a player; one's upwardly-mobile. Sentenced to the Branch Avenue Boys' Youth Institute at twelve, they grabbed the chance for better futures. They stayed tight even when their lives diverged--but the times...they are a-changing. New deputy mayor Jamal is anti-corruption, which means severing ties with Ricky, now a "criminally-adjacent" businessman. But political power plays and unrequited love...
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2016.
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Reverend Curtis Black is back again in the New York Times bestselling series by Kimberla Lawson Roby.
Dillon hadn't been called by anyone. He'd called himself and he wasn't ashamed of it. But no good can come from . . .
Two years ago, to everyone's surprise, Dillon Whitfield Black, the secret son of Reverend Curtis Black, boldly moved back home, married a woman named Raven, decided he was going to become a minister,...
Dillon hadn't been called by anyone. He'd called himself and he wasn't ashamed of it. But no good can come from . . .
Two years ago, to everyone's surprise, Dillon Whitfield Black, the secret son of Reverend Curtis Black, boldly moved back home, married a woman named Raven, decided he was going to become a minister,...
6) Head games
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2018.
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"From childhood games to career challenges, Trymm, Dallas, Kohl, and Blitz have stayed the best of friends--and each others' toughest competition. These bachelors live to party up, sex it down, and get it all. And now they're betting on which of them can "date-and--dump" the most women in a month--and post the proof on social media. Winner takes all: a cool million dollars. But this game is about to get all-too-real..." --
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2022.
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"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
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Black market (Kiki Swinson) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Misty Heiress steals drugs from a pharmacy, just trying to help her cousin in constant pain, but the plan snowballs into dealing opioids and Misty and her cousin Jillian are in real trouble.
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2021.
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To make her dreams of becoming a great lawyer come true, Yoshi, brilliant, calculating and reckless, infiltrates the privileged circle of the school's wealthiest students until she gets too close to a secret she isn't willing to keep, which could cost her more than her life.
10) Mrs. Wiggins
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2021.
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"The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama--and the son of its most revered preacher. Proper and prosperous, Hubert is glad to finally have a wife, even one with Maggie's background. For Hubert has a secret he desperately needs to stay hidden. And Maggie's unexpected charm,...
11) Concrete rose
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
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If there's one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it's that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad's in prison. Life's not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav's got everything under control. Until he finds out he's a father....
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Addicted novels (Zane) volume 3
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2016.
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English
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From New York Times bestselling author Zane comes a thrilling erotic novel, set in the same world of Addicted and Nervous, featuring a beautiful but emotionally damaged pop star hell-bent on vengeance against the people responsible for her traumatic past.
Decades after fleeing from Atlanta after an unspeakable trauma, Caprice Tatum returns to her roots—only this time she's Wicket, the international pop sensation...
Decades after fleeing from Atlanta after an unspeakable trauma, Caprice Tatum returns to her roots—only this time she's Wicket, the international pop sensation...
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2022.
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"Sayon Hughes longs to escape the volatile Bristol neighborhood known as Ends, the tight-knit but sometimes lawless world in which he was raised, and forge a better life with Shona, the girl he's loved since grade school. With few paths out, he is drawn into dealing drugs alongside his cousin, the unpredictable but fiercely loyal Cuba. Sayon is on the cusp of making a clean break when an altercation with a rival dealer turns deadly and an expected...
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"Professor Pi Suleman, a Black man from Memphis, has to endure a lot as an adjunct professor at the city's University Along the Nile, a hard-earned career that is crushing his spirit. At the same time, he's being blackmailed by another professor. When he meets Gemma Buckingham, who has just moved to Memphis from London, things begin looking up. But Pi's romance is interrupted when his absentee father, a celebrated author who had an extramarital affair...
15) A blade so black
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"A Blade So Black delivers an irresistible urban fantasy retelling of Alice in Wonderland ... but it's not the Wonderland you remember. The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew. Life in real-world Atlanta isn't always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective...
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"With luminous, lyrical prose, Binary Star is an impassioned account of a young woman struggling with anorexia and her long-distance, alcoholic boyfriend. On a road-trip circumnavigating the United States, they stumble into a book on veganarchism, and believe they've found a direction"--Cover p. [4]
17) The Cartel
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Blackstone Publishing
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The port of Miami brings in millions of dollars' worth of cocaine every year, and the Cartel controls eighty percent of it. The Diamond family is a force to be reckoned with, but all hell breaks loose when they lose their leader. The most ruthless gangster Miami has ever seen, Carter Diamond leaves behind a wife, twin sons, a daughter, and a secret—his illegitimate son, Carter Jones. When young Carter learns of his father's death, he comes
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