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Author
Publisher
Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
New Jersey girl Zora Emerson is attending her pre-college prep at Halstead University, where the incredibly wealthy and stuck-up students go, and after only a week she is feeling academically confident but socially out of place; then an awkward mix-up of cell phones brings her into closer contact with Owen Whittelsey (prince of a small European country) and his security guards--but it is when Owen asks her to be his date at his brother's royal wedding...
22) Swirl secrets
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Future attorney Tyson Maxwell Junior's secret life as a private 'entertainer' thrusts him into Mallorie Whitaker's path when he's hired to perform at her friend's bachelorette party. It's lust at first sight for the wealthy Mallorie, but Tyson sees her as a sexual experiment that could possibly be the answer to his million-dollar question. Although Mallorie is engaged to be married soon, she and Tyson indulge in a hush-hush sexuation that forces them...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If love really is a choice, how do you decide where your loyalties lie? It's the countdown to midnight on New Year's Eve and Nur is steeling himself to tell his parents that he's seeing someone. A young British Pakistani man, Nur has spent years omitting details about his personal life to maintain his image as the golden eldest child. And it's come at a cost. Once, Nur was a restless college student, struggling to fit in. At a house party, he meets...
24) El chico nuevo
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Corren los años setenta en Washington D.C. cuando Osei Kokote, un chico de once años, se presenta por primera vez en su nuevo colegio. Hijo de un diplomático de Ghana, ha vivido siempre de ciudad en ciudad, dejando atrás amigos y hogares. Pero cuando conoce a los que van a ser sus compañeros, se encuentra con niños que han heredado, sin tener conciencia de ello, un cruel recelo hacia la gente de color, una desconfianza irracional contagiada...
25) Sweet Tea
Author
Publisher
Hallmark Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Althea Dailey has succeeded beyond her wildest dreams: she's about to make partner at her prestigious law firm in New York. So why doesn't she feel more excited about it? When she has to travel South for a case, she pays a long-overdue visit back home to Milford, Georgia. To her surprise, a white man she's never met has befriended her grandmother. Jack Darwent wasn't interested in the definition of success dictated by Southern high society. His passion...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A Chinese woman moves to London to start a new life. She knew she would be lonely, adrift in the city, but will her new relationship bring her closer to this land she has chosen, and will their love give her a home? A Lover's Discourse is a love story told through fragments of conversations between the two lovers. Playing with language and the cultural differences that her narrator encounters as she settles into post-Brexit Britain, Xiaolu Guo shows...
27) Ties that tether
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When a Nigerian woman falls for a man she knows will break her mother's heart, she must choose between love and her family. At twelve years old, Azere promised her dying father she would marry a Nigerian man and preserve her culture, even after immigrating to Canada. Her mother has been vigilant about helping-well, forcing-her to stay within the Nigerian dating pool ever since. But when another match-made-by-mom goes wrong, Azere ends up at a bar,...
28) Calling on Quinn
Author
Series
Blackhart brothers volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Quinn Blackheart is a private investigator, former cop, and no-nonsense, take-charge kind of guy who adores his sprawling Irish family. He likes to check all the boxes, and his niece's gorgeous driving instructor just earned a place at the top of his to-do list. Alicia Rhodes has had a tough, chaotic year, and she's ready to put the past behind her and find happiness in the present. When handsome Quinn Blackhart shows up at a driving lesson, she...
29) The perfect date
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The newest novel from celebrity Evelyn Lozada in the vein of The Wedding Date and The Kiss Quotient. Angel Gomez only wants to get through nursing school and earn enough to support her mother and her son, Jose. Her bartending job helps bring in some extra cash, and the last thing she's interested in is flirting or men in general. Caleb "The Duke" Lewis is an up and coming star for the Bronx Bolts, known for getting around. However, his last breakup...
30) Pampered
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After an interrupted dance performance, Radiance Alexander is literally picked up and carried away, kicking and screaming, from her job at a popular Atlanta gentleman's club. Sexy multimillionaire Eli Jamieson would prefer that she live in the lap of luxury than on the laps of strange and horny men. What begins as a goodwill gesture soon evolves into the most flammable romance under the heavens. Lust, love, and passion quickly consume Eli and the...
Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson love their investigations which always carry a thread from the past - and they love each other. An interracial couple in the new South, the Asheville, NC, pair has surrounded themselves with a terrific support team including an unorthodox lawyer and a veteran cop. They deploy humor both to bind them together and to deflect insults. Plus, it helps deal with the tragedies their work uncovers. Such a tragedy interrupts...
32) Windy City blues
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of White Collar Girl and What the Lady Wants explores one woman's journey of self-discovery set against the backdrop of a musical and social revolution. In the middle of the twentieth century, the music of the Mississippi Delta arrived in Chicago, drawing the attention of entrepreneurs like the Chess brothers. Their label, Chess Records, helped shape that music into the Chicago Blues, the soundtrack for a transformative era...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this spiky and hilarious 21st century reboot of the iconic film Taxi Driver, a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity and a living wage . . . until she decides she's done waiting. Damani is tired. Her father just passed away and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in the basement of her parents' old house, caring for her mom, and driving for an app to (not even) pay the bills. Protests are all the rage--everybody's...
34) Brillo
Author
Publisher
Blackie Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Un hombre mayor es una maravilla porque lleva treinta y ocho años pagando las facturas del gas, ha tenido salmonelosis y ha visto los informes sobre el cambio climático y aun así no se ha quitado la vida, pero lo cierto es que, después de haber sido mujer durante veintitrés años, después de la torsión ovárica, de los préstamos de estudios y los nazis de nuevo cuño con sus camisas de vestir, resulta que yo también sigo viva y que en realidad...
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Audrielle Freeman hasn't really been dealt a fair hand when it comes to love. With an ex who she assumes left her for the next, a mother who is always on her about her weight, and a current boyfriend whom she finds in an awkward position on their anniversary, she's still optimistic that true love will happen for her one day. After having her heart broken for the last time, she decides to take a small break from men and just focus on her thriving...
Author
Series
Queens of kings volume 1
Publisher
Brooklyn Girl Ink, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Heart 'Mac' MacKenzie is a tough police lieutenant in the rough streets of Brooklyn, New York. She's a strong leader who doesn't mind getting in the trenches with the men and women she leads at the seventy-four precinct. Her house, her people, and her family - both blue and blood - are the only things that matter. She would live and die for the blue wall that shields her from a traumatic past. When her captain assigns her a high-profile kidnapping...
37) Jack
Author
Publisher
Galaxia Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Tras Gilead, En casa y Lila, Marilynne Robinson regresa al mundo de Gilead con Jack, la cuarta novela de uno de los más importantes ciclos novelísticos contemporáneos. Jack cuenta la historia de John Ames Boughton, que ya aparecía como uno de los protagonistas de En casa. Hijo pródigo del reverendo Boughton, víctima de la bebida y de su tendencia a la autodestrucción, Jack vive alejado de su familia en St. Louis, la principal ciudad de Missouri,...
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A sexy, charming debut romance about a man struggling to be his perfect self and a woman who is ready to break her "rules" for him, perfect for readers of Party of Two and Get a Life, Chloe Brown. Khalil Sarda went through a rough patch last year, but now he's nearly back to his old self. All he has to do is keep his "stuff" in the his past. Real men don't have depression and go to therapy--or, at least they don't admit it. He's ready to focus on...
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....
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