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Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Keena and Kim met in a group home and have been best friends ever since. They both have the mindset of money over men, and they don't play where they lay. They set brothas up and rob them, disappearing without a trace. Keena, the brains of the two, sets up the biggest lick of their lives in Miami. If they can pull this one off, they can retire and live the good life. Peter, who everyone calls Black, is not an easy target. He is different from all...
Author
Series
Nena Knight novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena Knight has plenty of motives to kill. Now an elite assassin for a powerful business syndicate called the Tribe, she gets plenty of chances. But while on assignment in Miami, Nena ends up saving a life, not taking one. She emerges from the experience a changed woman, finally hopeful for a life beyond rage and revenge. Tasked with killing a man she's come to respect, Nena struggles to reconcile her...
63) Black horizon
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 11
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
"It's devu, with a big twist. Three summers after the biggest man-made environmental disaster in history, millions of gallons of oil are again spewing from a hole in the ocean floor. But this rig explosion was in Cuban waters, just 50 miles away from Florida, and the situation is complex. The consortium doing the work is state-owned Venezuelan, Chinese and Russian, controlled by a mineral lease from the Cuban government. And the Cubans not only refuse...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Hilton was a boy, his grandmother sacrificed her life to save him from drowning. Thirty years later, he begins to suspect that he was never meant to survive that accident, and that dark forces are working to rectify that mistake. When Hilton's wife, the only elected African American judge in Dade County, Florida, begins to receive racist hate mail from a man she once prosecuted, Hilton becomes obsessed with protecting his family. The demons...
Author
Series
Publisher
[Ashley & JaQuavis]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the world of the Cartel, there are many pitfalls and family curses. In the city of Miami, the good die young and the bad live forever. The first family of Miami, The Diamonds, are back and more ruthless than ever. When the family has to deal with the sins of the father, karma comes back and rests on the shoulders of Carter "CJ" Jones II . The life his father never wanted for him, calls him and the allure of family tradition sucks him in so deep,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jessica Russo knows nothing about her mother's family or Cuban culture. Every time she's asked about it, her mother has shut down. But when the Cuban grandmother she's never met sends her right-hand man, Luis, to offer Jessica the chance to come to Miami and meet her estranged family, she can't help but say yes, even as she knows it will pain her mother. The woman that Jessica meets is nothing like what she expected. Her grandmother is successful,...
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Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Food anthropologist Miriam Quiñones-Smith's move from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, puts her academic career on hold to stay at home with her young son. Adding to her funk is an opinionated mother-in-law and a husband rekindling a friendship with his ex. Gracias to her best friend, Alma, she gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show. But when the newly minted star attends a Women's Club luncheon,...
Author
Publisher
Zando Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In contemporary Miami, twins Delfi and Lela are haunted by a family curse that poisons any chance at romantic love. It's no wonder their mother forbids them from getting involved with magic. When Lela and Delfi receive premonitions of a mysterious killer targeting brujas, however, the sisters must embrace their emerging powers to save innocent lives. Teaming up with their best friend Ethan and brooding detective-in-training Andres, Delfi and Lela...
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Moroccan born and SoHo raised, Jacques Berradi has always known he could read minds, predict the future, but now he's learned the ability to see into past lives on a deeper level. He can help others uncover their Karma with just a glance into their eyes or with a touch. His good friend, Kylie Collins, is a recent Brooklyn transplant to Miami. Fun loving and inquisitive, she's a PI in training at Like a Fly on the Wall Detective Agency. She is at a...
Author
Publisher
St. Martins's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Only the world's most beautiful models make the roster of Picture Perfect Modeling agency and they only do shoots for the most elite photographers and magazines. They are fashionista royalty--and the owners, Bentley L. Dean and his beautiful partner Alexandra, know it. But even Picture Perfect isn't immune from hard times, so when Sterling Sneed, a rich, celebrity party planner promises to pay a ludicrously high fee for some models, Bentley finds...
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English
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"A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling...
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English
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"It's time for a savory soirée--but something sinister is stewing--in Raquel V. Reyes's second delightful Caribbean Kitchen mystery, perfectly delicious for fans of Mia P. Manansala. Fall festivities are underway in Coral Shores, Miami. Cuban-American cooking show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith wakes up to find a corpse in her front yard. The body by the fake tombstone is the woman that was kicked out of the school's Fall Festival the day before. Miriam's...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man's attempt to capitalize on his mother's murky legacy -- a story steeped in Miami's marvelous and sinister magic. Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes -- you can call him Izzy -- might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? Growing up in Miami has shaped him into someone who dreams of being the King of the 305, with the money, power,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After relying on high-priced prostitution as her only source of income, Anissa Burke has finally earned enough money to leave the escort life behind and open her own boutique with her cousin and business partner, Brynn Hollingsworth. But when Brynn is gunned down and left in a coma, Anissa has no choice but to seek the protection of a pimp named Leon... At first, Leon treats Anissa like royalty, but she soon sees what he does to the other escorts...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Sebastian Harlow is The Black Flamingo, a flamboyant and narcissistic thief who gets kicks stealing mystic artifacts from the wealthy and corrupt of Miami's occult underground. When his latest job leads Sebastian to his biggest score so far, the hedonistic outlaw finds not just all manner of villains and monsters hot on his trail, but something he never expected to discover: something to believe in."--Back cover.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything....
77) The lost
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control of America's most vibrant city, Miami. The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the new leader of an FBI task force called "Operation Guardian," it's his mission to...
79) The informant
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011, ©1996
Language
English
Description
In Miami, a man calls a newspaper offering to sell names of the future victims of a serial killer who removes people's tongues. Police are certain the caller is the killer himself, but FBI agent Victoria Santos has a hunch the caller is someone else.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Un refrescante y original giro postcolonial a Un cuento de Navidad, de Charles Dickens, por el galardonado autor Raúl Palma. Situada en Miami, la multiétnica y multicultural ciudad natal de Raúl, la novela explora el problema del endeudamiento y, en particular, del peso económico y físico de moverse por un mundo donde las probabilidades parecen siempre favorecer a ricos y poderosos."--
"A refreshing and original postcolonial spin on Charles...
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