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"Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie will go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie feels stifled by her mother's choices and is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be...
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"A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias' glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park West. This is the beginning of an odyssey that moves back and forth in time and reveals the dangerous secrets of a mysterious woman, the fortune she built, and her precipitous fall. Born in Philadelphia in the late 1800s, Hannah Elias has done things she's not proud of to survive. Shedding her past, Hannah slips on a...
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Coldest Winter ever volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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A sequel to "The Coldest Winter Ever" continues the gritty experiences of Winter Santiaga, out of prison and determined to pay back her enemies, rebuild her father's empire, and get her man Midnight back into her life.
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Coldest Winter ever volume 1
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Winter Santiaga, the daughter of one of Brooklyn's most powerful drug czars, uses her own weapons--including sex and an aggressive attitude--to stay on top, after her father's empire is threatened by a drug war.
"'I came busting into the world during one of New York's worst snowstorms, so my mother named me Winter.' Ghetto-born, Winter is the young, wealthy daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family. Quick-witted, sexy, and business-minded,...
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