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Michelle and Kelsie have never had it easy, but the one thing that has remained consistent in each of their lives are each other. Both in their early twenties and with the stress of the world on their shoulders, they both manage to still be there for each other through it all.
Michelle's dream is to be a top stylist, well her dream was a reality until she was fired from Naomi's shop because of her boyfriend. Tasheem is all Michelle's knows, and that's...
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James Cooley unpacks his thoughts on the challenges that many Black men face due to their ancestors being taken away from their homeland over 400 years ago and forced into slavery and colonization.
Based on history, his experiences, and trying to adjust to being treated like a second-class citizen because of the color of his skin, Cooley highlights how that affects his vision, understanding, and focus in life. This impacts many areas of a Black man's...
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Chrystianna is a woman torn. Her heart is with, Fabian, the man who swept her off her feet the moment she met him one night at a club. She wants to be with him at all costs, but is fearful of Prophet, the man that she has been with since high school, who is also the father of her two-year-old twins. Prophet has beaten her mentally and physically and she is terrified to leave him. That is until an incident in her home forces her to make a drastic decision....
6424) For The Love Of A Boss 4
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Once again Austin managed to put herself into drama-filled situation, due to her own actions. Pregnant and alone she has no clue who the father is between D.C. and Damage. Yet, she still has hopes of reconciling with D.C. and making her family whole again. However, he wasn't happy with Toya and Austin's pregnancy wasn't going to change that. Austin's is tired of hearing bad news but with the help of Dr. Bhandari, she's facing her problems head in...
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When Craig and Karletta Hall begin their new and exciting life as a married couple, they have no idea of the drama about to head their way. Anticipating the birth of his first child, the apple of his eyes whose mother is Kyri Greene, his former side-chick, Craig is eager to finally become a father and change his womanizing and chauvinistic ways for not only his son, but his beautiful new wife. However, his world gets turned upside down when Kyri loses...
6426) Through Her Eyes
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Dr. Arthur Vaughn shares the story of his family's journey from enslavement all the way through the Great Migration-the period when 6 million formerly-enslaved people journeyed North from the Antebellum-era South. He shares stories his grandmother Rosa Mae Woodall told him over the course of her life though conversation and letters. Using historical records and detailed research, he offers a compelling tale of his maternal family through the perspective...
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One minute, Zuri is standing at the altar saying 'I do' with the man of her dreams, the next, she gets a call saying her newfound husband, Phantom, has put himself in a situation and he may not make it out alive. Suddenly, her world is turned upside down and she's barely able to hold on. When her battles start to affect their unborn child, she is forced to choose between being a mother and being a wife. She quickly finds out that doing both is easier...
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This collection, which will total between 300 and 500 letters from Americans of all walks of life, will become an important piece of history as it describes the variety of feelings and emotions of Americans about the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States. Central to the book is the African-American experience and the long road from slavery to the civil rights era to the twenty-first century, but Americans of every race, color,...
6429) Finesse-n-Da-Game
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Buckle your seatbelt and get ready for the ride of your life. If you've been looking for a good read, then you better grab a hold, because we're about to turn it up a notch. Finesse-n-Da-Game is no doubt a fast-paced page-turner from beginning to end. On a scale from 1 to 10, it's off the Richter.
As you get into the book, you find yourself meeting characters from all walks of life. It's so descriptive it makes you feel as if you (the reader) are...
6430) A Girl Called Nikki
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It's not easy being a teenager, and when the passage to adulthood is paved with sex and drugs, it makes the coming of age even more difficult for those involved. Shaye, Brenda and Nikki are all seventeen, beautiful, and caught up in living secret lives that no one their age should be living.When Shaye's mother was killed by a drunk driver, it left her to be raised by her father, a novice junkie who would do anything for his next fix; including pimping...
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Khalil and Keya have a love that conquers all. But when you've just been handed the reigns to Dallas' most notorious family's business, that love can be tested beyond anything that you could have ever imagined.
Keya is still dealing with the senseless death of her brother Xavier although she is trying to convince Khalil that she's perfectly fine. Keya is just about to lose control when someone other than Khalil steps in to make sure that she stays...
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William, or Smooth as he is known to the streets, is a down south King of the Streets. He runs his operation throughout the South, with his main headquarters in Birmingham. Smooth has the money and the respect, the only thing he doesn't have is a woman to share it with. But with his business, it is hard to find a woman that he can trust. He is looking for love and not lust.
When his sister comes to visit him at his Atlanta home, she takes matters...
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Enjoy the second set of three novels in this hardboiled coroner series by bestselling mystery author Paul Austin Ardoin! "If you love page-turning, unputdownable mysteries, then Ardoin is the real deal." -Mark Stay, host of The Bestseller Experiment podcast Blood is thicker than oil-until murder is involved!The collection includes the Books 4-6 of The Fenway Stevenson Mysteries:The Upstaged Coroner: The local university's Shakespeare troupe already...
6434) Karma With A Vengeance
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After her mother is brutally murdered by an abusive boyfriend, Karma Alonso-Walker decides to take matters into her own hands and avenge her mother s death. While on her journey to vengeance, Karma falls in love with Money Parks, a Newark, New Jersey police officer. As the relationship between the two grows, people and accounts from the lovers' pasts come to light, forcing them to face unspoken truths. This timeless chronicle about a young woman's...
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Treasure Love. Funny how her last name is love, but that's the one thing in life that she isn't experiencing. Treasure suffered a lot of things at the hands of her mother's boyfriend, William, but the biggest one would have to be the rapes that she took from him. At the age of sixteen, Treasure gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, but how was it possible to convince people that the same baby girl she gave birth to was her supposedly little sister?...
6436) The Warehouse Coroner
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An angry ex-wife. A rich mistress. And a dead body in a storage unit.Coroner Fenway Stevenson opens her boyfriend's storage unit-and discovers a corpse wrapped in an expensive Persian rug. There's no shortage of suspects: the dead man's girlfriend, the bitter ex, the sneaky co-worker.But then Fenway uncovers a drug scheme that threatens to tear apart her idyllic California beach town-if the tropical storm bearing down on the county doesn't wreck it...
6437) Found a Real One 2
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Have you ever been in a long distance relationship? Have you ever cried yourself to sleep because you missed your partner more than anything else in the world? Well Jada Anderson has. The love of her life, Omare Wilson, was arrested while traveling to Alabama and is currently sitting in prison awaiting sentencing. Jada is forced to make adjustments and live life without her boyfriend, who also happens to be her best friend. She is trying to stay encouraged,...
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Voice A Soul A Man Speaks unveils the silent things men are taught to keep to themselves. Tyra J. Robinson Sr.'s experiences as a black man led him to wrestle with the uncertainties of knowing whether there was a good enough brother to stare his insights with. But God gave him once shy little boy a new song, a new voice.
This is not just a message, but a testimony, that there are single black fathers out there doing it right, trumping the narrative...
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Coming off the heels of the most terrifying ordeal he'd ever experienced, Xavier Rockwell's entire world is flipped upside down when the woman he's been through hell and high waters with decides to call their relationship off. As if his problems with Sevyn weren't enough, his previously infiltrated roster needed to be scrubbed clean of all those who'd infected it. Now, trying to learn from his prior missteps, Xavier must groom a brand-new crew to...
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In the second installment of this heartbreaking series, the story picks up right where we left off. The remaining leaders of the Supreme pick up the pieces of their lives after losing their dear friend Leilani. Clueless to who was behind his little sister's murder, Isaiah relentlessly questions Juelz, pushing the teenager deeper into an opioid addiction. Seeing history repeat itself, Essence focuses on getting her nephew better; no matter how many...