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Series
Girls from da hood volume 15
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Lust: "Amira James has always had everything she ever the home, the clothes, and the rich daddy. However, there was a fire deep inside of her that wanted more and more . . . and more. So when she stumbles across the entrance of an underground sex club, she welcomes the new kind of high. Secretly, out of the gaze of the watchful eye of her prominent lawyer father, Amira slips deeper and deeper into this new and exciting life, taking on the name Lust...
2) Promise kept
Author
Series
Promises volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Asher has maneuvered himself into a position of great importance, but his ambition may cost him his best friend's life. Promise and Asher have each come into their own, but will they ever be able to come together?
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Cal "Freeway" Moore, a well-known hitta and kingpin, knows all too well that running his New Orleans-based empire comes at a price. "Shoot first and ask questions later" is his motto as he fights to hold down his kingdom and maintain a healthy relationship with the love of his life, Belladonna. They say you keep your friends close but your enemies closer, but what if both are the same--and coming for his spot?"--
5) Brooklyn
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away, Brooklyn remembers the events that shaped her into the cold, calculating creature she became. Brooklyn learned the art of hustling from her parents who used the church to get money. Idolizing her father and despising her mother, Brooklyn's determined to be the type of woman who makes her own...
Author
Series
Alayna Curry volume 2
Publisher
Dafina / Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Kill your secrets . . . Volunteer Virginia Beach firefighter Alayna Curry used to pride herself on saving lives. But now, determined to conceal her part in an arson-for-insurance scam gone bad, she's using her skills to have the scheme's leader, Tim--her ex-lover--shot dead, claiming it was a robbery. She's carefully set him up to be the ultimate fall guy. And she's ruthlessly aiming to silence more witnesses--which will also get her beloved brother...
7) Drama queen
Author
Series
Drama queen (La Jill Hunt) volume 1
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Kayla Hopkins is young, beautiful, and can't win for losing. That's why everyone calls her the Drama Queen. She doesn't go looking for drama; it just happens to find her. Take, for instance, her love life. Kayla's not satisfied with just one man. She has two-one she's in love with and another she's pregnant by. It's a ready-made formula for disaster, but will Kayla see it before everything blows up in her face? Her track record says no, but her friends...
Author
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Muyu, a seventeen-year-old from a small village, came to Beijing for his piece of the dream: money, love, a good life. But in the city, daily life for him and his friends—purveyors of fake IDs and counterfeit papers—is a precarious balance of struggle and guile. Surveying the neighborhood from the rooftop of the apartment they all share, the young men play cards, drink beer, and discuss their aspirations, hoping for the best but expecting little...
Author
Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"The linked stories in Mama Said are set in Louisville, Kentucky, a city with a rich history steeped in tobacco, bourbon, and gambling, indulgences that can quickly become gripping and destructive vices. Set amid the tail end of the crack epidemic and the rise of the opioid crisis, Mama Said evokes Black family life in all its complexity, following JayLynn, along with her cousins Zaria and Angel, as they come of age struggling against their mothers'...
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