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1) Black buck
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2021.
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An unambitious 22-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the CEO of Sumwun, NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team...
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2022
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New York Times bestseller!
In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, futurist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, exploring how different threads of liberation—queerness, race, gender plurality, and love—become tangled with future possibilities
...3) Queen Divas
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016
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It's scorched-earth, all-or-nothing war for Memphis' most merciless ride-or-die women, and even their survival skills are no guarantee. And once alliances splinter and explosive revelations rip apart their empire, one diva's revenge will become the ultimate deadly reign . . .
Between total gang exterminations and brutal collateral damage, the stakes have never been higher for the women of the Dirty South. Good-girl-gone-lethal Ta'Shara is in for...
4) Baby Momma
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Urban Books
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2012
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Welcome to the fast paced high stakes world of Rasheed an anti-hero you'll love to hate much like Scarface. Caught up in a game of fast money, faster women, and a hustler's dream, Rasheed's secrets and lies threaten to completely sever his alliance with his baby's mother Michelle. Trapped in an emotional whirlwind of sex, love, and mistrust, Michelle attempts to hold the threads of their lives together. With the passing of each day their bond unravels...
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The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
2021
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"Keenan Norris is simply one of the most talented young writers around." – Victor LaValle
Copeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America, is a fugitive…
He is also just a regular teenager coming up in a terrifying world. A slightly eccentric, flip-phone loving kid with analog tendencies and a sideline hustling sneakers, the boundaries of Copeland's life are demarcated from the jump by urban toxicity,...
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Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2013
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Disaya Morgan's infatuation with money knows no limits, and she will do anything to get it. When she is accepted into a New York organization known as The Elite, she is under the impression that she will be a high paid model, but soon realizes that she's stepped into a world of sex and lies.
She is befriended by Leah, the headmistress of The Elite, and together they make more money than they can spend. Nothing is too erotic for the pair, and Disaya...
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2011
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Wahida Clark and Kiki Swinson are two mistresses who have the street lit genre on lock. —The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
Enemy in My Bed Wahida Clark
Kreesha can't control her dangerous feelings for Reign—a brother who's married, just out of prison, and one strike away from lockdown-for-life. But when Reign betrays her to the Feds, she'll risk everything to save her empire and give Reign one last seduction—with a bullet. ....
Enemy in My Bed Wahida Clark
Kreesha can't control her dangerous feelings for Reign—a brother who's married, just out of prison, and one strike away from lockdown-for-life. But when Reign betrays her to the Feds, she'll risk everything to save her empire and give Reign one last seduction—with a bullet. ....
8) Notorious
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014
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"Kiki captures the heat of the streets." —Wahida Clark, New York Times bestselling author
After the drama in Playing Dirty, Yoshi Lomax is on the run, but trouble follows her wherever she goes. . .
When things get too hot in Miami, criminal lawyer Yoshi figures she'll be safe if she goes home to Norfolk, Virginia, for a little while. But the streets there are just as mean, and a sistah needs to keep her head to avoid getting...
After the drama in Playing Dirty, Yoshi Lomax is on the run, but trouble follows her wherever she goes. . .
When things get too hot in Miami, criminal lawyer Yoshi figures she'll be safe if she goes home to Norfolk, Virginia, for a little while. But the streets there are just as mean, and a sistah needs to keep her head to avoid getting...
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2021
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National bestselling author and urban lit superstar Kiki Swinson amps up the action and suspense with unpredictable characters, breakneck twists, and a gut-punch portrait of Southern surviving—and dying. Now the odds are straight-up killer when ambitous private eye gets in way over her head. From the author of the gritty, bestselling Wifey series.
Too much to prove . . .
A former journalist with a knack for unraveling...
Too much to prove . . .
A former journalist with a knack for unraveling...
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Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2020
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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Ms. Magazine, USA Today Book Riot, The Rumpus, Library Journal, PureWow, The Every Girl, Parade and more.
"Forever and to the end. That's what they say instead of I love you."
When Ruby King's mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago's South Side, the police dismiss it as another...
"Forever and to the end. That's what they say instead of I love you."
When Ruby King's mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago's South Side, the police dismiss it as another...
12) The Deadline
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020
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National bestselling author Kiki Swinson always ups the ante with shocking twists, relentless characters, and a hard-edged portrait of Southern living-and dying. Now all bets are off as a newbie journalist desperate for the spotlight plunges into a killer story...
Anything for the fame
As an off-air TV news journalist, Khloé Mercer covers the tough Norfolk, Virginia, neighborhood she grew up in. But between a hostile boss and stiff competition,...
13) Unspoken Lies
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Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2018
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With demanding careers and two children, Cherise and Mason McKenzie find themselves spending more time apart than together, which allows infidelity with a trusted loved one to darken their doorstep. It is only through a series of near tragic events that the couple are able to rebuild their lives and rekindle their love.
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2011
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A dysfunctional family holiday turns deadly in this "sprightly" mystery (Publishers Weekly).
Whipping up Thanksgiving dinner can be stressful for anyone, but that goes double for the Field family. Everything has to be perfect, or they risk getting cut out of dominating patriarch Monty's lucrative will. That's where sisters Bernie and Libby's catering company, A Little Taste of Heaven, comes in. Surely with their lumpless...
Whipping up Thanksgiving dinner can be stressful for anyone, but that goes double for the Field family. Everything has to be perfect, or they risk getting cut out of dominating patriarch Monty's lucrative will. That's where sisters Bernie and Libby's catering company, A Little Taste of Heaven, comes in. Surely with their lumpless...
18) The Saddle Club
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Urban Books
Pub. Date
2012
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Welcome to the Saddle Club, where you can have the man of your dreams without the commitment-that is, if you can afford it. Masked as a private social club for women who love horse racing, The Saddle Club offers high-class sex to powerful women.
Lavender, the head madam of the house, has only one rule that she expects all of her well hung, buff, sexy talents to keep: Never get personally involved with the clients. When Keon, her top earner, falls...
19) Indiscretions
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Brown Girls Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
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Attorney Khendra Phillips isn't used to dealing with men on anything more than a business level. After having her heart broken years ago, she has spent her time focusing on her budding legal career, and it has paid off-or has it? Khendra learns the case that will make her career is being given to hotshot New York City lawyer Sean Michaels, and she can't deny her attraction to the devastatingly handsome attorney. Can she let go of the past in order...
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Akashic Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021
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The King family is on the political rise in New York City, but must weather the violent storm wrought by their darkest secrets.
"K'wan is exceptionally gifted at ratcheting up suspense . . . There's no denying the writer's talent for dark, gritty fiction. It's a page-turner." —Kirkus Reviews
Meet the Kings, one of the most influential families in New York City. In the power circles of the movers
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