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While facing her own mortality a woman chooses to explore her sexual fantasies and spins out of control...Tia, beautiful and vivacious faces life's most difficult moments without the love and support of her husband, Jack. During their sixteen year relationship both partners discover lovers inside of their marriage for very different reasons. Jack is a self-centered man who places his sexual desires above the needs of his wife and family. Teetering on the brink of insanity, Tia divides her life into two realities, and finds herself living a double life. In one world, she's a wife and mother dealing with an unfaithful husband, being hit by a drunk driver which leaves her temporarily crippled. She's also facing the prognosis of cancer - leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma. Tia creates a new reality where she is a lovely, exciting, and incredibly sensual, saucy vixen that her twenty-three year old knight in shining armor, Tyrique cannot seem to get enough of. Tracee Hanna spins a beautiful story of strength, perseverance, and unrequited love.

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Set in the Bronx at the beginning of the hip-hop era, this novel captures the exploding street culture of the early 1980s through the eyes of four teenagers who hang out together in a local park. Park jams, dance-offs, neighbourhood beefs, and graffiti train rides create an exciting new buzz in the neighbourhood, until Cash and his best friend Forster begin to merge the exhilarating music scene with hustling on the street. The two young women of the group - both from conventional families with middle class values - are uneasy yet intrigued by the boys' new lives.But Keya has her own worries as a struggling teenage mother, and Dawn is torn between her parents' expectations and her own desire for independence. When Cash becomes a reckless deal-maker and abuses his friendship with Forster - upsetting the chemistry of the group - jealousy, competition, and shifting love interests seem inevitable. Finally tragedy strikes, and the characters wait to see whether it signals the end of their friendship.

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A collection of three novellas, Dead and Stinkin' invokes the themes of Jamaican folklore and traditions West Indian storytelling in a modern setting.

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BACK IN THE DAYS is a compelling finale to the Ghetto Girls Series. Two teen girls are drawn together and after sharing similar experiences, they become even closer. The mountain of tragedies that they have faced in their lives still threatens to push them over the cliff. Even when they feel they've moved along, In Ghetto Girls 6 demons from BACK IN THE DAYS continue to haunt. Coco and Deedee come face to face with the violence and issues of the past. BACK IN THE DAYS, Rachel Harvey's drug problems haunts her family and pains her daughter. Allegations of murder damages Eric Ascot's career and the ongoing investigation by the authorities drains his bank account dry. He is forced to make a choice while capitalizing on the experiences of Coco and Deedee in the making of an epic movie. Does he make the wise choice? How does Coco resolve her mother's issues? Can Deedee survive time while living in the hood on a budget? Only one thing's for sure read BACK IN THE DAYS and you'll see how their past shapes their future...

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This latest instalment of the popular, action-packed series follows Coco as her fortunes take a turn for the worse as she faces a looming threat while on the brink of fame. Simultaneously struggling with her own potential handicap and her mother's precarious sobriety, Coco calls on Deedee to help decode an enigmatic message from Miss Katie. Meanwhile, Deedee is in a quandary of her own, as she discovers that her uncle has been having a relationship with Josephine and sets her sights on reuniting him with his former fiancee. The tension escalates as Eric Ascot continues to be pursued by the police, who are dead-set on framing him in a multiple murder plot, and the story speeds to its explosive and shocking end.

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Today’s young people face a different world and more complicated issues than ever before. Bullying, Gangs, violence, drugs, alcohol, smoking, teen pregnancy, depression, and suicide have found their way into our middle and elementary schools. These issues make kids feel like they need to grow up and mature faster than they need to in order to understand and accept all the troubles of the world. Now more than ever, kids need and want the inspiration and motivation that Yes! You Can provides. In this book, young readers will learn about professions that make a difference as well as some that are fun and rewarding. Teaching them that dreams do come true and to believe in their dreams will help build the next generation of positive thinkers, leaders and entrepreneurs. These small affirmations and keys to success will allow them to be kids, find empowerment and encouragement to do what they love, believe in their dreams, and discover hope for a promising future.Yes! You Can is Building The Next Generation of Positive Minds!

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Read Pure Bronx and find out why this action packed, drama filled story is more potent than just any coming-of-age tale from the hood. Packed with more drama than straphangers on the 1,2, 4, 5 and 6 trains at rush hour, Pure Bronx is apage-turner that’ll make you cheer, bringing tears, and laughter.

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Ivy League meets the streets in this vivid work of hip-hop fiction. As a senior at prestigious Columbia University and the girlfriend of a drug dealer, India Maldonado is living two seemingly opposite lives. As India tries to gain control over her relationship and navigate cultural and class boundaries, she is drawn down a dangerous path. India quickly learns that every action brings an unexpectedly brutal reaction and realises that the perilous nature of her decisions could cost her soul. A smattering of easily-understood Spanish terms and slang add a distinctly Latina flavor.

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Psychiatrist Nancy Adler never thought she'd have a patient like Markus Johnson, a young black man who passes out randomly and has flashbacks of a past he can't remember and that contradicts the few things he knows about himself. Oh, and also, he's a porn star. Matters are further complicated by Gary Zimmerman, a retired detective who's now a private investigator, who snoops into Johnson's past. Reaching into the depths of a porn star's mind, Smut Central weaves a tale that's at once disgustingly tantalizing and frighteningly demented.

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Soul has just finished his 18-month sentence for a parole violation. Still in love with his son's mother, America, he wants nothing more than for them to become a family and move on from his past. But while Soul was in prison, America's music career started blowing up and she became entangled in a rocky relationship with a new man, Kendall. Kendall is determined to keep his woman by his side, and America finds herself caught in a tug of war between the two men. Soul turns his attention to battling the street life that landed him in jail -- setting up a drug program to rid the community of its tortuous meth problem -- but will Soul's efforts cross his former best friend, the murderous drug kingpin Omega?

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This second novel from acclaimed author Sharron Doyle opens with Petie still regulating, but this time from down south. He has a new, ruthless partner named Chaos, and they're all about the money. But Petie and his sons Darnell and Donte have grown apart since moving to Pennsylvania, and their mother, Renee, doesn't know what to do. After Darnell wilds out, Renee sends him to his father while trying to keep her world from crumbling. Venus fights for life after a brutal attack while Share goes to great lengths to make sure Venus' attacker is ruined.

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A powerful kingpin seeks revenge against three men who murdered his best friend and lieutenant in this gangster tale. Chaos, Priest, and Carlos had unknowingly entered the house of the lieutenant and after forcing themselves upon his daughter, killed him. Abandoning his credo, business never personal, the Piano Man sets out to destroy these childhood friends who make a living robbing drug dealers and selling their bounty through their own pipelines. He is determined to get rid of this trio and will use any means - no matter how ruthless - to find them. Employing all of his considerable resources and underworld connections, the Piano Man manages to root the boys out and set them up. Unfortunately pay-back also calls for further destruction of friends and their children, and even his wife's younger brother isn't exempt.

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This compelling story of love, deception, secrets, and lies follows Samone, the black sheep of her family, on her journey from Miami to Washington, DC. Hoping for a fresh start, Samone soon learns things are not what she anticipated, and while living with her father, she discovers grave secrets will change her life.

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