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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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