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London steampunk series volume 2
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"In the mist-shrouded streets of London's dreaded Whitechapel district, werewolves, vampires, and a clockwork army are one step away from battle"--Page 4 of cover.
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Black market (Kiki Swinson) volume 3
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"She killed her abusive boyfriend in self-defense. But in jail, violent female gangs paid off by her enemies keep her fearing for her life--and land her in the hospital. From there, a medical testing facility is her one dubious hope for some kind of safety. But from the moment she hits the yard, she and other prisoners are victimized by illegal medical experiments. Injected with lethal diseases and made a test subject for experimental vaccines, she's...
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Unconditional novels volume 2
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"Kimera Davis had a plan to jump start her life and land on easy street. But a disastrous marriage has her making amends and picking up the pieces. It's a struggle to balance her new responsibilities and her ex, who keeps pressuring her for another chance. All of this has her family scandalized, and with her minister father's health suffering, trying to do the right thing is pulling Kimera and the only man she's ever really loved further and further...
5) Black Buck
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"Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. A chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, CEO of Sumwun, NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor. As the only Black person in the company, Darren reimagines...
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"In hard-hitting, street-smart prose, Shetani's sister relates the deadly duel between two complex men: LAPD vice cop Sergeant Russell Rucker, determined to clean up prostitution and police corruption while battling his own alcoholic demons; and Shetani (Swalihi for "Satan"), a master pimp who controls his stable of whores with calculated doses of vioence and smack. With the breakneck narrative pacing and storytelling genius that made Iceberg Slim...
7) Unfadeable
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
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"Ride along with Carl Weber and C. N. Phillips for this fresh, enthralling spin-off to the Family Business series as the heir to a crime family finds himself targeted by an enemy and he'll need more than his family by blood to save him... Nevada Duncan is the heir to the Duncan and Zuniga crime family fortunes, but before he can take the mantle of power, he has to be educated about the family business. So, with the encouragement of his father and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
10) The loyal wife
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Unable to remember his life after a tragic accident, Dante Williams, in the care of his beautiful, successful and loyal wife, Sade, secretly starts digging up the past in hopes of recovering his memory, but instead finds something more sinister at play when Sade plans to honor her vows until death.
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Carolina girls volume 4
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"Major's charming small town is packed with salt-of-the-earth people readers will embrace, and each sister's journey is beautifully imagined. Readers will eagerly await their next visit to this idyllic community."-Publishers Weekly
This Christmas the Carlyle sisters will rediscover the gift of family
For some families, a Christmas reunion is like a feel-good movie. For Beth Carlyle, it might be more of a disaster epic. Her ex-husband's new...
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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740L
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Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.
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A darkly funny and heartfelt debut novel about what it means to grow up young and black on the south side of Chicago when it feels like your choices are slim to none.
Claude McKay Love is an average kid coping with abandonment, violence, riots, failed love, and societal pressures. As a young black man born on the South Side of Chicago, he is raised by his civil rights-era grandmother, who tries to shape him into a principled actor for change. When...
14) A blade so black
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Nightmare-verse volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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"This isn't the Wonderland you remember. The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew. Life in real-world Atlanta isn't always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a high-maintenance best friend, and a slipping GPA. Keeping the Nightmares at...
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Carl Weber, the New York Times bestselling author of Up to No Good, will keep you on edge with this tale of three lifelong friends. . .
James Robinson and his wife have had their rough patches. But seven years into their marriage, things are better than ever. . .until James's past comes back to haunt him—with a baby in tow.
James's best friend, Brent Williams, has always had women throwing themselves at him, but it's taken...
James Robinson and his wife have had their rough patches. But seven years into their marriage, things are better than ever. . .until James's past comes back to haunt him—with a baby in tow.
James's best friend, Brent Williams, has always had women throwing themselves at him, but it's taken...
16) Suspicions
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"Lies, greed, lust, betrayal, loyalty, laughter, tears and more. . ." —OOSA Bookclub
These women are about to learn more than they ever wanted to know about secrets—and the men who keep them. . .
As the owner of Situations, the hottest beauty salon on the south side of Chicago, Noelle Gordon has a direct line to the private lives of her clients. But when an abandoned baby girl appears on her doorstep, Noelle finds herself at the...
These women are about to learn more than they ever wanted to know about secrets—and the men who keep them. . .
As the owner of Situations, the hottest beauty salon on the south side of Chicago, Noelle Gordon has a direct line to the private lives of her clients. But when an abandoned baby girl appears on her doorstep, Noelle finds herself at the...
17) Durango Street
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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640L
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A black gang leader in Southern California struggles to rise above the rough life of the street.
18) A dream so dark
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Nightmare-verse volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Continues the dark adventures of Alice, whose efforts to save her Wonderland friends are complicated by a Nightmare-summoning poet's schemes to raise the dead.
Still reeling from her recent battle, Alice must abandon her friends to complete her mission: find The Heart and prevent the Red Lady's rise. But the deeper she ventures into Wonderland, the more topsy-turvy everything becomes. At her wit's end, she comes to realize-- Wonderland is trying...
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Harlequin
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Four wish lists. Two holiday stories. The most wonderful time of the year.
I'll Be Home for Christmas by Beverly Jenkins
Three years ago, Broadway star Dina Caldwell and celebrity chef Morgan Caldwell were passionately in love. Now America's onetime favorite couple are about to be reunited in Morgan's Detroit hometown for the holidays. Is this the season for forgiving and forgetting? With sizzling kisses under the mistletoe,...
I'll Be Home for Christmas by Beverly Jenkins
Three years ago, Broadway star Dina Caldwell and celebrity chef Morgan Caldwell were passionately in love. Now America's onetime favorite couple are about to be reunited in Morgan's Detroit hometown for the holidays. Is this the season for forgiving and forgetting? With sizzling kisses under the mistletoe,...
20) The First Lady
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Charlene Wilson, First Lady of First Jamaica Ministries, has lived a good life with her beloved Bishop T.K. Wilson and their two beautiful children. But now that the Lord has seen fit to call her home, someone needs to take care of her man. . .
That's why Charlene has planned to hang around in spirit—to make sure T.K. ends up with the right woman. First in line is Marlene, the mother of T.K.'s illegitimate daughter. Then there's Monique Johnson,...
That's why Charlene has planned to hang around in spirit—to make sure T.K. ends up with the right woman. First in line is Marlene, the mother of T.K.'s illegitimate daughter. Then there's Monique Johnson,...
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