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AFRICAN AMERICANJANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015
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The Abduction of Smith & Smith by Rashad Harrison
The Civil War is over. However, for Jupiter Smith, a former slave and Union soldier, many battles still lie ahead. He returns to the plantation he worked on before the war in search of his woman, but rather finds old master gone mad, haunting the ruins like a ghost. Out of pity for the now mentally ill Colonel, Jupiter strangles him and heads west to seek life in San Francisco.
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The Perfect Deception by Lutishia Lovely
For four years, Jessica Bolton has thought about what she'd do once released from the mental institution where she has been held. The only thing better than finally getting out is entering a bar and laying eyes on Johnathan Willoughby. Within minutes she's been given both a free drink and Johnathan's phone number.
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We Didn't See It Coming
by Christine Young-Robinson
The three Houston sisters were born into privilege. Their father was a wealthy construction tycoon in South Carolina. They had the perfect life. Unbeknownst to this prim and proper family, Mr. Houston lived a double life. He became involved with a woman bent on destroying his happy high profile lifestyle.
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Driving the King: A Novel
by Ravi Howard
This novel is told from the perspective of Nat Weary, a contemporary of Nat King Cole, who faces tragedy when he goes to see his former schoolmate perform. Weary witnesses a man attempting to attack Nat King Cole and rushes to his defense. In the year before the Civil Rights Movement, it is unfathomable that a black man would raise a hand to a white, even in self-defense. Weary serves ten years in prison. Nat King Cole has not forgotten him and gives him a job as his driver.
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The Secrets of Silk: A Novel
by Allison Hobbs
Fiery vixen Silk Moreaux will do anything to get what she wants. Lying, stealing, and killing don't weigh on her conscience. But a prophetess, Big Mama, warns her she will come to a tragic end if she doesn't change her wicked ways. So, Silk moves to a small town in Pennsylvania to reinvent herself.
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Misty: A Novel by Allison HobbsAfter coming out of a coma, Misty claims that she can communicate with the dead. She becomes the center of a large cult following with her faithful boyfriend at her side, in this, the final book in the series following Brick.
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Coldhearted & Crazy
by Michel Moore
After the brutal murder of their parents, Kenya embraces true hood life by selling drugs, living fast, and doing anything for money. Meanwhile, her identical twin sister, London, fights relentlessly to make it out of the ghetto.
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Crazy, Sexy, Revenge: A Novel
by J. D. Mason
Jordan Gatewood's life is falling apart. Murder, sex, betrayal, suicide--the women in his world are paying him back for all the terrible things he's done, and they're bringing on the drama in spades. And now with Desi Green bringing Jordan to the attention of the detective investigating his lover's murder, his tenuous grip on control threatens to unravel completely. Desi refuses to let anyone back her into a corner.
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Land of Love and Drowning
by Tiphanie Yanique
This book chronicles the families of three siblings who survived a shipwreck off the Virgin Islands in 1916. These families raised three generations on the islands, adapting to the unique language, rhythm and magic of island life over 60 years.
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Blue Avenue
by Michael Wiley
Businessman William Byrd is summoned by his old friend, homicide detective Daniel Turner, to identify the trussed-up, naked body of a woman, found wrapped in cellophane among a pile of garbage on Blue Avenue, in Florida. Byrd recognizes the victim as Belinda Mabry, the girl with whom he spent a passionate summer 25 years before.
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Red Hot Liar
by Noire
Now that the Mink has pushed her way to the front of the line to capture the Dominion family's oil billions, her life has become a luxurious whirl of easy money and sparkling jewels. But, she will need to come up with a whole new trick bag in order to throw shade on her sizzling swerve with Suge, her uncle by marriage only.
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Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man
by Marcus Baram
A full-length biography of the hip-hop innovator best known for his 1970 polemic "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" traces his life, career, and death while examining how his lyrics reflect the turbulence, transition, and race conflicts of his time. Scott-Heron performed and occasionally recorded well into his later years, until eventually succumbing to his life-long struggle with addiction.
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Becoming Richard Pryor
by Scott Saul
Drawing upon interviews with family and friends, court transcripts, unpublished journals and screenplay drafts, the author traces Richard Pryor's journey from his rough childhood, his trials in the Army, and his apprentice days in Greenwich Village to his ascent in the “New Hollywood” of the 1970s and his struggles with drugs and fame.
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Notes From A Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis
by Karsonya Wise Whitehead
In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis, a freeborn twenty-one year old mulatto woman, through a close reading of three pocket diaries she kept from 1863 to 1865. Whitehead explores Davis's worldviews and politics, her perceptions of both public and private events, her personal relationships, and her place in Philadelphia's free black community in the nineteenth century. Although Davis's daily entries are sparse, brief snapshots of her life, Whitehead interprets them in ways that situate Davis in historical and literary contexts that illuminate nineteenth-century black American womens' experiences. Whitehead's contribution of edited text and original narrative fills a void in scholarly documentation of women who lived in spaces between white elites, black entrepreneurs, and urban dwellers of every race and class.
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