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African American Fiction August 2023
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Rogue justice : a thriller
by Stacey Abrams
Asked by a fellow law clerk to look into his boss's death, Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene, after another shocking murder, is led to a list of names– all judges on the FISA Court, also known as America's“secret court”– and must race the clock to stop an unprecedented national crisis.
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Play to win : a novel
by Jodie Slaughter
When she wins the Mega Millions Lottery Jackpot, Miriam Butler offers her estranged husband a life-changing proposition—take a lump sum—finally sign the divorce papers and be done with her for good, but, instead, gets a second chance at love.
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Crook manifesto : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
A furniture store owner and ex-grifter leaves the straight and narrow path when he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter in 1971 Manhattan, in the new novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys.
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A daddy thing
by Kendra Reeves
Rachel Hendricks' picture perfect world is shattered when her fiancé, Erickk Martin, decides he really doesn't want to be a father and she meets a mysterious stranger, Saxon Carmichael, who always wanted children.
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The art of scandal
by Regina Black
After discovering her husband is having an affair, Rachel Abbott agrees to keep playing the ideal Black trophy wife until after his reelection campaign but finds it hard to keep her side of the bargain when she falls in love with an artist whose secrets blow everything wide open.
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What never happened : a thriller
by Rachel Howzell Hall
Relocating to her Catalina Island home, obituary writer Coco Weber, with a number of elderly folks dying on the island, draws connections between a serial killer's crimes and her own family tragedy while someone watching her every move is hell-bent on finally putting her past to rest.
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Unrequited love
by E. Raye Turonek
Awakening in the hospital not knowing her true identity or how she got there, Evelyn Todd becomes obsessed with the part-time paramedic who rescued her, threatening the beautiful union she'd built with her husband until the night she was attacked and her memory washed away.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.
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Deeper than love
by Blake Karrington
FBI agent Ciara Valentine and her new partner Sabrina investigate a series of bank robberies in Atlanta while their personal lives heat up after a night on the town leads to a run-in with the city's most eligible bachelor.
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