Sean Crisden
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A unique retelling of Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral, focusing on the cart used to transport his coffin through the streets of Atlanta, Georgia, from Ebenezer Baptist Church to Morehouse College. The text also features the large number of people who walked the funeral route and were buoyed by MLK's positive influence, as well as Ada and Belle, the mules that pulled the cart.
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
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State secrets: Cookbook author Holly Llewellyn has ties to the president of the United States and her brother has just turned traitor. Taking no chances, the Secret Service sends Agent David Goddard undercover to keeps tabs on her.
Tall, dark...Westmoreland: Olivia Jeffries feels an instatnt attaction to Reginald Westmoreland, her father's most hated political rival.
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For Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from New York City to the wilds of Upstate New York is a huge gamble. He's got six months to make it happen -- the last thing he needs is a distraction. Jude Fuller is proud of the life he's built on the banks of Cayuga Lake but it is lonely. Until he tries Ithaca's most-talked-about new lunch spot and works up the courage to flirt with the handsome owner. Soon he can't get enough -- of Nesto's...
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Against all odds, Rosa Guerrero became a high-ranking executive. By wielding power with grace and compassion, the longtime chief of Human Resources at Ellery Consumer Research has earned the devotion and loyalty of her senior staff. With the economy in the tank and unemployment on the rise, Ellery’s future looks grim. While Rosa fights to insulate her people from the harsh realities of business, they’re facing crises of their own. But when Rosa,...
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Best friends Lola Poole and Joan Proctor-Riley find the escape they've longed for by online-dating no-strings attached lovers. The hotter their secret activities get, the more reckless they become. Rugged trucker Calvin Ramsey is kind and responsible, and delivers sexual healing like Lola has never known. What Lola doesn't know is that Calvin loves women to death.
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A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author. From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored. As he lowers the sky and yanks the ground from beneath our feet, we are compelled to contemplate the darkness inside our own hearts and minds.
9) Dark magic
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"Young Savannah Dubrinsky was a mistress of illusion, a world-famous magician capable of mesmerizing millions. But there was one-Gregori, the Dark One-who held her in terrifying thrall. Whose cold silver eyes and heated sensuality sent shivers of danger, of desire, down her slender spine. With a dark magic all his own, Gregori-the implacable hunter, the legendary healer, the most powerful of Carpathian males-whispered in Savannah's mind that he was...
10) Dark challenge
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Julian Savage, the brooding and reclusive hunter, finds his life transformed by the woman he has sworn to protect, Desari, a beautiful singer with a remarkable voice.
11) Bane
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Brisbane Westmoreland has returned from the Navy after five years, expecting to rekindle his relationship with Crystal--but Crystal has other ideas.
12) Erasure: a novel
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Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which he submits to his startled agent under the gangsta pseudonym...
13) Jazz Moon
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“A passionate, alive, and original novel about love, race, and jazz in 1920s Harlem and Paris—a moving story of traveling far to find oneself” (David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife). On a sweltering summer night in 1925, beauties in beaded dresses mingle with hepcats in dapper suits on the streets of Harlem. The air is thick with reefer smoke, and jazz pours out of speakeasy doorways. Ben Charles and his devoted wife...
14) Hold me
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Cyclone volume 2
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Jay na Thalang is a demanding, driven genius. He doesn't know how to stop or even slow down. The instant he lays eyes on Maria Lopez, he knows that she is a sexy distraction he can't afford. He's done his best to keep her at arm's length, and he's succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. Maria has always been cautious. Now that her once-tiny, apocalypse-centered blog is hitting the mainstream, she's even more careful about preserving her online anonymity....
15) Trade Me
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Tina Chen just wants a degree and a job, so her parents never have to worry about making rent again. She has no time for Blake Reynolds, the sexy billionaire who stands to inherit Cyclone Systems. But when he makes an offhand comment about what it means to be poor, she loses her cool and tells him he couldn’t last a month living her life.
To her shock, Blake offers her a trade: She’ll get his income, his house, his car. In exchange,
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"Returning from active duty to find his ranch being dug up by a beautiful stranger isn't the homecoming navy SEAL Gavin Blake expected. Layla Harris is convinced there's buried treasure on his land. But the only treasure this wealthy rancher wants to uncover is the professor's secret desires! When Layla unearths family secrets--and mysterious threats--he vows to do whatever it takes to protect her. Even as her revelations change everything."-- Page...
18) Black No More
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First published in 1931, "Black No More" is a clever and important satirical novel by George S. Schuyler which was written during the creative time of the Harlem Renaissance. This humorous and insightful work explores what would happen if blackness could be erased and black people could choose to become white. The novel begins with the central character Max Disher, a young, intelligent and ambitious black man, finding himself lonely and rejected on...
19) Reaper's fire
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"The club comes first. I've lived by those words my whole life--assumed I'd die by them, too, and I never had a problem with that. My Reaper brothers had my back and I had theirs, and it was enough. Then I met her. Tinker Garrett. She's beautiful, she's loyal, and she works so damned hard it scares me sometimes...She deserves a good man--one better than me. I can't take her yet because the club still needs me. There's another woman, another job, another...
20) On the hustle
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Dating in Dallas volume 2
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"Alba's new life in Dallas seems like everything she ever wanted, until her former boss, Theo, turns up in the Lone Star State with an offer she simply cannot refuse. This enemies to lovers' story is the second entry in the "Dating in Dallas" series."