Fiction : African American

A pimp, a killer, a playa, and a drug dealer struggle to get their game right in a sizzling novel where leaving the life and trying to go straight is a deadly option. Tavon, better known as "Sweet," would pimp his own mother -- and he does. Convinced that the prostitution game chose him, Sweet loves his high-rolling life. But when he unexpectedly becomes a father, will Sweet be able to choose between the family trade and his grown, not-so-innocent daughter? more...

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Bestselling author E. Lynn Harris is back with another sexy, shocking, and immensely satisfying novel that explores some of today’s toughest and most timely issues. Chauncey Greer is the owner of Cute Boy Card Company, a thriving company in Atlanta. more...

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When Harlem’s Ida Barrett Wells Tower was built in the late 1970s, it promised an affordable, safe residence for people who couldn’t afford to live downtown but wanted a new beginning. Then the crack scourge hit, cruelly dashing the residents’ dreams right up to the present day. Ida B. is the story of these resilient people, who look out for one another as best they can. The life portrayed in Ida B. will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever lived in a housing project, and for those who have not, the novel offers an inspiring glimpse at the struggle to survive. “Miller is an excellent storyteller who draws you in from page one,” Zane has said. Ida B. is Miller’s latest unforgettable rendition of the Harlem experience. more...

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In It’s All Love , Black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred. Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she woke up certain that she would meet her soul mate in “My Own Happy Ending”; memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts, in a piece he calls “Learning the Name Dad,” writes stirringly about serving time in prison and how that transformed his life for the better; New York Times bestselling author Pearl Cleage is at her best in the delicate, touching “Missing You”; award-winning author David Anthony Durham enraptures readers with his “An Act of Faith”; New York Times bestselling author L. more...

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Sometimes black history doesn't march. Sometimes black history doesn't shout. Sometimes black history just comes wearily down a dirt road, dragging a cotton sack and wearing a headrag. . . . So proclaims Lorraine Johnson-Coleman in this heartwarming collection of stories and essays. Returning to the cotton fields, tobacco barns, and humble dwellings of her ancestral home in the rural South, Johnson-Coleman learned firsthand what is missing from African American history texts: the experience of ordinary people who have led extraordinary lives. more...

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