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Things Fall Apart By Achebe, Chinua 2000-04 - Anchor Books 0072435186 Check Our Catalog …More

Dominion By Baker, Calvin 2006-06 - Grove Press 9780802118295 Check Our Catalog Jasper Merian, newly freed from slavery in Virginia at the close of the 17th century, leaves for the uncharted free territory to carve out a utopia in the wilderness of the Carolinas. His family battles against the natural and occasionally supernatural world, colonial politics, the injustices of slavery, the Revolutionary War, and questions of fidelity and the heart. …More

Daughter By Bandele, Asha 2003-10 - Scribner Book Company 0743211847 Check Our Catalog The gifted and charismatic author of the acclaimed memoir "The Prisoner's Wife" delivers a bold and heartrending first novel that explores the silence of black women and illuminates the fragile complexity of the mother-daughter bond. …More

Mama Flora's Family By Haley, Alex Joint Author Stevens, David 1998-10 - Scribner Book Company 0684834715 Check Our Catalog Soon to be an CBS miniseries, this sweeping family saga of three generations in the mid-20th century is the final, brilliant inheritance from Alex Haley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Roots". At the center of this poignant novel stands the indomitable Mama Flora, matriarch of an extraordinary family of destitute Tennessee sharecroppers. …More

I Say a Little Prayer By Harris, E. Lynn 2006-05 - Doubleday Books 9780385512725 Check Our Catalog Bestselling author E. Lynn Harris is back with another winner--a sexy, shocking, and immensely satisfying novel that explores some of today's toughest and most controversial issues. …More

Dirty Game By Holmes, Shannon 2007-05 - St. Martin's Griffin 9780312359010 Check Our Catalog Holmes, the undisputed king of urban lit and #1 "Essence" bestselling author of "Bad Girlz" and "Never Go Home Again," returns with his blazing new novel. …More

Payback: The Return of C.R.E.A.M. By Jones, Solomon 2009-03 - Minotaur Books 9780312348380 Check Our Catalog Karima "C.R.E.A.M." Thomas stands before a judge as an accomplice in the murders of two drug dealers. Suddenly, a scream tears through the courtroom, and when the smoke clears, her mother lies dying on the floor. Soon, others in Karima's family are targeted, and one thing becomes clear: Unless she finds the killer first, Karima will be the next to die. With the help of Captain Kevin Lynch, Karima races to untangle a web of family secrets that threaten her very life. As she unlocks the shocking truth about her past, Karima closes in on the killer, and in a deadly struggle against an enemy as ruthless as herself, Karima is determined to get one thing - payback. …More

Me, Myself and Him By Joy, E. N. 2008-03 - Urban Books 9781601629548 Check Our Catalog Locksie left the church behind to make a life with her live-in boyfriend. But lately, something just hasn't felt right. Hannah tries to offer advice, but she is having marital problems of her own. Now each woman must find the strength to face the truth about her relationship--and about herself. …More

God Ain't Blind By Monroe, Mary 2009-09 - Dafina Books 9780758212214 Check Our Catalog "New York Times"-bestselling author and beloved storyteller Monroe revisits the cast of characters her readers have been waiting for, in this highly anticipated new addition to the acclaimed GOD series. …More

The Man in My Basement By Mosley, Walter 2004-03 - Thorndike Press 9780786262427 Check Our Catalog …More

Player Haters By Weber, Carl 2004-02 - Dafina Books 1575669099 Check Our Catalog Telling stories about contemporary relationships like no one else around, Weber takes an engaging look at the romantic entanglements of player haters. …More

Bliss By Zedde, Fiona 2005-08 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 0758209193 Check Our Catalog In her incendiary first novel, an up-and-comer crafts a sizzling and insightful story about a young Jamaican-American career woman who discovers that there's much more to life than work--and much more to love than meets the eye. …More