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Khari, also known as Ri, is a young man living in a society that tries to make life hard for him. With his strong-minded ways, he digs himself out his hole and becomes self-made. After leaving his life of crime with his best friend, Davey, Khari pursues a life as a hip-hop artist overseas. But on his journey to stardom, he makes a promise to a woman that he loves, and he is destined to keep it.

Jade has her life all planned out, with a mother with mental illness she has to be on top of things. With graduation in sight, she doesn't have time for boys. Liam has had his eye on Jade for years, with her nose in a book she doesn't notice him. With his bad-boy reputation, he has no business wanting this good girl, but she is all that he can think about. He has one shot at having her, and he doesn't waste time. A coming of age story about two teenagers that have to grow up faster than they ever imagined and a love that defies age.

Hurt by love, Empress, "Zorah Franklin", lives life on the conservative and celibate side. She is a single mother of one, an educator, and a woman who loves her community. Not quite ready to love, pro-black activist Redd, “Xyshaun Smith”, an entrepreneur and educator, falls in love with Empress’s essence. She is everything he wants in a woman, and he is ready to step up to the plate to make her trust in Black love again.

LLoyal Carter and Bev Hines have both power and privilege in the underworld. Lloyal is the boss of a powerful syndicate that everyone respects and fears. He is deemed untouchable. Bev is his beautiful wife and mother of his children. It seems as if they have the perfect, loving home on the outside, but things aren’t so sweet on the inside.

This is an urban novel based on the streets of Memphis Tennessee. Money, sex, murder, drugs, and trust....

This audiobook is about a famous Black Male Stripper and the sins that go on at the Bachelorette parties that he do.

Gemini Berry is looking forward to spending a lazy summer in her small hometown of Meadow Lake, Pennsylvania, with her best friend, Sunny. The teens' main goal is to get their hands on the Ring of Atlantis, a supposedly enchanted object that brings the bearer wealth and luck. Along with their new friend, Ivy, they plan to try the ring for themselves. But their carefree caper is soon halted by a crime that outrages and divides the town.

Hear the heartwarming tales of ordinary people finding extraordinary lovers as they love and live, in vivid color....

Melanie Durst just about has her nest empty. However, the widowed mother of three grown up daughters soon finds herself the object of the girls' matchmaking schemes. In an effort to waylay these actions, Melanie joins forces with a handsome regular customer in her store, Tyson Brown. What begins as a farce to get her daughters off her back ends up being the beginning of a beautiful relationship.

Tisha Randall wants a boyfriend. When a likely specimen walks into her pet store to purchase "a dog or something," Tisha nearly turns him away with her disdain for would be animal owners who neglected their charges. Upon further review, Tisha realizes the man had a different type of void in his life, very possibly the same one that afflicts her.

Love is... is a collection of poems that chronicles the timeless nature of being in love by the American poet and writer S. D. Webb. Among the poems in the collection are "Just Because" and "What is Love?".

Jean Travis has the job of announcing the latest lottery winner on TV and is stunned to find that Patrick Bennett, her teenage crush, is the top mega winner. They haven't seen each other in years, and Patrick is thrilled to renew their acquaintance. Jean, not so much. After all, a lot has changed since they used to study together, and Jean worked so hard to hide her feelings.

Coco's the good girl everyone loves to hate. Abused during her teen years, she doesn't let it get her down. She attacks life with a fervor and falls in love with a handsome rapper even Instagram models want to date. However, her confidence takes a hit, and with a family tragedy, Coco is thrust into adulthood. Follow along closely to find out if Coco's dedication to those she love, hard work to help others, and hustling to pay the bills and put scraps on the table work in the best interest of her family.

Twin sisters Karma and Konscious and their love interests’ karma and ghosts follow them everywhere they go. When people with a conscience go against those with a heart for vengeance, who will survive in this sexy, undercover urban story?

In Alicia’s groundbreaking book, Driven to Thrive, she reveals 10 proven strategies to excel, expand, and elevate your career and life. Drawing upon 20 years of corporate experience working in human resources leadership roles and as a high-performance executive coach and consultant, she advocates for the critical need to use emotional intelligence skills to manage your relationship with yourself and others as the game-changer to winning in work and life. Driven to Thrive can be your go-to GPS to success.

The Cherry Spot dives into the lives of dancers Apache, Tropics, and Tamara, along with madam Ja'kiera and her stable Erika, Paisley, and Serena. We witness firsthand the battles they won as well as those they lost. Throw in a demented serial killer and you have the perfect recipe for disaster. Who lives and who dies all depends on how hard they fight to survive. Listen to the minutes of this full-length novel to find out the outcome of their tribulation and trials.

For the first printing only! This hardcover features sprayed stenciled edges while the special edition supply lasts. “Fans of Tracy Deonn’s Legendborn Cycle will devour” (School Library Journal, starred review) this captivating contemporary fantasy debut about a teen whose newly awakened...

A raw, heartfelt memoir “full of reflection” (Vanity Fair), perseverance, redemption, and triumph from Tamika D. Mallory, trailblazing social justice leader, activist, and cofounder of the Women’s March. In I Lived to Tell the Story, Tamika Mallory takes us beyond the headlines and podiums...

Social justice leader Tamika D. Mallory states her case for action and reveals “the power we all have to win transformative change” (Marc Lamont Hill, New York Times bestselling author) in this searing indictment of America’s historical, deadly, and continuing assault on Black and brown...

In this timely contemporary middle grade novel from award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman, two girls find their private struggles against their influencer mothers going very public Quiet, introverted Hadley and rough-around-the-edges Willow have one big main thing in common: both their moms...