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Pittsburgh, 1998: Chris "Crest" Tolbert is eighteen years old, a soon-to-be father, and partially paralyzed after a devastating accident that left his best friend dead. In Everyday People, acclaimed novelist Stewart O'Nan offers a multifaceted portrait of Crest and of East Liberty, the African American neighborhood he calls home. As he deals with the challenges of new fatherhood and life as a paraplegic, Crest must also negotiate his relationships...
5) Commencement
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Allen Sharpe thought he had it all. As a graduate of one of the nation's most prestigious Ivy League Universities, Allen believed he was poised for a six-figure position as a financial consultant and "the good life". In Allen's world, nothing else could be more important. However, after experiencing a major detour on his road to success, Allen learns there is more to life than what the University has prepared him for. As Allen tries to pick up the...
6) Butterfly
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Beauty has a price…From her first high-heeled step onto a Paris runway, supermodel Seneca Houston has been a sensation. Ever since, she's been surrounded by couture clothes, glittering celebrities-and the constant glare of the paparazzi. She's become muse to designer Luis Navarro, who christens her Butterfly. Now, at thirty-three, Seneca wants the only thing that seems out of reach-a husband, children and a normal life.
When her agent offers his...
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The physical and emotional attraction a charismatic black female evangelist feels for a beautiful but damaged blues singer grows into a powerful, sensual love in a southern city rocked by racism, intolerance, and sexual violence The traveling minister Reverend Myrtle Black is a proud, strong African American woman, passionately devoted to God, justice, and intimate female contact. Enraged over a brutal assault on two young prostitutes, the good pastor...
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Nearly a year after his arrest and subsequent conviction for drug possession, Jim Reid is struggling to rebuild his life. All he wants is a second chance, but it seems society will not allow him to forget the mistakes of his past. Battling unemployment, financial ruin, and his own personal demons, Jim realizes that he needs help. Instead of turning to the only one who can help, Jim begins to rely on his new friend, Smoke, a small time drug dealer...
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IS GOD SOVEREIGN OVER MISTAKES AND FAILURES? Heather Osborne's past consisted of partying, drugs, and thriving on the attention of men… until her cycle of pain and rejection brought her to the feet of Jesus. For four years, she has been struggling to shake off her demons, and when her business fails, she returns home to start a marketing internship. But Heather gets more than she bargained for when she is assigned to work with the handsome son of...
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IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Enslaved African Americans longed for freedom, and that longing took many forms including music. Drawing on biblical imagery, slave songs both expressed the sorrow of life in bondage and offered a rallying cry for the spirit. Like a Bird brings together text, music, and illustrations by Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator Michele Wood to convey the rich meaning behind thirteen of these powerful songs.
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When Emelia Avery's grandfather dies, leaving her the sole heir to his estate, she makes a trip to the small Georgia town of Magnolia Falls to learn more about the man she never knew. She quickly discovers her grandfather was the prime suspect in the murder of a young girl many years before.With the help of a handsome white cop, Emelia tries to clear her grandfather's name. Uncovering secrets long buried, Emelia puts herself in danger and the life...
13) Island Fling
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She's looking for love, but he's on the run.Fun and flirty editor Antonia is a dreamer in her personal life but a force to be reckoned with at her job in charge of the international news team at a London magazine. She heads off to the Caribbean for a four-day mini-break to attend her friend Sabrina's wedding, and discovers the pilot of the sea plane is none other than her ex-fling: the man who dumped her three years ago on her last Caribbean holiday...
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Chevaine was a country girl with strong faith in God. Pastor John McCrary came into her country to lead a congregation. Unexpectedly they were brought together by the very faith they both stood for. Fighting hard to resist temptation and with disapproval from the church and a jealous contender to deal with, their love would prove to be the key to the survival of a community.
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Vonda is in a loveless marriage that seems to shape the way she sees herself. In a world where her husband and children have been her everything, she's lost track of who she is. When her youngest goes away to school her entire world turns upside down. Vonda must learn to fight in ways she never thought she would have to. Finding your value in an environment that tries to take it away can be hard.
16) Southern Comfort
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In bestselling author Sandra Kitt's sizzling summer romance, a little down-home love goes a long way Jewelry designer Rachel Givens loses the mother figure in her life when Julia Winters dies. As it turns out, Julia harbored secrets-including the existence of a handsome son, Lucas Monroe Scott. Now Rachel learns that she and Lucas have both inherited his mother's lovely summer cottage in Highland Beach, Maryland. But can she bear to share cramped...
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The nationally bestselling author of Delilah's Daughters and The Amen Sisters returns with a moving story about a single mother who discovers the woman she can be in one unforgettable summer.
As a single mother, Destiny makes sacrifices for her children-including saying goodbye for the summer so they can spend time with their father and stepmother. Though she'll miss them with all her heart, the time alone gives her an opportunity to address her...
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This book commences by painting an image of Africa. We get introduced to physical features, the endowments, and go on to provide a brief historical perspective of Africa, showing how Africa served as the first home of the human species. The book then takes us through another epoch of Africa's self-consciousness (Pan-Africanism) in the middle of the 20th century: the time when Africa had been greatly subjected to imperialism and colonialism, which...
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A collection of poems illustrating how influential the immediate people in your life and their life events can affect you. Time is everything in our lives and it is important to find the light at the end of the tunnel. The child with a demonic shadow, depicted on the cover, is an analogy of someone's youth being corrupted by life. The light source that is enabling the shadow is the source of darkness in the life of the individual.
20) Flight
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Published in 1926 and written by civil rights activist and longtime head of the NAACP Walter White, Flight "belongs to an extinct but historically crucial genre of African-American fiction: the passing novel. Here, White, himself light enough to pass, explores the many dimensions of the path not taken. Along the way, he reflects on the American propensity for personal reinvention and the arbitrariness of racial designation" (Nell Irvin Painter, New...
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