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Gonna Lay Down My Burdens
by Mary Monroe

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A Dollar and A Dream
by Carl Weber

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Never Again
Once More
by Mary B. Morrison

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Soul Mates Dissipate
by Mary B. Morrison

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A Chocolate Affair
by Sheila Copeland

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Princess Sister
by Sheila Copeland

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Yo Yo Love
by Daaimah S. Poole

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Some Sunday
by Margaret Johnson-Hodge

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True Lies
by Margaret Johnson-
Hodge

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Like Boogie on Tuesday
by Linda Dominique Grosvenor

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Living on the Edge of Respectability
by Suzette D. Harrison

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Mama's Girls
by Janette McCarthy-Louard

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Enchanted Heart
by Felicia Mason

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His Insignificant Other
by Karen V. Siplin

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Naughty Little
Secrets
by Mary Wilbon

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The Honey Well
by Gloria Mallette

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Here And Now by Kimberla Lawson Roby

If I Could by Donna Hill

For someone who’s always played by the rules, Regina Everette has broken some doozies lately. First, she divorces a perfectly good provider—and the father of her two children—simply because their marriage wasn’t working. Now she’s quit her job simply because she wasn’t fulfilled. Her kids are shell-shocked. Her girlfriends are scandalized. Her mother is appalled. Nobody knows what on earth she’s doing...including Regina herself.

Unemployed and unattached, exhilarated and scared to death, Regina fumbles her way into an existence that has no boundaries. As her choices create a ripple effect through the lives of her family and friends, she falls headlong into a new career and a new relationship, certain of just one thing: from here on in, she’ll live—and love—on her terms.

Regina Everette always plays by the rules; from attending Catholic school to marrying the right man. Now, with her career on solid ground, two model children, and her husband rising up the corporate ladder, Regina realizes how desperately unhappy she really is, and that her entire life needs a complete overhaul.

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It's A Thin Line by Kimberly Lawson Roby

Married Men by Carl Weber

Fresh, uncensored, and wildly entertaining, Married Men is Waiting to Exhale on testosterone—a male take on modern love, marriage…and everything in between. Lifelong friends Kyle, Allen, Wil, and Jay are finding out that marriage means more than acting like the Huxtables. When each one is shown the door by his furious woman, the result is a rowdy romp through sleazy hotels, divorce court, jail, and Viagra®—all in the arms of old flames, young things, and big-thigh cutie pies. And as the friends fend off strippers, trippers, psycho ex-football players, and stuff too freaky to mention, they know there's one thing they can always count on…each other.

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Gonna Lay Down My Burdens
by Mary Monroe

In the sweltering little town of Belle Helene, Alabama, Carmen Taylor keeps her weaknesses, her frustrations, and her sorrows to herself. She’s too busy dealing with the dramas of troubled friends like Desiree Lucienne, the petite, pampered daughter of a doctor who tries to beat the wildness out of her. But that doesn’t stop Desiree from trawling for men, and trying to drag Carmen along

It’s not that Carmen hasn’t had her share of boozy pick-ups—only that they can’t compare to the one steamy night she spent with the man she’s loved since they were both kids. Now a local cop, all-too-fine Chester Sheffield keeps showing up in Carmen’s life, wanting to do something about the feelings they obviously share. But that would mean abandoning her “boyfriend” Burl Tupper, and that’s something Carmen just can’t do. Ever since a foolish teenage prank of Carmen’s landed Burl in a wheelchair, she’s been trying to make it up to him. When Carmen doesn’t take her chance with Chester, Desiree does. And although the women’s friendship stays solid, greater challenges await

On a sultry, reckless moonlit night, Carmen commits a desperate crime of passion, and, with Desiree, hits the road running. But she can’t run from the truth. Now she has two choices—a life on the lam, or a return to Belle Helene, the place where it all began…and the only place Carmen can lay down her burdens and seize her one true chance at love and redemption

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A Dollar and A Dream by Carl Weber

Which of us hasn’t daydreamed about what we’d do if we won the lottery? A Dollar And A Dream brings those fantasies to hilarious, heartbreaking life in three stories by #1 national bestselling author Carl Weber and La Jill Hunt, Essence bestselling author Angel Hunter, and bestselling author Dwayne S. Joseph.

In “Easy Street,” Carl Weber and La Jill Hunt deliver a drama-filled world of money, greed, and lies. When Paul, a wannabe player, is sent out by his neighbors to buy lottery tickets, his world is turned upside-down—and so are the lives of unsuspecting friends who may not only lose the winning tickets, but also their homes.

“Ghetto Fabulous” is the story of a single mother with three kids from three different daddies. Money is what she needs, yet when she wins big, she’s left wondering what to do. Friends and family she never knew she had are suddenly coming out of the woodwork. But where were they when she needed help?

With one person designated to purchase tickets for the $180 million jackpot, six co-workers lives will be changed forever as each of them learns just how strong the pull of money can be. “One Night, Six Dreams” is a wild, shocking tale of just how far a person might go to have it all.

Join these unforgettable characters as they learn exactly what money can and can’t buy in three fabulous, fast-paced stories of getting rich—and staying real.

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Never Again Once More
by Mary B. Morrison

In Soul Mates Dissipate, her phenomenal Essence® and Blackboard bestseller, Mary B. Morrison left readers cheering with her tell-it-like-it-is-and-then-some story of Jada and Wellington, two lovers whose connection is tested, but never broken. Now, in this eagerly awaited sequel, Jada and Wellington find themselves facing new conflicts that will challenge the decisions they made years ago.

Do we choose love, or does love choose us? That's the question Jada Diamond Tanner can't seem to stop asking herself after ten years of marriage. She thought she'd chosen the right man in Lawrence Anderson, her steady, reliable husband and the man who helped raise her son Darius. But did she choose the right life when she turned her back on Wellington Jones, the soulmate whose fiery kisses took her body and spirit to a higher level than she ever dreamed possible?

For twenty years, Jada has struggled to keep her distance from Wellington, and he's paid her in respect. But now, the cracks in Jada's carefully constructed life are beginning to show. Darius is a young man out of touch and in trouble. When his destructive behavior threatens to destroy him, Jada reluctantly lets Wellington take more control and be the father Darius needs.

With each day back in Wellington's company, Jada begins to question the choices she has made in her life—choices made out of fear, out of foolish pride, out of denial. Slowly, she begins to realize that she still has one choice left: to get true to herself. Armed with the courage and the fire she's been missing for years, Jada's out to seize the opportunity she thought she had lost—and this time, she'll say, “never again once more.”

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Soul Mates Dissipate
by Mary B. Morrison

Like her name, Jada Diamond Tanner sparkles. An exquisite ebony-skinned fashion photographer, she turns heads wherever she goes. But while Jada has her pick of handsome, sophisticated lovers, no one captures her heart-—until she meets gorgeous financial advisor Wellington Jones. From the moment of their first embrace, Jada is sure Wellington is the soul mate she has waited for.

But while Jada and Wellington's love is exhilarating, they find themselves facing challenges they never could have imagined—from Melanie Thompson, bright, beautiful, and talented—but hungry for the love she has never had…and from Cynthia Jones, Wellington's overbearing socialite mother, who believes Jada will never fit into her circle of aristocratic friends.

Ultimately Jada is forced to make difficult choices—choices that send her on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. For while she learns painful lessons about love, trust, and commitment, she also discovers deep emotional strengths in herself…along with the courage to celebrate the joy each day can bring—with or without the man she loves.

Earthy and outrageously entertaining, Soul Mates Dissipate is laced with sharp-tongued humor and piercing insights. Mary B. Morrison joins bestselling authors like Terry McMillan in bringing the sweet, soulful, and totally uncensored voice of the African-American woman to readers everywhere!

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A Chocolate Affair
by Sheila Copeland

Four friends -- all vibrant, beautiful, talented and black -- are swept up by destiny in California's high-speed, sinful city of the Angel. Meet Keisha who is married to a Los Angeles Laker but has strong fears about him straying, Jade who has mixed feelings about getting pregnant with her Laker husband, Topaz, a singing star, who resolves issues about her child, and Nina who wants to become a writer and not necessarily a wife to her record producer boyfriend. Filled with laughter, drama and plenty of tears, discover with these four friends the price of fame!

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Princess Sister by Sheila Copeland

Like a true Princess Sister, Mignon Chevalier has everything going on.  Living with her family in Paris, she shops in the finest stores, attends art classes at the Louvre, and mingles with the city's brightest and best, thanks to her jazz musician father's very successful nightclub.  Mystery has always surrounded the marriage between her handsome, dark-skinned Italian father and fair-skinned Creole mother, and Mignon only knows that she has relatives in America who turned their backs on Mignon's mother the day she left for France.

When financial setbacks force a move, the Chevaliers return to New Orleans where long-buried secrets, fierce jealousies, and deep emotional wounds threaten to tear apart the close-knit family Mignon loves:  Laurent, the smooth-talking brother with a golden talent for making music and seducing women. . .Desiree, Mignon's regal mother, whose strong devotion to her husband is shaken by a betrayal no woman can forgive. . .Pierre, her beloved father, who rose from poverty to top the jazz world but can't seem to escape the mistakes of his past. . .Vincente, the scheming half-brother determined to have the things he wants, no matter what it takes. . .J. P. Mignon's husband, the one man whose love could save--or destroy--her.

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Yo Yo Love by Daaimah S. Poole

Sassy and savvy Kayla Johnson is a serious college student at Philadelphia’s Temple University. She’s also a fine-looking woman, with ginger-colored skin and more curves than the Liberty Bell. But if Kayla’s all that, how come she can’t find a man worthy of her charms?

When Kayla sets off on a manhunt for Mr. Right, she finds herself hooking up with every hustler, nut, and fast-talking player in Philadelphia. There’s Emar, the basketball hotshot who makes his best moves off-court; handsome Terry, who gets downright scary during a weekend in Jersey; and Reese, who’d be da bomb if he’d only drop his white girlfriend. But it’s Kayla’s relationship with smooth and sexy Wil that really rocks her world and teaches her how to fight for a man—and for her own independence. Because love doesn’t get truly crazy until it’s the real thing…and the only people who don’t get played are the ones who stay out of the game…

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Some Sunday
by Margaret Johnson-Hodge

Sandy Hutchinson has faced times so hard they nearly broke her. The death of her young Trinidadian husband, Adrian, from AIDS was a powerful kind of hurting that left her wary of ever loving again. Then Adrian's brother, Winston, begins to re-awaken her feelings—and her conflicts about the past. But just when Sandy thinks she's getting her mind straight, life throws her a curve. His name is Randall—a contractor who arrives to remodel her basement, and may just renovate her heart.

Sandy's three best friends—Martha, Britney, and Janice—are going through changes too. Hard-nosed Assistant District Attorney Martha has met a guy who can make a fairytale love come true...if she doesn't push too hard, too fast to live happily-ever-after. A big woman in size and loving, Britney is a new mama, and it's turning out that “you, me, and baby makes three” may wreck her nerves, if not her marriage. And Janice seems to have finally bumped into Mr. Right, a man who actually wants commitment. So why is she getting cold feet as their relationship heats up?

With all the rich, complex drama of Butterscotch Blues, Margaret Johnson-Hodge has created another satisfying story about women who dare to lead with their hearts...and find strength in that bone-deep quality called soul.

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True Lies by Margaret Johnson-Hodge

The last time Dajah Moore took a chance, she was eight, and a wild, downhill bike ride left her with a scar on her knee—which is nothing compared to the ones that now criss-cross her heart. Life has made Dajah into a cautious and wise sister who won’t sit down in her silks for fear of wrinkling them, a hardworking accountant who doesn’t hand out second chances. Then she meets Rick Trimmons. And when the handsome corrections officer gives her the protection of his mace and the temptation of his phone number, she falls hard. Everything about Rick, from his soulful eyes to his straightforward talk, tells Dajah she’s met someone who will never play her—if she can put aside her fear and wrap herself around his troubled past.

For Rick, nobody comes before his four-year-old daughter, Kanisha. She’s his heart and soul, the reason he works overtime and puts up with all kinds of craziness from her mother, Gina. Meeting Dajah shows Rick what his life could be like. From backyard barbeques, where Dajah’s best friends size him up in a heartbeat, to unforgettable nights in Dajah’s bed, Rick is living a dream—until Gina’s outrageous behavior forces him into desperate choices that could destroy his happiness, his future, and everything he’s ever worked for ...

Imbued with the emotional resonance of real, complicated lives, True Lies is about life’s uneasy answers, and how the truth can do more than set you free…it can lead you home in the most unexpected of ways ...

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Like Boogie On Tuesday
by Linda Dominique Grosvenor

Nina, a business executive, finds herself in one compromising relationship after another and vows to never love again until she meets womanizing pretty-boy Tim Richardson. Troi, her sister, believes that her marriage to Vaughn will last forever until his devastating secret is uncovered. Tim Richardson is a catch for sure, but while balancing his goals and his craving for companionship, he allows Nina to touch places in him once forbidden. Is Tim enough to renew Nina's faith in men? And will the revelation that Vaughn shares with Troi waver her faith in love?

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Living On The Edge Of Respectability
 by Suzette D. Harrison

In this perceptively on-target contemporary tale, three best friends since college at U.C. Berkeley, Vanessa, Reina and dashingly handsome Chris, have grown into confident, capable, and well-respected professionals. Yet each is searching for something vital that’s missing from their lives.

Suzette D. Harrison explores their coming-of-age journey interweaving a compelling, thoughtful plot with strong and captivating characters that will inspire readers everywhere. Vanessa, a television executive finally is in control of her hair-trigger temper – until she begins an emotional search for her birth parents. Half-Jamaican, half-Puerto Rican Reina sings like an angel and longs for freedom from her traditional parents’ stranglehold – and from a body so heavy she has trouble breathing. Handsome fitness instructor Chris seems to have everything a brother could want – fun work, a flashy car, and designer clothes – everything but the truth about his mother’s mysterious death, and a love to call his own.

Living On The Edge Of Respectability navigates their reckless pursuit of independence and discovery of long-buried secrets. It is a story that is both troubling and life affirming. For while they face ugly truths and shocking revelations that even threatens their rock-solid bond, they also learn new lessons about strength and friendship that perseveres over time and troubled waters.

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Mama's Girls by Jeanette McCarthy Louard

Brynne, Camille and Olivia are sisters whose lives are scarred by tragedy, when both their parents are killed in an automobile accident. Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, by their maternal grandmother, Mother Laurel, the girls are instilled with a sense of pride and the value of hard work.  Much to Mama Laurel's dismay, Gram Naomi, the affluent grandmother from the deep South, vies for the girls' affections during the holidays and summer vacations, with expensive gifts and trips.

Each of the three sisters has grown up to be as different as can be. Successful attorney Brynne always has to be perfect, the superwoman everyone admires... so why has her "perfect" marriage gone so sour? Gorgeous, a little wild, a lot sassy, Camille blooms as the exotic flower men buzz around... but her latest boyfriend is trouble with a capital "T". Adrift, bounding from job to job, Olivia, the baby of the family, is fleeing demons she can't escape.

It is Olivia's attempted suicide that brings all three to a turning point, and brings Gram Naomi rushing up from the South. The two grandmothers have been nursing a bitter rivalry for years, and it has finally reached the boiling point. Mama Laurel, a take-no-sass matriarch the girls have never crossed, is locked in a battle of wills with Gram Naomi. Meanwhile, Brynne has met a man who has unleashed passion she never felt before --- just as her husband asks for a second chance. Camille, discovering a dangerous dark side to her married lover, is too afraid and ashamed to ask for help. And trapped in her own mind, Olivia seems to be slipping away into a final darkness.

Now facing problems they can't handle alone, five women turn to their heritage of the Black church and community, and in it, find a strength that has overcome adversity for generations, as well as the wisdom to see the truth about themselves: standing separately they will fall. But standing together, they can transform their hearts ... and their lives.

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Enchanted Heart by Felicia Mason

As the heir to the chain of Heart Federated department stores, twenty-eight-year-old Lance Heart Smith has his pick of a bevy of women he changes as often as his stylish suits. His playboy ways are an affront to his strict grandmother and great uncle, who rule the business and the family with an iron hand. And soon, they issue an ultimatum: grow up or get cut off.

Lance doesn’t take orders from anyone. He’s determined to be his own man and find success on his own terms. And then he meets someone who could make it all happen. Beautiful former model Vivienne la Fontaine owns and operates a lingerie boutique, Guilty Pleasures. Her store is an investment opportunity in a business that caters to women, Lance’s not-so-guilty pleasure. When one thing leads to another, Lance thinks Viv may be what he’s been looking for not just in business, but in life. But Viv won’t allow anyone to put her freedom in jeopardy again. She has dark secrets, secrets she hasn’t shared with anyone—and they aren’t through with her yet. Just when happiness seems close enough to touch for Lance and Viv, the past comes back with a vengeance…and forces them to confront the truth or risk losing it all ...

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His Insignificant Other by Karen V. Siplin

When Casey Beck’s first love’s first love shows up again—on Casey’s doorstep, no less—it’s the beginning of a search for the truth about love, trust, sex, friendship, and jealousy that leads Casey to finally listen to the one person who’s had the answers all along: herself ...

Twenty-nine year-old college film professor Casey Beck is at a crossroads. Employed but unfulfilled in New York City, she sees her professional dreams slipping away. And the personal life she thought was finally coming together almost fell apart when she discovered that a month into their relationship, her man, John Paul, slept with his sexy ex-girlfriend, Mali. He swears it meant nothing, but it meant a whole lot to Casey—and it still does, even months after the fact. Casey has tried everything from celibacy to candlelight dinners to get her feelings back on track, but it’s just not that simple. And it’s about to get a lot more complicated

A statuesque former dancer, Mali always seemed prettier, smarter, and more sophisticated than Casey. But the night she unexpectedly returns from a trip with no job—and no place to crash but Casey’s—it’s clear that she’s also nervier. Because if there’s one thing Casey knows for sure, it’s that she’ll do whatever it takes to prevent Mali from staying with her only other friend in town: John Paul. And Mali knows it too. As the unlikely roommates’ predicament gets thorny, and the sexual politics within their tight group of mutual friends—and past and future lovers—gets heated, Casey learns just how far she’s willing to go to hold onto a man—and a dream.

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Naughty Little Secrets by Mary Wilbon

In this uproarious, madcap novel, Mary Wilbon introduces two irresistible heroines about to stumble into more trouble than they could ever imagine (think parties, think booze, think very stylish homicide

Slick

People used to tell me I was a dead ringer for Halle Berry. Okay, most of them were criminals and I was pointing a gun at their heads, but a compliment’s a compliment. I used to be a cop, by the way, before I took over security for my girlfriend’s multi-million-dollar clam conglomerate. Say that three times fast. Now it’s just me, Laura, our dog Garbo, the butler, and about forty of our closest friends, all drunk, all about to turn our hors d’oeuvres into permanent carpet stains. There’s a joke in here somewhere…but I’ll need a drink to find it.

Laura

“Let’s do a costume Christmas party; it’ll be a blast!” Yeah, right. YOU try wriggling a mermaid costume over actual hips. It seemed like a good idea at the time, you know, me the rich socialite clam mogul in the aquatic themed outfit. Guess it’s good that I’m not a proctologist…So it’s just another party at our house with the usual assortment of movie stars, politicians, ex-cops, ex-cons, and bartenders. Thank God for the bartenders. I have a feeling I’m going to need it since my friend Sindee says there’s something really important she needs to tell me…some naughty little secret she says is also very dangerous.

Like a warped version of Sex and the City meets The Thin Man, Naughty Little Secrets is a wild romp through martinis, murder, embezzlement, martinis, “Homey-sexual” cops, bad musicals, community theatre from hell, martinis, sex, seduction, betrayal, double martinis, and New Jersey…and possibly the most fun you can have between the covers.

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The Honey Well by Gloria Mallette

Money has put Arnell Rayford’s mother, Esther, exactly where she’s always wanted to be. Ensconced in the Victorian mansion where her own mother once worked as a housekeeper, she’s running a thriving business that’s surely making the previous owner turn in her grave. For Esther, money is the root of all happiness, and nothing and no one will stand in the way of her making it—not even her only child.

While some may call Esther’s live-in employees prostitutes, she prefers to call them ladies of charm—or tenants, if the police come sniffing around. There are no laws against renting out rooms, after all. Of course, there are laws against prostituting one’s own underage daughter. It’s a devastating secret Arnell and Esther have kept for years—years that have brought them far from the poverty they suffered after Arnell’s father died.

But Esther’s greed simply replaces one kind of suffering with another. No amount of money can make up for the trauma and shame she’s forced upon her daughter. Esther calls the jobs “favors,” but Arnell recognizes them for what they are: demands couched in blackmail.

Now that Arnell is engaged to a pillar of the community, Esther’s latest favor may well send her over the edge—but she won’t be going alone. Because while Esther is holding her daughter’s past overhead, her own life is coming back to haunt her—a life where the lines between love and hate, parent and child, sex, profit—and even murder—have been irreparably, dangerously blurred.

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