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In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe folk flavor of her storytelling has earned her constant comparison to Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, but through four collections of short stories and two novels, J. California Cooper has proven that hers is a wholly original talent --one that embraces readers in an ever-widening circle from one book to the next... -
![Daddy's Sassy Sweetheart by Laylah Roberts, Golden Czermak]()
Daddy's Sassy Sweetheart by Laylah Roberts, Golden Czermak
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen life knocked her down, Kiesha got right back up.Thing was, life seemed to knock her down a lot.There was only so much a girl could take before she got up punching.Only that would likely get her arrested. Not a good look when the sheriff was your pseudo brother and boss.Not that she put a lot of stock in following the rules . . . they were made to be broken.Most of the time... -
![Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin]()
Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“The civil rights struggle,” said The New York Times Book Review, “found eloquent expression in [Baldwin’s] novels. His historical importance is indisputable.” Here, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin’s reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquence... -
![Gin & Murder by Beth Byers]()
Gin & Murder by Beth Byers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSeptember 1924. When Violet and Victor are called home to account for their actions, only one course of action is possible. They pack a liberal amount of alcohol and call on their friends to rally round... -
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![Murder in the Shallows by Beth Byers]()
Murder in the Shallows by Beth Byers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJuly 1924. Violet and Jack go for a simple day on the water. They little expect their day of sun and fun to end with finding a body in the water. The mystery of what happened to the girl in the shallows posses them both, and they unite in their desire to find out more... -
![Canaan's Secret by R. Lawson Gamble, Krista Lynn]()
Canaan's Secret by R. Lawson Gamble, Krista Lynn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZack Tolliver left the Federal Bureau of Investigation to spend more time with his family. He is at home when Libby's sister calls, worried about her daughter Pru in the wake of the horrific murder of a high school classmate. Libby goes to Kanab, Utah, to offer support. She discovers Pru's life is indeed in danger... -
![Out on the Panhandle by R.E. Bradshaw]()
Out on the Panhandle by R.E. Bradshaw
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTake a thirty-nine-year-old woman, born and raised on the beach, and plop her down on the Panhandle of Oklahoma in the midst of her lover’s huge family reunion. Add in a cow chip throwing contest, a horse round up, Native American legends, a crazed fundamentalist sister-in-law, a family secret, an unforgettable romance, and Decky Bradshaw is in for a wild ride... -
![Ye Give Love A Plaid Name by Caroline Lee]()
Ye Give Love A Plaid Name by Caroline Lee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLady Wynda Oliphant is certain her father’s latest scheme to get her married won’t work, because it’s complete nonsense. And if Wynda knows anything, it’s how to be logical when dealing with her family, her inventions, or even those annoying ghosts who keep pestering her. But there’s one thing that just isn’t logical: the breathless, aching way Pherson Ross makes her feel... -
![Fade Out by Marshall Thornton]()
Fade Out by Marshall Thornton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Lambda Award-winning Boystown Mystery series comes to a close with Boystown 13: Fade Out. When a box containing a woman’s corpse shows up at his doorstep, Private Investigator Nick Nowak finds himself accused of murder. The police are convinced it’s Rita Lindquist—a woman who once shot Nick. Their case is thin, but they and the state’s attorney are determined to prosecute him... -
![Sweet Honesty by Joan Vassar]()
Sweet Honesty by Joan Vassar
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAtlanta, Georgia, 1950–Michael can’t believe his eyes as he watches the man he loves marry a woman from the back row of Mount Zion Baptist Church. When the beautiful couple is pronounced man and wife, he leaves his home in Georgia for the chance of a better life in New York City.Alexander is just trying to exist in Queens, New York... -
![Late Fees by Marshall Thornton]()
Late Fees by Marshall Thornton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt’s Thanksgiving, 1992 and Noah Valentine is late picking his mother up from the airport. When he arrives he discovers that she’s made a friend on the flight whose also waiting for her son. When women’s son doesn’t show up, they eventually take the woman home for breakfast with neighbor’s Marc and Louis... -
![Hidden Treasures by Marshall Thornton]()
Hidden Treasures by Marshall Thornton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s about a dress. A valuable blue sequined dress worn by a famed actress in a film from the 1940s. For some reason everyone thinks video storeowner Noah Valentine has it. Which might not be a big deal except that it’s connected to the murder of a prominent Hollywood costumer.In the second of the Pinx Video Mysteries, Noah attempts to solve the mystery of the dress... -
![RNWMP: Bride for Matthew by Kirsten Osbourne]()
RNWMP: Bride for Matthew by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSinead Williams is frustrated with the lack of opportunity for her. She’s a fully qualified doctor, but no one wants to see a woman doctor. When the opportunity presents itself for her to go West to a community where she may be of help, she jumps on it. It doesn’t matter to her at all that she has to marry a Mountie as part of the process. Matthew Montgomery knows exactly what he wants in a wife... -
![The Game of Courts by Victoria Goddard]()
The Game of Courts by Victoria Goddard
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Cavalier Conju enazo Argellian an Vilius—Conju to his friends, or he would be if any of them had survived the Fall of Astandalas—survived the cataclysmic destruction of the Empire of Astandalas in perfectly good health, thank you very much. If he spent the year (or hundred years) afterwards partying while the world burned .. -
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![The Duke's Untamed Desire by Amy Jarecki]()
The Duke's Untamed Desire by Amy Jarecki
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe's the most notorious rake in London...Though he uses the reputation to his advantage, the exotic Duke of Evesham is misunderstood and mysterious. He sidles around societal rules, especially when it comes to pursuing a wife. Though when he sets his sights on Lady Georgiana, the rules find a way of bending on their own accord... -
![Horatio by T.J. Klune]()
Horatio by T.J. Klune
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn October 15, 1979, two men take to the road, leaving their town behind, waiting for the peanut farmer president to come onto the radio to make an important announcement about the future of all mankind. In the hours leading up to the broadcast, Jamie and Harry will look back on their relationship, and what it means to live in defiance like there's no tomorrow... -
![White Eagle's Touch by Karen Kay]()
White Eagle's Touch by Karen Kay
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTWO WORLDS. . . They come from different worlds--she, the wealthy English socialite traveling deep into Indian territory; he the proud and powerful Blackfoot warrior who once saved her life. White Eagle captivated by Katrina Wellingtons shimmering loveliness, but the little girl he once called Shines Like Moonlight is now a grown woman, betrothed to another... -
![Wanted, an Author by K.J. Charles]()
Wanted, an Author by K.J. Charles
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWanted, an Author is a 5000-word story set in 1807. It returns to the characters of Wanted, a Gentleman, and also introduces a character from KJ Charles' forthcoming novel, Band Sinister... -
![Thraxas and the Sorcerers by Martin Scott]()
Thraxas and the Sorcerers by Martin Scott
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThraxas would rather be anywhere than at the Assemblage of the Sorcerers Guild, but the perpetually indigent private eye badly needs the fee. The Guild is meeting to elect a new head sorcerer and Cicerius, the city's Deputy Consul, is determined that the new head of the Guild will be Lisutaris of Turai... -
![Counternarratives by John Keene]()
Counternarratives by John Keene
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsConjuring slavery and witchcraft, and with bewitching powers all its own, Counternarratives continually spins history—and storytelling—on its headRanging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarrative’s novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and... -
![London's Glory by Christopher Fowler]()
London's Glory by Christopher Fowler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn every detective’s life there are cases that can’t be discussed, and throughout the Bryant & May novels there have been mentions of some of these such as the Deptford Demon or the Little Italy Whelk Smuggling Scandal... -
![The Truth About Grace by Cassie Dandridge Selleck]()
The Truth About Grace by Cassie Dandridge Selleck
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Truth About Grace is the long-awaited sequel to The Pecan Man. In 1976, six-year-old Grace Lowery was raped by the white son of the local police chief. Fearing retribution, Blanche Lowery refused to report the assault and told her daughter it was only a dream. Twenty-five years later, Grace is told the truth and must now reframe everything she thought she knew about her family and her life...Categorized as:
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![American Beauty: The Shooting Script by Alan Ball, Sam Mendes]()
American Beauty: The Shooting Script by Alan Ball, Sam Mendes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOn a typical suburban street in a typical suburban town, there is an ordinary family living the American dream. But look closer. Lester Burnham's wife, Carolyn, regards him with contempt, his daughter, Jane, thinks he's a loser, and his boss is positioning him for the ax... -
![A Calamitous Chinese Killing by Shamini Flint]()
A Calamitous Chinese Killing by Shamini Flint
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsInspector Singh's expertise is required in China in his sixth adventure, as he battles political intrigue to get to the bottom of a very murky and complex crime Inspector Singh is on a mission to China, against his better judgment. The son of a bigwig at the Singapore Embassy has been bludgeoned to death in a back alley in Beijing... -
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![Worth Her Weight in Gold by Sarah Gailey]()
Worth Her Weight in Gold by Sarah Gailey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWinslow Remington Houdstooth, notorious outlaw, handsomest heartbreaker in the American South, has just finished a lucrative job, but he's faced with a hippo-sized problem that would test even the most seasoned of hoppers. "Worth Her Weight in Gold" is another slyly funny, raucous adventure in the alternate America of Sarah Gailey's River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow... -
![Jazz Moon by Joe Okonkwo]()
Jazz Moon by Joe Okonkwo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a lyrical, captivating debut set against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance and glittering Jazz Age Paris, Joe Okonkwo creates an evocative story of emotional and artistic awakening.On a sweltering summer night in 1925, beauties in beaded dresses mingle with hepcats in dapper suits on the streets of Harlem. The air is thick with reefer smoke, and jazz pours out of speakeasy doorways... -
![Race Traitor: BWWM Romance Novel for Adults by Jamila Jasper]()
Race Traitor: BWWM Romance Novel for Adults by Jamila Jasper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings0.99 cents for a limited time only! Get the discounted price for this standalone full-length 50,000+ word interracial romance novel with NO cliffhanger and guaranteed HEA. This BWWM novel is an extra-steamy read so hot it might melt your Kindle. Janie Ross meets the hottest guy she’s ever seen in the Mississippi backwoods... -
![Etiquette For Runaways by Liza Nash Taylor]()
Etiquette For Runaways by Liza Nash Taylor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1924. May Marshall is determined to spend the dog days of summer in self-imposed exile at her father’s farm in Keswick, Virginia. Following a naive dalliance that led to heartbreak and her expulsion from Mary Baldwin College, May returns home with a shameful secret only to find her father’s orchard is now the site of a lucrative moonshining enterprise... -
![Cash Out by Marshall Thornton]()
Cash Out by Marshall Thornton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's Easter 1993, and the gang is going to Las Vegas for Angie's surprise wedding. Noah is attempting to recover from a bad bout of the flu--and his disastrous Valentine's Day, and is not all that excited to meet his new relatives: Cotton Preston and his three grown daughters. They're staying at Lucky Days casino, a hotel with notorious mob connections... and family connections... -
![The Maids / Deathwatch by Jean Genet]()
The Maids / Deathwatch by Jean Genet
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe two plays featured in this volume represent Genet's first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social position, try to revenge themselves against society by destroying their employer... -
![De Repente, Namoradas by G.B. Baldassari]()
De Repente, Namoradas by G.B. Baldassari
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDas autoras de Uma Pitada de Sorte e Só Por um Verão Quando a implacável Helena Lancellotti se vê diante de uma acusação de homofobia que pode acabar com a sua marca, ela inventa um namoro de mentira com a primeira mulher que vem a sua a jovem, desencanada e irritantemente sorridente Pati, a instrutora de tênis dos seus filhos... -
![The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse by Mabel Maney]()
The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse by Mabel Maney
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNurse Cherry Aimless’s first vacation from her hectic career in a big-city hospital takes her to visit her spinster Aunt Gertrude in thrilling San Francisco. Wistfully trading her starched white cap and dress for a bright yellow poplin frock with a flared skirt, young Cherry takes to the highway, never imagining the gay adventures that await her... -
![La fila india by Antonio Ortuño]()
La fila india by Antonio Ortuño
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn order to repatriate the victims of a massacre, a young officer is sent to a lost village in the southeast of Mexico. Her first moving there with her seven-year-old daughter. The second opening her house to a survivor. The arguing that a criminal group is against Central American migrants. And trying to resolve the simple question of why no one seems to care... -
![The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend : A Nancy Clue Mystery by Mabel Maney]()
The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend : A Nancy Clue Mystery by Mabel Maney
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA collector's edition of the best-selling all-girl action adventure... -
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![Death in Venice & Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann]()
Death in Venice & Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn addition to Death in Venice, this volume includes "Mario and the Magician," "Disorder and Early Sorrow," "A Man and His Dog," "Felix Krull," "The Blood of the Walsungs," "Tristan," and "Tonio Kröger."These stories, as direct as Thomas Mann's novels are complex, are perfect illustrations of their author's belief that "a story must tell itself... -
![Murder on the Champs-Élysées: A Belle-Époque Mystery by Alex Mandon]()
Murder on the Champs-Élysées: A Belle-Époque Mystery by Alex Mandon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsParis, 1900. The height of the Belle-Epoque: decadence, wealth, hedonism...and murder... -
![Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson]()
Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKen Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken struggles to find meaning in his life. As he contemplates selling the farmhouse, old friends and family members descend for a vacation. A bittersweet portrait of the rock n roll generation at the precise moment they realize the fireworks ended yesterday... -
![The Shogun's Daughter by Laura Joh Rowland]()
The Shogun's Daughter by Laura Joh Rowland
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJapan, 1704. In an elegant mansion a young woman named Tsuruhime lies on her deathbed, attended by her nurse. Smallpox pustules cover her face. Incense burns, to banish the evil spirits of disease... -
![The Ionia Sanction by Gary Corby]()
The Ionia Sanction by Gary Corby
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe case takes Nico, in the company of a beautiful slave girl, to the land of Ionia within the Persian Empire. The Persians will execute him on the spot if they think he's a spy. Beyond that, there are only a few minor problems:He's being chased by brigands who are only waiting for the right price before they kill him... -
![Taj: A Story of Mughal India by Timeri N. Murari]()
Taj: A Story of Mughal India by Timeri N. Murari
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen his queen Arjumand Banu-Mumtaz-i-Mahal-the Chosen One of the Palace-died, Shah Jahan wanted to build a monument that was the image of his perfect love for her. For twenty-two years, twenty thousand men laboured day and night to fulfill the emperor's obsession. The result was the Taj Mahal, a marble mausoleum lined with gold, silver and precious jewels... -
![I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel by April Sinclair]()
I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel by April Sinclair
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA successful female DJ refuses to let a few romantic catastrophes keep her down in award-winning author April Sinclair’s dazzlingly soulful novel that was hailed as “a Bridget Jones’s Diary for black women” by the New York Times Book Review Daphne “Dee Dee” Dupree has arrived at age 41 with a career she loves, but a romantic life she doesn’t... -
![Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death by Gyles Brandreth]()
Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death by Gyles Brandreth
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe second witty installment in an astonishingly authentic historical mystery series featuring detective Oscar Wilde and his partner in crime, Arthur Conan Doyle.It's 1892, and Wilde is the toast of London, riding high on the success of his play Lady Windemere's Fan... -
![Komu zginął trup? by Małgorzata Starosta]()
Komu zginął trup? by Małgorzata Starosta
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZwłoki można zgubić, ale można je również znaleźć.Patolog sądowy Jeremi Organek oraz jego przyjaciółka, historyczka Linda Miller, ku rozpaczy tego pierwszego i wściekłości tej drugiej muszą skrócić pobyt na zlocie fanów zabytkowych pojazdów na zamku Topacz, kiedy poza nieoczekiwanym legatem wchodzą w posiadanie zwłok... -
![Aztec Blood by Gary Jennings]()
Aztec Blood by Gary Jennings
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe third volume in Gary Jennings' historical epic that began with Aztec and Aztec Autumn. In this colorful and exciting era of swords and cloaks, upheaval and revolution, a young beggar boy, in whose blood runs that of both Spanish and Aztec royalty must claim his birthright... -
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![Mistletoe Mysteries by Charlotte MacLeod, Peter Lovesey]()
Mistletoe Mysteries by Charlotte MacLeod, Peter Lovesey
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEvery one of the great detectives of literature, from Sherlock Holmes to Hercule Poirot to Nero Wolfe, has endured a holiday marred by murder. Now, modern mystery writers including Mary Higgins Clark, Marcia Muller, Aaron Elkins, and others place their detectives in a Yuletide setting for a special mix of murder and mistletoe... -
![A Girl's Guide To Kissing Frogs by Victoria Clayton]()
A Girl's Guide To Kissing Frogs by Victoria Clayton
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA girl may have to kiss some frogs before she finds her Prince Charming, but Marigold has found herself a real toad. On her way to becoming a prima ballerina, she is bent over backwards - literally - working her way to the top. But a painful fall sends her limping back home, where an old friend is ready to sweep her off her feet... -
![Black Diamond by Zakes Mda]()
Black Diamond by Zakes Mda
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKristin Uys is a tough Roodepoort magistrate who lives alone with her cat. She is on a one-woman crusade to wipe out prostitution in the town for reasons that have personal significance for her. Although she is unable to convict the Visagie Brothers, Stevo and Shortie, on charges of running a brothel, she manages to nail Stevo for contempt of court and gives him a summary six-month sentence... -
![Decent People by De'Shawn Charles Winslow]()
Decent People by De'Shawn Charles Winslow
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winning author De'Shawn Charles Winslow, a sweeping and unforgettable novel of a Black community reeling from a triple homicide, and the secrets the killings reveal.In the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina in 1976, Marian, Marva, and Lazarus Harmon-three enigmatic siblings-are found shot to death in their home... -
![Cotton by Christopher Wilson]()
Cotton by Christopher Wilson
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom his Icelandic father, Lee Cotton gets his marble skin and blue eyes. From his mixedrace mother he gains his black identity. From his Mambo grandmother he inherits forebodings about his future. It's a combination that sets Lee apart from the other black kids growing up in Eureka, Mississippi. It marks Lee as slightly odd--and very white... -
![Katherine by Anchee Min]()
Katherine by Anchee Min
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis novel, described by the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review as "nothing short of miraculous," is the story of Zebra Wong, a Chinese girl whose pragmatic mind conflicts with her passionate heart; Lion Head, her classmate, whose penchant for romantic intrigue belies his political ambitions, and Katherine, the seductive American with the red lipstick and the wild laugh who teaches them English...
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