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  • Kayla's Trick by Jean Grainger

    Kayla's Trick by Jean Grainger

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
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    drama  adult  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Last Bitch Standing by Deja King

    Last Bitch Standing by Deja King

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the final installment of the Bitch Series, Precious Cummings only has one agenda and that is to destroy her most conniving enemy yet, Maya. Precious has no doubt that she can shut it down, the only problem is locating her nemesis who has disappeared with her husband, Supreme and daughter, Aaliyah...
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    drama  adult  book  fiction  urban
  • Mercy by Love Belvin

    Mercy by Love Belvin

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ashira, a belle from the suburbs, is the wealthy acting CEO of her father’s booming building firm. That’s when she’s not the dancer on the Gram and TikTok, dating the latest Black Hollywood shooting star.To her, Jas, a construction laborer, is a walking conundrum. He’s fruitlessly ambitious yet steadfast in his spiritual convictions. He’s enigmatic, well-read, regimented, and poor...
  • Stackin' Paper by Deja King

    Stackin' Paper by Deja King

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In Stackin Paper 2, Genesis is out for blood and redemption. He s on a mission to get retribution on the person responsible for murdering his best friend and to make it back to the love he left behind, Talisa. But as he closes in on his enemy the Feds begin closing in on him. While CoCo sits alone in her jail cell, her regret turns to rage...
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    drama  contemporary  fiction  urban
  • End Zone Love by Love Belvin

    End Zone Love by Love Belvin

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After losing an improbable opportunity at the Super Bowl, Trent Bailey still has something to prove. He’s come out, not only as America’s favorite redemption story, but also a married man; a marriage not yet known to the public. He’s trusting more, finding his home more comfortable and befitting a Connecticut King. Jade’s a new woman now. Her insecurities are under control at Trent’s side...
  • Painlessly in Love by M. Monique

    Painlessly in Love by M. Monique

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love has never been something Champaign Halo desired to have. The only woman he ever loved was his mother and losing her pushes him to never want to experience that type of heartache again. Professional football is his heart’s desire and being at the top of his game fuels his drive for success...
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    celebrity  drama  romance  poc-mc  abuse  sports  urban  fiction
  • Le Jardin de Gethsémani : roman by Ivan Bahrianyi

    Le Jardin de Gethsémani : roman by Ivan Bahrianyi

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    У творі талановитого українського письменника Івана Багряного зображено потужну сталінську машину свавілля і беззаконь, яка нищила людину морально і фізично. В центрі роману образ інженера Андрія Чумака, який в роки терору потрапляє до в`язниці. Могутній дух і воля не дають зламатися йому навіть у нелюдських умовах...
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    drama  audiobook  classics  fiction
  • Grace by Love Belvin

    Grace by Love Belvin

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ashira is now in the know of Jas’ complicated world—or is she? The “construction laborer” is really a wealthy felon with too many inexplicable circumstances to fathom for her narrow worldviews. But will Jas share more of his complexities? Will Ashira be able to absorb them with understanding, leaving the judgement behind?Two souls, still galaxies apart, but bound by love...
  • Billionaire Status by Natisha Raynor

    Billionaire Status by Natisha Raynor

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ...
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    celebrity  cheating  domestic-drama  sports
  • FALLING FOR HIS SAVAGE WAYS by M. Monique

    FALLING FOR HIS SAVAGE WAYS by M. Monique

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ...
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    drama  poc-mc  fiction  book  adult  romance
  • আদর্শ হিন্দু হোটেল by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

    আদর্শ হিন্দু হোটেল by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ইংরেজ সময়ের পটভূমিতে এ উপন্যাসে লেখক তৎকালীন ব্রাহ্মণ সমাজের একজন 'রাঁধুনী বামুণ', হাজারী দেবশর্মার জীবনকথা সুনিপুণভাবে তুলে...
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    drama  audiobook  classics  fiction
  • Laike by Grey Huffington

    Laike by Grey Huffington

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ...
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    drama  adult  book  fiction  poc-mc
  • The Carter Boys by Desiree M. Granger

    The Carter Boys by Desiree M. Granger

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    So what happens when a slick mouth educated girl from Brooklyn NY. decides to go off to college in the capital of the south, Atlanta Ga?? She quickly gets introduced to the Atlanta life style where Bruh is said every other word. Dreaded fro’s are a must. Hot lemon pepper wings are law. West side accents are always thicker than the east side. Nobody says ATL unless they’re from out of town...
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    drama  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  poc-mc
  • Mafia Princess by Deja King, Michelle Monay

    Mafia Princess by Deja King, Michelle Monay

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The story of a Goon and his Daughter Semaj Richardson was raised by the streets, and her ambition was to own them. Changing foreign whips as she hustles one major drug dealer after another is just a day in the life with her treacherous father as her #1 partner in crime. The devious duo s schemes lead to murder plots and countless setups...
  • Free Agent by Christina C. Jones

    Free Agent by Christina C. Jones

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For Rori Mitchell, delulu is decidedly not the solulu.Getting her lick back is.What starts as chance encounter at a sporting event ends up being a perfect distraction from the chaos of a broken heart. Instead of throwing herself into work, she throws herself - for good or bad - into Tatum Wilder.An offensive tackle for the Connecticut Kings, Tatum is used to high-stakes games and intense scrutiny...
  • Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad

    Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Twin children Jeanne and Simon want to solve the mystery of their origins. In retracing the bitter history of their mother, who is about to die, other characters come into the story—witnesses or key players able to assist in the investigation. Carried aloft by poetic language, the inquiry pursued by Jeanne and Simon unfolds in a dreamlike atmosphere...
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    drama  classics  contemporary  fiction  university  war
  • Love In the Red Zone by Love Belvin

    Love In the Red Zone by Love Belvin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can you tell the difference between a distraction and a blessing? It should be simple, but sometimes what we think is a distraction can actually be a turning of the tide required to bring life full circle, to a place of blessing. Meet Trent Bailey, who is fighting for the right to continue his stellar professional football career after enduring striking legal woes in the recent past...
  • Still: Your Best by Monica Walters

    Still: Your Best by Monica Walters

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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    celebrity  cheating  domestic-drama  steamy
  • The Promise by Love Belvin

    The Promise by Love Belvin

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ojasvi “Sin” Sinclair.Fast-forwarding three years after it was finally revealed, what’s in a name?Ashira now knows the man she once thought of as a felon laborer is far more than the task she’d bargained for. Yes, he’s a convicted felon who works in home-building...
  • Still the Baddest Bitch by Deja King

    Still the Baddest Bitch by Deja King

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Aaliyah Mills Carter has to step up and watch the throne, to prove she has what it takes to be the Baddest Bitch. Chaos has always surrounded her family but now death may have hit too close to home. There are so many questions but not enough answers...
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    drama  black-mc  contemporary  female-mc  fiction  urban
  • A Dangerous Love by J. Peach

    A Dangerous Love by J. Peach

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Young, smart and independent twenty-four-year old Peaches Johnson is trying to enjoy life to its fullest. But her overprotective and controlling brother, King, always stand in the way of everything that she wants, freedom. That is until she meets Blaze. Blaze, a friend of King's, had been warned that Peaches is off limits. But Blaze like can’t help the attraction he feels for her...
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    drama  adult  book  fiction  steamy  urban
  • Saint Ave. by Charae Lewis

    Saint Ave. by Charae Lewis

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when two souls bind together after leaving grueling chapters in their lives? A fire is set ablaze when Yazmin enters the Saintil Household. She’s offered an opportunity that would greatly benefit her but soon realizes that the work may be too strenuous. Matters are made worse when a larger-than-life personality enters her existence...
  • Mafia Princess Part 2 by Deja King, Michelle Monay

    Mafia Princess Part 2 by Deja King, Michelle Monay

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this world you come in on your feet but you leave out in a coffin.The Milano Family is known to be notorious, and Semaj has witnessed it firsthand, but when someone blows up the family car, leaving two close relatives dead, Semaj s world falls apart and she discovers the downside of a life of crime...
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    drama  urban  black-mc  fiction  female-mc
  • Death Leaves a Shadow: A Marlowe Black Mystery by Gabriel F.W. Koch

    Death Leaves a Shadow: A Marlowe Black Mystery by Gabriel F.W. Koch

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Then comes the brutal announcement that his pregnant fianc�e has committed suicide. Marlowe simply cannot accept the official verdict, and as anguish and rage replace the love he once felt, he is driven by a madness that forces him to question his own integrity while he hunts an elusive killer."Koch is an author who has his priorities in order...
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    drama  contemporary  epic  fiction  hard-boiled  mystery
  • Murder on the Naval Base by Behcet Kaya

    Murder on the Naval Base by Behcet Kaya

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Murder on the Naval Base begins with a blurry account of a cold-blooded shooting of a couple, singled out while having dinner at an Officer's Club. The prime suspect is apprehended hours later while apparently attempting to flee the state...
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    drama  contemporary  epic  fiction  mystery
  • Todos los días son nuestros by Catalina Aguilar Mastretta

    Todos los días son nuestros by Catalina Aguilar Mastretta

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    El debut novelístico del año.Veníamos de una fiesta de disfraces, cosa ideal, dado que andábamos en el esfuerzo de parecer puras cosas que no éramos… para empezar: felices. Emiliano se había vestido de Darth Vader, yo me había embutido en un traje de Gatúbela… Habíamos decidido ir vestidos de dos entes negros y cabrones...
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    drama  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Virgin River Collection Volume 2 (A Virgin River Novel) by Robyn Carr

    Virgin River Collection Volume 2 (A Virgin River Novel) by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Now available in a box set collection, return to Virgin River with these beloved stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr.Second Chance PassVanessa Rutledge’s new baby is helping heal her heart after the death of her husband. She longs to share this love with former Marine Paul Haggerty, her husband’s best friend, but he’s keeping his distance...
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    drama  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Suddenly Trouble by J.A. Low

    Suddenly Trouble by J.A. Low

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She was everything he wasn’t allowed have. Isla Eriksen was the girl next door, my best friend’s little sister, the girl he warned me never to touch. Sometimes rules are hard to stick to. Over the years I tried to stay away, but when she needed me the most I was there for her and all the rules I stuck by went out the window...
  • Das Feuer retten: Roman by Guillermo Arriaga

    Das Feuer retten: Roman by Guillermo Arriaga

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Eine ekstatische Liebe und der Wille, alles aufs Spiel zu setzen, vereinen sich in diesem temporeichen Roman über diemexikanische Unterwelt zu einem Spiel auf Leben und Tod. Arriaga lässt die Milieus einer bürgerlichen Tänzerin und eines Kriminellen aufeinanderprallen und schreibt den intensivsten und gefährlichsten Roman des Jahres...
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    drama  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Jelena, žena koje nema by Ivo Andrić

    Jelena, žena koje nema by Ivo Andrić

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jelena, žena koje nema (Jelena, a Woman Who's Not Here; 1962) belongs to the inter-war period. It is the expression of an abstract idea in concrete terms, suggesting the force with which quite abstract notions and vague impressions can impose themselves on the imagination, demanding to be recognized as no less real than 'reality...
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    drama  classics  fiction  philosophy  psychological
  • Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal

    Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Since its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays...
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    drama  20th-century  classics  fiction  university
  • The Player Gets Coached  (Bachelor) by Janet Nissenson

    The Player Gets Coached (Bachelor) by Janet Nissenson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Manwhore Versus The ManeaterFinn McManus thrives on his reputation as a player’s player – a term that has nothing to do with his years as a professional athlete. A notorious flirt and ladies man, the handsome, charming retired football player rarely dates a woman more than a few times, and shies away from relationships like they were a contagious disease...
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    celebrity  drama  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor  sports
  • The Last Fight by Mel Dau

    The Last Fight by Mel Dau

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    drama  adult  book  cheating  domestic-drama  fiction
  • Gloves Off by Mel Dau

    Gloves Off by Mel Dau

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ...
    Categorized as:
    drama  adult  book  fiction
  • Southern Kings 3: A Gangster Love Story by KC Mills

    Southern Kings 3: A Gangster Love Story by KC Mills

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With a potential new family member entering their world, the Masters clan is having to do some adjusting. Yetti more so than anyone. Thank goodness for him that Reelle is there to set the pace. But will he get a handle on his guilt or will it get the best of him...
    Categorized as:
    drama
  • This Industry Ain't Meant For Hood Love by Heiress

    This Industry Ain't Meant For Hood Love by Heiress

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This Industry is about music, not about love. Yes, the artist may sing about it but do they really want love when they can rather have money, power and fame?Peso is the rudest most disrespectful trap artist you will ever encounter. Rapping about his drugs, money and women who he could careless for, is his specialty. That four-letter word meant nothing to him...
    Categorized as:
    celebrity
  • Trust My Love Not Their Lies by Kaylyn

    Trust My Love Not Their Lies by Kaylyn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ...
    Categorized as:
    celebrity  adult  book  fiction
  • Luvin' A Certified Thug by K.C. Mills

    Luvin' A Certified Thug by K.C. Mills

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cameron Sands, or better known as Cam in the streets, had been by his father’s side running BCE for as long as he could remember. But after his mother passed and his father, Terry “Big Cali” Sands decided that it was time for him to finally step down, Cameron could only think of one person he wanted by his side and that was his little brother, Canan...
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    drama  adult  book  crime  fiction
  • Strummed by Iesha Bree

    Strummed by Iesha Bree

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    celebrity  insta-love
  • Tollak til Ingeborg by Tore Renberg

    Tollak til Ingeborg by Tore Renberg

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Dei kallar han Tollak til Ingeborg. Den gamle stabukken som bur oppe ved sagplassen. Alle veit at han har gjort ting på sin eigen måte. Alle veit kva han gjorde med dei gutane. Alle veit at ungane hans ikke kjem heim så ofte. Alle veit han tok til seg han dei kalla Oddotosken. Og alle hugsar den gode kona hans, Ingeborg. Men det er noko folk ikkje veit.Det er på tide å fortelje...
  • Los siguientes by Pedro Simón

    Los siguientes by Pedro Simón

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Morir es tan difícil como inevitable. También para los que sobrevivenEl primer día que tuve que limpiarle el culo a mi padre, me mentí diciéndome que era igual que cuando se lo limpiaba a mi hijo: venga, Carmen, que es lo mismo; va, Carmen, que es tu padre; venga, mujer, que ese hombre te limpió el culo a ti. Me lo repetía como quien está a punto de correr para darse impulso y saltar...
    Categorized as:
    drama  fiction  audiobook  death
  • Feeling Lucky by M.S.M. Barkawitz

    Feeling Lucky by M.S.M. Barkawitz

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Some characters and situations are fictitious. Others are only too real in this modern-day thriller set amid the chaos of a global epidemic and a cultural uprising that set the world ablaze. She's Lucky one day-Jackie the next. Actress or con artist? Avenging angel or gold-digger? Hunter or prey? Straight or lesbian? Black Lives Matter activist? Only she knows the truth...
    Categorized as:
    drama  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • Betrayal of Faith by Mark M. Bello

    Betrayal of Faith by Mark M. Bello

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    How can one have faith when faith itself is corrupt? When Jennifer Tracey discovers that her new parish priest has harmed her two sons, she seeks justice. Standing in her way? The Coalition-a secret church organization tasked with the responsibility of taking care of these types of incidents quickly and quietly and by any means necessary...
    Categorized as:
    drama  contemporary  fiction  legal  mystery
  • Tooth for Tooth by J.K. Franko

    Tooth for Tooth by J.K. Franko

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What would YOU do?What would you do if you got away with murder? Would you stop there? Could you?Susie and Roy thought that they committed the perfect crime.Their planning was meticulous. Their execution was flawless. But, there is always a loose end, isn’t there? Always a singing bone.Now, while enemies multiply and suspicions abound, their perfect world begins to crumble...
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    drama  contemporary  epic  fiction  mystery  suspense
  • The Sacred Well Murders by Susan Rowland

    The Sacred Well Murders by Susan Rowland

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A simple job turns deadly when Mary Wandwalker, novice detective, is hired to chaperone a young American, Rhiannon, to the Oxford University Summer School on the ancient Celts. Worried by a rhetoric of blood sacrifice, Mary and her operatives, Caroline, and Anna, attend a sacrifice at a sacred well. They discover that those who fail to individuate their gods become possessed by them...
    Categorized as:
    drama  fiction  contemporary  mystery  epic
  • Harlem On Lock by Karen P. Williams

    Harlem On Lock by Karen P. Williams

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Harlem is a beautiful, smart, and funny seventeen year old who lives in the projects with her drug addicted parents. The addiction is so far gone Harlem must fend for herself, and at times do a little hustling of her own to feed their habit...
    Categorized as:
    drama  sexual-assault  dark  substance-abuse  abuse
  • People, Places and Things by Duncan Macmillan

    People, Places and Things by Duncan Macmillan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Emma is in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn't with Emma, it's with everything else. She needs to tell the truth, but she's smart enough to know that there's no such thing...
    Categorized as:
    drama  contemporary  fiction  mental-illness
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