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REVENGE -- is best served cold AUTHOR: TRACIE HOWARD and DANITA CARTER ISBN#: 0-451-20475-1 PRICE: $12.95 Take two women with a score to settle, dream, blend seamlessly into Manhattan high society, and serve chilled.What you have is the debut of the year --a deliciously intoxicating novel about getting even.... |
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THE FISHER KING In 1949, Sonny-Rett Payne, a jazz pianist, fled New York for Paris to escape both his family's disapproveal of his music and the the racism that shadowed his career.Now,decades later, his eight-year-old grandson is brought to Payne's old Brooklyn neighborhood to attend a memorial concert in his honor.The child's visit reveals the persistent family and community rivalries that drove his grandfather into exil. |
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WAY THE WIND BLOWS AUTHOR: E. LYNN HARRIS ISBN#: 0-385-49505-6 PRICE: $19.95 Left at the altar a year before, jilted Broadway bombshell Yancey Harrington Braxton stages her comeback--this time as a recording star ---but has she forgiven ex-fiance` Basil, or does she still need to even the score? As Yancey's star continues to rise, her past threatens to catch up with her and she fears someone may be after her as well ... |
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SEX and the SINGLE SISTER AUTHOR: MARYANN REID ISBN#: 0-312-27498-X PRICE: $23.00 A fine,ambitious sister on the rise to stardom, junior correspondent to NBC News, Farah's got life right where she wants it...on a string.And she's looking for a quick hook-up, someone who will be the icing on the cake. But this sister's about to learn what happens when you take the fast track to love.... |
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THE TIES THAT BIND |
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LOOKIN' FOR LUV AUTHOR: CARL WEBER ISBN#: 1-57566-695-2 PRICE: $14.00 Kevin left behind a chance at the NBA to coach delinquents, but his toughest assignment is finding a girl who won't make his mama's church group fall into praying mode. A teacher and a poet, Antoine can make a sister feel beautiful---or want to beat him with a blow dryer. Tyrone has talent, a bad attitude, and a crush on his boss's wife. And Maurice is all that, if "that" means rude, arrogant,and dishonest. |
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MEN AUTHOR: CARL WEBER ISBN#: 1-57566-696-0 PRICE: $14.00 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 cutie pies. |
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LINDEN HILLS AUTHOR: GLORIA NAYLOR ISBN#: 0-14-008829-6 PRICE: $12.95 A world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it ,lies Linden Hills. With its showcase home, elegant lawns,and other trappings of wealth,Linden Hills is not unlike other affluent black communities. But residence in this community is indisputable evidence of "making it." Although no one knows what the precise qualifications are,everyone knows that only certain people get to live there ----and that they want to be among them. |
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THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE AUTHOR: GLORIA NAYLOR ISBN#: 0-14-006690-X PRICE: $11.95 In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves the truths and the myths of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak inner-city sanctuary, into a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths,struggles,and hopes of black women in today's America. |
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DAY LATE and a DOLLAR SHORT AUTHOR: TERRY McMiLLAN ISBN#: 0-670-89676-4 PRICE: $25.95 With her hallmark exuberance and a cast of characters so sassy, resilient, and full of life that they breathe, dream, and shout right off the pages, Terry McMillian has given us a tour-de-force novel of family, healing, and redemption. |
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READ BETWEEN THE LIES AUTHOR: LORI BRYANT WOOLRIDGE ISBN#: 0-446-60911-0 PRICE: $6.99 Meet three of the sexiest women in the glitz and swirl of the New York fashion world. They'll bond…They'll battle… in an arena where beauty, brains, and even lovers are both emblems of pride and weapons of war. |
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LIKE BOOGIE ON TUESDAY AUTHOR: LINDA DOMINIQUE GROSVENOR ISBN#: 0-970-01021-4 PRICE: $14.95 Nina Madison is a voluptuous and intelligent career woman however she habitually allows men to come in and out her life leaving her feeling unappreciated and self-conscious. When she gets burned for the last time, she builds a wall and vows to never indulge her heart again, until she finds herself helplessly drawn to the untapped possibilities of third chances, life and love. |
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THE FISHER KING AUTHOR: PAULE MARSHALL ISBN#: 0-684-87283-8 PRICE: $23.00 Two intransigent old women, a couple of gentrified Brooklyn brownstones generations past Brown Girl, a son-a jazz musician-driven in those years to Paris, a lovely French speaking grandson at his grandfather's Pianola, other voices, lives, four generations looking at one another. The Fisher King is a solid beautiful book. |
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JAZZ AUTHOR: TONI MORRISON ISBN#: 0-452-26965-2 PRICE: $12.95 Jazz is a story about passion, jealousy, murder and redemption, of sex and spirituality, slavery and liberation, country and city. It is a novel about the rapture and anguish of being male and female and, above all, human. Like the music of its title, it is a dazzlingly lyric play on clemental themes as soaring and daring as a Charlie Parker solo,, as heartbreaking as the blues. |
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SONG OF SOLOMON AUTHOR: TONI MORRISON ISBN#: 0-452-26011-6 PRICE: $12.95 Full of lyrical variety and allusiveness peopled with an amazing collection of losers and fighters, innocents and murderers, followers of ghosts and followers of money, all of whom add to the pleasure of this exceptionally diverse novel. |
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BABY AUTHOR: TONI MORRISON ISBN#: 0-452-26479-0 PRICE: $12.95 Tar Baby is the story of a love affair between a black model, molded by white culture, and a black man who represents everything she fears and desires. Toni Morrison probes deeply and sensitively into relationships between blacks and whites, blacks and blacks and women and men achieving a new emotional intensity and overwhelming narrative drive. |
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COOKIE CUTTER AUTHOR: STERLING ANTHONY ISBN#: 0-345-43568-0 PRICE: $14.00 If you see him, you will not know him. If you greet him, if may be too late. For every image you have of a murderer he will defy it. And he will make you pay. A woman haunted by a tragedy in her own past, homicide lieutenant "Bloody Mary" Cunningham now tracks an elusive killer who, like an apparition,, materializes out of nothing, then escapes into the folds of night. |
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AN EIGHTH OF AUGUST AUTHOR: DAWN TURNER TRICE ISBN#: 0-517-70589-3 PRICE: $22.95 With only twice I've wished for heaven Dawn Turner Trice established herself as a powerful and unique new fiction writer with a first novel called "touching and memorable" now with An Eighth of August, she delivers on the promise of her stunning debut with an eloquent, evocative novel about the strong ties and haunting memories that bind family and friends in a small town. |
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PRICE OF PASSION AUTHOR: EVELYN PALFREY ISBN#: 0-671-04220-3 PRICE: $12.95 What would be the proper question to ask her husband of nearly twenty years, when he brings home his illegitimate baby as casually as a bag of groceries? Although Walter's frequent infidelities became increasingly obvious to Vivian, she struggled to accept them. After all, she reasoned, they came with the Mercedes, the beautiful house, and the prestige of being Mrs. Carlson |
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YO YO LOVE AUTHOR: DAAIMAH S. POOLE ISBN#: 0-9676028-1-5 PRICE: $12.95 Yo Yo Love is funny, poignant, and full of action. We may not want to admit it, but we've been through drama and trauma that Kayla funds herself experiencing. Written in a language and style that young people of today can relate to. Yo Yo Love is sure to be the smash hit of the year and Daaimah S. Poole just might be the voice of a new generation. |
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WHERE I'M BOUND AUTHOR: ALLEN B. BALLARD ISBN#: 0-684-87031-2 PRICE: $24.00 Rising from the dead, the voices of black soldiers in the Civil War whisper, shout and wail how that societal conflict really felt, smelled and tasted; all through the gifted and nimble storytelling of Allen Ballard. It is especially fitting that this quintessential Civil War epic waited for historian and scholar Ballard to bring it to life. |
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GOD DON'T LIKE UGLY AUTHOR: MARY MONROE ISBN#: 1-57566-607-3 PRICE: $15.00 Mary Monroe brings to life the bond between two girls from opposite sides of the track and the shattering event that changes their lives forever. At the heart of the story is Annette Goode, a shy, awkward, overweight child who keeps a terrible secret. Mr. Boatwright, the boarder her hardworking mother has taken in, abuses her daily. Frightened and ashamed, Annette withdraws into a world of books and food. |
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BLIND AMBITIONS AUTHOR: LOLITA FILES ISBN#: 0-684-87144-0 PRICE: $23.00 Served up Lolita Files-style, as only she can do it, Blind Ambitions brings to life an entire new cast of hilarious, intriguing, and sometimes tragic characters in fresh situations-with West Coast flava! It's a peek into a sexy, cutthroat, thrill a minute Hollywood that keeps you guessing every step of the way. |
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THE PRISONER'S WIFE AUTHOR: ASHA BASNDELE ISBN#: 0-671-02148-6 PRICE: $12.95 As a favor for a friend, a bright and talented young woman volunteered to read her poetry to a group of prisoners during a Black History Month program. It was an encounter that would alter her life forever, because it was there, in the prison, that she would meet Rashid, the man who was to become her friend, her confidant, her husband, her lover, her soul mate. |
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THE POISONWOOD BIBLE AUTHOR: BARBARA KINGOLVER ISBN#: 0-06-093053-5 PRICE: $14.00 The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it from garden seeds to Scripture is calamitously transformed on African soil. |
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DROWNING RUTH AUTHOR: CHRISTINA SCHWARTZ ISBN#: 0-385-50253-2 PRICE: $23.95 Deftly written and emotionally powerful Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. A mesmerizing and achingly beautiful debut. |
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THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET AUTHOR: SANDRA CISNEROS ISBN#: 0-679-73477-5 PRICE: $9.95 Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House On Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner city grand schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world. |
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THE WAY FORWARD IS WITH A BROKEN HEART AUTHOR: ALICE WALKER ISBN#: 0-679-45587-6 PRICE: $23.95 This book gives us superb stories based on rich truths from her own experience. Imbued with Walker's wise philosophy and understanding of people, the spirit, sex and love. The Way Forward Is With A broken Heart begins with a lyrical, autobiographical story of a marriage set in the violent and volatile Deep South during the early years of the civil rights movement. |
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FAST BLACK AUTHOR: FREDERICK D. SHAW, JR. ISBN#: 1-881524-75-2 PRICE: $13.95 Being a black man in the Wild West in the 1880's was rough. Being a legendary fast Black was rougher, Gunner irons,, the fastest gunslinger in the West, is returning home after seven years. He thinks his biggest problem will be confronting his strong-minded wife, Melissa. Little does he know that he will have to contend with the deadly greed of the Baron-the most powerful man in town, and with other gunslingers white and black alike who wand to challenge a legend. |
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MOVE OVER GIRL AUTHOR: BRIAN PETERSON ISBN#: 0-9664587-0-2 PRICE: $12.00 Something inside of me always holds me back from going all out with a girl and letting my emotions become to involved. Was it the rules I set up for myself before I even get with anybody, preventing me from getting too close because I categorized our relationship either as a purely physical, or see each other/just kicking it. What happened to boyfriend/girlfriend? When did that fall off the option list. |
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BLACKGAMMON AUTHOR: HEATHER NEFF ISBN#: 0-345-43611-3 PRICE: $24.00 A sweeping, unforgettable debut novel that traces remarkable parallel voyages of self discovery, Blackgammon reveals the intertwined lives of two African American women soul sisters whos vow to stay true to one another will carry them through love, loss and triumph on the way to finding out who they really are… and who they were meant to be. |
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THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR AUTHOR: SAM GREENLEE ISBN#: 1-883080-01-1 PRICE: $6.95 Your city is in the sight of a weapon so powerful you can't escape its best, a weapon loaded with 300 years worth of hate and hostile neglect. The weapon-a United Black America. This is the story of what could happen when the weapon strikes…it could happen before you finish the book. |
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A WOMAN'S GOTTA DO AUTHOR: EVELYN COLEMAN ISBN#: 0-440-23500-6 PRICE: $6.50 Patricia Conley considers herself to be a brother's worst nightmare. A lifetime of hurt has made her fierce.. A lifetime of victories has made her proud. And a whole lot of hope keeps her going. Now Patricia's most daring stab a happiness has come up bad. The man shee was supposed to marry has stood her up. Last seen holding hands with another woman, Kenneth Lawson has vanished. |
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AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER AUTHOR: JAMAICA KINCAID ISBN#: 0-452-26754-4 PRICE: $8.95 In this extraordinary collection of ten stories, Jamaica Kincaid plunges us into an intensely physical world, partly remembered, partly divined a childhood in the Caribbean family, manner, and landscape transformed by her haunting, visionary style. |
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NOT A DAY GOES BY AUTHOR: E. LYNN HARRIS ISBN#: 0-385-49824-1 PRICE: $19.95 He is a devilish and handsome ex-football player,, now a rising sports agent at one of the hottest firms in the country. Irresponsible and dangerously alluring, John "Basil" Henderson has a history with women (and a few men). Basil is known for a double-edged magnatism that has the ability to thrill...and wound. |
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DARK MATTER AUTHOR: SHEREE R. THOMAS ISBN#: 0-44652583-9 PRICE: $24.95 Speculative fiction, assumed to be the games of alternative thought:; however, too often these realms of imagination reflect only the Occidental vision and culture. Now an important new anthology, the first of its kind, explodes such preconceptions with more than a century of fantastic fiction by preminent and emerging authors of the African diaspora, including recipients of literature's most prestigious awards. |
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FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY AUTHOR: OMAR TYREE 0-684-87291-9 ISBN#: 0-525-944873-4 PRICE: $24.00 Tracy Ellison, the sizzling heroine of the best-selling Flyy Girl , returns inj this razor sharp sequel from acclaimed author Omar Tyree. From hard-knocks Philly all the way to glamourous Hollywood, Tracy Ellison has truly walked the walk. Now twenty eight years old and a major movies star, Omar Tyree's uncompromising Flyy Girl is returning to her East Coast roots. |
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DO OR DIE AUTHOR: GRACE F. EDWARDS ISBN#: 0-385-49248-0 PRICE: $22.95 Harlem's supersleuth Mali Andersoon is back on the case in the fourth installment of Grace Edward's beautifully rendered and critically acclaimed Mail Anderson mystery series. All of the charactors Edward's fans love are back. This time Mali and company take to the high seas for a brief trip aboard the QE2. |
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GAME AUTHOR: ERIC JEROME DICKEY ISBN#: 0-525-944873-4 PRICE: $23.95 Running from a relationship that lasted way to long, Dana Ann Smith leaves her native New York City and strikes out for Los Angeles—the perfect place, she thinks, to start over with a new atmosphere, a new job, and a new man. When she meets Vincent Calvary Browne Jr., he seems like a dream come true: handsome, hardworking with a good job as an aerospace tech, and sexy in a strong, silent kind of way. |
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DOCTOR’S DATE WITH DEATH AUTHOR: PIUS K. KAMAU ISBN#: 0-87067-892-2 PRICE: $12.95 There are unknown forces, beyond our realm of comprehension, which control our fate even our moment of death. When Dr. Lewis McDonald got out of bed on the morining of his death. He was a wealthy, popular, Denver heart surgeon.. He’d perform an emergency surgery, save a life, only moments before his own date with death came at the hands of a man, a clever, sometimes charming man, who butchered surgeons. |
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SEVENTH CHILD AUTHOR: ERNEST J. GAINES ISBN#: 0-375-70270-9 PRICE: $12.00 Meet Freddie Mac Baster: 75 years old, strong, compassionate, hauntingly wise. A woman who grew up in poverty, the seventh of eight children, at the height of Jim Crow. A woman who picked cotton, worked in a factory, and raised the child sentenced to death. |
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AND MOUSE AUTHOR: JAMES PATTERSON ISBN#: 0-446-60618-9 PRICE: $7.99 A murderer named Gary Soneji patiently waits in the basement of Alex Cross' s home in Washington. He has come to kill cross and his family. That' s just the beginning of the greatest page turner in years. Two mind-numbing killers one operating up and down the East Coast of America, one in Europe believe Cross is their only worthy opponent. They dare to ask the ultimate question: Is Alex Cross about to die? |
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LIFE FOR A LIFE AUTHOR: Ernest Hill ISBN#: 0-375-70070-6 PRICE: $13.00 A Life for a Life is a dazzling and profound tale of cosmic fate and social forces, of violence and forgiveness . With this novel Ernest Hill clearly establishes himself as one of our finest writers. From a tale of tutiful, and utterly amoral Deborah Caughlin Kelly. But one night, in the prime existence, he hears the moon talking to him on the terrace of a fashionable that infinitely seductive voice that Rojack murders his wife. |
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BLACKER THE BERRY AUTHOR: ERNEST HILL ISBN#: 0-684-82278-4 PRICE: $23.00 A lost classic of Black American literature, The Blacker The Berry is a compelling portrait of the destructive depth of racial bias in this country. A new introduction by, Ernest Hill poignantly extracts a compelling story of the love, faith, integrity, and perserverance that have sustained black families and that have been the central ingredients in transforming boys into men. |
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S PERFECT AUTHOR: PATRICIA HALEY-BROWN ISBN#: 0-9663174-1-6 PRICE: $12.95 Rachel is 30 and single. She wants to get married soon, but she will settle for no less than the perfect husband. She prays to God for Mr. Right, but things aren' t moving fast enough for her. In the interim, she develops a 12-point checklist to help sift through the perpetrators. |
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ALL MINE AUTHOR: CHARLES EDWARDS ISBN#: 0-94839-062-X PRICE: $12.95 Imani all mine tells the story of Tasha, a fourteen year old unwed mother of a baby girl. her ghettoized world, where poverty, racism, and danger are daily struggles, Tasha uses her savvy and humor to uncover the good hidden around her. The name she gives her daughter, Imani, is a sign of her determination and fundamental trust. |
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TITLE: BEYOND OUR MOTHER' S
FOOTSTEPS AUTHOR: BREGGIE JAMES ISBN#: 0-9659042-1-0 PRICE: $12.95 As Barbara Stevens drifts in and out of consciousness in her hospital bed, she recalls secrets that ruined friendships and families. She begins to wonder if the time has come to reveal those secrets kept for so long. As ahe struggles with this decision, you are taken into the relationship of Linda, Melanie, Gina and Lisa. TITLE: BEYOND OUR MOTHER' S FOOTSTEPS AUTHOR: BREGGIE JAMES ISBN#: 0-9659042-1-0 PRICE: $12.95 As Barbara Stevens drifts in and out of consciousness in her hospital bed, she recalls secrets that ruined friendships and families. She begins to wonder if the time has come to reveal those secrets kept for so long. As ahe struggles with this decision, you are taken into the |
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S FIRST AUTHOR: BERNADETTE Y. CONNOR ISBN#: 0-94839-062-X PRICE: $12.95 With the Vice President dying of a heart attack days earlier, the President and speaker of the house are assassinated in a London hotel & The laws of succession act states that next in line to lead the nation is the Senate Pk,Inro-Tempore, which happens to be a Black Senator from Illinois with ties to America' s most influential mob family. |
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S BY GOLLY WOW AUTHOR: YOLANDA JOE ISBN#: 0-440-23525-1 PRICE: $6.50 Bebe' s got a brand new tight fitting money green dress. Isaac has three dollars in his wallet and fifty out on loan. Bebe' s wearing her best lipstick. Isaac' s got a shirt that could have been on Soul Train, a car that won' t start, and a pair of free tickets to a happening nightclub he' ll wish he never used. All in all, it's a first date made somewhere far from heaven. And it' s the start of something really hot. |
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TITLE: DAMAGED AUTHOR: BERNADETTE Y. CONNOR ISBN#: 0-9650970-2-1 PRICE: $14.95 Adrena Reynolds is the teen-age survivor of years of child abuse, culminating in a brutal rape that leaves her filled with murderous rage. Psychiatrist Vivian Matthews tries to help Adrena overcome the psychological damage she has suffered. Their relationship grows beyond that of doctor-patient, and Dr. Matthews takes Adrena into her personal life, which includes the handsome, sexy, and successful Howard Shaw. |
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TITLE: DRUMSTICKS AUTHOR: CHARLOTTE CARTER ISBN#: 0-89296-679-3 PRICE: $22.95 After a disastrouss April in Paris, Nanette hit serious rock bottom--and, even in the Big Apple, planned to stay there. So she truly can't believe it when a gift "mojo doll" from mysterious Harlem folk artist Ida Williams starts turning her luck around for the real good. When Ida is suddenly shot to death in the middle of Nanette's new uptown gig, the guilt stricken saxophonist plunges into Ida's rather checkered past. |
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