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Alers, Rochelle [USA]
Careless whispers [ROM]
Genesis Press, 2008Taken by storm [ROM]
Kimani, 2008
When tall, ruggedly handsome US marshall Raphael Madison tells spirited five-foot three floral designer Simone Whitfield that he's her live-in bodyguard for the duration of a high-profile court case, the notion that opposites attract definitely applies.
Alers, Rochelle [USA] and others
Living Large
New American Library, 2003
From four best-selling authors come four stories of women with a plus-size joy for life who find the best of everything in the most unexpected places.
Archer, Devon Vaughn [USA]
Destined to meet [ROM]
Kimani, 2008
Love once again [ROM]
BET Arabesque, 2006
A disastrous early marriage and a bitter divorce have left Richard Lowery convinced that the single life is the only life for him. Janine Henderson feels pretty much the same. Men are bad news. So when the two are thrown together by a minor accident they are more than wary of the obvious attraction between them.
Men cry in the dark
Simon & Schuster, 2001
Four childhood friends who grew up poor become successful entrepreneurs, but something - or someone - in their lives is missing. This novel provides a male perspective on relationships, fatherhood and interracial dating.
Baldwin, James [USA]
Another country
M. Joseph, 1963/Penguin, 1990
Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way.Giovanni's room
Pengion, 1990
Tackling the conflict between homosexual and heterosexual love, this novel tells of David, a young man awakening to his true homosexual nature, through a relationship with a barman named Giovanni, as he awaits his fiancee's arrival from Spain.
Go tell it on the mountain
M. Joseph, 1954/Penguin, 1991
Ebony Reads Top 25 title
First published in 1954, Baldwin's first novel is a short but intense, semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the depression.Going to meet the man (short stories)
{first pub. 1965} Penguin, 1991
A collection of short stories concerned with the subject of racial conflict. The title story is of a man whose hatred has its origins in a scene from his childhood, where his parents and others watch with jubilation, the mutilation and lynching of a black 'criminal'.If Beale Street could talk
{first pub 1974} Penguin, 1994
Bandele, Asha [USA]
The prisoner’s wife: a memoir
Washington Square Press, 2000
How did a beautiful, talented college student fall in love with a man serving twenty-to-life for murder? And why did she marry him? This novel shatters the myths of prisoner's wives and tells a story of the beauty of love.
Barnes, Erica K [USA]
I ain't saying she's a gold digger
Q-Boro, 2008
Beck, Robert - see "Iceberg Slim"
Berry, Bertice [USA]When love calls, you better answer
Harlem Moon, 2006
Berry, Venise [ USA]
All of me: a voluptuous tale
New American Library, 2000
Serpentine is an ambitious TV news reporter with a close family and a hot new romance, but her struggles with her large frame have influenced everything else in her life. She's tried losing weight, but pressured by fans, she has lost all her self esteem.
Blackman, Marci [USA]
Po man’s child
Manic D Press, 1999
Brown, Elaine Meryl [USA]
Playing by the rules
One World Ballantine, 2006
Brown, Parry 'EbonySatin' [USA]
Sittin’ in the front pew
Villard, 2003, Ballantine 2006
Death brings out people's true colours, as Glynda Naylor discovers when she gets the call that her father has died and she must fly from Los Angeles to Baltimore to bury him. As they gather to pay their respects, Glynda and her sisters begin to search for answers about who the real Edward Naylor was.What goes around
Ballantine Books, 2006
Brown, Tracey [USA]
Criminal minded
St Martin's Griffin, 2005Dime piece
Triple Crown Publications, 2004
Bryant, Niobia [USA]
Heated [ROM]
Dafina, 2006Show and tell
Dafina, 2008
In this follow-up to 'Live and Learn' Alize is working side-by-side with Cameron, the only man she's truly loved, Moet is fighting for custody of her daughter, Dom finds out that burying her past is harder than she ever thought possible, and Cristal is befriended by a New York socialite.
Butler, Octavia [USA]
Fledgling {HOR}
Warner, 2007
Butler, Tajuana 'T.J' [USA]
Hand-me-down heartache
Villard, 2003
'Hand-Me-Down Heartache' involves a young woman who finds the strength to break the cycle of heartache and abuse
Controversy [ROM]
Arabesque, 2008
Michael is no angel but she's no murderer either, even if she did joke with her sisters about killing her ex-husband, Phil, after their nasty divorce. How was she to know that someone really wanted Phil dead - or that she would become the prime suspect?Defenceless [ROM]
Arabesque, 2008
Carbado, Devon W. [USA] (ed)
Black like us : a century of lesbian, gay, and bi-sixual African-American fiction [sexual]
Cleis Press, 2002
Channer, Colin [USA]
Satisfy my soul
Ballantine, 2003
Led by a former singer and member of a mystical African tribe to Africa, Carey is forced to confront profound questions of faith, the aching search for home, the long reach of history and the double-edged sword of passion.Waiting in vain
Ballantine, 2003
Set in London, New York and Jamaica, Waiting in Vain is a sexy novel that takes the reader on a journey through the love triangles and tragedies, the career trials and triumphs of the modern black man.
Cherry, James E [USA]
Shadow of light [CRI]
Serpent's Tail, 2007
The festering racial tensions in the Tennessee backwater town of Forrest come to the boil after a black grandmother is raped and shot by a gang of white teenagers. Only one man has the capacity to keep a lid on the mounting violence and that's the town's senior black cop, Walter Robinson.
Cooper, J. California [USA]
Wild stars seeking midnight suns
Anchor Books, 2007
Craft, Francine [USA]
If love is good to me [ROM]
Kimani Press, 2006
Gifted musician Dosha Steele went to Tenerife, Spain, hoping to heal a broken heart and vowing never to love again. Yet in beautiful Puerto de la Cruz she meets brooding millionaire Christian Montero and he draws her into a sensuous web of passion.
Chasing Destiny
Turnaround, 2007
Billie is known on the streets as much for her unusual beauty as for her sexy yellow Ducati motorcycle. She can handle just about anything she meets on the road - but this time she might be headed for a crash.
Genevieve
Turnaround, 2006
From the author of 'Naughty or Nice' and 'Liar's Game', this is the tale of a good man who loves his wife, yet he finds himself drawn into an affair - with his wife's sister. However, both women share a mysterious and troubled past that raises the stakes even higher in this fast-paced story. (pic)Liar’s game
Penguin USA, 2001
Dana Smith has ditched New York city - and a cheating husband - for Los Angeles, looking for a new man, and some stability. She thinks she's found it in Vince Browne, a hardworking aerospace technician. But she decides to hide the secrets from her past.
The other woman
Turnaround, 2004
He works days, she works nights - the central couple in this novel are rapidly drifting apart, instead of growing together. When she finds out about his affair, and starts her own one, the delicate fabric of their marriage is torn irrevocably asunder, or is it?Pleasure
Dutton, 2008
What happens when a woman realises that her 'perfect on paper' boyfriend can't meet all her sexual and emotional needs? She leaves him, that's what. When a chance meeting with a sexy, single stranger excites her, she's tempted to find out if he can fulfil her most basic desires.
Sleeping with strangers [CRI]
Dutton, 2007
With a supporting cast of grifters and killers, broken-hearted squares and streetwalkers and three very different women who each want to become bad-boy Gideon's leading lady, this is a world that thrives on the darker passions of revenge and desire
Dow, Candice [USA]
Ain't no sunshine
Dafina, 2006
When a teenage stripper is rescued from the club she works in by the man of her dreams, everything seems to be falling into place. But things are not always as they seem.
Ellison, Ralph [USA]
Invisible man
Penguin, 1965
American National Book Award winner
Ebony Reads Top 25 title
Spoken Word
The invisible man is the unnamed narrator of this impassioned novel of black lives in 1940s America. Embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being he retreats to an underground cell.
Esdaile, Leslie [USA]
Better than [ROM]
Kensington, 2008
Deborah Lee Jackson has put love at the bottom of her to-do list. Fate, however, has other plans - in the form of successful, free-spirited painter Jason Hastings. Can their romance hold up when real life interferes?
Everett, Percival [USA]
Erasure
Faber, 2003/2004
Avant-garde novelist and college professor, woodworker, and fly fisherman - Thelonious Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and an African American he is offended and angered by the success of 'We's Lives in Da Getto'.
Beyond desire [ROM}
Kimani, 2008
Amanda Ross is thrilled when she is appointed junior high school principal in Caution Point, North Carolina. But her promotion will only be a pipe dream if the board of education discovers she's pregnant - and single.Forbidden temptation [ROM]
Kimani, 2007
Her secret life [ROM]
BET Arabesque, 2006
The patrons of a swanky gentlemen's club know her as Jackie Parks, the chestnut-brown beauty. But waitressing is just her night job - by day, she is Jacqueline Parkton, Ph.D. Will business mogul Warren Holcomb see past first impressions and learns that things aren't always what they seem?If you walked in my shoes
Kensington, 2004
French, Albert [USA]
Cinder
Vintage, 2008
Banes, Mississippi, 1938. The Catfish creek separates the Patch from the town, black from white. These worlds and their prejudices are hauntingly evoked in the rich accents of the American South in this sequel to Albert French's debut novel, 'Billy'.
Gaines, Ernest J. [USA]
A lesson before dying
Serpents Tail, 2001
A bestseller in the US, this book tells the story of a young black man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and of a teacher who tries to impart to him his learning and pride before the execution
George, Nelson [USA]
The accidental hunter
Touchstone, 2004
Hunter is hired by music manager Ivy Greenwich to deliver the ransom to the kidnappers who have captured his latest client, a rising singer called Night. In the meantime, Greenwich wants to safeguard another star, Bridgette Hayes, on her journey from pop princess to urban star. Is Hunter up to the task?One woman short
Scribner, 2000/2002
One Woman Short is the perfect novel for the woman who wants to discover how men view the dating game. With its funny insights into the male psyche the female reader can find out how to be viewed as a potential bride or categorised as just a date.
Glenn, Roy [USA]
MOB: a street saga Urban Books, 2007 Travis is the leader of a well-organized crew of robbers known only as 'MOB'. He and his crew live by rules that have earned them a small fortune, but things change when he meets Me'shelle Lawrence and is forced to choose between his love for her and loyalty to his crew.
Glover, Bonnie [USA]
The middle sister
Ballantine, 2005
Griffin, Bettye [USA]
If these walls could talk
Dafina, 2007
Three very different families share the dream of getting out of New York and finding a house in the country. As they embark on their dream with both triumph and tribulation, they're about to discover that it's not always perfect when your dreams come true.
Nothing but trouble
Dafina, 2006
Dana never thought she would be a widow at 38 - but then she never thought she would have such great friends either. Dana's friends, Norell and Cecile are always ready to give her a shoulder to cry on. But Norell and Cecile have problems of their own - big problems - and something is going to have to give.Where there's smoke [ROM]
BET Arabesque, 2005
After 15 years, soap actress Thais Copeland comes face-to-face with the man she let get away, Lucien Ballard. After the pair exchange phone numbers and begin catching up on old times, Thais finds herself wondering how her life would have turned out had they stayed together.
Breeze [ROM]
Genesis,2008
Hankerson, Nicole [USA]
She's just a friend
Urban Books, 2007
Hatter, Alastair [USA]
It's on and poppin'
Q'Boro, 2007
Dee Dee is as laid-back, sassy and cute as they come. But when her drug-dealing brothers are busted for selling to an informant and end up in jail, all the training they were secretly putting her through now comes into play. It's up to Dee Dee to come through for them - and she's going to find out what life on the streets is really like.
Henry, Angela [USA]
Tangled roots [CRI]
Sepia, 2006
A pretty local beautician is dead, and Timmy is suspect number one. When he shows up at Kendra's apartment begging for help, it's only one more step before Kendra's back on the road to trouble again, trying to find out the real killer and getting tangled in the deadly roots of desire
Hill, Donna [USA]
After dark (ROM)
Kimani Books, 2007Chances are [ROM]
Kimani, 2008
Dione Williams knew what it was like to be young & pregnant with nowhere to go. Years later, she had provided a good life for her daughter & started a successful home for teenage mothers & their babies. But from the moment television producer Garrett Lawrence began a story on the teen centre, Dione's hard-won confidence was shaken.Charade [ROM]
Arabesque, 2008
When Tyler Ellington follows her dreams and attends film school in New York, her heart is broken by a filmmaker. On fleeing home to Savannah her heart is stolen again. With two men claiming her heart, she must decide which love is the real thing.
Hill, Ernest
It's all about the moon when the sun ain't shining
Kensington, 2005
Things seem to be going Maurice Dupree's way when he gets a scholarship to a prestigious law school. But his fiancee is not planning on waiting around for them to start their life together - and someone is waiting in the wings for her. Torn by the ultimatum Maurice finds an ally in a young white woman.
Himes, Chester [USA]
A rage in Harlem [CRI]
Canongate, 2000
Jackson is so unhip that he can't see through the scam he's being offered. After losing his life's savings to a con artist he steals from his boss and so begins his descent into the less-savoury aspects of life in Harlem.
Holliday, Geneva [USA]
Groove
Bantam Dell, 2005Seduction
Broadway Books, 2008
Holmes, Shannon [USA]
Bad girlz 4 life
St. Martins Griffin, 2008
Tonya sets up a business running underground sex parties with her best friend Na'eema, and find themselves an overnight success, rubbing shoulders with athletes, rappers and Celebs. But when Tonya's ex-lover, Q, arrives back on the scene, things take a dramatic twist.
Hunter, Angel [USA]
Faking it
Urban Books, 2006
When Layla Simone decides to fulfil her dream of becoming a writer in Hollywood, she hardly expects her life to change the way it doesSister girls
Urban Books, 2006
Crystal, Susan, Jewell and Elsie. Their lives are laced with love, addiction, lust and loyalty. Crystal must deal with a past she can't escape. Susan is in denial and needs to get real. Jewell is looking for a 'good man'. And Elsie is confused about her sexuality.
Hunter, Travis [USA]
A family sin
Ballantine, 2007Married but still looking
Strivers Row, 2003
"Iceberg Slim" {Robert Beck} [USA]
Pimp: the story of my life [Fiction, Biog 306.7]
Payback Press, 1996, Holloway House, 2005
Iceberg Slim is the name Robert Beck used in the ghetto. He was a pimp and this is his story, told without bitterness and with no pretence at moralising. Ice T, the successful gangster rapper, took his name from Iceberg Slim.
Jackson, Andrea [USA]
Who's that lady
Genesis Press, 2007
Jackson, Sheneska [USA]
L’il Mama’s rules
Scribners, 2002
For Madison who has everything, from looks, spirit, and a degree of understanding to toughness and an ability to play life's game, love's arrival turns her whole life upside down and she has to learn a whole new set of rules.
Jihad [USA]
Street life
Urban Books, 2004
'Street Life' is the semi-autobiographical story of Jihad, a young man raised by the Atlanta streets to become the most notorious drug dealer. After seven years in prison his transformation is complete. This is the story of his rise, fall and salvation
Johnson, Keith Lee [USA]
The honeymoon is over
Urban Books, 2006
Parris put up with her fiance Nelson being broke their entire relationship, but now she's decided the honeymoon period is over and it's time to move on. She's found another lover, an old enemy of Nelson's. But the fireworks begin when Parris finds out that Nelson became the man she always hoped he'd become - successful.Little black girl lost
Urban Books, 2005
Stunningly gorgeous and headstrong, Johnnie Wise must rely on little more than her wits to elude the clutches of both Earl Shamus and the ruthless crime boss, Napoleon Bentley, who will stop at nothing to seize this diamond in the urban rough.
Johnson, R.M. [USA]
Dating games
Simon & Schuster, 2004
17-year-old twins Hennesey and Alize couldn't be more different. As they are nudged out of the family nest by their career-seeking mother, Alize becomes self-sufficient through dating. But her strategy of bleeding rich boys dry does not wash with Smoke, and once robbed, he is bent on revenge.
The Harris men
Simon & Schuster, 2005
When Julius Harris is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he sets out to make amends for his past mistakes. As he races to reunite the family once lost to him, he finds that his sons are now men facing trials of their own, brought about by the past.The million dollar divorce
Simon & Schuster, 2005
Johnson, Stephanie [USA]
Desparate sisters
Urban Books, 2006
When LaShonda, Devine and Keyshawn realise that their ever-loving spouses are behaving like anything but, they decide it's time to take action. And get some action. With anonymous sexual encounters and passionate flings, the three desperate sisters embark on a series of hot adventures.Rockin' Robin
Urban Books, 2007
Jones, Edward P. [USA]
The known world
Harper Perennial, 2004
Masterful, Pulitzer-prize winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths of human nature, this is a landmark in modern literature.
Joseph, Dwayne [USA]
Gigolos get lonely too
Urban Books, 2006
(also contains stories by Roy Glenn and Jihad)
Three popular authors combine creative forces to deliver three cautionary tales to the players of the world.
The mermaid chair
Review, 2005
Jessie Sullivan has been married half her life, and has become accustomed to her role. But when she returns to the isolated island she grew up on to establish why her mother has been behaving oddly, she is to find a lot more than she came looking for.
The secret life of bees
Review, 2003
Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four years old. Now 14, she yearns for forgiveness and a mother's love. When her only friend, a black servant, is beaten, the two become fugitives from justice, and end up following a trail left by Lily's mother.
Who does she think she is?
Free Press, 2006
Aisha Branch is getting married, and if she has her way, the wedding will be the event of the millennium. As the wedding draws closer, the Branch family is turned upside-down - with a wedding dress costing $7000 and a white boy as fiance. But this turmoil is nothing compared to what happens when Aisha falls hard for another man.
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