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God's Gift to Women (2002)
Michael Baisden.
Radio talk-show host Julian Payne always has the right thing to say to his listeners. But when it comes to his own love life, Julian’s at a loss for words.
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Fatal Remains (2003)
Eleanor Taylor Bland.
History meets mystery when detective Marti MacAlister investigates suspicious deaths connected to the site of an archaeological dig in Lincoln Prairie, Illinois.
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Second Sunday (2003)
Michele Andrea Bowen.
When their pastor unexpectedly dies, members of Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church need to find a new pastor to help celebrate the church’s centennial and to ensure the survival of the church itself.
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Relative Interest (2003)
Anita R. Bunkley.
Motherless six-year-old Vicky is the object of a fierce custody battle between her Kira, her aunt, and Ralph Roper, a powerful white mayoral candidate.
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Hottentot Venus (2003)
Barbara Chase-Ribaud.
Chase-Riboud dramatizes the true story of Sarah Baartman, a nineteenth black South African woman who was coerced into becoming an exotic dancer on the freak show circuit in London.
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Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do (2003)
Pearl Cleage.
Regina Burns, a recovering cocaine addict, returns to Atlanta to work for her former boss whose deceased son was Regina's secret lover-- something she must continue to keep from her boss.
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The Bondwoman's Narrative (2002)
Hannah Crafts.
Possibly the first novel written by an African American woman, The Bondwoman’s Narrative tells the story of Hannah Crafts, a young slave working on a wealthy North Carolina plantation who runs away in a bid for freedom.
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Naughty or Nice (2003)
Eric Jerome Dickey.
The McBroom sisters—Frankie, Livvy, and Tommie—all have serious man problems.
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The Good House (2003)
Tananarive Due.
A fictional town in Washington is the setting for this haunted house story in which Angela Toussant must face the demonic powers that inhabit her ancestral home.
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Trouble Man (2003)
Travis Hunter.
Drug dealer Jermaine Banks doesn’t see anything wrong with his drug dealing, but his pregnant girlfriend and her policeman father want him to clean up his act and become a decent role model for his young son and his unborn child.
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The Hatwearer's Lesson (2003)
Yolanda Joe.
An ambitious Chicago lawyer with an equally successful fiancé turns to her ailing grandmother for advice when she learns that the man in her life has been unfaithful.
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Dating Games (2003)
R. M. Johnson.
Twins Hennesey and Alizé take opposite paths in life--one a straight-A student, the other using what she's got on the streets of Chicago--until their worlds become entwined, causing problems for them both.
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The Known World (2003)
Edward P. Jones.
In a small Virginia town just before the Civil War Henry Townsend is part of a small enclave of free blacks who own slaves.
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Rendezvous Eighteenth (2003)
Jake Lamar.
Ricky Jenks, a jazz pianist living in Paris, left America for France when his cousin stole his bride; now his cousin needs Ricky's help to find his missing wife.
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Breaking Away (2003)
Kristen Hunter Lattany.
A professor at a predominately white Ivy League college learns more than she'd bargained for about race relations when she sponsors a group of black sorority sisters in a lawsuit challenging the college's harassment code.
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Using What You Got (2003)
Karen E. Quinones Miller.
Pretty eighteen-year-old Tiara Bynum greatest goal is to find a man who will spoil her as much as her father does. When two suitors arrive on the scene, Tiara prepares to be smitten.
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God Still Don't Like Ugly (2003)
Mary Monroe.
The sequel to Monroe's first novel God Don't Like Ugly (2000) revisits the lives of Annette Goode and her family and friends.
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He's Just a Friend (2003)
Mary B. Morrison.
Determined to marry someone wealthy and powerful, Fancy Taylor ignores the auto mechanic who loves her. But will her blue-collar man stand by her when he finds out she's pregnant with the child of a married man?
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Love (2003)
Toni Morrison.
Powerful Bill Casey, owner of "the best and best-known vacation spots for colored folks on the East Coast", has been dead for years, but his women are still grappling over him.
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Fear Itself (2003)
Walter Mosley.
In 1950s Los Angeles Fearless Jones drags mild-mannered used bookstore owner Paris Minton out of bed and into another dangerous caper.
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Getting Mother's Body (2003)
Suzanne Lori-Parks.
A pregnant and poor Texas teen takes a road trip to Arizona to recover her mother's body, and the jewels buried with it, when she learns the body will be exhumed to make way for a new supermarket.
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Anyone Who Has a Heart (2003)
Jacqueline Powell.
At an age when most of their friends have long since settled down, Theresa, Zenobia, and Vince share the ups and downs of trying to find love.
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A Hip-Hop Story (2003)
Heru Ptah.
Rappers Flawless and Hannibal both share one dream: to get to the top of hip-hop music.
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A Taste of Reality (2003)
Kimberla Lawson Roby.
Faced with workplace racism and a marriage on the rocks, Anise must find the strength to overcome her problems and ultimately triumph.
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Friday Night At Honeybee's (2003)
Andrea Smith.
Two talented young women are taken in by Miss Honeybee McColor who hosts twice-monthly Friday night "gathers" of jazz and blues greats in early 1960s Harlem.
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Diary of a Groupie (2003)
Omar Tyree.
Tabitha Night, who records the details of her numerous relationships with rich, powerful men in her thirteen-volume diary, is approached by a private investigator about playing an integral part in a sting operation to entrap a popular actor with a fetish for underage girls.
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