Fannin' the Flames (2004)
Parry A. Brown.

The “C-shift” at Fire Station 27 of the L.A. Fire Department is experiencing strange occurrences, and the captain is convinced that the events are racially motivated.
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When Did You Stop Loving Me? (2004)
Veronica Chambers.

Angela, a young girl growing up in 1970s Brooklyn, is left alone with her feckless father when her mother unexpectedly leaves the family.
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Some People, Some Other Place (2004)
J. California Cooper.

Cooper’s novel, narrated by an unknown child, explores the lives and loves of the residents of Dream Street in the town of Place.
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Better Than I Know Myself (2004)
Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant.

Jewel, Carmen, and Regina meet as freshmen at Columbia University and although they have little in common they eventually form an unbreakable bond of friendship.
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Drive Me Crazy (2004)
Eric Jerome Dickey.

Driver is an ex-con turned chauffeur who shares an expensive secret and a past affair with his boss’s wife, a woman who is nothing but trouble.
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Tastes Like Chicken (2004)
Lolita Files.

Files tells the continuing story of two friends, Misty Fine and Reesy Snowden, who know they will always have each other even though their lives are filled with drama and failed relationships.
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My Fine Lady (2004)
Yolanda Joe.

A streetwise young woman with a great singing voice dreams of becoming a hip-hop star until she is taken in by a sophisticated college professor who wants to make her over into a jazz diva.
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The Million Dollar Divorce (2004)
R. M. Johnson.

When he learns that his wife Monica is unable to bear children millionaire businessman Nate Kenny longs to end his marriage, but his scheme to do so takes an unexpected turn.
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Bling (2004)
Erica Kennedy, Ed.

Eternal playboy Lamont Jackson is the head of hip-hop recording label Triple Large Entertainment, and Mimi Jean, a talented, sexy, naïve twenty-year-old, is his newest protégé.
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Gotham Diaries (2004)
Tonya Lewis Lee, Crystal McCrary Anthony, Ed.

Lauren Thomas, rising star on the Style Channel, wants to be admired as herself, not just as the wife of billionaire baron of New York African American society Ed Thomas.
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Family Affair (2004)
Marcus Major, Ed.

Two adult brothers, Myles and Amir, struggle with how to react to their sixty-year-old father’s stepping out on their mother.
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The Honey Well (2003)
Gloria Mallette.

Arnell Rayford’s mother Esther manipulated her daughter into prostitution and kept her obedient by blackmailing her.
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Dark Dreams; A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers (2004)
Brandon Massey, Ed.

(shelved under title) This anthology of twenty original short stories explores the dark imaginations and experiences of the human mind.
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Camilla's Roses (2004)
Bernice McFadden.

Camilla, a successful career woman with a loving husband and daughter, thinks she has it all until she is diagnosed with breast cancer, and realizes she needs the support of the women she left behind, her mother and grandmother.
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Leaving Cecil Street (2004)
Diane McKinney-Whetstone.

Surrounded by block parties that liven up the summer nights of their 1969 Philadelphia home, Joe and Louise find their marriage falling apart, a situation that is complicated when their daughter's best friend has a tragic illegal abortion.
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Ida B. (2004)
Karen Quinones Miller.

Would-be writer Brenda, aspiring actress Rosa, and gay political activist Sharif are neighbors in Harlem’s tight-knit Ida B. Wells projects.
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Red Light Wives (2004)
Mary Monroe, Ed.

Six very different women working in the world’s oldest profession forge a powerful bond that no one can break, not even their controlling “manager” Clyde, until an impulsive act of defiance changes everything.
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Somebody's Gotta Be On Top (2004)
Mary B. Morrison.

For Darius Jones, previously seen in Morrison’s novels Never Again Once More and He’s Just a Friend, women are there to give him what he wants, the way he wants it.
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Little Scarlet (2004)
Walter Mosley.

In the aftermath of the Watts riots in 1966 private investigator Easy Rawlins investigates the murder of a woman who lived in an apartment building that an unidentified white man appeared to enter after escaping a mob of rioters. (also available on audio-cassette)
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The Delta Sisters (2004)
Kayla Perrin.

Three generations of women from one of New Orleans’ most elite old-money African-American families are haunted by an incident from the past that family matriarch Sylvia wants to keep secret.
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Too Much of a Good Thing (2004)
Kimberla Lawson Roby.

Curtis Black might be a married man of the cloth, but with his irresistible looks, seductive charm, and charismatic personality, he’s particularly beloved by his female parishioners – and almost every other woman he’s ever met. Sequel to Casting the First Stone (2000).
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Player Haters (2004)
Carl Weber.

The Duncan siblings – ladies man Trent, family man Wil, and searching for a man Melanie – have lives filled with emotional, financial, and romantic drama. (also available on audio-cassette)
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Dying in the Dark (2004)
Valerie Wilson Wesley.

Private investigator Tamara Hayle reluctantly agrees to investigate the murder of Celia Jones, her former best friend from high school, who many people had reason to hate.
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Dad Interrupted (2004)
Van Whitfield.

In this sequel to Whitfield’s 1997 novel Beeperless Remote, Shawn Wayne’s girlfriend expects a marriage proposal, his “sort-of” ex-girlfriend has announced that she’s pregnant, and Shawn doesn’t know if he’s the father.
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The Accidental Diva (2004)
Tia Williams.

Billie, a young beauty editor at a top fashion magazine, is focused on her career until she falls in love with a rough performance artist who disrupts her uptown world.
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