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African American Authors 2008

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Can I Get a Witness?
Reshonda Tate Billingsley.

Houston divorce court judge Vanessa and her little sister Dionne have major man problems, while their happily married sister Rosolyn appears to have it made.
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Stand the Storm
Breena Clarke.

In antebellum Washington, D.C. seamstress heroine "Sewing" Annie Coates, her handsome son, Gabriel, and her quiet daughter, Ellen, navigate the path from enslavement to an uncertain fate.
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Seen It All and Done the Rest
Pearl Cleage.

Acclaimed actress Josephine Evans, who has lived in Europe for many years, returns to Atlanta to stay with her granddaughter and to sell the now-decayed house that her mother willed her.
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Gotta Keep On Tryin'
Virginia DeBerry.

Although lifelong best friends and business partners Pat and Gayle have overcome many obstacles in the past, now they face secrets that threaten their friendship. Sequel to Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made.

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Pleasure
Eric Jerome Dickey.

Saying “yes” to pleasure also leads to self-enlightenment for Nia Simone Bijoux when she hooks up with Mark and Karl, a pair of identical, constantly competing twins.
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Blood Colony
Tananarive Due.

A street drug that can cure any illness spells deadly danger for Fana Wolde whose blood has the unique qualities that the dealers and their enemies will do anything to get.
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A Different Kind of Blues
Gwynne Forster.

Faced with a terminal disease, Petra Fields decides to take the four to six months she has left to apologize for the wrongs she has done to others and take a fulfilling road trip across the country.
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Sweetsmoke, David Fuller

Cassius is a secretly literate slave who is desperately looking for the killer of his mother-figure, Emoline Justice, a free black woman.
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Somewhat Saved
Pat G'Orge-Walker.

Secret passions, old grudges, and sly vendettas dominate when Sister Betty, Mother Sasha Pray Onn, and Mother Bea Blister, members of the Ain't Nobody Saved but Us--All Others Goin' to Hell church, travel to Las Vegas to attend a national Mothers Board conference.
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Just Too Good to be True

College football star Brady Bledsoe’s public vow of celibacy until marriage is threatened by Raquel Murphy, hired by a shady sports agent to seduce and blackmail Brady.
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Sunday Brunch Diaries
Norma L. Jarrett.

The Lady Lawyers of Sunday Brunch (2004) are back with more dramatic dilemmas, laughter and love for the Lord. Capri, Lexi, Jewel, Angel and Jermane’s friendship and faith help them deal with marriage, money and life.
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The Million Dollar Deception
RM Johnson.

Nate Kenny lost his wife, Monica, and some of his fortune in Million Dollar Divorce (2004). Now he is looking for revenge by reclaiming his wife and destroying the man who took her away.
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Song Yet Sung
James McBride.

Runaway slave Liz Spocott’s ability to see the future is a blessing and a curse as she struggles to gain her freedom.
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Sinful Too
Victor McGlothin.

Dangerous diva Dior Wicker is back to her no good lustful ways, and this time she has her sights set on the backsliding Reverend Richard Allamay, TV star and pastor of M.E.G.A. Church. What she doesn’t realize is that her wicked ways are about to catch up with her.
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Trading Dreams at Midnight
Diane McKinney-Whetstone.

Rebellious Neena and her clingy sister Tish were brought up by their stern grandmother. When Tish becomes ill, Neena returns to Philadelphia to come to terms with the woman who raised them.
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She Had It Coming
Mary Monroe.

Best friends Dolores and Valerie share each other’s explosive secrets, including domestic violence, murder, and bigamy.
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Who's Loving You
Mary B. Morrison.

Former prostitute and madam Honey Thomas hopes to leave her old life behind and begin a new one running a counseling center for victimized women. But just when she thinks she’s finally getting a break, her past comes back to haunt her.
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A Mercy
Toni Morrison.

A slave at a plantation in Maryland offers up her daughter, Florens, to a relatively humane Northern farmer, Jacob, as debt payment from their owner. The ripples of this choice spread to the inhabitants of Jacob's farm.
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The Tempest Tales
Walter Mosley.

Tempest Landry, gunned down and killed by white cops in Harlem, finds himself judged by St. Peter at heaven's gate--and disputes the result. Tempest is returned to Earth in the company of one Joshua Angel, whose job it is to convince Landry to admit he's a sinner. If Landry does that, he goes straight to hell. If he doesn't, heaven may cease to exist.
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Too Little, Too Late
Victoria Christopher Murray.

She took marriage vows to be honest and true, but Jasmine's still hiding secrets to keep her husband, Minister Hosea Bush, by her side.
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Gather Together In My Name
Tracy Price-Thompson.

One in a set of triplets born into poverty, Shyne Blackwood became a liar, a thief, and ultimately, a killer. On the eve of his execution, however, a secret at the center of his crime remains to be discovered.
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Yellow Moon
Jewel Parker Rhodes.

In this sequel to Voodoo Season (2006), a wazimamoto, or African vampire, stalks Dr. Marie Laveau, a 21st century doctor, modern voodoo practitioner, and descendant of the legendary voodoo queen of New Orleans.
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Sin No More
Kimberla Lawson Roby.

In the ongoing saga of the charismatic and strikingly handsome Rev. Curtis Black, Black realizes that he has too much to lose if he turns back to his old womanizing ways, so he vows to sin no more. He soon realizes that it’s easier said than done.
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Midnight: A Gangster Love Story
Sister Souljah.

Sudanese immigrant Midnight struggles to balance his sense of honor with the need to survive as he faces family, love, and community challenges in his tough New York City neighborhood.
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Still Dirty
Vickie M. Stringer.

Red may have tried one scam too many. Her violent ex-boyfriend is on her trail and she’s not sure she can count on her current boyfriend to keep her safe. Sequel to Dirty Red. 
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Something on the Side
Carl Weber.

Plus size Big Girls Book Club members Tammy, Egypt, Isis, Nikki, Coco, and Tiny all have something going on in their love lives that's a little bit dangerous.
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Of Blood and Sorrow
Valerie Wilson Wesley.

Lilah Love, an old acquaintance of Newark private investigator Tamara Hale, begs Tamara to find her missing child. When Lilah is found murdered in her car with Tamara’s son’s backpack on the rear seat, Tamara realizes she must find Lilah’s child in order to protect her own.
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A Father's Law
Richard Wright.

Brentwood Park Police Chief Ruddy Turner begins to link his son Tommy to the work of a serial killer in this unfinished crime novel that Wright was working on at the time of his death.
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