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African American Authors 2009

The Devil Is a Lie
The Devil Is a Lie
Reshonda Tate Billingsley
After Nina Lawson wins 6,000,000 in the lottery family members she hasn't seen in years are itching to share the loot, and her fiancé, Rick Henderson, starts counting on his piece before the check's in the bank. Things get even more complicated after Nina learns that Todd, her ex-husband, hasn’t really divorced her because Todd’s girlfriend, Pam, spent the divorce filing fee on herself.
 
 
Children of the Waters
Children of the Waters
Carleen Brice
 
In a letter left behind by her deceased grandmother Trish, a white single mother living in Denver, learns that she has a biracial sister. When Trish locates her sister, Billie, she has a hard time accepting the fact that Billie is adopted and biracial. Together they confront the past and prejudice and begin building a relationship.
 
 
Sisters and Husbands
Sisters and Husbands
Connie Briscoe
 
Ten years after Sisters and Lovers, published in 1994, Beverly is engaged and settling down with a good man. However, as her oldest sister’s marriage falls apart, fear and doubt creep in and Beverly’s impending marriage is in jeopardy.
 
 
Thug Lovin'
Thug Lovin' 
Wahida Clark
 
Tasha and Trae, the hood's favorite couple, are still together following the events of Thug Matrimony, published in 2007. From running a nightclub to dealing with models, shady lawyers, big money, new kinds of temptations, seductions, drugs, and new love interests -- can this infamous couple weather all the storms and keep it together?
 
 
Life is Short But Wide
Life is Short But Wide 
J. California Cooper
 
A ninety-year-old daughter and her 105 year-old mother relay the love and life stories of cowboy Val Strong, his wife Irene Lowell, and their two daughters, Rose and Tante.
 
 
What Doesn't Kill You
What Doesn't Kill You
Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant
 
In the midst of organizing and paying for an extravagant wedding for her daughter Tee’s long-time employer dies, and shortly thereafter she is laid-off. Through a series of events that follow Tee’s life seems to be taking a downward spiral, yet through it all she keeps smiling and the instability she experiences proves to be more inspiring than the predictable life she had before.
 
 
Resurrecting Midnight
Resurrecting Midnight 
Eric Jerome Dickey
 
International hit man Gideon, one of the fiercest, most feared hired guns in the world, is forced to take on an assignment which will lead him to Argentina in pursuit of a briefcase containing one part of a larger puzzle.
 
 
Best African American Fiction 2009
Best African American Fiction 2009 
Gerald Early
The sixteen selections in this anthology include short stories, excerpts from novels, and young adult fiction from both established writers and new talent.
 
 
Somebody's Sinning In My Bed
Somebody's Sinning In My Bed 
Pat G'Orge-Walker
Reverend Grayson Young and his wife Chyna have the perfect marriage. Perfect, that is, if you believe Reverend Young is walking the walk as well as talking the talk.
 
 
Mama Dearest
Mama Dearest 
E. Lynn Harris
Fading diva Yancey Harrington meets and is immediately impressed by S. Marcus Pinkerton, who wants to produce a reality TV show that he claims will rejuvenate her career. Simultaneously, Yancey’s mother, Ava, is released from prison with a devious plan for revenge.
 
Friends and Fauxs
Friends and Fauxs 
Tracie Howard
 
Riding high after starring in an Oscar-nominated role, Gillian Tillman is confronted with the fact that her husband, star-producer Brandon Russell, may have ties to the mob and is somehow involved with the murder of her friend Paulette. As if this is not scandalous enough, compromising photos of Gillian appear all over the Internet, threatening to kill her career and the marriage that got her to the top.
 
 
Bring On the Blessings
Bring On the Blessings 
Beverly Jenkins
 
Bernadine Brown divorces her husband and wins a multi-million dollar settlement. She uses the money to purchase and rebuild the town of Henry Adams, Kansas, one of the last surviving townships founded by freed slaves after the Civil War.
 
 
Section 8
Section 8
K'Wan
 
Tionna learned from her addicted mother how to live by her wits. Forced to start over in the same neighborhood she swore she'd never go back to, with her on-again/off-again boyfriend in jail and everything seized by the government, she wonders if she's cut out to be a prisoner's wife.
 
 
Wildflowers
Wildflowers
Lyah Beth LeFlore
 
Narrowly escaping the wrath of a violent husband and the heartbreak of a miscarriage, Chloe Michaels leaves L.A. to seek refuge at her mother’s small, welcoming home in St. Louis. There she is comforted by her sisters, aunts and other matriarchs of the Davis clan. Together they gather the strength to face their individual issues.
 
 
Black Water Rising
Black Water Rising 
Attica Locke
 
It’s 1981, and Jay Porter is little more than a strip-mall lawyer with call-girls as clients; he doesn’t mind existing under the radar because it gives him just enough to get by. However, a chance encounter with a woman on a boat ride puts Porter in the crosshairs of a scandal involving Houston’s major oil corporations and recalls a past he’d rather forget.
 
 
That Devil's No Friend of Mine
That Devil's No Friend of Mine 
J. D. Mason
 
In life, Bishop Fontaine was considered a good man. But at his death, the true nature of his manipulative character is revealed and five people who thought they had nothing in common discover that they share more than they ever imagined.
 
 
God Ain't Blind
God Ain't Blind 
Mary Monroe
 
Long time friends Annette Goode Davis and Rhoda O’Toole learn that even the rockiest relationships can survive just about anything as long as they’re there for each other when it matters most.
 
 
Maneater
Maneater
Mary B. Morrison, Noire
 
Morrison and Noire offer two tantalizing stories about women who use sex to get revenge against the men in their lives.
 
 
The Long Fall
The Long Fall 
Walter Mosley
 
New York ex-boxer turned private investigator Leonid McGill has decided to change his ways by going “from crooked to only slightly bent.”
 
 
Let's Get It On
Let's Get It On 
Jill Nelson
 
Lydia Beaucoup and her friends Acey Allen and LaShaWanda P. Marshall open a “full-service spa” (with sexual services available!) that caters to professional women on a boat moored off the shore at Martha’s Vineyard.
 
 
Single Mama's Got More Drama
Single Mama's Got More Drama 
Kayla Perrin
 
This single mama's been through hell -- her cheating and still-married fiancé is dead, her professional reputation is in tatters, the man she really loves walked out of her life and, worst of all, she's about to lose her fabulous South Beach condo to a conniving woman.
 
 
Before I Forget
Before I Forget 
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
 
Mo Johnson, once one of Baltimore’s most vibrant soul performers, has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at the age of 49. Feeling guilty about the missteps he has taken in life, Mo sets out on a cross-country trip to L.A. with his troubled teen-aged son, Trey, to reconcile with his estranged terminally ill father.
 
 
In Love With a Younger Man
In Love With a Younger Man 
Cheryl Robinson
What unfolds between successful businesswoman Olena Day and Matthew Harper, who is eighteen years younger than Olena, is something that neither of them expected – a passionate and complicated romance.
 
 
A Deep Dark Secret
A Deep Dark Secret 
Kimberla Lawson Roby
On the outside, twelve-year-old Jillian Maxwell is the perfect child. She seems to have everything a girl could want: a big, beautiful new home, an adoring little sister, a mother who cares about her, and an attentive stepfather. But inside, Jillian harbors a terrible secret.
 
 
Dirty Old Men
Dirty Old Men 
Omar Tyree
 
Tyree delivers a set of four novellas about four older men -- one married, one a photographer, one with a heart condition, and one a sugar daddy -- and their quests of lusting after and loving much younger women.
 
 
Up To No Good
Up To No Good 
Carl Weber
 
Things quickly go wrong for the Black family -- divorced father James, his ex-wife Crystal, engaged-to-be-married son Darnel and twenty-five-year-old daughter Jamie -- when Darnel catches his fiancée, Keisha, cheating on him with his best friend, Omar.
 
 
Sag Harbor
Sag Harbor 
Colson Whitehead
 
Amidst an awkward first kiss, hip-hop music, a job scooping ice cream, and friends, fifteen-year-old Benji Cooper comes of age during the summer of 1985 on the buppie enclave of Sag Harbor, Long Island.
 
 
Total Eclipse of the Heart
Total Eclipse of the Heart
Zane
 
Brooke Alexander, a good woman with self-esteem issues, and Damon Johnson, a good man with a corporate career who yearns for a freeing alternative, are both in demoralizing relationships. A tragedy causes Brooke and Damon to come in contact with one another, completely changing their views of life and love.
 
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