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When you end up knocked up by your new boss—with TRIPLETS . . . Keeping things professional is easier said than done. I was just a small-town girl with a messy past. Now, I'm the personal assistant to the city's most brooding billionaire bachelor. Brody Thorne . . . He commands every room with...

When I applied to medical school, I never thought I'd be paying the bill by becoming a surrogate. I suppose a girl has to do what she has to do in the end, so I decided to intercept Uncle Sam before he could come for me. Funny enough, it's surprisingly easy to find willing participants. I answered an ad, and the guy showed up at the coffeehouse we agreed to meet at. He showed up frickin'...beautiful and with brown eyes that tightened my tummy in ways they probably shouldn't have. He looks familiar to me. Like I've seen him on the news or in the paper or something.

This is a story of a girl born to LA's rich and elite. She's known simply as Baby Girl. After the sudden and tragic murder of her father, Baby Girl and her mother are forced to give up their lives and go on the run. Soon they end up living on the streets among Atlanta's homeless, where Baby Girl's mother does whatever she has to do to make sure her daughter wants for nothing. Soon they befriend Shabazz, a white, heroin-addicted scam artist who thinks he is black, and his best friend Ben Franklin, an old scholarly alcoholic that carefully analyzes everything and everyone.

Manny Powell is forthright, intellectual, and determined to make her mark on the London literary scene. Her younger sister, Rita ‘The Baby', just wants to dance. Chasing their dreams across smoky Soho jazz clubs, they soon find themselves part of the burgeoning Black ambition movement, and must learn how to navigate it as women. As tensions rise, and fascism and war snap at their heels, Rita finds herself drawn to the mysterious mimic and trumpeter, Ezekiel Brown, from Jamaica, and the trio are faced with choices that will alter their lives forever.

Her mother named her Sugar Baby James because of the strong sweet tooth she had while pregnant. Sugar Baby inherited her mother’s sweet tooth, and along with it, a desire for her own bakery. Unfortunately, she’s not in the right environment for her dream to come to fruition … until she meets the living urban legend Cassius Clay Williams. Named after the boxing great, Cassius AKA Cash is a punisher. He’s feared, revered, and unparalleled. Watching his mother struggle financially after his father died sent him into the streets and manhood far earlier than it should have.

Agnes Green is not having the summer of her life. Trapped in the suburbs with a strict religious mother, her nights are spent secretly dating Toby—who loves arthouse film, getting stoned, and ignoring her texts—and her days listening to sermons about the sins of the flesh. Then she meets Emily. Beautiful, charismatic and oddly controlling, Emily has a suggestion for Agnes. A life-changing way of making cash and having fun. It might even involve love. And it's easy. All you have to do is put a little black dress on and go to lunch.

“An illicit meeting between long-term lovers makes for a poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time…In the closing pages, O’Callaghan’s prose reaches a pitch of emotional intensity that ensures these characters will linger with you long after the book is closed...

Elio Rossi is a dream on paper. He's rich, handsome, and head of his family's multi-billion-dollar business. He's also a ruthless Mafia Don and my older brother's best friend. But even that isn't a huge issue to me. No, Elio is my nightmare because he used to be my dream man. We've been betrothed since childhood. But the night of our engagement years ago, our parents died in a tragic accident. One that I'm sure Elio's family planned.

Some might say that Khalil Patterson is living his best life. Kendrick Nance and Jack Dandridge are both dead, and he is now the boss. But he still has what’s left of Kojo's operation, which is being run by Shanice Hardaway, to worry about. Now that he is running things, it’s time to turn his attention and firepower to shutting her down and taking over her market.

Unerbittlicher als ihre Schwester verteidigt eine Frau wohl nur eins: ihr Baby.Nach ihrem frenetisch gefeierten, preisgekrönten Bestseller "Meine Schwester, die Serienmörderin" legt Oyinkan Braithwaite ihren zweiten Roman vor. "Das Baby ist meins" ist eine augenzwinkernde Ansage an das Patriarchat, ein spannender Einblick in die nigerianische Gesellschaft - und vor allem eine rasante Geschichte um zwei Frauen, die wie Löwinnen um das süße Baby in ihrer Mitte kämpfen. Natürlich ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste oder gar auf den Mann, der versucht herauszufinden, wem er glauben soll.

Asa: I come to Aspen to get away. I need to get away. My ex Christine is a true pill. She lets me know exactly why she cheated on me once again, and I just need something, anything to take this pain away. That's how this all starts with the girl I meet in Aspen. But she was never just a one off. Noni: My ex is a dick, an epic one and despite the urge to curl up with a tub of Häagen-Dazs and a chick flick, I give into my friend pushing this Aspen trip on me. I meet a guy there. I lose myself there, and though I don't know him, I need him.

Ein junger Mann steht im Fußballstadion und zitiert Ulrike Meinhof. Dann überschlagen sich die Ereignisse und am Ende liegt ein Polizist am Boden -das Blut spritzt. Paul Bakunin hat genug. Seine Freundin ist zwar ganz nett und seine Air Max-Sneakers ziemlich schön, aber Paul will einen Anschlag planen. Irgendwas muss ja endlich passieren. Zwischen linksradikalem Gedankengut und Gangsta Rap-Zitaten pendelnd erzählt "Das Nirvana Baby" von den letzten Atemzügen einer Gesellschaft, von den Widrigkeiten des Widerstands und von der (Un-)Möglichkeit, dass sich etwas ändert.

In the waning days of the turbulent 1970s, in the wake of unsolved killings that have shocked Detroit, the lives of several residents are drawn together, with tragic consequences. There is Hannah, wife of a prominent local businessman, who has begun an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger whose identity remains elusive; Mikey, a canny street hustler who finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice and the serial killer known as Babysitter, an enigmatic and terrifying figure at the periphery of elite Detroit. 

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