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Sometimes one moment can be monumental … For Sunjiya Daniels, one call leads her into the arms of an assassin who is hired to track her twin sister. She finds herself in another bad situation that she has to get out of and like every other time in her life, she will do whatever is necessary to...

Noelle Ackerman loves Christmas and plans to make this Christmas the most special of all. After five years of living in Paris, she has returned home to Grand Hills, the place where love has always dwelled for her. Love for Noelle is not only for her family but also for the man who stole her heart at the tender age of five. Kane Weston: aka Noelle’s tall, dark, and handsome best friend. For Noelle, Kane is the one who could never be. She’s longed for him in secrecy, afraid that testing the waters would ruin the beautiful friendship they already shared.

In a world where loyalty can kill you and love can trap you, survival is the only way out in this engrossing, high-octane crime saga perfect for fans of Jahquel J. Juliette “Jules” Remington was born in America’s murder capital and raised by the streets long before she ever chose them...

Tender, nostalgic, and deeply romantic, Love Me Down to Christmas is a heartfelt holiday romance about first love, family, healing, and the kind of love that never forgets its way home. “Love Me Down to Christmas delivers everything we love about a cozy holiday romance—small-town charm...

Amid the landmark NFL game in the electric city of São Paulo, Brazil, three very different family men cross paths and find that when it comes to what matters most, cultural differences melt away in this insightful, transporting, multi-cultural drama from New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image...

Yumi I built my career by being the best defense attorney in the city. There was never a case I couldn’t win, and if I couldn’t, I wouldn’t take it on. But in the case of my heart versus the gentle, loving, ruthless, unhinged Emery Aldana, it was one case I knew I’d never win. Our love...

Logan "Lo" Sapphire has never backed down from a challenge, so she's convinced that she can persuade the stern and unyielding self-made millionaire to keep High Class Society a secret after he bursts into her office demanding to know his sister's whereabouts. The last thing Lo wants to do is go...

Winter Jacobs . . . daughter of the infamous Wise. She entered the world with a silver spoon in her mouth and has only ever known privilege and the finer things. Winter is wise beyond her years and seems to attract popularity and success with every move that she makes. To outsiders, her life is...

Grace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou’s poetry. Her measured verses have stirred our souls, energized our minds, and healed our hearts. Whether offering hope in the darkest of nights or expressing sincere joy at the extraordinariness of the everyday, Maya...

An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing examines the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power - and limitations - of family bonds. Jojo is 13 years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. His mother, Leonie, is in constant conflict with herself and those around her. She is black and her children's father is white. Embattled in ways that reflect the brutal reality of her circumstances, she wants to be a better mother.

In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, whom they consider to be less than human.

Francesca Ekwuyasi’s debut novel tells the interwoven stories of twin sisters, Kehinde and Taiye, and their mother, Kambirinachi. Kambirinachi feels she was born an Ogbanje, a spirit that plagues families with misfortune by dying in childhood to cause its mother misery. She believes that she has made the unnatural choice of staying alive to love her human family and now lives in fear of the consequences of that decision.

I 1870'erne forvandles Nørrebros mange rabarbermarker til slumkvarterer, og spekulationsbyggeri skyder op over alt. Den unge Johannes er vidne til det hele - spirende ulighed, gadebander i krig og arbejderbevægelsens opstandelse og fald, og han kan ikke lide, hvad han ser. Da han benådes fra...

Guri venter tålmodigt på, at Sturla skal komme tilbage. Da hun hører fodtrin, bliver hun først glad, men indser hurtigt, at det ikke er ham, der er kommet. Samtidig fortsætter Emilie med at lede efter sin far i Amerika. Sagaen om Emilie er en slægtskrønike fyldt med kærlighedsintriger og...

En blodig vas. Åtta kvadratmeter betong. Ett erkännande hon aldrig borde ha lämnat. Jackline dras in i en mardröm när hon vaknar upp täckt av blod och anklagas för ett hänsynslöst mordförsök på en av landets mäktigaste män. I rättssalen ställs hon inför en mur av lögner, köpta...

Når nogen redder ens barn, står man i evig gæld til dem ... Han reddede min lille pige, da jeg ikke selv kunne. Jeg lukkede ham ind i vores liv. Men jeg anede intet om, at han kendte min mørkeste hemmelighed ... Det er en helt almindelig morgen i september, da jeg er lige ved at miste min...

Welcome back to Emancipation, Louisiana—where Christmas isn't just a holiday; it's a way of life. But this year, the lights feel dimmer, and one of the town's most anticipated traditions just might become a memory of Christmas past… Kyleigh Grindley wants nothing to do with Christmas or the...

The adored gang is back! What seemed like a happy ending for everybody soon turns into anything but that when unexpected guests make new arrivals in the city of angels. Benny and Sarai Watkins have been living the dream. Both happily married with their six-month-old son, Raylen, and their...

After Crew learns that his newest enemy is much closer than he ever imagined, he's forced into a war between what his heart wants and what his mind is telling him. While dealing with Gio, he doesn't realize the real threat has already struck, with Pernelle being taken by enemies who plan to hurt...