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  • Dark Nights Dark Nights
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    Dark Nights

    “Dark Nights” is a collection of short stories by Thomas Burke, originally appearing in various English and American periodicals. Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 – 22 September 1945) was a British writer most famous for his “Limehouse Nights”, a 1916...
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  • The Short Fiction of Nella Larsen The Short Fiction of Nella Larsen
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    The Short Fiction of Nella Larsen

    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are all three of her published short stories; "Freedom," "The Wrong Man," and...
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  • Quicksand and Passing Quicksand and Passing
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    Quicksand and Passing

    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both of her novels, Passing and Quicksand. Quicksand, was autobiographical in...
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  • Every Sentence Must Come To An End Every Sentence Must Come To An End
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    Every Sentence Must Come To An End

    Kenny "Ratchet" Walker is born into a cold world. After his mother passes away during his delivery, Ratchet is adopted and raised by his grandmother. But as he grows up in New Jersey, his life is catapulted into chaos one day after school when...
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  • Eelscapes Eelscapes
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    Eelscapes

    EELSCAPES (a tale of 1983) describes the movement through life at a specific time and place from eight distinct vantage points, each described in its own chapter whose title indicates what the reader can expect to encounter therein. Chapter One...
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    Bound by Memphis

    Loosely inspired by true events, Bound by Memphis, by Jennifer J. Hayes, is the steamy, sultry romantic story of Jasmine Henderson, a successful public relations consultant who has everything she's wanted in life... Well, just about everything. Fourteen...
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  • Ski Mask Business Ski Mask Business
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    Ski Mask Business

    Dirty is what they call him in the streets because that's how he does niggas. Dirty!! Niggas in the streets know how he gets down so when they see him coming their way, they either tuck their chains in, hide their money, or get the fuck out of dodge...
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  • A King's Ransom A King's Ransom
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    A King's Ransom

    A King's Ransom: The second novel in the Blood of a Queen trilogy picks up with our protagonist, Ruby, as she submerges herself even deeper into the hidden family secret she has uncovered. Traversing the dangerous streets of New York, she encounters...
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  • Once Lost Once Lost
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    Once Lost

    Are some things better left unfound? Best friends Louise and Emma grew up next door to each other in a grim inner-city suburb of Dublin. Now Louise, an art conservator, is thousands of miles away in Sydney, restoring a beautiful old painting. She meets...
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  • Urban Mind State Urban Mind State
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    Urban Mind State

    Mitchell Daniels' better known as MD in the streets, was born and raised in Memphis, TN, as a product of two worlds. MD's mother, Kendi, was from Germantown, TN, a suburb of Memphis. Kendi's parents tried to keep her under lock and key, causing her to...
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  • New York's Stories and Other Ones New York's Stories and Other Ones
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    New York's Stories and Other Ones

    Inside this book, you'll find an assortment of gritty New York life stories featuring unforgettable characters. New York is a city that attracts people seeking opportunities, but on High Street, you will meet lost souls whose lives are filled with failed...
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  • Made in L.A. Vol. 1 Made in L.A. Vol. 1
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    Made in L.A. Vol. 1

    Readers in Los Angeles are thirsty for stories that bring their city to life. This anthology features a diverse range of voices and genres. Like the City of Angels in which these stories were born, nothing is off-limits. Literary or contemporary, noir or...
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  • El Orgullo de Morelos 4 El Orgullo de Morelos 4
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    El Orgullo de Morelos 4

    ¡Prepárate para sumergirte en una vorágine de intriga y supervivencia en "El orgullo de Morelos 4: El tropel de la cárcel"!La vida de Juan Tostado, el joven pandillero que escaló para convertirse en una pieza clave en el tablero de ajedrez de los...
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  • Restraining Order Restraining Order
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    Restraining Order

    CHOPPA is the man A young rich thuggish hustler who has the city on lock All he needs is the right woman to come home to But life has taught him that women are a pleasure They are not to be loved and they definitely can t be trusted until he meets her...
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  • Trust No Man 3 Trust No Man 3
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    Trust No Man 3

    After his father was executed, LIL T vowed to seek revenge against every individual who played a part in Youngblood’s downfall. Anybody whose testimony helped convict and send Youngblood to death row was sure to catch hell on earth.Following in his...
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  • Trust No Man 2 Trust No Man 2
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    Trust No Man 2

    The streets of ATL are about to get hotter than lava after YOUNGBLOOD is snatched up and beaten down by unknown thugs. Vowing fatal revenge on his attackers, Youngblood is released from the hospital only to return home and discover that CHERYL has run...
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  • Thugs Cry 3 Thugs Cry 3
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    Thugs Cry 3

    Money, power, respect and the battle for one woman’s love pitted two notorious drug dealers against each other in a bloody battle that left behind many casualties. Young NARD has finally brought down CJ, Newark, New Jersey’s most...
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  • Trust No Bitch 3 Trust No Bitch 3
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    Trust No Bitch 3

    Who can Kiam trust when friends behave as ruthlessly as enemies and the person that he is most loyal to is the very one that has a gun aimed at his back? Reeling in a bloodthirsty rage, he takes to the streets with only one mission on his...
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  • Trust No Bitch 2 Trust No Bitch 2
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    Trust No Bitch 2

    When the identity of the traitor in Kiam's clique is revealed justice is served swiftly and with no mercy, sending a message to the others that betrayal will be met with death. But has Kiam really uncovered the treacherous one in his midst or is the...
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  • Trust No Bitch Trust No Bitch
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    Trust No Bitch

    They say Loyalty is everything, but beneath the surface of a promise lies betrayal and deceit. Taught by the best and given the keys to an empire, Kiam's loyalty is tested at every turn as he strives to enforce his rule over those who ultimately...
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  • Desperate Days Desperate Days
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    Desperate Days

    As Albre begins his freshman year in college at ASU. He becomes fascinated with the luxury cars, beautiful women, and fast money of the drug industry. Motivated and pressured by tuition fees and books with no income. Encouraged by his drug dealing friend...
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  • The Broken Chain Reaction The Broken Chain Reaction
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    The Broken Chain Reaction

    Women. Money. Drugs. Gangs. Violence.JB and his crew thought this was the life. For JB, however, something was changing. Through the love of his life, Erica, and his mom, he comes to the end of himself and life as he knows it; after a compelling...
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  • Fire in the Belly
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    Fire in the Belly

    Project War is a black militant, anarcho-primitivist, racial justice group founded by Jackie War (nee John Knight). Some call it a movement, some a cult. It differs from other black power movements by advocating the sanctity of life-meaning all animals,...
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    The Penguin's Song

    "I loved this book when I read it in Arabic. The Penguin's Song is a classic novel of the Lebanese civil war."--Rabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary Woman "Sixteen years after appearing in Daoud's native Lebanon, this elegiac novel has finally...
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    Cha-Ching!

    Theo, our scruffy, big-hearted, and quick-witted heroine, is not so much down on her luck as delivered luckless into a culture where the winners and losers have already been decided. Her adventures in getting over take her from San Francisco to New York...
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    Atomik Aztex

    In the alternate universe of this glitteringly surreal first novel, the Aztecs rule, having conquered the European invaders. Zenzontli, Keeper of the House of Darkness, is visited by visions of a parallel world run by the Europeans, where consumerism...
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    Free Enterprise

    In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant owns a string of hotels in San Francisco that secretly double as havens for runaway slaves. Her comrade, Annie, is a young Jamaican who has given up her...
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  • Purity
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    Purity

    **2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize Finalist**The stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has an outburst on a bus; a fugitive finds...
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  • Ill Behavior
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    Ill Behavior

    Notorious Los Angeles graffiti writer, SOBR, finds himself wanted for a murder he did not commit. With the help of a childhood friend, an LAPD Magistrate Inquirer, SOBR sets out to clear his graffiti name while haunted by a foretelling of his impending...
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    The Birthparents
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    The Birthparents

    The Bronx. It's America at its most vibrant and chaotic; it's also where one foster care caseworker-awould-be white savior from New England, a twentysomething kid prematurely jaded by the system-takes it upon himself to reunify a troubled birthmother...
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  • Tha Khronicles
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    Tha Khronicles

    "Streetwise and Booksmart." This is the motto that represents fifteen-year-old Kamal Bukhari, nicknamed Knerdie B. He proclaims himself to be the most talented high school basketball player to come out of South Phoenix. Kamal is the only child of...
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    New City
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    New City

    Danny is a Polack with a heart of gold. He grew up in New City, home of what was once the world's largest slaughterhouse, the Chicago Stockyards. After Danny's wife's infidelity, he stepped out of what the US calls the "white man's" world. Standing over...
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    The Ecstacy of Agony
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    The Ecstacy of Agony

    The heavyweight of hardcore horror returns with ten hard hitting new short stories and seven brutal epic poems exploring the darkest soul of humanity and the cruelty of life without pulling punches. Wrath James White turns his unflinching eye upon the...
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  • The Pussy Detective
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    The Pussy Detective

    A surreal Blacksploitation joint for the 21st Century. An Occult, Erotic Mystery bout Reverend Daddy Hoodoo helping his Wommin find their Lost-R-Missing Pussies with the help of the extraordinary Madam X. Featuring heartless gangsters, Vodoo sex Magick,...
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    The Confession of Copeland Cane
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    The Confession of Copeland Cane

    WINNER OF THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION"A significant new voice in fiction, Norris has written what may be one of the defining novels of the era..." -BuzzFeedOne of Publishers Weekly's Best Novels of the Summer One of The Millions' Most...
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    This Side of the Divide

    From Baobab Press, in coordination with the University of Nevada, Reno's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, comes This Side of the Divide: Stories, the first anthology in a literary series attempting to capture the newness, vastness,...
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    Chicken Burger N Chips
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    Chicken Burger N Chips

    During the summer holidays of 2009 Corey dreams of nothing but hanging around with his friends while ordering as much Morley's as possible... until Jodie comes along.Meeting her makes Corey realise the changes that are happening within his beloved...
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    Three Novels
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    Three Novels

    The Mexico we hear of in the news - the drug cartels, migration and senseless violence - is rich soil for Herrera's moving stories of people who live in this reality but also live in the timeless realm of myth, epic and fairy tale, such as the singer...
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  • Keeping the House
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    Keeping the House

    * At once a crime drama and a multigenerational family saga, KEEPING THE HOUSE is a debut that establishes Cin as one of the most exciting new writers to emerge in some time.* Tice Cin's prose is vivid and propulsive and fully immerses the reader into...
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  • Wretchedness
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    Wretchedness

    *LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021*Malm, Sweden. A cellist meets a spun-out junkie. That could have been me. His mind starts to glitch between his memories and the avant-garde music he loves, and he descends into his past, hearing all...
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    A Past That Breathes
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    A Past That Breathes

    In January 1995, a promising young musician was found murdered in her apartment in West Los Angeles. There were no eyewitnesses to the crime, but someone saw her arguing with her ex-boyfriend, an African American man, the day before she was found dead...
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  • Lions of Grunewald
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    Lions of Grunewald

    Here is the great Irish novel of Berlin, way back before the Wall came down.Dallan Weaver, a writer and professor who's been fted and flattered but has seen better days, has come to the great divided city as a guest of DILDO (Deutsche-Internationale...
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  • The Likely World
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    The Likely World

    Twenty years of addiction to cloud, a drug which wipes the user's short-term memory, have left single mom Mellie with her mind in fragments. With the help of a tough-minded sponsor, and motivated by her own medically-challenged daughter, Mellie clings to...
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    The Sport of the Gods
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    The Sport of the Gods

    The Sport of the Gods (1902) is a novel by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published while Dunbar was at the height of his career as one of the nation's leading black writers, The Sport of the Gods examines the lives of poor African...
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  • A Knickerbocker's History of New York
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    A Knickerbocker's History of New York

    Told from the perspective of a cantankerous man named Deidrick Knickerbocker, A Knickerbocker's History of New York depicts a satirical history spanning from the world's creation to the end of the Dutch dynasty. Beginning with the start of time itself,...
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  • The Monster and Other Stories
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    The Monster and Other Stories

    The Monster and Other Stories (1899) is a collection of short fiction by American writer Stephen Crane. "The Monster," a novella, was originally published in 1898 in Harper's Magazine and has since been recognized as one of Crane's most important works,...
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