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From NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Patricia Loofbourrow ...Obsession. Blackmail. Betrayal.What if your best friend was helping your worst enemy?All is not well in Bridges. The Four Families accuse each other of spying while Red Dog attacks escalate. Aristocratic jewel merchant Dame Anastasia Louis, styling herself "The Queen of Diamonds," hires her long-time friend, private eye Jacqueline Spadros, to collect from her debtors so she can...
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A killer's on the loose. To solve the trail of crimes, a determined reporter and a stubborn detective will have to work together...even if it kills them.
Taylor James has big dreams - dreams of being a well-sought-after reporter, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and traveling the world. Opportunity is knocking at the door with a killer finding his prey in the early morning hours in and around the French Quarter. Two deaths so far. The police can't find...
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A New Age cult. A paranormal killing. How can a necromancer defeat an enemy that's already claimed her soul? "A human body should burn red-yellow or orange. But these flames were bright cobalt blue. All flame. No smoke." Necromancer Kezia Bernard sees her ability as both a blessing and curse. While it's an honor to connect the African diaspora to their deceased ancestors and channel magic from the past, her power is overshadowed by a crushing affliction....
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Hester Trueblood can't deny having an ancient, Sumerian goddess in her
head has its perks.
She enjoys her new strength and fighting abilities, things that would have
been useful when she was a soldier. And the two handsome men dedicated to
serving and protecting her are a nice bonus too.
On the other hand, there are drawbacks.
Having Inanna's voice inside her head 24/7 can be annoying, and the constant
threat of demons and monsters is a dangerous...
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Does it seem as though your prayers aren't being answered? Even after praying fervently, do you feel that God isn't listening, that God isn't speaking or acting? Most of us have felt this way. Are there tools and strategies we can implement to break through the barriers?
Keying in on two vital areas of spiritual warfare--restoration and retribution--apostle and speaker Venner J. Alston reveals strategies for engaging heaven with the expectation of...
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It's not easy to leave your birthplace behind, to immigrate to a new land and start from the bottom to build a good life, especially as a minority. Yet, a life of meaning and value is available to anyone determined to work hard, move past the disappointments, accept the challenges, and embrace the joy in the journey.
Through her life story, Moji Taiwo chronicles just what it takes to make it. Her passion for service, her exemplary work ethic, and...
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The one secret, which could destroy everything... After financial disaster and the zeppelin bombing, the city of Bridges is reeling. Three of the four Families are implicated, and an inquest is called to investigate. After her failure to prove Jack Diamond's guilt in David Bryce's kidnapping and the deaths of her friends, private eye and mobster's moll Jacqueline Spadros has had enough. While she and her former lover Joseph Kerr try to learn who killed...
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What if the person who hated you most was the only one who could save you?
Thousands of gentlemen have gone bankrupt in Bridges and trouble brews between the Diamond and Spadros crime families. Yet the city is united in its desire to exact vengeance for those murdered in the zeppelin disaster.
Penniless and alone, private eye Jacqueline Spadros confronts the lowest point of her life. Seen as an accomplice in the financial crisis and accused of a...
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Aspiring author Dr. Myaisha Douglas joined the Greensboro Women of Color Writing Group hoping to publish her writing, and never expecting to play amateur sleuth in a real-life murder mystery.
When someone murders a friend and member of the group, Myaisha believes she can help the police solve the crime. An avid mystery fan, she relies on the skills she gained from those stories to catch the killer.
Though determined to get justice for her friend,...
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You don't have to live in your dream house to make your living spaces feel more like home. Home is meant to be a place to belong. A place to gather and connect. A place of beauty. A place to restore your soul. In Restoration House, author and designer Kennesha Buycks will encourage you to embrace your home and your story so you can create mindful spaces that give life to you, your loved ones, and all who enter.
Tips from Restoration House have been...
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From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Patricia Loofbourrow. Kidnapping. Murder. Betrayal. Can you ever truly hide from your past? In a far future US, the once-beautiful domed neo-Victorian city of Bridges is now split between four crime families in an uneasy cease-fire. Social disparity increasing and its steam-driven infrastructure failing, a new faction is on the rise: the Red Dogs. 22 year old Jacqueline Spadros was kidnapped from...
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Between These Walls tells the story of Alana, who thought renting out rooms in her grandparent's home was a good idea. Until she learns secrets about her new roommates. Secrets that lead her in a dangerous direction. One she'll have to fight her way out of to survive.
In What I Deserved, a young woman finds herself torn after discovering her new boyfriend has a dangerous wife that wants nothing more than for him to have a fatal accident. When he...
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Be careful what you wish for...
After eleven years trapped in the Spadros crime syndicate, 23-year-old private eye Jacqueline Spadros is an independent woman, free to run her investigation business.
But her problems are only beginning.
Deeply in debt, Jacqui is in danger from both the rogue Spadros men calling themselves "The Ten of Spades" and the ruthless Red Dog Gang-who may be one and the same.
Jacqui is determined to find Black Maria, the key...
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Many Yoruba and other West Africans still turn to the Orishas for help and guidance in not only their little problems, but also the big problems of life. Inside you will learn that each Orisha have specific abilities, actions, locations, favorites and also how believers can make petitions to the Orisha that is best capable to work out the difficulty they are going through.
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Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of fifteen activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police encounters in dozens of US cities - using little more than the device in their pockets. Their urgent dispatches from the frontlines spurred a global debate on excessive police force,...
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From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans had increased exponentially, and such legislative efforts as the Fugitive Slave Act and the Supreme Court's 1857 ruling in the Dred Scott case effectively voided any rights black Americans held as enslaved...
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Survey after survey reports that Americans have poor money skills and low levels of financial knowledge. They lack education and training in money matters. Many are using social media outlets for money questions and knowledge. At the same time these households have just experienced a pandemic that has reset how they value and approach money. They need a trusted knowledge resource to help them gain financial security. A new book from personal finance...
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A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary...