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Mr. and Mrs. Doctor
Published: 2015-05-12
Paperback: 288 pages
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Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, begin their lives together in Nebraska with a single, outrageous lie: that Job is a doctor, not a college dropout. Unwittingly, Ifi becomes his co-conspirator—that is until his first wife, Cheryl, whom he married for a green card ye...
Hold It 'Til It Hurts
Published: 2012-08-28
Paperback: 340 pages
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Finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award"The magnificence of Hold It 'Til It Hurts is not only in the prose and the story but also in the book's great big beating heart. These complex and compelling characters and the wizardry of Johnson's storytelling will dazzle and move you from first p...
Loving Eleanor
Published: 2016-02-01
Paperback: 306 pages
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When AP political reporter Lorena Hickok—Hick—is assigned to cover Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wife of the 1932 Democratic presidential candidate, the two women become deeply, intimately involved. Their relationship begins with mutual romantic passion, matures through stormy periods of enforced...
The Life He Chose
Published: 2015-10-10
Paperback: 174 pages
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The Life He Chose Flash cars, fast money and illegal business deals were his life. Whatever he wanted, he made sure that he got it. It didn't matter who got hurt along the way. Jay had no love for anybody but himself. His loyalty to his 'boys' was greater than his loyalty to his long-term partner...
Homemade Love
Published: 1998-12-01
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J. California Cooper is the author of novels, six collections of stories, and seventeen plays. Her book Homemade Love was the winner of the American Book Award in 1989, and she has been honored as the Black Playwright of the Year. She has also received the James Baldwin Writing Award and t...
Every Light in the House Burnin'
Published: 1995-02-23
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The remarkable, emotional debut novel, both funny and moving, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, from the critically aclaimed Andrea Levy, author of the Orange Prize winning SMALL ISLAND and the Man Booker shortlisted THE LONG SONG. 'Better opportunity' - that's why Angela's dad...
The Joys of Motherhood: A Novel
Published: 2013-08-07
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A feminist literary classic by one of Africa’s greatest women writers, re-issued with a new introduction by Stéphane Robolin. First published in 1979, The Joys of Motherhood is the story of Nnu Ego, a Nigerian woman struggling in a patriarchal society. Unable to conceive in her first m...
Rite of Passage
Published: 1995-12-19
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"Johnny, you're leaving us tonight . . . "Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs does, well in school, respects his teachers, and loves his family. Then suddenly, with a few short words, his idyllic life is shattered. He learns that the family he has loved all his life is not his own, but a foster ...
The Perfect Girl: A Novel
Published: 2016-09-06
Paperback: 464 pages
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The New York Times bestselling author of What She Knew returns with an electrifying new novel about how the past will always find us..."Literary suspense at its finest.”—Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Baby“A wonderfully addictive book with virtuoso plotting ...
Shadows in the Room
Published: 2016-06-09
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If you've ever woken in the night and wondered what the shadow in the corner of the room was, you'll quickly realize that it's nothing. But this wasn't the case for Josephine. For Josephine, these shadows were something, or more to the point someone. Josephine is a bully who picks on anyon...
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