Sean Crisden
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Language
English
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance: Audible Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Fun in the sun awaits in this funny, flirty, and deliciously sexy rom-com novella by USA Today best-selling author Mia Sosa. Perfect for fans of Talia Hibbert, Olivia Dade, and Alexis Daria!
No-nonsense executive Naomi Reyes can't believe she let her boss manipulate her into babysitting Donovan Taylor, the most insufferable creative director of all time. Worse, she'll be trapped on a private island with him, while a bevy of gorgeous models vie for...
Author
Series
Dreamers (Adriana Herrera) volume 1
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
No one ever said big dreams come easy. For Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from New York City to the wilds of Upstate New York is a huge gamble. If it works, he'll be a big fish in a little pond. If it doesn't? He'll have to give up the hustle and return to the day job he hates. He's got six months to make it happen -- the last thing he needs is a distraction. Jude Fuller is proud of the life he's built on the banks of Cayuga Lake....
Author
Series
Dreamers (Adriana Herrera) volume 2
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"New York City social worker Camilo Santiago Briggs grew up surrounded by survivors who taught him to never rely on anything you didn't earn yourself. He's always dreamed of his own happily-ever-after, but he lives in the real world. Men who seem too good to be true ... usually are. And Milo never ever mixes business with pleasure ... until the mysterious man he had an unforgettable hookup with turns out to be the wealthy donor behind his agency's...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation. Focused on New Orleans first century of existence, a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the political, cultural, and musical development of Louisiana's early years is presented. This innovative history tracks the important roots of American music back to the swamp...
7) Dark magic
Author
Series
Dark series volume 4
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Young Savannah Dubrinsky was a mistress of illusion, a world-famous magician capable of mesmerizing millions. But there was one-Gregori, the Dark One-who held her in terrifying thrall. Whose cold silver eyes and heated sensuality sent shivers of danger, of desire, down her slender spine. With a dark magic all his own, Gregori-the implacable hunter, the legendary healer, the most powerful of Carpathian males-whispered in Savannah's mind that he was...
8) Texas tall
Author
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Seeking vengeance for a tragic past, Tyree Benton joined the Rangers and became a different man--but his brutal actions still twist his conscience. Now he’s found a woman he could love, but she deserves more than a man who makes a living getting shot at. If Ty were honorable, he'd leave her alone. But he can’t seem to stay away.... Orphaned at fourteen, Charlotte Weyland has used her talent for numbers to build enough of a fortune to fund Ty's...
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Xavier "Scarecrow" Wallace, a mixed-race MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, is facing the fight of his life. Xavier is losing his battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or pugilistic dementia-a struggle he can no longer deny. Through the fog of memory loss, migraines, and paranoia, Xavier does his best to keep in shape while he waits for the call that will reinstate him after a year-long suspension. Until then, he watches his diet...
Author
Series
Sugarland blue novels volume 1
Publisher
Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Detective Shane Ford, Sugarland's favorite cop, has been blindsided by the sudden death of his best friend, NFL star Brad Cooper, and by becoming the legal guardian of Brad's son, Drew. a bitter, angry sixteen-year-old with a dangerous secret. Shane is determined to pry the truth from Drew, but he manages only to alienate him and winds up going head-to-head with Juvenile Officer Daisy Callahan, whose job is to protect the teen's best interests. Shane...
11) Erasure: a novel
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which he submits to his startled agent under the gangsta pseudonym...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book's main characters is also named City Coldson--but Long Division is set in 1985. This 1985-version of City, along with his friend and love interest, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called...Baize Shephard. They ultimately take these items with...
Author
Series
Sugarland blue novels volume 2
Publisher
Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Taylor is a laid-back, smart-aleck kind of lawman. He's also every woman's fantasy. Years ago, he was in a botched hostage situation that ended with him being hailed as a hero, even though the pain, fear, and shame from that day still haunts him. Cara Evans doesn't care less about Taylor's pain. The moment he became a so called hero, she lost someone she dearly loved. Neither of them is prepared for the instant attraction that flares between them;...
14) On the hustle
Author
Series
Dating in Dallas volume 2
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Alba Duarte is the queen of the side hustle. As the eldest daughter in her crisis-prone family, she's always stepped up to help. Her favorite gig is doing Instagram-worthy, bookish-themed bedroom makeovers for friends. Her most hated? Working as the assistant to the most gorgeous-and most infuriating-man on earth. Theo Ganas is a former Olympic swimmer and heir to a bona fide real estate empire. He's also about as warm and fuzzy as a New York City...
15) Here to stay
Author
Series
Dating in Dallas volume 1
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Julia del Mar Ortiz is not having the best year. She moved to Dallas with her boyfriend, who ended up ditching her and running back to New York after only a few weeks. Left with a massive--by NYC standards, anyway--apartment and a car lease in the scorching Texas heat, Julia is struggling ... except that's not completely true. Running the charitable foundation of one of the most iconic high fashion department stores in the world is serious #lifegoals....
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Back under the same roof and bickering like old times before her best friend's February 14th wedding, maid-of-honor Lissette Alonso and Brian Anderson, who is the reason for all her Valentine's Day hatred, call a truce when someone he is trying to avoid shows up at the reception.
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"'The Art of Fermentation' is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published. Sandor Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in ways that are simple enough to guide a reader through their first experience making sauerkraut or yogurt, and in-depth enough to provide greater understanding and insight for experienced practitioners. While Katz expertly contextualizes fermentation in terms of biological...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for-and ultimately justify-racial inequalities. The fifth edition of this provocative book makes clear that colorblind racism is as insidious now as ever. It features new material on our current racial climate, including the Black Lives...
19) Saint
Author
Series
Priest volume 3
Publisher
Bloom Books, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Aiden was the last person in the world anyone expected to become a monk. But the decision to become a monk saved his life, and he's determined to do it right, even if it's taken him from his millionaire party-boy lifestyle...and the love of his life, Elijah Iverson. Four-plus years haven't made letting Elijah go any easier, but at least Aiden hasn't had to come face-to-face with those whiskey eyes and soft mouth since he left. That is, until Elijah...
20) The right move
Author
Series
Windy city volume 2
Publisher
Liz [Tomforde]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Ryan: She's a distraction, that's what she is. I'm the newest Captain of the Devils, Chicago's NBA team, and the last thing I needed this year was for Indy Ivers, my sister's best friend, to move into my apartment. She's messy, emotional, and way too tempting. But when the team's General Manager vocalizes his blatant disapproval of my promotion to Captain, referring to me as an unapproachable lone wolf with no work-life balance, I can't think of...