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41) Jilted
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"Avery Booker is beautiful, successful, and ready to pledge forever to Lloyd, starting with the elaborate wedding ceremony she's wanted for so long. Avery's happy; Lloyd's happy, but the pregnant woman who objects is not. It seems Lloyd has some explaining to do, but explanations will have to wait. The baby is coming on the rose petals that were meant for Avery. The contractions are too close together to wait for an ambulance, so Avery springs into...
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Love isn't always easy. Kaylha Karrington introduces us to three couples striving to achieve happiness and love in some less-than-ideal circumstances. Draya wants to trust and believe, but she doesn't know how. Will this couple get it together, or will the memories of what they want disappear right before their eyes? Draya had given up on the hopes of being in love ever since her fiancé, Korey, decided to make a fool out of her. Her woman's intuition...
44) Shattered
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Bluford series volume 12
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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"Darcy Wills is desperate. A painful secret is ruining her closest friendships at Bluford High School. And an even deeper lie is tearing her family apart. Unwilling to lose the people she loves, Darcy must confront her past and the truth. What she discovers will change her world forever"--Book description.
Continues the story of Darcy Wills as she begins her junior year at Bluford High School. Eager to repair her relationship with her old boyfriend...
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He has one gray eye, the other as dark as the deepest parts of any ocean. The often misunderstood Ronald Doolally lives his life as a single man with few attachments. After the death of his father, he hasn't a person left in the world. Until he meets Gertrude Liberal, who immediately shows interest in the odd stranger. The outspoken, natural beauty sees his distant demeanor as endearing. Eventually wearing down his defenses, Gertrude finds a place...
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Her sweetest revenge (Saundra) volume 3
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"For seventeen-year-old Mya Bedford, life in a Detroit project is hard enough, but when her mother develops a drug habit, Mya has to take on raising her younger siblings. Too bad the only man who can teach her how to survive--her dad--is behind bars. For life. All he can tell her is that she'll have to navigate the mean streets on her own terms. Mya's not sure what that means--until her mother is seriously beaten by a notorious gang. Then it all becomes...
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Family business volume 1
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By day, the Duncans are an upstanding family who run a thriving car dealership in Queens. By night, they live a dangerous secret life. L.C. Duncan, patriarch of the family, is at the age when he's starting to think about retirement in sunny Florida. But the recession is taking a bite out of the business and, worrying more, he has to decide which of his children should take over. When his workaholic son Orlando gets the nod, Orlando's siblings--including...
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Island Press
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[2019]
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"Improved bus service can make our cities better places to live for all citizens and help address some of America's deepest social and environmental problems. But there is an enormous mismatch between how badly American cities need good bus service and how committed their leaders are to providing it. In Better Buses, Better Cities, transit expert Steven Higashide shows that it does not have to be this way. In defiance of the national trend, bus ridership...
50) Los Angeles
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Join in as C. N. Phillips paints a kingpin story the way it has never been done before. To some it will be a beautiful mural; to others it will be a brutal massacre.
Ever since he was a child, the only thing Cyril Anderson wanted was to be down with his brother Cane's crew. Cane Anderson, leader of the notorious Bankroll Crips, was invincible--or so Cyril thought.
On the night of Cyril's initiation, things take a terrible turn and leave Cane lying...
51) The Bronx
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"Caesar knew the peace he started had an expiration date, but he never thought the end would be so explosive. With the Pact completely dissolved and the Chinese angered beyond measure at the loss of their leader, they want Boogie's head bloody and served on a stick. Caesar is willing to protect him at all costs, even if it puts him at odds with the allies still on his side"--
52) Full figured 17
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"Big girls deserve love too, and Brandie Davis and Niko Michelle introduce readers to two women who are determined to get it." -- Back cover.
Camgirl: "Lots of women weight 300 pounds would have a problem with their size and wish for a smaller frame, but not Draya Ruckers. She's content with her weight and has no issues with her outside appearance. It's in the inside she's at war with. Her mind is her biggest enemy, and emotions are her personal...
54) Animal
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Animal novels (K'wan) volume 1
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2012.
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Three years after narrowly escaping a one way trip to the gas chamber, the fugitive known only as Animal finds himself drawn back to the scene of the crime: Harlem. Throughout his entire time in exile, the only thing that kept Animal going was the thought that he would one day be reunited with his soul mate, Gucci--but one bullet changed everything. When his enemies tried to murder Gucci, they crossed the line, so he vowed to cross them all. While...
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City-dwellers across the country are finding creative new ways to live, and urban farmers are reclaiming heirloom agrarian practices as strategies for responsible living. Get to know real people who are changing their lives and the lives of their neighbors through the urban homesteading movement.
56) Influence
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Influence (Carl Weber) volume 1
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When famed attorney Bradley Hudson learns of his youngest son Langston's arrest for drug trafficking, he immediately assembles a team of lawyers and investigators, including members of his own family, to build a defense. With his reputation for being a shark in the courtroom, Bradley is confident he will get justice for his son--until he realizes he will be going up against an old foe, Assistant District Attorney James Brown. Is the ADA allowing his...
57) Beats and blow
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Crescent Crew volume 4
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The founder and leader of the Crescent Crew negotiates a supply of products from lockdown while his second-on-command, Bone, has a secret agenda that is starting an internal war.
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Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 4
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Traditional and modern-day tales and "jump" stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, haunts, superstitions, monsters and horrible scary things.
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Real hoodwives of Detroit volume 1
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Picking up where "The Real Hoodwives of Detroit 1" left off, Nikki, Gucci and Chloe, letting their pistols do the talking, are out for blood as lies are told and relationships are tested.
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Picador, A Thomas Dunne book, St. Martin's Press
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2020.
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"Imagine a world where every city has its own local food source grown in the safest way possible, where no drop of water or particle of light is wasted, and where a simple elevator ride can transport you to nature's grocery store--imagine the world of the vertical farm. When Columbia professor Dr. Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and enery crises, he didn't just think big--he thought up. In The Vertical Farm, he passionately...
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