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Jada Townsend-Matthews is the most reviled woman in America after turning down a proposal on a reality dating show. When she comes home to lick her wounds, Jada finds herself working at San Diego's newest cupcake bakery, Sugar Blitz, alongside the uptight owner and professional football player Donovan Dell. When a reporter mistakenly believes Jada and Donovan are an item, they realize they can use the misunderstanding to their advantage to help the bakery and rehabilitate Jada's image. Faking a relationship should be simple, but sometimes love is the most unexpected ingredient.

Since being cast as an interviewee for the documentary Beneath My Skin, Cassandra “Sand” Ross is inspired to walk in her own truth. While undergoing her gender transition, she decides to produce the unscripted reality series Versions of Love with the help of her wife, Rene. It is sure to be a journey, as the couple embeds themselves in the vibrant light of the culture and the love stories between women. When Rene hires a production assistant, Sand is once again faced with a blast from the past - an old flame, who has every intention of winning Sand’s heart back.

Cameron Barnett’s poetry collection, The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water (winner of the 2017 Rising Writer Contest), explores the complexity of race and the body for a Black man in today’s America.

A female actress, no matter how great her talent, has a limited shelf life. I faced the hard facts that it’s a man’s world in Hollywood a long time ago. Being 42 years young is a death sentence in the industry. Yet here I am. Completely gobsmacked at the offer of the role of the century. We’re talking leading lady, Oscar-worthy. I’m here to train for my comeback role, not for whiskey and a roll in the hay. Now this good-looking, tall, 48-year-old joker that seems to say all the right lines from the raunchiest Native American romance novels is f--king me up.

Wraith has vanished for a year. When she finally returns to New Orleans, the criminals are back to "business as usual". Without ISO-1 to control the area, the Russian mob-otherwise known as the Vory-has moved in and taken over the city. Literally. Now, Madi, Krisan, and her other allies must battle the supervillains of the Vory and the misguided superhero, Seraph, while also protecting a family the Vory have kidnapped from Argentina. With everyone trying to kill her, Madi needs to be more than a vigilante - she needs to become the top of the Big Easy's food chain.

Los Angeles, 1963: African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on the eve of Martin Luther King’s Freedom Rally, Ingram risks ending up one of the victims at every crime scene he photographs. When Ingram hears a call over the police scanner to the scene of a deadly automobile accident, he recognizes the vehicle described as belonging to his good friend and old army buddy, the white jazz trumpeter Ben Kinslow.

El joven vikingo Arnulf es tan salvaje como el águila y el lobo que dan forma a su nombre. Ansía lanzarse a una vida de aventuras y acción, pero sus planes pronto se verán truncados cuando el barco de su hermano Helge regrese a casa hecho añicos. Ciego de dolor, Arnulf se embarca junto con un esclavo noruego en un viaje de venganza. Sin embargo, el viaje que le aguarda estará plagado de peligros y vicisitudes, desde una incursión a un encuentro real, pasando por multitud de batallas a cual más sangrienta hasta encontrar a los vikingos de Jomsborg.

From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color. Edited by Wall Street Journal best-selling author Abby L. Vandiver, this thrilling anthology will keep you on the edge of your seat. Includes "Midnight Escapade" by Jennifer Chow, "Lucky Thirteen" by Tracy Clark, "Murderers' Feast" by H.C. Chan, "In the Matter of Mabel and Bobby Jefferson" by Christopher Chambers, and many more.

One of the best-known poets of the Revolutionary War era, Phillis Wheatley made history with this collection, which was the first such work to be published from an African American woman. Celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic, Wheatley found admirers in the likes of Voltaire, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and John Paul Jones.

After an unsuspected raid destroys the Bishop family empire, many hands fight to take over the territory now up for grabs. While Nessa thinks she’s won against her cheating, womanizing ex-man, Luke plays a few chess moves of his own. His plan to win at a game his father instilled in him, while testifying against those he once loved, backfires terribly. Chetti simply isn’t having it, and she’ll do whatever it takes to remain in control and live in the lap of luxury, while taking down her very own family.

Whoever said the king has to be a man? In this gritty tale of money, sex, and mayhem, Chetti Bishop must protect her family empire at all cost, despite the violence launched against her. As a self-proclaimed b---h, her sights are set on becoming untouchable. Nothing gets in her way…not even Nessa, a sexy outsider who secretly plots her revenge. The stakes soon become treacherous, while loyalty becomes nonexistent. As unsuspecting enemies emerge, murder is eminent, and the last one standing will walk away with millions.

Over a year has passed, but the time spent in jail has done nothing to soften the hatred in Jayla’s heart. After Jasmine’s betrayal, it’s only a matter of time before Jayla can give her a taste of her own medicine. The opportunity arises when Sheila Weston, the senator’s wife, intervenes, offering Jayla an assignment that she can’t refuse. Little does she know how much this assignment will change her life forever. Betrayal is at every turn, and no one can be trusted. As new secrets are revealed, Jayla finds herself tangled in a web so twisted it brings her past full circle.

Trey Devereaux is out to prove her corporate mettle to her skeptical father. When she sees a chance to take control of Devereaux Inc. from her estranged grandfather, she pounces. But Jeremiah Benton, his second-in-command, is fiercely protective of the Devereaux patriarch...and absolutely enticing. The intensity of their attraction overwhelms her defenses, and Trey even finds herself warming to her grandfather under Jeremiah’s influence. Can Trey maintain her resolve, or is Jeremiah winning this high-stakes merger? The fate of a billion-dollar Brooklyn legacy lies in the balance....

Cold-hearted Keema takes the world by storm as she navigates her way through every trick and scam she can pull off. With four kids in tow, living off the welfare system had become her life along with the extra cash, sex, and violence her gangsta boyfriend Dupree brought into her life. Soon, chaos erupts, causing Keema’s secret past to become a problem. When the chips fall, they fall hard, leaving Keema willing to do whatever it takes to keep money in her pocket. She’s willing to go that extra mile, even if it means selling her kids or setting up her man.

En 2032, tras perder su hogar y su familia, Lauren Olamina estableció una pacífica comunidad en el norte de California, basada en su fe recién fundada: Semilla Terrestre. En ella ofrece refugio a los marginados y perseguidos por la administración de Jarret, un presidente ultraconservador que promete «hacer que Estados Unidos vuelva a ser grande». En una nación cada vez más peligrosa y dividida, la subversiva colonia de Lauren, una facción religiosa minoritaria dirigida por una joven mujer negra, se convierte en un objetivo del reinado de terror y opresión de Jarret.

Beautiful and brilliantly talented Celia DeMille is a 19th-century concert artist who has garnered fame, sung all over the world, and amassed a fortune. But prejudice bars her from achieving her place in history as one of the world’s greatest singers, and she dies in poverty and obscurity.

Everyone in my culture knows emotions are dangerous. In Old Europe, we learn how to suppress romantic feelings and follow the rules of no commitment. Now that I'm working in the Northlands, I'm preparing Nmen for a life in France, teaching them how to flirt, have sex, and move on. The part that bothers me is watching the men practice their flirting skills on my fellow instructor, Sparrow.

C. N. Phillips returns with the next tale in the saga of five crime families that run the streets of New York’s five boroughs. The uneasy alliance they once shared has been compromised, and now no one is truly safe from retribution. 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.

In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake". Activating multiple registers of "wake" - the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness - Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, and she delineates what survives despite such insistent violence and negation.

After years away from home, Summer Graves is back in Austin, Texas, to accept a new teaching position. Of all the changes to the old neighborhood, the most dispiriting one is the slated demolition of the high school her grandmother founded. There’s no way she can let developers destroy her memories and her family legacy. But the challenge stirs memories of another kind.