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The #1 New York Times smash bestseller Revised and expanded with new material. With over two million copies sold, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man has become a bestseller around the world. In conjunction with its second movie sequel to be release...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time, Curtis 50 Cent Jackson opens up about his amazing comebackfrom tragic personal loss to thriving businessman and cables highest-paid executivein this unique self-help guide, his first since his blockbus...

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Young, black, 16-year-old Steve Harmon, an amateur filmmaker, is on trial for the murder of a Harlem drugstore owner. Steve copes by writing a movie script based on his trial. But despite his efforts, reality is blurred until he can no longer tell...

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The #1 New York Times bestseller in a newly revised, expanded edition. With over two million copies sold, ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN has become a bestseller around the world. In this this exciting expanded edition, Steve shares even more re...

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On the heels of Kendrick Lamars Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musician and "The greatest MC of all time," Rakim. The musician and Hip Hop legendhailed as the g...

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From the host of the popular "Steve Harvey Morning Show" comes a funny, honest, and foolproof guide for all women that takes them inside the heads of men and shows how men think about love, sex, and commitment.

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A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all-and a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of legendary soul icon Marvin Gaye. After her seventee...

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"By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.”—Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Time...

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The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core...

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Voted one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New York Public Library, Cynthia Manicks poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism. No Sweet Without Brine is bo...

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In his phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey told women what it takes to succeed in love. Now, he tells everyone how to succeed in life, giving you the keys to fulfill your purpose. Countless books...

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Full of heart and wisdom, Daughters of Latin America sheds a brilliant light on Latine and Caribbean women writers across time, space, languages, and genres.World Literature Today Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of ess...

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Acclaimed childrens author Nana Brew-Hammond makes her highly anticipated return with this soaring and profound story about love and understanding told through three generations of one Ghanian family. Determined to avoid the pain and instability o...

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A story of star-crossed urban love by two-time National Book Award finalist Walter Dean Myers. Have you ever loved someone from the wrong side of the tracks? Damien has everything going for him. His family wants him to date Roxanne. He falls for J...

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Do men and monogamy mix? It's not a question Mitchell Little Bit' Crawford gave much thought to until his boyfriend of almost two years, Raheim 'Pooquie' Rivers, an All-American jeans model, heads to Hollywood to make his first...

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Follows the tennis careers and friendship of African-American Althea Gibson and Jewish-European Angela Buxton, discussing how both women triumphed over tennis-circuit prejudice and became successful Wimbledon partners. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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When Noire, a hip, Afro-wearing Ph.D. student, walks into Brown Betty Books, her righteousness kicks in to overdrive amid the self-identified "talented tenth" who wear their double degrees and five-hundred-dollar shoes like badges of hon...

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Bob Marley was a reggae superstar, a musical prophet who brought the sound of the Third World to the entire globe. Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley goes beyond the myth of Marley to bring you the private side of a man few people ever real...

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As a young girl in the 1970s struggles to make sense of her budding sexuality and keep her splintered family together, she is forced to admit that her mother may be incapable of love and her father's love may be too all-consuming.

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Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the Harlem Renaissance when Lonnie and his uncle Bates go back to Harlem in the 1920s. Along the way, they meet famous writers, musicians, artists, and athlete...

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Hailed upon publication by writers and critics alike, including Shirley Hazzard and Charles Johnson, Let the Lion Eat Straw is a dazzling novel that tells the story of Abeba Williams, whose mother abandons the poverty of the South and in the proce...

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Soon to be a major film starring Will Smith, this is the inspiring rags-to-riches story of the charismatic Chris Gardner, a once homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and then went on to become a cro...

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Attending a sorority sister's wedding on New Year's Eve, three best friends vow to land Hollywood husbands within the year, a pact that challenges agent Trista to rearrange her hectic schedule, starlet Amaya to seduce a hip-hop executive away from...

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Idealizing the romantic marriage of her parents in spite of her own short-term relationships, assistant D.A. Kia Carson finds her career and a budding relationship with a white man compromised by the unexpected loss of her job, an event that promp...

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The nation's capital that serves as the setting for the stories in Edward P. Jones's prizewinning collection, Lost in the City, lies far from the city of historic monuments and national politicians. Jones takes the reader beyond that world into th...

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In Erica Simone Turnipseed's captivating follow-up to A Love Noire, heartache fans the flames of lust when freethinking Noire and Innocent, her urbane African ex, reunite.Noire and Innocent are both having a thirtysomething crisis. His former iden...

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The sole survivor of a massacre that killed more than 100 Tutsi children and teachers presents this personal and inspiring story of how he survived genocide and ascended to world-class status as an athlete due to his enduring faith in God.

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Set partly in contemporary Washington, D.C., and post-World War II Dominica, this debut novel deftly intertwines the cultures of blacks in the United States and the West Indies as an extraordinary multigenerational family saga unfolds.

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Fashad, a drug dealer and secret bisexual, is contronted by a host of enemies--including Smokey, one of his aides and a would-be rapper seduced by Fashad as a teenager; Fashad's wife Cameshia, who is convinced her husband is unfaithful; and his re...

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Honey Height learned early in life that her beauty and bedroom prowess are powerful, almost beyond her control. Forced by events that leave her to fend for herself as a teenager, she evolves into a money-hungry vixen as an adult. Using her physica...

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