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Johnnie Wise was just fifteen years old when her mother sold her virginity to an unscrupulous white insurance man named Earl Shamus. Stunningly beautiful, with long naturally wavy black hair, she possessed the voluptuous body of a thirty-year-old woman. Her skin was the color of brown sugar. Johnnie had heard about Earl Shamus and his escapades among the poor black women in New Orleans. But what she didn't know was that Shamus had quietly made several...
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Best-selling author Keith Lee Johnson returns to 1950s New Orleans for this powerful sequel to his sensationally popular Little Black Girl Lost. Teenage beauty Johnnie Wise has seen her share of hardship. Sold into prostitution at an early age, she is an accessory to a murder that sparks terrible race riots. Her boyfriend Lucas wants to give her a better life, but Johnnie has a powerful effect on men-and gangster Napoleon Bentley will stop at nothing...
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After his blockbuster success of Little Black Girl Lost, and Little Black Girl Lost II Keith Lee Johnson takes us back to 1950's New Orleans, into the world of betrayal, envy, lust, and murder, where everyone has ulterior motives. The past resurfaces in this third installment of the life and times of seventeen year old Johnnie Wise. Truth has its consequences and Johnnie has a lot to answer for. The innocent girl we met in the first installment of...
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Essence best-selling author Keith Lee Johnson's popular series continues with this fourth book, which reaches back to unearth the roots of Johnnie Wise's family tree. On the eve of her arranged marriage in an African village, a 16-year-old girl elopes with her fiancée’s younger brother. But the lovers are captured and sold into American slavery-and the girl wonders if she'll ever see her man again.
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Essence best-selling author Keith Lee Johnson's fifth installment in his ongoing Little Black Girl Lost series picks up where the fourth book left off by continuing the diary of Josephine Baptiste. As more details about Josephine's past come to light, the African heritage of modern-day Johnnie Wise is further explained.
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Stumbling onto the feud of an old clan of shape-shifters, a college graduate named Joy finds herself looking after a rogue named Rurik. In a cabin in the woods, feelings quickly develop between the two unlikely lovers as Rurik's people draw close. Joy must use all her resourcefulness if she's to survive the impending fight to the death.
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In this, the second book in the Little Girl Lost Trilogy, Sally Whitmore continues her process of becoming a more self-confident, self-accepting, self-actualized woman by orchestrating a six-week pole-dancing class. Week by week, she grows and evolves, as do her five misfit female students who have come to the class hoping to undo the effects of less-than-desirable lives. As a result, Sally becomes receptive to progressing beyond the losses that plagued...
8) Fly Betty
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Harlem-bred literary giant Treasure Blue serves up Fly Betty, the third installment in the acclaimed Harlem Girl Lost series. In the multibillion-dollar entertainment industry, there is a secret society of women that few are privy to. These women all vie for one thing: the opportunity to live a lavish lifestyle by snagging a famous young millionaire. Betty Blaise, or Fly Betty to those who truly know her, was not in it to be a wife or even the baby...
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In this, the first book in the Little Girl Lost Trilogy, the reader is taken into the psyche of Sally McFee, whose world is populated by pimps, prostitutes, strippers, a Mafioso and a cold-blooded killer. Sally struggles to balance the indelible imprints of these realities while becoming a passionate wife and a fiercely devoted mother. Like a Phoenix, she faces one merciless reality after another in an attempt to progress beyond her past into a more...
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Revealing the roots of Johnnie Wise's family tree, the author takes readers to Nigeria where a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl, preparing to marry a much older man, escapes with her young lover on the night before the arranged marriage is to take place on a Dutch slave ship bound for America where she becomes Josephine Baptiste.
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Sometimes you need to get lost to find yourself.
Elite swimmer, Dina McNamara's dreams of Olympic Gold have been derailed. Her gifted sister Mae has graduated high school at just 16 and has planned an around-the-world trip with her three best friends. Their parents agree to let Mae go, but only if 18-year-old Dina goes too. Resentful and broken, but with nothing better to do with her life, Dina boards the plane — first stop Tokyo.
Two weeks in...
12) Off the Map
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Hana is French. Actually, she's Australian-Japanese. She just chooses to be French, and she has waited her whole life to visit the city of her dreams. Paris! But for Hana and her friends, Paris becomes the stuff of nightmares with everything going wrong from the moment they arrive.
Enter Drago, the gorgeous Slovenian guy they keep bumping into. Drago hears about their run of bad luck and invites them to stay in his family's hotel in Slovenia. But...
13) Bling 3.0
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Bling 3.0 is book eight in The Lost Girls series, a Dark Earth setting, by Jason Halstead Medicine in the year 2073 can handle broken bones, gunshots, and most damage the human body can receive. It cannot replace a missing brother. Protecting the Martinez family meant abandoning her brother on the world of her birth, Dark Earth. She made that choice and saved the lives of two innocent children and the woman who loved her... but at what cost? The Martinez...
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Caroline Grey was just four-years-old, when she was, found stranded and alone by navy sailors on a deserted island in the Caribbean. When she was, returned to England, she enjoyed a brief burst of notoriety. Who was she? Who had her parents been? Ultimately, she was, claimed by her dour, miserly relatives, who've treated her like an unwanted pauper. She's spent her life trying to be accepted by those who should love her, but her haunting past has...
15) Someone To Love
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Cheryl Holt delivers the first novel in her new and exciting "Lost Girls" trilogy.
As a tiny girl, Libby Carstairs was found by navy sailors on a deserted island in the Caribbean. She was all alone and had no memory of her past or parents. Who is she? And, what happened to leave her stranded so far from home? After she was returned to England, her situation was sensationalized in the newspapers, which meant she's enjoyed a life of public acclaim....
16) Someone to Wed
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CHERYL HOLT delivers the third and final novel in her thrilling and delightful Lost Girls trilogy...
Joanna James had a brief moment of notoriety at age four when she survived a shipwreck in the Caribbean. She was returned to England and raised quietly in the country by a doting auntie. She's descended from an ancient line of wise women, so she's very different from other young ladies. She has the sight, and she can cast spells and brew potions,...
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His sister is missing and only one person can help
Cade Larson needs LAPD fingerprint expert Lori Del Valle to help track down his troubled missing sister. But he can't deny the sparks still between them…nor the secret Lori is keeping. When fingerprints link Cade's sister to another missing woman-and a potentially nefarious treatment center-Lori volunteers to go undercover. Will their dangerous plan bring a predator to justice or tragically...
18) Dockside Danger
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With innocent lives on the line
Trusting each other is their only chance…
LAPD detective Jane Falco knows a recent murder is no open-and-shut case. She doesn't need FBI agent Tim Ruskin back in her life to complicate the investigation-and reignite still-dangerous sparks between them. But to stop a vicious human trafficking ring, Jane and Tim must gamble on each other-and an endgame impossible to survive…
From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills....
19) Lakeside Mystery
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He'll have to trust a woman who knows too much
To solve his biggest homicide case yet
LAPD detective Denver Holt doesn't know what to make of true crime blogger Ashlynn Hughes-no matter how attracted he is to her. The stubborn writer has inside information that can help him crack his biggest homicide case yet. But as anonymous tips carry them further into danger, Denver wonders if he can keep a target off Ashlynn's back…or if she'll be silenced...
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Lost Girls Investigations is book nine in the Lost Girls series, a Dark Earth setting, by Jason Halstead For a small woman, Katalina Wimple left big shoes to fill. Her adopted daughters and their friends are only too willing to carry that legacy on in this collection of stories. Lost Girls Investigations contains six stories championing people lost in the greed and corruption of the system. Darwin – Introducing Darwin, a brilliant computer wizard...
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