Sassy bail recovery agent turned sleuth Angel Crawford is back, and though this brainy part-time sleuth's been ordered to take a vacation, she's not slowing down. Determined to catch the killer who murdered her fiancé six years ago,...
African American women
- Author:Parker, MirandaSummary:
- Author:G'Orge-Walker, Pat.Summary:
Her marriage to a minister compromised by numerous infidelities on both sides, Chyna turns for advice to her sister Janelle, who still harbors resentment for Chyna's affair with Janelle's own husband.
- Author:Ford, Ashley C.Summary:
Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she doesn't know what he...
- Author:Dickey, Eric JeromeSummary:
Three beautiful young women look for the good life in the bright lights of L.A.
- Author:Lorde, AudreSummary:
In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, influential poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change.
- Author:Phillips, GarySummary:
Shots ring out during a heavyweight title fight. In the ensuing mayhem someone steals five million bucks that used to belong to a casino owner. If Chainey tracks down the loot, there's a cool quarter million in it for her troubles. But...
- Author:Watson, RenéeSummary:
Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose up against the odds—including Oprah Winfrey! In this chapter...
- Author:Pinkney, Andrea DavisSummary:
Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose up against the odds!Born enslaved, Harriet Tubman rose up to...
- Author:Williams-Garcia, RitaSummary:
One Crazy Summer Considered the fastest woman of all time, Florence Griffith Joyner, also known as Flo Jo, set two world records in 1988 that still stand today. But getting there wasn't easy, and Flo Jo had to overcome many...
- Author:Monroe, MarySummary:
It's the best of times and the worst of times for Dolores Reese, who's married to two different men in two different cities.
- Author:Copeland, SheilaSummary:
Two L.A. sisters discover the importance of being single and saved, but not scandalous.
- Author:Sherrod, Leslie J.Summary:
In her most chilling challenge yet, Sienna St. James believes she has come face to face with the terrorist responsible for the carnage in her hometown. Taking him on as a client in her therapy practice may be the only way to prove to...
- Author:Giovanni, NikkiSummary:
Account of Rosa Parks's decision to stay in her bus seat in 1955 Alabama, in defiance of segregation laws. Explains the resulting bus boycott by civil rights activists that led to the Supreme Court ruling ending racial segregation...
- Author:Griggs, Vanessa DavisSummary:
When her husband gets a job with David, a gospel megastar, Brianna, a lonely young wife seeking solace in religious studies, finds a connection with David that causes her to question her faith, fidelity, and the sovereignty of God.
- Author:Monroe, MarySummary:
Lula Mae, Ester, Megan, Rosalee, Helen, and Rockelle are like a close-knit family as they work the mean streets of San Francisco. For better or worse, they have something else in common too: their "manager," Clyde Brooks--a charismatic...
- Author:Morrison, ToniSummary:
In this 1983 short story-the only short story Morrison ever wrote-we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable...
- Author:Mink, MeeshaSummary:
Rapper Make$'s wifey, Harriet Jordan, finds herself out in the cold financially after Make$ is imprisoned for his role in the brutal rape of Luscious' friend and his business partner, Kaeyla "Goldie" Dennis, a misguided young woman who...
- Author:Baszile, NatalieSummary:
A mother-daughter story of reinvention-about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in...
- Author:Dames, Jamise L.Summary:
For seven years, Daisy Parker has been Jasper's lover and mother to Jay, his nine-year-old son. But when Jasper doesn't come home one too many nights, Daisy decides she's had enough. But Jasper hasn't been partying--he's been murdered....
- Author:Ione, CaroleSummary:
Born in 1937 and raised by her physician great aunt, chorus-line dancing grandmother, and glamorous murdermystery writing mother, psychotherapist Carole Ione knew more about the men in her family than she did about her secretive female...