Sean Crisden
Author
Language
English
Description
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
2) Here to Stay
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
Award-winning, highly-acclaimed author Adriana Herrera delivers the sexy, modern enemies-to-lovers romance you’ve been waiting for. Starting over is more about who you’re with than where you live…Julia del Mar Ortiz is not having the best year. She moved to Dallas with her boyfriend, who ended up ditching her and running back to New York after only a few weeks. Left with a massive—by NYC standards, anyway—apartment and a car lease in the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Back under the same roof and bickering like old times before her best friend's February 14th wedding, maid-of-honor Lissette Alonso and Brian Anderson, who is the reason for all her Valentine's Day hatred, call a truce when someone he is trying to avoid shows up at the reception.
4) Dark magic
Author
Series
Dark series volume 4
Language
English
Description
Young mistress of illusion Savannah Dubrinsky resists the almost supernatural attraction she feels for Gregori, a legendary Carpathian healer called "The Dark One."
Author
Series
Dark series volume 5
Language
English
Description
Julian Savage was golden. Powerful. But tormented. For the brooding hunter walked alone. Always alone, far from his Carpathian kind, alien to even his twin. Like his name, his existence was savage. Until he met the woman he was sworn to protect.... When Julian heard Desari sing, rainbows swamped his starving senses. Emotions bombarded his hardened heart. And a dark hunger to possess her flooded his loins, blinding him to the danger stalking him. And...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Xavier "Scarecrow" Wallace, a mixed-race MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, is facing the fight of his life. Xavier is losing his battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or pugilistic dementia--a struggle he can no longer deny. Through the fog of memory loss, migraines, and paranoia, Xavier does his best to keep in shape while he waits for the call that will reinstate him after a year-long suspension. Until then, he watches his...
Author
Series
Dreamers (Adriana Herrera) volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
From award-winning author Adriana Herrera comes a novel hailed as one of Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Romance Novels of 2019 and a TODAY Show Hot Summer Read."A fresh and vital new voice in romance."-Entertainment Weekly"[Adriana Herrera] is writing some of my favorite Afro-Latinx characters and giving us beautiful love stories along the way."-New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo
No one ever said big dreams come easy
For Nesto...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which he submits to his startled agent under the gangsta pseudonym...
Author
Series
Dreamers (Adriana Herrera) volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
No one should have to choose between love and justice.
Haitian-born professor and activist Patrice Denis is not here for anything that will veer him off the path he's worked so hard for. One particularly dangerous distraction: Easton Archer, the assistant district attorney who last summer gave Patrice some of the most intense nights of his life, and still makes him all but forget they're from two completely different worlds.
All-around golden...
Author
Series
Dreamers (Adriana Herrera) volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
From award-winning author Adriana Herrera comes a heart-warming-and seriously hot-contemporary romance in her highly-acclaimed Dreamers series.
"Herrera delivers an emotionally resonant, sensually charged second Dreamers contemporary (after American Dreamer) that will knock readers' socks off."-Publishers Weekly, starred review
"American Fairytale is nothing short of magical."-Book Riot, a Best Books of 2019 pick
"A fresh and vital new voice...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities. The fifth edition of this provocative book makes clear that color blind racism is as insidious now as ever. It features new material on our current racial climate, including the...
13) Freeman
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Language
English
Description
Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee's surrender, Sam-a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army-decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia and set out on foot to return to the war-torn South. What compels him on this almost-suicidal course is the desire to find his wife, the mother of his only...
14) Getting Schooled
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
When twenty-six-year-old Reese accepts a position as a grad assistant, she has no idea an unpleasant encounter with a student will lead to the discovery of what she calls "the trifecta": fine, intellectual, and a little bit rude-three qualities she finds irresistible in a man. She has no intention of doing anything with that discovery-nothing long term, at least. But everybody knows what happens to best laid plans. Jason is a grown man. Twenty-eight...
Author
Series
Dreamers (Adriana Herrera) volume 4
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Juan Pablo Campos doesn’t do regrets. He’s living the dream as a physical therapist with his beloved New York Yankees. He has the best friends and family in the world and simply no time to dwell on what could’ve been.
Except when it comes to Priscilla, the childhood friend he’s loved for what seems like forever.
New York City police detective Priscilla Gutierrez has never been afraid to go after what she wants. Second guessing herself isn’t...
Author
Language
English
Description
Written in a voice that's alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, it's 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen "City" Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he's sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared....
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ricky Rice is a middling hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. A survivor of a suicide cult, he scrapes by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York, until one day a mysterious letter arrives, summoning him to enlist in a band of paranormal investigators comprised of former addicts and petty criminals, all of whom had at some point in their wasted lives heard what may have been the voice of God.
Infused with the...
Infused with the...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Description
This gripping bestseller, first published in 1966, has continued to captivate readers with its wide-ranging yet intimate portrait of an America sundered by racial conflict. David Champlin is a black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans who makes his way up the ladder of success, only to sacrifice everything to lead his people in the civil rights movement. Sara Kent is the white girl who loves David from the moment she first sees him,...
Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The first time I met Brody Easton was in the men's locker room. It was my first interview as a professional sportscaster. The famed quarterback decided to bare all. And by all, I don't mean he told me any of his secrets. No. The arrogant ass decided to drop his towel, just as I asked the first question. On camera. The Super Bowl MVP quickly adopted a new hobby - screwing with me. When I pushed back, he shifted from wanting to screw with me, to wanting...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"'The Art of Fermentation' is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published. Sandor Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in ways that are simple enough to guide a reader through their first experience making sauerkraut or yogurt, and in-depth enough to provide greater understanding and insight for experienced practitioners. While Katz expertly contextualizes fermentation in terms of biological...