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January 2002

  • A Love of My Ownby E. Lynn Harris
    4.24 avg ratings, 17 reviewspublished January 1, 2002

    After Zola Denise Norwood meets media mogul Davis Vincent McClinton on a New York-bound flight, he makes her a couple of offers before they even land. One is editing his hot new urban style magazine Bling Bling. The other is more personal. As Zola and Raymond Tyler, Jr, Bling Bli...

  • Delaney's Desert Sheikh (The Westmorelands, #1)by Brenda Jackson
    4.13 avg ratings, 8 reviewspublished January 1, 2002

    Delaney Westmoreland refused to let a mix-up in her vacation plans postpone the R and R she craved. But when she reluctantly agreed to share a secluded cabin with an arrogant sheikh bent on seduction, she found herself enrolled in a crash course in human sexuality. Unfortunately,...

  • Leaving Atlantaby Tayari Jones
    4.2 avg ratings, 5 reviewspublished January 1, 2002

    An award-winning author makes her fiction debut with this coming-of-age story of three young black children set against the backdrop of the Atlanta child murders of 1979.

  • Thugs and the Women Who Love Them (Thug, #1)by Wahida Clark
    4.24 avg ratings, 24 reviewspublished January 1, 2002

    Essence® bestselling author Wahida Clark is all too familiar with the terrifying truths of ghetto life. The first novel in her gritty, gripping series takes you on into a world where a wrong choice could be the last choice a person ever makes. In a 'hood boiling over with sex, br...

  • Thieves' Paradiseby Eric Jerome Dickey
    4.0 avg ratings, 6 reviewspublished January 1, 2002

    New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey presents a powerful novel about grifters and con artists, brothers and sisters, looking for love and making ends meet—on the wrong side of the law.... Dante black did his stretch of hard time in juvenile jail. Now he's out...an...

  • Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, #2)by bell hooks
    4.25 avg ratings, 4 reviewspublished January 1, 2002

    Renowned visionary bell hooks explored the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller All About Love: New Visions . She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Black People and Love . Now hooks culminates her triumphant trilogy of lo...