New Releases by Black Authors

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May 2011

Mama Ruby (Mama Ruby, #1)by Mary Monroe
4.0 avg ratings, 8 reviewspublished May 1, 2011
Growing up in Shreveport, Louisiana, Ruby Jean Upshaw is the kind of girl who knows what she wants and knows how to get it. By the time she’s fifteen, Ruby has a taste for fast men and cheap liquor, and not even her preacher daddy can set her straight. Only Othella Mae Cartier, d...
Historical Fiction
Silver Sparrowby Tayari Jones
4.09 avg ratings, 25 reviewspublished May 24, 2011
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon is a bigamist,” Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and the teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s,...
Historical Fiction • Literary Fiction • Contemporary
Cheaper to Keep Her part 2 (Cheaper to Keep Her, #2)by Unique
Not ratedpublished May 30, 2011
Lynise Carter has been released from jail, but it's under the condition that she aids two homicide detectives in uncovering her ex-lover, Duke Carrington's illegal adoption agency and charge him with the murders of several young pregnant women. She agrees to help bring Duke down...