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Jan 3 - Jan 9, 2021

  • Bambi (Bambi, #1)by Ladii Nesha
    4.45 avg ratings, 142 reviewspublished January 3, 2021

    This was going to be a disaster, but she felt like a moth and he was the flame. No matter how many signs she saw to stay away, she was intrigued by his undeniable charm. His mouth was reckless, and his behavior was unruly yet that wasn't enough to make her shy away. Against her b...

  • What You Do To Meby T'Lyn
    3.61 avg ratings, 18 reviewspublished January 3, 2021

    Life for Tiomi became stagnant after the loss of her parents. Experiencing such a devastating loss at an early age, she found herself settling instead of actually living, however everything changes after she crosses paths with Jawan “Grim” Jones. Jawan lives life on his terms and...

  • From Dejah Rice comes a drama-filled finale, Fallin' For A Down South Country Boy 2, full of more secrets, romance, and heartbreak. Imani is living a picture-perfect life, and planning a future with the devil himself. That is until the truth finally started rolling out. After fin...

  • Freak Me ('90s Kinda Love, #5)by Black Cherrie
    4.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished January 5, 2021

    After passing every one of his girlfriend Salem's tests, Majesty is delighted when he receives a series of freaky texts telling him to pull up.

  • Promise to Keep it Trillby B. Love
    4.33 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished January 5, 2021

    Makayla always knew, with Jason’s lifestyle, he would eventually be murdered or sent to prison for the rest of his life. That was the price most paid when they gave their souls to the streets. When Jason’s crimes finally caught up with him, he made his best friend, Kannon, promis...

  • Root Magicby Eden Royce
    4.0 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished January 5, 2021

    "A poignant, necessary entry into the children's literary canon, Root Magic brings to life the history and culture of Gullah people while highlighting the timeless plight of Black Americans. Add in a fun, magical adventure and you get everything I want in a book!"--Justina Irelan...

  • The Life I'm In (The Skin I'm In, #2)by Sharon G. Flake
    4.83 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished January 5, 2021

    The powerful and long-anticipated companion to The Skin I' m In , Sharon Flake's bestselling modern classic, presents the unflinching story of Char, a young woman trapped in the underworld of human trafficking. My feet are heavy as stones when I walk up the block wondering why I...

  • When You Look Like Usby Pamela N. Harris
    4.0 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished January 5, 2021

    When you look like us—brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades—people think you’re trouble. No one looks twice at a missing black girl from the projects because she must’ve brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought...

  • Happily Ever Afters (Happily Ever Afters, #1)by Elise Bryant
    4.06 avg ratings, 8 reviewspublished January 5, 2021

    Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She’s rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she’s a true leading lady is in her own writing—in the swoony love stories she shares only with Car...

  • The Shadowby Melanie Raabe
    Not ratedpublished January 5, 2021

    'On February 11 you will kill a man called Arthur Grimm. Of your own free will. And for a good reason.' Norah has just moved from Berlin to Vienna in order to leave her old life behind her for good when a homeless woman spits these words at her. Norah is unnerved- many years earl...

  • Black Buckby Mateo Askaripour
    3.82 avg ratings, 19 reviewspublished January 5, 2021

    Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780358380887 For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street —a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like, and wildly successful startup where nothi...

  • With Love, the Flower Sistersby Asia Monique
    4.31 avg ratings, 18 reviewspublished January 6, 2021

    Listening Length: 2hrs 19mins

    This is our end and also our beginning.

    With love, ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
    the flower sisters. ⠀
    ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
    *Please note, this is a follow up to the flower sisters six book series. Inside is six short stories, some longer than others, followed by a double wedding.⠀

  • It Was Good Until It Wasn't : An Interracial Romanceby Kim K.
    3.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished January 6, 2021

    Nadine Parker has lived a fairly low-key, successful life while trying to stay away from the drama and focus on herself. However, life has a funny way of tossing in some of the most unpredictable curve balls that comes in the form of her ex-boyfriend Quintin. Quinton is now engag...

  • Mended: Pieces of Meby Kyeate
    5.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished January 7, 2021

    ******THIS IS A RE-RELEASE****** It could all be so simple if freedom was easy to latch on to as to burying planted pain. From girl to woman, Isis has struggled with oppressed pain from the hands of men. Isis’ current relationship with Kodi has brought her to do something she sho...

  • Caught Up With A Mafia Bossby Natisha Raynor
    Not ratedpublished January 7, 2021

    Barakah Beauvais and her sisters have always been the apple of their father’s eyes. They grew up rich and spoiled. Barakah was never one to pay too much attention to exactly what it was that her father did. She just knew that he was powerful, and he had plenty of money. Once the...

  • Finding Loveby Aminat Sanni-Kamal
    Not ratedpublished January 8, 2021

    Adejare is drop-dead gorgeous and he knows it. Love wasn't on his life's itinerary but a desperate bid to save his dying company sends him into the path of Mirabelle Smith, an older woman with a dangerous past. To the whole world, Mirabelle Olajumoke Smith is just another rich an...

  • A Complicated Love (FANtasy, #2)by Tiye Love
    4.13 avg ratings, 8 reviewspublished January 8, 2021

    When the only man you want is not yours to have... Destiny Montgomery has just landed the opportunity of a lifetime to write singer and dancer, Jacob River's biography. She's more than thrilled to be a part of his project and travel closely with Jacob on his concert tour. However...

  • Khiaere and Phy 2 (A Charleston Love Story, #2)by Mel Dau
    4.47 avg ratings, 26 reviewspublished January 8, 2021

    Khiaere and Phy Washington have been through a lot already in their relationship. Outside threats turns to inside conflict. Will their love for each other be able to withstand the test that are being administered against their relationship or will it be too much to handle? Gina i...

  • Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give)by Angie Thomas
    4.62 avg ratings, 18 reviewspublished January 9, 2021

    International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care...

  • Deeper (Unexpected Lovers, #1.5)by Rilzy Adams
    4.43 avg ratings, 26 reviewspublished January 9, 2021

    There is no greater fairytale than finding an extraordinary love within an extra ordinary world. - Xander Spencer Navaya and Xander made the transition from best friends to lovers seamlessly, as if they had been destined to be the love of each other's life all along. Now they are...