The Beautiful Struggle
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched a basement publishing company to tell the true history of African civilization. Most of all, he was a wily tactician whose mission was to carry his sons across the shoals of inner-city adolescence into the safe arms of Howard University, where he worked so his seven children could attend for free. This memoir charts their paths through this turbulent period, and their father's steadfast efforts to keep them whole in a world that seemed bent on their destruction.

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From the Streets to the Sheets
by Noire

In this bold collection of hard-hitting urban erotic quickies, Noire, the undisputed Queen of Urban Erotica, brings you eleven authors who explore, without apology or restraint, street sagas of sexual pleasure. So beware: The heat and the drama between these pages are not fairy tales for the desperate housewife. Ride hard with Noire as her authors get their grind on and take it to the limits in From the Streets to the Sheets.

Just Too Good to Be True
Written by E. Lynn Harris
Read by Adenrele Ojo, Bahni Turpin, and Mirron Willis

A sweeping novel about mothers and sons, football and beauty shops, secrets and lies, Just Too Good to Be True has all the ingredients that have made E. Lynn Harris a bestselling author: family, friendship, faith, and love.

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Palace Council
by Stephen L. Carter

USA Today called Stephen L. Carter's last novel "the perfect summer read... Carter slips in so many original, thought-provoking observations that the reader is sad the killer has been caught." Now Carter, the best-selling author of New England White, is back with Palace Council, a gripping political thriller set in the era of Watergate and Vietnam.

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The Sunday Brunch Diaries
by Norma L. Jarrett

Capri, Lexi, Jermane, Angel, and Jewel are back with more mayhem and madness, and they are still trying to keep the faith! Just when they think that everything has fallen into place, these five friends are forced to trust God as they find themselves in unexpected situations and facing new challenges. The Sunday Brunch Diaries explores what happens when your prayers are answered but you wind up getting a whole lot more than you bargained for.

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