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'85 by Danny Simmons, Illustrated by Floyd Hughes

'85 has a comic book look, with an urban fiction feel.  The perpetrator is a struggling junkie known simply as Crow. To support his habit he steals several of his friend, Danny's paintings.  His intent is to sell them, split the earnings with Danny, and take care of his own needs.  Crow makes his connection and is starting to move the art, but he is exposed to a slightly different world and gets caught up in more than he can handle.   An art dealer assumes Crow is the artist, and wants to buy the psychedelic drawings, but he also wants to market Crow's rough, primitive image. Crow feels a moment of guilt, but not enough to end the ruse.  He looses focus on his original plans and finds himself waist-deep in a world of sex, drugs and cold-blooded deals.  When Danny discovers the paintings are missing Crow knows there friendship is doomed. 

From Dusk To Dawn by Niambi Brown Davis

On a steamy hot day, when Ayo Montgomery is suffering debilitating cramps, is in desperate need of air conditioner repair, and has little desire to look attractive or wear anything other than a loose flowing cotton house dress, an undeniably beautiful man shows up at her house. She had scheduled the appointment with him, relying on a friend's recommendation that Bilal Abdul Salaam was a reliable appraiser. But she hadn't been forewarned about his handsome exterior, nor was she prepared for the inexplicable pull that sparked her curiosity and infuriated her at the same time.

 

Payback With Ya Life by Wahida Clark

This sequel to PAYBACK IS A MUTHA begins just after a devastated Brianna responded desperately after receiving life-altering news. Pregnant and alone, Shan is left to deal with her best friend Brianna’s fate and the uncertainty of her own future.

 

Aww Sookie Sookie: Omar's Revenge by Shelia Dansby Harvey

Omar Thompson, aka Omar Faxton, returns from Illegal Affairs and Bad Girls Finish First by Sheila Dansby Harvey in AWW SOOKIE SOOKIE: Omar’s Revenge. And as the title suggest, this is Omar’s ultimate revenge.

 

Tainted Love by Sonjia Marshall

TAINTED LOVE by Sonjia Marshall starts as a boy meets girl love story but quickly spirals into a tragic and unfathomable tale. Taylor is a thirty-something single woman who is a registered nurse.

 

Arms Of A Stranger by Giselle Carmichael

With the devastation of Hurricane Katrina as the backdrop, ARMS OF A STRANGER garners heartfelt understanding of human natureand Mother Nature as well as finding true love. Simone Ladner returns to her hometown of Biloxi, Mississippi to help her family and neighbors rebuild after the affects of Hurricane Katrina. She gives up her half of the restaurant she owned in New York and uses the proceeds to help the people of Biloxi get back on their feet. Little does she know the aftermath also has an effect on wealthy land developer Keithen Knight.

 

Tangled Webs by T. T. Henderson

Jewel St. John comes from a family of women who have been unlucky in love. Her mother and grandmother have both been in relationships where they were disrespected and hurt emotionally. Glendora, Jewel’s grandmother, sees what running away from her past has done to her daughter, Eloise, and her granddaughter and decides she has to be the one to break the cycle of unsuccessful relationships. Her goal is for her daughter and granddaughter to embrace love. TANGLED WEBS examines the romantic relationships between the three women and the men who love them and takes readers on a journey from the past to an emotionally fulfilling future.

 

Naked Love by Darnella Ford

Adrian Moses spent most of her life longing for a normal life and craving affection, but found lost love and treachery. At the age of two, Adrian's mother passed away from cancer. She spends the remainder of her childhood with her father who is lost in his own personal pursuit of an identity. Riddled with disappointment and disillusionment, he commits suicide and leaves Adrian in the hands of his angry, prejudiced and hateful mother, Reva Joe. Despite the difficult times with her grandmother, Adrian found two rays of hope, her art and her first love, Anthem. That is, until Reva Joe disrupts everything and sends her packing to a year-round boarding school. 

Breaking Away by Kristin Lattany

Bethesda (Beth) Barnes grew up in a household where she and her sister led a sheltered existence.  Their parents never wanted them to know about the harsher realities of life for African Americans.  They kept from their daughters the true state of race relations in America.  As a result, Beth grew up looking at life through rose colored glasses, never seeing (or not paying attention to) the inequities and injustices Blacks faced at the hands of the racists views of some white Americans.  Although she works at a prestigious university as a professor, it doesn’t really faze her that her's is only one of a few faces of color on staff.  She becomes complacent and tries to go along to get along.  In any event, she loves her job, her students and the man in her life.  Life couldn’t be better. 

111: The Media War Between Jesus Christ and Satan by Gary Flanigan and Luther Glenn Williams

Satan’s plan of attack on the Kingdom of God is a devious, well-orchestrated and highly evolved one.  According to Gary Flanigan and Luther Glenn Williams in 111: The Media War between Jesus Christ and Satan, it began in Heaven when Lucifer had aspirations of being equal to God.  When he and his merry band of followers were booted out of Heaven, he took up his earthly name of Satan and began a campaign to destroy anything God created on earth, making himself an automatic enemy of Jesus Christ.  His determination is to see that the Will of God doesn’t prevail.  They report his main mode of attack is through the media.