Bahni Turpin
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In Atlanta's West End district, folks know each other's names and keep their doors unlocked. Blue wears many hats here, and he's also the man you pay your respects to if you're looking to set up shop in this urban enclave. Just ask the Too Fine Five, a quintet of supermodels here for an Essence photo shoot. Blue's gut tells him that there's more to them than meets the eye, and he vows to uncover their secret intentions.
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Hoping that all her hard work on Obama's campaign will pay off with a White House job, Ida B. Wells Dunbar finds herself sidelined while her twenty-something counterparts overrun the West Wing. Then her father, an Atlanta civil rights icon, is notoriously featured on a You Tube clip which didn't exactly jibe with the new era in American politics. Back home in Atlanta, Ida runs into childhood friend and political operator Wes Harper, whom she doesn't...
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Readers first met the McBroom sisters in Eric Jerome Dickey's New York Times bestseller Naughty or Nice. In the highly anticipated sequel, Naughtier than Nice, we find out what happens on the other side of the fairy tale. The lives of Frankie, Tommie, and Olivia (Livvy) haven't turned out quite as planned. Frankie has a pair of stalkers. The life that Tommie had dreamed of having with Blue has become anything but perfect, and Olivia, despite her efforts,...
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The latest bestseller from E. Lynn Harris follows the lives of his most popular characters and invents even more wicked ways for them to get back at each other. Since her wedding to Basil Henderson turned into a washout, Yancey Harrington has remade herself as the mega-diva Yancey B.--and Basil has made it with everyone--but the Football Hall of Fame.
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"Dayna Anderson doesn't set out to solve a murder. All the semi-famous, mega-broke actress wants is to help her parents keep their house. So after witnessing a deadly hit-and-run, she pursues the fifteen grand reward. But Dayna soon finds herself doing a full-on investigation, wanting more than just money she wants justice for the victim. She chases down leads at paparazzi hot spots, celeb homes, and movie premieres, loving every second of it until...
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In this scorching, mournful, often explicit, and never-less-than-moving literary novel from Walter Mosley, acclaimed creator of the Easy Rawlins series, Debbie Dare has to come to terms with her sordid life in the adult-entertainment industy. Millions of men (and, no doubt, many women) have watched the famed black porn queen-she of the blond wig and blue contact lenses-'do it' on television and computer screens every wich way and with every combination...