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  Bailey's Cafe (Vintage Contemporaries)

  by Gloria Naylor

  Set in a diner where the food isn't very good and the ambience veers between heaven and hell, this bestselling novel from the author of Mama Day and The Women of Brewster Place is a feast for the senses and the spirit. "A virtuoso orchestration of survival, suffering, courage and humor."--New York Times Book Review.
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  The Street Sweeper: See No Evil

  by David, Jr. Rivera

  In the eagerly anticipated sequel to Harlem's Dragon, Detective Chemah Rivers unravels an intriguing case with a most beguiling witness. A single father who juggles the daily pressures of work and home life, Detective Chemah Rivers is assigned to crack a challenging case. To make matters more complicated, his only witness is a buxom, blind comedienne, Michelle. As any David Rivera, Jr., fan knows, his stories... (more)
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  Mama Day (Vintage Contemporaries)

  by Gloria Naylor

  On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces. A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense.
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  The Men of Brewster Place: A Novel

  by Gloria Naylor

  Naylor returns to the fictional neighborhood, this time focusing on the men behind the women who inhabited that desolate block of row houses, telling their tragic, sad, funny, and heroic stories.
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  Linden Hills (Contemporary American Fiction Series)

  by Gloria Naylor

  Linden Hills is an exclusive private residential estate in America. Intended as a symbol of black equality, it is in fact an infernal place, and the layers of hypocrisy and self-destruction which are its foundation become exposed. The author's other novels include "The Women of Brewster Place".
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  Mirrored Life

  by Anita R. Bunkley

  Bad girl makes good-prison-issue cosmetology license in hand-in this pleasant bathtub book from the author of Balancing Act. After serving five years for her unintentional involvement in a robbery and murder in her tiny Texas town, and still mourning her mother's death and her father's descent into alcoholism, 20-year-old Sara Jane Talbot is ready to start over. Determined to succeed as a stylist, she moves into a... (more)
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  Girlfriends

  by Sandra Kitt Anita Bunkley