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  Bodega Dreams: A Novel

  by Ernesto Quinonez

  "A new and authentic voice of the urban Latino experience." --Esmeralda Santiago, author of When I Was Puerto Rican In a stunning narrative combining the gritty rhythms of Junot Diaz with the noir genius of Walter Mosley, Bodega Dreams announces the arrival of a writer who The Village Voice has already hailed as "a Writer on the Verge." The word is out in Spanish Harlem: Willy Bodega is king. Need... (more)
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  I'm Telling : A Novel

  by Karen E. Quinones Miller

  Faith Freeman has a secret: When she was eleven years old, she caught her stepfather molesting her twin sister, Hope. Years later, Faith is a successful literary agent. Her twin, addled by drugs and prostitution, struggles through life on the Harlem streets. When Hope seems to have set her sights on Faith's man, the tender bonds of sisterhood are cruelly tested. Will the truth about their darkest hour finally be... (more)
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  Yolonda's Genius

  by Carol Fenner

  Andrew has this harmonica that his dad gave him ever since he was a little boy. One day, after school. These three bullies step on his harmonica. Then Yolanda misses that sounds that he likes to play with his harmonica. So, she tries to find a replacement. How far will she go?
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  Tamika

  by Sidi, Sidibe Ibrahima

  At age nine, Tamika Jefferson adored her father Marley. He was basically her world. But when he was arrested on trumped-up charges, she quickly learned that her world would be turned upside down. Tamika is ignored and neglected by her mother who seems to care more about receiving her green card so she can permanently stay in the United States than protecting her daughter from the unwanted advances of a boyfriend... (more)
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  Laugh Now

  by Rahiem Brooks

  By 22, Kareem Bezel has made it to the top rung of the New York fashion scene, and he has done everything, including fraud, theft, receiving stolen property, theft by deception, identity theft, and embezzlement, to get there. His crafty spree of thievery propped his older brother, Andre Bezel's illicit drug business right into the cross hairs of corrupt DEA Agent Lucas McKenzey. Set in Philadelphia and its... (more)
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  The Boys from the Hill

  by Bernard Salmon

  This retro urban novel is a tale about a group of working class boys growing up in the Bronx during the late forties and early fifties. The story takes the young men from early adolescence to young manhood. It features in particular the lives of two of these boys who are close friends, Johnny and Tony. The novel centers on the street lives of the boys who for a period of time sink into fighting and violent gang... (more)
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  Blind Turn (novel)

  by Todd Garlington

  How many images does a person see over a lifetime? Where does advertising end and self-image begin? In media-saturated Los Angeles, the chauffeur Martin Tate has seen it all. Or has he? Privy to the lives of various passengers, he pieces together the story that connects a model, a musician, and a mogul. But they have their own stories to tell—and their own corners to turn. Where do they stand in the culture... (more)
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  Rosy (Dreams Can Become Nightmares)

  by Suzanne Tyrpak

  Small town girl, Sarah, dreams of finding love and fame in New York City, but following her dreams leads to a downward slide into the insanity of the late 1970s: nightclubs, sex, drugs, and violence ὰ la Magic Mike. Desperate to dig herself out of debt, Sarah becomes pole dancer, Rosy Dreams. But the more money she makes, the darker her nightmare becomes as she sinks into a world where no one can be... (more)