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We're Going to Need More Wine... plus a few shots--acclaimed activist, actress, and New York Times bestselling author Gabrielle Union is back with an even more intimate, revealing, and powerful collection of essays. In her previous book, Union revealed her own trauma as a victim of sexual assault and spoke openly of her fertility journey. In this collection of essays, she continues her story: becoming a mom to two amazing girls; an expanded career...
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Pure Talent volume 3
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Actress Paige Mills is America's Sweetheart. Having gone through a shocking divorce from her powerful husband, and now reeling from ugly revelations, she takes refuge in her family's Michigan lake house. Andrew Weathers, her agent, won't give up his client or his long-simmering passion for her without a fight, and soon their professional chemistry turns into days and nights of desire and a resulting publicity firestorm.
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Sidney Poitier is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery, and grace. Poitier reflects on this amazing life in Life Beyond Measure, offering inspirational advice and personal stories in the form of extended letters to his great-granddaughter. Writing for all who admire his example and who search for...
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The producer and writer of the CBS hit series "I Heart Abishola" tells the story of growing up as the child of Nigerian immigrants in London and her career as a stand-up comic and eventual Hollywood success.
From birth, Yashere carried a birthmark on her neck: a sign to her family that she was her grandmother's chosen heir and would fulfill Patience''s dreams of learning to speak perfect English, live unfettered by men or children, work a man's job,...
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With her success riding on her ability to keep her real identity secret, Zillah, an orphan from the slums of London who has achieved theatrical fame as The Great Amazonia, "a savage queen from darkest Africa," finds her planning upended when she is torn between two men--a mysterious black gentleman and her boss's friend who offers her the world.
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"Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing knew better than to expect love. Her marriage to an absent lord does at least provide some comforts, including a box at the Drury Lane theater, owned by the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Abigail has always found respite at the theater, away from the ton's judgmental stares and the risks of her own secret work to help the cause of abolition--and her fears that someone from her past...
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Grants of DC volume 2
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"Forever Mine: Celebrity chef Alonzo Grant is no stranger to gold diggers, but his beautiful new maid doesn't fit the mold. Mikayla Harris is smart and utterly irresistible. She's in Hollywood to pursue her acting dreams, but when she finally lands a film role, will Alonzo trust her love is real? Falling for the Beauty Queen: Charlotte Pendergrass has moved to her family's quiet Georgia cabin. Her neighbor, Richard Swayne, feels the chemistry between...
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"Karissa Glover is a movie producer who moves into a decrepit but functional old mansion in the West Adams Heights area of Los Angeles, where black celebrities of yesteryear--Hattie McDaniel, Louise Beavers, and others--once resided. The former owner was a white actress, Blair Kendrick, who often starred as the "bad girl"--a femme fatale--in films noir of the 1940s. However, Blair's career was cut short when she was tragically killed by the mob after...
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Marti MacAlister mysteries volume 13
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Chicago detective Marti MacAlister has her work cut out for her these days. First, during the filming of a big Hollywood movie on location in Lincoln Prairie, the body of one of the film's stars turns up dead, along the shores of the Des Plaines River. Then, the skeletal remains of another gunshot victim turn up in a hundred year old building that is being renovated. The closer Marti comes to piecing the clues of each case, the closer they come to...
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