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2381) The best of Simple
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Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple Stakes a Claim--have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers. In The Best of Simple, the author picked his favorites from these earlier volumes, stories that not only have proved popular but are now part of a great and growing literary tradition.
2382) Before all the world
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A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old. ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh. I do not believe that all the world is darkness. In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a speakeasy called Cricket's, a bar that serves, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, its feygeles. Leyb is startled; fourteen years in amerike has taught...
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"In Arcade and the Fiery Metal Tester, New York City is experiencing the hottest summer on record. Eleven-year-old Arcade Livingston can't keep his cool after receiving this suspicious warning atop the Empire State Building: "Things will heat up in all areas to test your mettle." In no time flat, Arcade is tested like never before to use the Triple T token's powerful ways to outsmart a bully, find a place for his best friend to live, and spy on some...
2384) Null & void: a novel
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Amelia Reid has it all. Married for twenty five years to a wonderful man, Pastor Carson Reid, and the mother to their two children, Aden and Payton. Add on the nice home, elite status in the community and the prospering church which she is the first lady would make anyone envy her. Now that her husband is better after his bout of pneumonia, she can focus on the pending marriage of their daughter. Rowan was the man of her dreams and Amelia was on cloud...
2385) The marriage favor
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"The day Lisara Compton caught her husband in a rather compromising position changed her life in a way she nor her sons ever saw coming. Realizing too late that divorcing him would cause a domino effect of turmoil, she is now forced into an uncomfortable life that she can't seem to stay afloat in. With her eldest son acting out, and a nonexistent ex husband, Lisara feels things can't get any worse. That's until her ex betrays her and their son in...
2386) A reason to sing
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Megan Higgins is still mourning the death of her husband, Jackson, when she first rested eyes on Ryan Oakes. The first time he meets her, he asks her to marry him. He uses his vast wealth to make sure she has to marry him so she can care for her young son, Cooper. Forced into a marriage, Megan knows only her faith in God will help her tolerate the cold-hearted man waiting for her at the altar. But when the FBI begins an investigation, will Megan be...
2387) Holiday temptation
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A gift of love: A drama professor works on her playwriting at a cafe where an attractive male barista works. Holiday spice: A Christmas-time tragedy has crushed the holiday spirit of photographer Miranda Lawson. She travels to Istanbul and meets a man who's also looking for escape. From here to serenity: A real-estate developer takes a cruise to Miami on his yacht, and is attracted to his new personal chef.
2388) Rumor has it
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Liza Palmer couldn't be happier when her best friend and sorority sister, Chante Britt, and her closest guy friend, Robert Montgomery, hit it off. And she's beyond thrilled when they announce their engagement. Robert is an up-and-comer running for the North Carolina senate. Chante is a partner at a prestigious law firm. They're a power couple made in heaven--until Liza discovers Robert in a compromising position with another woman. Liza can't possibly...
2389) Perfect pleasures
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World famous MMA champion Zachary Barrett has returned to his home in Phuket, Thailand, and his elite training camp, Revolution. Thanks to his twin brother, a renowned pro trainer in Colorado, Zachary is primed and ready for his next title bout -- but his toughest match may be with the gorgeous sports journalist assigned to write an exposé on him. She's after a well-guarded secret that Zach realizes makes her off limits in every way. But the more...
2390) Thug holiday 5
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Best-selling authors Twyla T, Patrice Balark, J. Dominique, and Dani Littlepage team up once again to bring you this total engrossing drama-filled story, right in time for the holidays. Thug Holiday 5 fast forwards to two years later, unveiling the Holiday sisters along with their Rock Boyz husbands’ lives and how they are adjusting with marriage, family, and careers. In this story, trust is a major issue, relationships are thoroughly tested, and...
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"She's done, finished, had it. Lily Perry is fed up with being nagged to find a husband. She's happy with her life, and settling the issue once and for all: by marrying herself. And chef Vincent Caro's fabulous restaurant is the perfect place for a big-time, blow-out wedding. Lily doesn't care if everyone -- including Vincent -- thinks she's crazy. Especially when his mouth-watering talent and no-commitments style ignites a sizzling, no-strings fling,...
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From the Publisher: The son of former slaves, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the most prominent and publicly recognized figures in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Thirty-three years old at the time of his death in 1906, he had published four novels, four collections of short stories, and fourteen books of poetry, not to mention numerous songs, plays, and essays in newspapers and magazines around the world. In the century...