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"Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright...Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University,...
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Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2011
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English
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Rose McKenna volunteers as a lunch mom in her daughter Melly's school to keep an eye on Amanda, who's been bullying Melly. When a horrible fire erupts, Rose must save both girls. She succeeds, but then things go awry and the small community turns against Rose in the aftermath.
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The Black Girls Must Die Exhausted volume Book 2
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Tabitha Walker discovers she's pregnant, but preparing to be a single mother wears her out. Bolstered by the strong women around her, Tabitha must find a way to navigate motherhood on her own terms.
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Recorded Books
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[2011], p2011
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English
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43-year-old India Bishop turns to technology for the newborn she wants. After the union of her husband's sperm and a Princeton senior's "pedigree" egg is implanted into the womb of a working-class surrogate, a new life begins to grow. But matters are complicated when India's husband dies, making his 23-year-old daughter the legal guardian of the unborn child. Now four diverse women must somehow join forces to mother a precious baby.
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"New York Times bestselling author Chandler Baker's Cutting Teeth is a witty, thrilling story of parental love that asks: is there anything a mother won't do for her children? Darby, Mary Beth, and Rhea are on personal quests to reclaim aspects of their identities subsumed by motherhood-their careers, their sex lives, their bodies. Their children, though, disrupt their plans when an unsettling medical condition begins to go around the Little Academy...
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Black girls must die exhausted volume 3
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Consumed by work, motherhood, and love, Tabitha Walker finds herself isolated from her friends and family just when she needs them most. But help is always there when you ask for it, and Tabby's village will once again rally around her as she comes to terms with her new life and faces her biggest challenge yet, choosing herself.
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Recorded Books
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p2017
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English
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Brilliant heart surgeon Suzette Kendall is stunned when Hyland, her husband of fifteen years, admits his yearning for a child. Suzette has always feared passing along the genes that led her mother to a mental institution. But Hyland proposes a different idea: a baby via surrogate. Dorrie is a young woman struggling to find the money to go to college. When she sees an advertisement to be a surrogate, she believes it's a sign that her destiny is to...
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