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Abrams, Dwan Mama’s Boy Mistress Divorcing the Devil Nothing But Drama 1. Message From a Mistress Ansa, Tina McElroy The Secret She Kept 2. Mistress No More Mudear Seeking Sarah 3. Mistress, Inc 1. Baby of the Family Sinners and Saints (with Victoria 4. The Pleasure Trap 2. Ugly Ways Christopher Murray) 5. Mistress for Hire 3. Taking After Mudear 1. Sinners and Saints Strong Family The Hand I Fan With 2. Friends and Foes 1. Heated Antoinette, Ashley 3. A Blessing and a Curse 2. Hot Like Fire Moth to a Flame Black, Daniel 3. Give Me Fever Prada Plan Listen to the Lambs 4. The Hot Spot 1. The Prada Plan Bland, Eleanor Taylor 5. Red Hot 2. Leah’s Story Marti McAllister 6. Strong Heat 3. Green Eyed Monster 1. Dead Time 7. Just Say Yes 4. Love and War 2. Slow Burn 8. Welcome Back, My Love 5. The Prada Plan 5 3. Gone Quiet Buckhanon, Kalisha Around the Way Girls 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 4. Done Wrong Solemn 8, 9, 10 5. Keep Still Bullard, Linda McKeever Ashley & JaQuavis 6. See No Evil Shades of Justice Diary of a Street Diva 7. Tell No Tales Bunkley, Anita Richmond The Trophy Wife 8. Scream in Silence Balancing Act Cartel 9. Whispers in the Dark Between Goodbyes 1. The Cartel 10. Windy City Dying Black Gold 2. Tale of the Murda Mamas 11. Fatal Remains Starlight Passage 3. The Last Chapter 12. A Cold and Silent Dying Wild Embers 4. Diamonds Are Forever 13. Dark and Deadly Busia, Akosua 5. La Bella Mafia Reception The Seasons of Beento Blackbird 6. The Demise Bohjalian, Chris Butler, Octavia 7. Illuminati Before You Know Kindness Fledgling Baldwin, James The Buffalo Soldier Imago: Xenogenesis Another Country The Double Bind Wastelands The Fire Next Time The Law of Similars Parable Series Giovanni’s Room Midwives Parable of the Sower If Beale Street Could Talk Skeletons at the Feast Parable of the Talents Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Water Witches Butler, Tajuana Gone Bowen, Michele Andrea Hand-Me-Down Heartache Bambara, Toni Cade Church Folk Sorority Sisters Those Bones Are Not My Child More Church Folk Campbell, Bebe Moore Beatty, Paul Pastor Needs a Boo Brothers and Sisters The Sellout Up at the College 72 Hour Hold Bell, Madison Smartt Second Sunday Singing in the Comeback Choir Waiting for the End of the World Briscoe, Connie Successful Women, Angry Men Haitian Rebellion Big Girls Don’t Cry What You Owe Me 1. All Souls’ Rising A Long Way From Home Carl Weber’s Kingpins 2. Master of the Crossroads Money Can’t Buy Love ATL by Brick & Storm 3. The Stone That the Builder Brown, Tracy The Bronx by Marcus Weber Refused Boss Charlotte by Blake Karrington Bennett, Brit Twisted Chicago by Silk Smooth The Mothers Snapped Cleveland by Brandi Johnson Benson, Angela 1. Snapped Dallas by Treasure Hernandez The Summer of Me 2. Aftermath Detroit by Ms Michel Moore (2019) Berry, Bertice White Lines The Dirty South by Treasure The Haunting of Hip Hop: A Novel 1. White Lines Hernandez Redemption Song 2. Sunny Houston by Treasure Hernandez Berry, Venise 3. All Falls Down Jamaica by Racquel Williams All of Me Bryant, Niobia Los Angeles by C N Phillips Billingsley, ReShonda Tate Never Keeping Secrets Miami by Nikki Turner The Book in Room 316 Show and Tell Oklahoma City by Clifford Johnson Can I Get a Witness? Want, Need, Love Philadelphia by Brittani Williams Holy Rollers St Louis by Keisha Ervin
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Carter, Charlotte Cole, Alyssa Gideon Nanette Hayes The Loyal League 1. Sleeping With Strangers 1. Rhodes Island Red 1. An Extraordinary Union 2. Waking With Enemies 2. Coq Au Vin 2. A Hope Divided 3. Dying for Revenge 3. Drumsticks 3. An Unconditional 4. Resurrecting Midnight 4. Rooster’s Riff Freedom (2019) 5. Finding Gideon Cook County Coleman, JaQuavis Due, Tananarive 1. Jackson Park Dopeman’s Trilogy The Between 2. Trip Wire 1. The Dopeman’s Wife The Black Rose Carter, Stephen L. 2. The Dopefiend Ghost Summer The Emperor of Ocean Park 3. The Dopeman The Good House Jericho’s Fall Collins, Kathleen Durham, David Anthony New England White Whatever Happened to Interracial Pride of Carthage Palace Council Love?: Stories Edwards, Grace Cary, Lorene Conde, Maryse Mali Anderson Price of a Child Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat? 1. If I Should Die Pride Cooper, J. California 2. A Toast Before Dying Channer, Colin The Future Has a Past 3. No Time to Die Got to be Real Life is Short But Wilde 4. Do Or Die Chunichi The Matter is Life Elam, Patricia Around the Way Girls 7 A Piece of Mine Breathing Room A Gangster’s Girl Saga Some People, Some Other Place Ellison, Ralph The Streets Keep Calling Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns Flying Home and Other Stories Clair, Maxine Copeland, Sheila The Invisible Man Rattlebone Chocolate Star Juneteenth Clark, Wahida Corbin, Steven Estleman, Loren D. The Golden Hustla Fragments That Remain Black Powder, White Smoke Sincerely, the Boss! Dash, Julie Amos Walker Thuggz Valentine Daughters of the Dust 1. Motor City Blues Payback DeBerry, Virginia 2. Angel Eyes 1. Payback is a Mutha Far From the Tree 3. The Midnight Man 2. Payback With Ya Life Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You 4. The Glass Highway 3. Payback Ain’t Enough Made 5. Sugartown 4. Blood, Sweat & Payback Gotta Keep on Tryin’ 6. Every Brilliant Eye Thug Devoto, Pat Cunningham 7. Lady Yesterday 1. Thugs and the Women Out of the Night That Covers Me 8. Downriver Who Love Them The Summer We Got Saved 9. Silent Thunder 2. Every Thug Needs a Lady Dickey, Eric Jerome 10. Sweet Women Lie 3. Thug Matrimony An Accidental Affair 11. Never Street 4. Thug Lovin’ Bad Men and Wicked Women 12. The Witchfinder 5. Justify My Thug Between Lovers 13. The Hours of the Virgin 6. Honor Thy Thug The Blackbirds 14. A Smile on the Face of the 7. Thugs: Seven Chasing Destiny Tiger Clarke, Breena Cheaters 15. Sinister Heights River, Cross My Heart Decadence 16. Poison Blonde Stand the Storm Drive Me Crazy 17. Retro Cleage, Pearl Genevieve 18. Nicotine Kiss Babylon Sisters Got to be Real 19. American Detective Just Wanna Testify Liar’s Game 20. The Left-Handed Dollar Seen It All and Done the Rest Milk in My Coffee 21. Infernal Angels Some Things I Never Thought I’d Naughtier Than Nice 22. Burning Midnight Do Naughty Or Nice 23. Don’t Look for Me What Looks Like Crazy on an One Night 24. You Know Who Killed Me Ordinary Day The Other Woman 25. The Sundown Speech Clemmons, Zinzi Pleasure 26. The Lioness is the Hunter What We Lose Sister, Sister 27. Black and White Ball Cobb, William Tempted by Trouble Ewing, Rita Wings of Morning Thieves’ Paradise Homecourt Advantage A Wanted Woman Flournoy, Angela The Turner House
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Forster, Gwynne John Basil Henderson Hunter, Travis Blues From Down Deep 1. Not a Day Goes by A Family Sin Foster, Sharon Ewell 2. Any Way the Wind Blows A One Woman Man Abraham’s Well 3. If This World Were Mine Married But Still Looking Passing by Samaria Haulsey, Kumana Trouble Man Ain’t No River Angel of Harlem Hurston, Zora Neale 1. Ain’t No River Haynes, David Seraph on the Suwanee 2. Ain’t No Mountain All American Dream Dolls Their Eyes Were Watching God 3. Ain’t No Valley Somebody Else’s Mama Jackson, Brenda French, Albert Heffernan, William Ties That Bind Holly Beulah Hill Jackson, Brian Keith Patches of Fire Herbert, A.L. The Queen of Harlem Gaines, Ernest Mahalia Watkins Soul Food The View From Here The Autobiography of Miss Jane 1. Murder With Fried Chicken Jackson-Opoku, Sandra Pittman and Waffles Hot Johnny (and the Women Who Bloodline 2. Murder With Macaroni and Loved Him) A Gathering of Old Men Cheese Jackson, Sheneska In My Father's House Hicks, Robert Blessings A Lesson Before Dying The Orphan Mother Caught Up in the Rapture Glenn, Roy Hill, Donna Li’l Mama’s Rules Is It a Crime? Divas, Inc. Jakes, T.D. Goines, Donald If I Could Cover Girls Black Gangster In My Bedroom Not Easily Broken Eldorado Red My Love at Last Japin, Arthur Golden, Marita An Ordinary Woman The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi After Quiet Storm Jefferson, Mimi And Do Remember Me Lawsons of Louisiana The Single Sister Experiment The Edge of Heaven 1. Spend My Life with You Joe, Yolanda Long Distance Life (e-book only) Bebe’s by Golly Wow The Wide Circumference of Love 2. Secret Attraction The Hatwearer’s Lesson G’Orge-Walker, Pat 3. Sultry Nights This Just in Cruisin’ on Desperation 4. Everything is You Johnson, Charles Sister Betty! God’s Calling You, 5. The Way You Love Me Dreamer Again 6. For the Love of You Middle Passage Griffin, Bettye 7. Surrender to Me Johnson, Keith Lee Nothing But Trouble 8. When I’m with You Hell Has No Fury Guinn, Matthew Sag Harbor Village Jones, Antonne The Scribe 1. Touch Me Now The Family Gwin, Minrose 2. For You I Will Jones, Edward Promise 3. My Love at Last All Aunt Hager’s Children Gyasi, Yaa Hill, Lawrence The Known World Homegoing The Book of Negroes Lost in the City Haley, Alex Hill, Mars Jones, Tayari Mama Flora’s Family The Moaner’s Bench An American Marriage Queen Himes, Chester Silver Sparrow Roots The Collected Stories of Chester Katzenbach, John Harris, E. Lynn Himes Hart’s War And This Too Shall Pass A Rage in Harlem Kelley, William Basketball Jones Hobbs, Allison The Sweet Summer I Say a Little Prayer Stealing Candy Kennedy, Erica In My Father’s House Hopkinson, Nalo Bling Just Too Good to be True Skin Folk King, J.L. A Love of My Own Hubbard, Ladee Love on a Two-Way Street Mama Dearest The Talented Ribkins Kraus, Harry No One in the World Hunt, L.A. Jill The Six-Liter Club Invisible Life No More Drama Lamar, Jake 1. Invisible Life Say It Ain’t So Close to the Bone 2. Just as I Am Hunt, Laird If 6 Were 9 3. Abide With Me The Evening Road Lambright, Slim (Evelyn) The Justus Girls
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Lattany, Kristin Waiting to Exhale Morrison, Toni Breaking Away 1. Waiting to Exhale Beloved Kinfolks 2. Getting to Happy The Bluest Eye Lee, Don Meriwether, Louise God Help the Child Country of Origin Fragments of the Ark Home Lee, Tonya Lewis Shadow Dancing Jazz Gotham Diaries Miller, Karen E. Quinones Love Lewis, Erica Ida B A Mercy Arlington Heights I’m Telling Paradise Darkness in the Mirror Mink, Meesha with De’Nesha Song of Solomon Lewis, Sinclair Diamond Sula Kingsblood Royal Bentley Manor Tar Baby Little, Benilde 1. Desperate Hoodwives Mosley, Walter Good Hair 2. Shameless Hoodwives Blue Light Locke, Attica 3. The Hood Life Diablerie Highway 59 Monroe, Mary Down the River Unto the Sea 1. Bluebird, Bluebird Bad Blood Fortunate Son Love, Dorothy The Company We Keep John Woman Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray Family of Lies The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey Major, Marcus Gonna Lay Down My Burdens The Man in My Basement Good Peoples One House Over The Tempest Tales Martin, Valerie Red Light Wives Easy Rawlins Property Remembrance 1. Devil in a Blue Dress Mason, Felicia She Had It Coming 2. A Red Death Gabriel’s Discovery Annette Good & Rhoda Nelson 3. White Butterfly Hidden Riches 1. God Don’t Like Ugly 4. Black Betty Rhapsody 2. God Still Don’t Like Ugly 5. A Little Yellow Dog Sweet Accord 3. God Don’t Play 6. Gone Fishin’ Sweet Devotion 4. God Ain’t Blind 7. Bad Boy Brawly Brown Sweet Harmony 5. God Ain’t Through Yet 8. Six Easy Pieces Mathis, Ayana 6. God Don’t Make No 9. Little Scarlet The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Mistakes 10. Cinnamon Kiss McBride, James Lonely Heart, Deadly Heart 11. Blonde Faith Five-Caret Soul 1. Every Woman’s Dream 12. Little Green The Good Lord Bird 2. Never Trust a Stranger 13. Rose Gold Miracle at St. Anna 3. The Devil You Know 14. Charcoal Joe Song Yet Sung Mama Ruby Fearless Jones Mysteries McCarthy, Susan Carol 1. The Upper Room 1. Fearless Jones Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands 2. Mama Ruby 2. Fear Itself McFadden, Bernice 3. Lost Daughters 3. Fear of the Dark Sugar Moore, Edward Kelsey Leonid McGill The Warmest December Supremes 1. The Long Fall McFarland, Dennis 1. The Supremes at Earl’s All 2. Known to Evil Prince Edward -You-Can-Eat 3. When the Thrill is Gone McKinney-Whetstone, Diane 2. The Supremes Sing the 4. All I Did Was Shoot My Blues Dancing Happy Heartache Man Leaving Cecil Street Blues 5. And Sometimes I Wonder Tempest Rising Morrison, Mary B. About You Trading Dreams at Midnight The Eternal Engagement Socrates Fortlow Tumbling Head Games 1. Always Outnumbered, McLarin, Kim Never Again Once More Always Outgunned Taming It Down Who’s Loving You 2. Walkin’ the Dog McMillan, Terry Crystal 3. The Right Mistake A Day Late and a Dollar Short 1. Baby, You’re the Best Mullen, Thomas Disappearing Acts 2. Just Can’t Let Go Darktown How Stella Got Her Groove Back 3. The One I’ve Waited For 1. Darktown I Almost Forgot About You If I Can’t Have You 2. Lightning Man The Interruption of Everything 1. If I Can’t Have You Murray, J.J. Mama 2. I’d Rather be With You Something Real Who Asked You? 3. If You Don’t Know Me
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Murray, Victoria Christopher 4. Gold of Our Fathers Shange, Ntozake Forever an Ex 5. Death by His Grace Liliane Fortune & Fame Randall, Alice Sinclair, April Joy The Wind Done Gone Ain’t Gonna be the Same Fool Never Say Never Rawles, Nancy Twice A Sin and a Shame Crawfish Dreams Coffee Will Make You Black Truth be Told My Jim I Left My Back Door Open Seven Deadly Sins Rax, Cydney Souljah, Sister 1. Lust Brothers and Wives The Coldest Winter Ever 2. Envy My Best Friend and My Man The Deeper Love Inside: The 3. Greed (2019) Ray, Francis Porsche Santiaga Story Naylor, Gloria Not Even if You Begged Midnight Bailey’s Café Only You 1. Midnight: A Gangster Love Linden Hills Somebody’s Knocking at My Door Story The Men of Brewster Place Winter Nights 2. Midnight and the Meaning Ndibe, Okey Reynolds, April of Love Foreign Gods, Inc Knee-Deep in Wonder 3. A Moment of Silence Noire Rhodes, Jewell Parker Spencer, Camika Misadventures of Mink LaRue Douglass’ Women When All Hell Breaks Loose 1. Natural Born Liar Magic City Stetson, Jeff 2. Sexy Little Liar Rice, Patty Blood on the Leaves 3. Dirty Rotten Liar Somethin’ Extra Stimpson, Michelle 4. Red Hot Liar Roby, Kimberla Lawson Boaz Brown 5. Stone Cold Liar Best Friends Forever Stockett, Kathryn Packer, ZZ Changing Faces The Help Drinking Coffee Elsewhere A Christmas Prayer Story, Rosalyn Parks, Suzan-Lori Copycat More That You Know Getting Mother’s Body A Deep, Dark Secret Straight, Susan Pelecanos, George Here and Now Blacker Than a Thousand Drama City It’s a Thin Line Midnights The Night Gardener One in a Million Highwire Moon Shame the Devil The Perfect Marriage The Gettin’ Place The Sweet Forever Secret Obsession Street Chronicles: A Woman’s The Turnaround Reverend Curtis Black Work Derek Strange and Terry Quinn 1. Casting the First Stone Tademy, Lalita 1. Right as Rain 2. Too Much of a Good Thing Tademy Family Chronicles 2. Hell to Pay 3. The Best-Kept Secret 1. Cane River 3. Soul Circus 4. Love and Lies 2. Red River 4. Hard Revolution 5. Sin No More Talbert, David 5. What It Was 6. The Best of Everything Baggage Claim Pesci, David 7. Be Careful What You Pray Tanabe, Karin Amistad For The Gilded Years Piazza, Tom 8. Love, Honor, and Betray Tervalon, Jervey A Free State 9. The Reverend’s Wife Dead Above Ground Picoult, Jodi 10. A House Divided Thomas, Jacquelin Small Great Things 11. The Prodigal Son A Change is Gonna Come Pinkney, David 12. The Ultimate Betrayal Jezebel Black Deuschland 13. A Sinful Calling Treasures of the Heart Porter, Connie 14. Sin of a Woman With a Song in My Heart All-Bright Court 15. Better Late Than Never Thomas, Michael Imani All Mine Rowell, Victoria Man Gone Down Price-Thompson, Tracy Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva Trafford, J.D. Gather Together in My Name Russell, Trista Little Boy Lost A Woman’s Worth Bedroom Bully Trice, Dawn Turner Quartey, Kwei, Sapphire An Eighth of August Darko Dawson The Kid Turner, Nikki 1. Wife of the Gods Push The Banks Sisters 2. Children of the Streets Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson Black Widow 3. Murder at Cape Three A Kind of Freedom Death Before Dishonour Points Ghetto Superstar
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Natural Born Hustler Family Business Whitfield, Van Relapse The Grand Opening Beeperless Remote Riding Dirty on 1-95 Grand Opening 2 Something’s Wrong with Your Banks Sisters No More Mr. Nice Guy Scale! 1. The Banks Sisters To Paris With Love Wideman, John Edgar 2. The Banks Sisters 2 1. The Family Business Philadelphia Fire 3. The Banks Sisters 3 2. The Family Business 2 Reuben Glamorous Life 3. The Family Business 3 The Cattle Killing 1. The Glamorous Life 4. The Family Business 4 Williams, Karen 2. All That Glitters Isn’t Gold Lookin’ for LUV Harlem on Lock Project Chick 1. Lookin’ for LUV Woods, Teri 1. A Project Chick 2. Married Men Alibi 2. What’s Done in the Dark 3. Baby Momma Drama 1. Alibi Yarni and Des 4. Player Haters 2. Alibi: Nard’s Revenge 1. A Hustler’s Wife Weisgarber, Ann True to the Game 2. Forever a Hustler’s Wife The Personal History of Rachel 1. True to the Game I 3. Heartbreak of a Hustler’s DuPree 2. True to the Game II Wife Wesley, Valerie Wilson 3. True to the Game III Turnipseed, Erica Simone Ain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do Wright, Richard A Love Noire Always True to You in My Fashion The Outsider Tyree, Omar Playing My Mother’s Blues Uncle Tom’s Children Just Say No! Where Do I Go From Here? Yanique, Tiphanie Walker, Alice Tamara Hayle Land of Love and Drowning By the Light of My Father’s Smile 1. When Death Comes Youngblood, Shay The Color Purple Stealing Black Girl in Paris Meridian 2. Devil’s Gonna Get Him Now is the Time to Open Your 3. Where Evil Sleeps Heart 4. No Hiding Place Possessing the Secret of Joy 5. Easier to Kill The Temple of My Familiar 6. The Devil Riding The Third Life of Grange Copeland 7. Dying in the Dark Walker, Margaret 8. Of Blood and Sorrow Jubilee White, Franklin Walker, Mari Cup of Love Never as Good as the First Time Fed Up With the Fanny Ward, Jesmyn White, Silk Men We Reaped Tears of a Hustler Salvage the Bones 1. Tears of a Hustler Sing, Unburied, Sing 2. Tears of a Hustler 2 Where the Line Bleeds 3. Tears of a Hustler 3 Watts, Stephanie Powell 4. Tears of a Hustler 4: No One is Coming to Save Us You’ve Been Warned Weber, Carl 5. Tears of a Hustler 5: The The Doctor is in Spades The Man in 3B 6. Tears of a Hustler: The Man on the Run Return of the Wolf She Ain’t the One Teflon Queen Big Girls 1. The Teflon Queen 1. Something on the Side 2. The Teflon Queen 2 2. Big Girls Do Cry 3. The Teflon Queen 3: Hard 3. Torn Between Two Lovers to Kill The Choir Director 4. The Teflon Queen 4: Mr. 1. The Choir Director Death 2. Runaway Bride 5. The Teflon Queen 5: Deep Church Cover 1. The Preacher’s Son Whitehead, Colson 2. So You Call Yourself a John Henry Days Man Sag Harbor 3. The First Lady The Underground Railroad 4. Up to No Good Updated 12/17/2018 6 ** The Fort Smith Public Library does not currently have the books in italics.**