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Abrams, Dwan Seeking Sarah 3. Mistress, Inc Divorcing the Devil The Stolen Daughter 4. The Pleasure Trap Ansa, Tina McElroy Sinners and Saints (with Victoria 5. Mistress for Hire The Hand I Fan With Christopher Murray) Strong Family Ashley Antoinette 1. Sinners and Saints 1. Heated Moth to a Flame 2. Friends and Foes 2. Hot Like Fire Prada Plan 3. A Blessing and a Curse 3. Give Me Fever 1. The Prada Plan Black, Daniel 4. The Hot Spot 2. Leah’s Story Listen to the Lambs 5. Red Hot 3. Green Eyed Monster Bland, Eleanor Taylor 6. Strong Heat 4. Love and War Marti McAllister 7. Just Say Yes 5. The Prada Plan 5 1. Dead Time 8. Welcome Back, My Love Around the Way Girls 2. Slow Burn Buckhanon, Kalisha 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 3. Gone Quiet Solemn Ashley & JaQuavis 4. Done Wrong Bullard, Linda McKeever Diary of a Street Diva 5. Keep Still Shades of Justice The Trophy Wife 6. See No Evil Bunkley, Anita Richmond Cartel 7. Tell No Tales Between Goodbyes 1. The Cartel 8. Scream in Silence Black Gold 2. Tale of the Murda Mamas 9. Whispers in the Dark Starlight Passage 3. The Last Chapter 10. Windy City Dying Wild Embers 4. Diamonds Are Forever 11. Fatal Remains Butler, Octavia 5. La Bella Mafia 12. A Cold and Silent Dying Fledgling 6. The Demise 13. Dark and Deadly Imago: Xenogenesis 7. Illuminati Reception Parable Series 8. Money Devils 1 Bohjalian, Chris Parable of the Sower 9. Money Devils 2 (2021) Before You Know Kindness Parable of the Talents Baldwin, James The Buffalo Soldier Butler, Tajuana Another Country The Double Bind Hand-Me-Down Heartache The Fire Next Time The Law of Similars Sorority Sisters Giovanni’s Room Midwives Campbell, Bebe Moore If Beale Street Could Talk Skeletons at the Feast Brothers and Sisters Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Water Witches 72 Hour Hold Gone Bowen, Michele Andrea Singing in the Comeback Choir Bambara, Toni Cade Church Folk Successful Women, Angry Men Those Bones Are Not My Child More Church Folk What You Owe Me Beatty, Paul Pastor Needs a Boo Carl Weber’s Kingpins The Sellout Up at the College ATL by Brick & Storm Bell, Madison Smartt Second Sunday The Bronx by Marcus Weber Haitian Rebellion Briscoe, Connie Charlotte by Blake Karrington 1. All Souls’ Rising Big Girls Don’t Cry Chicago by Silk Smooth 2. Master of the Crossroads A Long Way From Home Cleveland by Brandi Johnson 3. The Stone That the Builder Money Can’t Buy Love Dallas by Treasure Hernandez Refused Brown, Tracy Detroit by Michel Moore Bennett, Brit Boss The Dirty South by Treasure The Mothers Twisted Hernandez Benson, Angela Snapped The Girls of South Beach by C. N. The Summer of Me 1. Snapped Phillips Berry, Bertice 2. Aftermath Harlem by C. N. Phillips The Haunting of Hip Hop: A Novel White Lines Houston by Treasure Hernandez Redemption Song 1. White Lines Jamaica by Racquel Williams Berry, Venise 2. Sunny Los Angeles by C N Phillips All of Me 3. All Falls Down Miami by Nikki Turner Billingsley, ReShonda Tate Bryant, Niobia Oklahoma City by Clifford Johnson The Book in Room 316 Never Keeping Secrets Philadelphia by Brittani Williams Can I Get a Witness? Show and Tell St Louis by Keisha Ervin Holy Rollers Want, Need, Love Carter, Charlotte Mama’s Boy Mistress Nanette Hayes More to Life 1. Message From a Mistress 1. Rhodes Island Red The Secret She Kept 2. Mistress No More 2. Coq Au Vin

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3. Drumsticks Collins, Kathleen Due, Tananarive 4. Rooster’s Riff Whatever Happened to Interracial The Between Cook County Love?: Stories The Black Rose 1. Jackson Park Conde, Maryse Ghost Summer 2. Trip Wire Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat? The Good House Carter, Stephen L. Cooper, J. California Durham, David Anthony The Emperor of Ocean Park The Future Has a Past Pride of Carthage Jericho’s Fall Life is Short But Wide Edwards, Grace New England White The Matter is Life Mali Anderson Palace Council A Piece of Mine 1. If I Should Die Cary, Lorene Some People, Some Other Place 2. A Toast Before Dying Price of a Child Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns 3. No Time to Die Pride Copeland, Sheila 4. Do or Die Channer, Colin Chocolate Star Elam, Patricia Got to be Real Corbin, Steven Breathing Room Chunichi Fragments That Remain Ellison, Ralph Around the Way Girls 7 Dash, Julie Flying Home and Other Stories A Gangster’s Girl Saga Daughters of the Dust The Invisible Man The Streets Keep Calling DeBerry, Virginia Juneteenth Clair, Maxine Far From the Tree Estleman, Loren D. Rattlebone Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Black Powder, White Smoke Clark, Wahida Made Amos Walker The Golden Hustla Gotta Keep on Tryin’ 1. Motor City Blue Sincerely, the Boss! Devoto, Pat Cunningham 2. Angel Eyes Thuggz Valentine Out of the Night That Covers Me 3. The Midnight Man Payback The Summer We Got Saved 4. The Glass Highway 1. Payback is a Mutha Dickey, Eric Jerome 5. Sugartown 2. Payback With Ya Life An Accidental Affair 6. Every Brilliant Eye 3. Payback Ain’t Enough Bad Men and Wicked Women 7. Lady Yesterday 4. Blood, Sweat & Payback Between Lovers 8. Downriver Thug The Blackbirds 9. Silent Thunder 1. Thugs and the Women The Business of Lovers 10. Sweet Women Lie Who Love Them Chasing Destiny 11. Never Street 2. Every Thug Needs a Lady Cheaters 12. The Witchfinder 3. Thug Matrimony Decadence 13. The Hours of the Virgin 4. Thug Lovin’ Drive Me Crazy 14. A Smile on the Face of the 5. Justify My Thug Genevieve Tiger 6. Honor Thy Thug Got to be Real 15. Sinister Heights 7. Thugs: Seven Liar’s Game 16. Poison Blonde Clarke, Breena Milk in My Coffee 17. Retro River, Cross My Heart Naughtier Than Nice 18. Nicotine Kiss Stand the Storm Naughty or Nice 19. American Detective Cleage, Pearl One Night 20. The Left-Handed Dollar Babylon Sisters The Other Woman 21. Infernal Angels Just Wanna Testify Pleasure 22. Burning Midnight Seen It All and Done the Rest Sister, Sister 23. Don’t Look for Me Some Things I Never Thought I’d The Son of Mr. Suleman (2021) 24. You Know Who Killed Me Do Tempted by Trouble 25. The Sundown Speech What Looks Like Crazy on an Gideon 26. The Lioness is the Hunter Ordinary Day 1. Sleeping With Strangers 27. Black and White Ball Clemmons, Zinzi 2. Waking With Enemies 28. When Old Midnight Comes What We Lose 3. Dying for Revenge Along Cobb, William 4. Resurrecting Midnight Ewing, Rita Wings of Morning 5. Finding Gideon Homecourt Advantage Cole, Alyssa Wicked Flournoy, Angela The Loyal League 1. Bad Men and Wicked The Turner House 1. An Extraordinary Union Women Forster, Gwynne 2. A Hope Divided 2. Before We Were Wicked Blues From Down Deep 3. An Unconditional Freedom

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Foster, Sharon Ewell John Basil Henderson Hunter, Travis Abraham’s Well 1. Not a Day Goes by A Family Sin Passing by Samaria 2. Any Way the Wind Blows A One Woman Man Ain’t No River 3. If This World Were Mine Married But Still Looking 1. Ain’t No River Haulsey, Kumana Trouble Man 2. Ain’t No Mountain Angel of Harlem Hurston, Zora Neale 3. Ain’t No Valley Haynes, David Seraph on the Suwanee French, Albert All American Dream Dolls Their Eyes Were Watching God Holly Somebody Else’s Mama Jackson, Brenda Patches of Fire Heffernan, William Ties That Bind Gaines, Ernest Beulah Hill Jackson, Brian Keith The Autobiography of Miss Jane Herbert, A.L. The Queen of Harlem Pittman Mahalia Watkins Soul Food The View From Here Bloodline 1. Murder With Fried Chicken Jackson-Opoku, Sandra A Gathering of Old Men and Waffles Hot Johnny (and the Women Who In My Father's House 2. Murder With Macaroni and Loved Him) A Lesson Before Dying Cheese Jackson, Sheneska Glenn, Roy Hicks, Robert Blessings Is It a Crime? The Orphan Mother Caught Up in the Rapture Goines, Donald Hill, Donna Li’l Mama’s Rules Black Gangster Divas, Inc. Jakes, T.D. Eldorado Red If I Could Cover Girls Golden, Marita In My Bedroom Not Easily Broken After My Love at Last Japin, Arthur And Do Remember Me An Ordinary Woman The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi The Edge of Heaven Quiet Storm Jefferson, Mimi Long Distance Life Lawsons of Louisiana The Single Sister Experiment The Wide Circumference of Love 1. Spend My Life with You Joe, Yolanda G’Orge-Walker, Pat 2. Secret Attraction Bebe’s by Golly Wow Cruisin’ on Desperation 3. Sultry Nights The Hatwearer’s Lesson Sister Betty! God’s Calling You, 4. Everything is You This Just in Again 5. The Way You Love Me Johnson, Charles Griffin, Bettye 6. For the Love of You Dreamer Nothing But Trouble 7. Surrender to Me Middle Passage Guinn, Matthew 8. When I’m with You Johnson, Keith Lee The Scribe Sag Harbor Village Hell Has No Fury Gwin, Minrose 1. Dare to Dream Jones, Antonne Promise 2. Heart’s Reward The Family Gyasi, Yaa 3. Touch Me Now Jones, Edward Homegoing 4. For You I Will All Aunt Hagar’s Children Haley, Alex 5. My Love at Last The Known World Mama Flora’s Family Hill, Lawrence Lost in the City Queen The Book of Negroes Jones, Tayari Roots Hill, Mars An American Marriage Harris, E. Lynn The Moaner’s Bench Silver Sparrow And This Too Shall Pass Himes, Chester Katzenbach, John Basketball Jones The Collected Stories of Chester Hart’s War I Say a Little Prayer Himes Kelley, William In My Father’s House A Rage in Harlem The Sweet Summer Just Too Good to be True Hobbs, Allison Kennedy, Erica A Love of My Own Stealing Candy Bling Mama Dearest Hopkinson, Nalo King, J.L. No One in the World Skin Folk Love on a Two-Way Street Invisible Life Hubbard, Ladee Kraus, Harry 1. Invisible Life The Talented Ribkins The Six-Liter Club 2. Just as I Am Hunt, L.A. Jill Lamar, Jake 3. Abide With Me No More Drama Close to the Bone Say It Ain’t So If 6 Were 9 Hunt, Laird Lambright, Slim (Evelyn) The Evening Road The Justus Girls

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Lattany, Kristin Who Asked You? Crystal Breaking Away Waiting to Exhale 1. Baby, You’re the Best Kinfolks 1. Waiting to Exhale 2. Just Can’t Let Go Lee, Don 2. Getting to Happy 3. The One I’ve Waited For Country of Origin Meriwether, Louise If I Can’t Have You Lee, Tonya Lewis Fragments of the Ark 1. If I Can’t Have You Gotham Diaries Shadow Dancing 2. I’d Rather be With You Lewis, Erica Miller, Karen E. Quinones 3. If You Don’t Know Me Arlington Heights Ida B Morrison, Toni Darkness in the Mirror I’m Telling Beloved Lewis, Sinclair Mink, Meesha with De’Nesha The Bluest Eye Kingsblood Royal Diamond God Help the Child Little, Benilde Bentley Manor Home Good Hair 1. Desperate Hoodwives Jazz Locke, Attica 2. Shameless Hoodwives Love Highway 59 3. The Hood Life A Mercy 1. Bluebird, Bluebird Monroe, Mary Paradise 2. Heaven, My Home Bad Blood Song of Solomon Love, Dorothy The Company We Keep Sula Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray Family of Lies Tar Baby Major, Marcus Red Light Wives Mosley, Walter Good Peoples Remembrance Blue Light Martin, Valerie Right Beside You Diablerie Property She Had It Coming Down the River unto the Sea Mason, Felicia Mrs. Wiggins (2021) Fortunate Son Gabriel’s Discovery Annette Good & Rhoda Nelson John Woman Hidden Riches 1. God Don’t Like Ugly The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey Rhapsody 2. God Still Don’t Like Ugly The Man in My Basement Sweet Accord 3. God Don’t Play The Tempest Tales Sweet Devotion 4. God Ain’t Blind Easy Rawlins Sweet Harmony 5. God Ain’t Through Yet 1. Mathis, Ayana 6. God Don’t Make No 2. A Red Death The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Mistakes 3. White Butterfly McBride, James Lonely Heart, Deadly Heart 4. Black Betty Five-Carat Soul 1. Every Woman’s Dream 5. A Little Yellow Dog The Good Lord Bird 2. Never Trust a Stranger 6. Gone Fishin’ Miracle at St. Anna 3. The Devil You Know 7. Bad Boy Brawly Brown Song Yet Sung Mama Ruby 8. Six Easy Pieces McCarthy, Susan Carol 1. The Upper Room 9. Little Scarlet Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands 2. Mama Ruby 10. Cinnamon Kiss McFadden, Bernice 3. Lost Daughters 11. Blonde Faith Sugar Neighbors 12. Little Green The Warmest December 1. One House Over 13. Rose Gold McFarland, Dennis 2. Over the Fence 14. Charcoal Joe Prince Edward 3. Across the Way 15. Blood Grove McKinney-Whetstone, Diane Moore, Edward Kelsey Fearless Jones Mysteries Blues Dancing Supremes 1. Fearless Jones Leaving Cecil Street 1. The Supremes at Earl’s All 2. Fear Itself Tempest Rising -You-Can-Eat 3. Fear of the Dark Trading Dreams at Midnight 2. The Supremes Sing the Leonid McGill Tumbling Happy Heartache 1. The Long Fall McLarin, Kim Blues 2. Known to Evil Taming It Down Morrison, Mary B. 3. When the Thrill is Gone McMillan, Terry The Eternal Engagement 4. All I Did Was Shoot My A Day Late and a Dollar Short Head Games Man Disappearing Acts I Do Love You Still 5. And Sometimes I Wonder How Stella Got Her Groove Back Never Again Once More About You I Almost Forgot About You Who’s Loving You 6. Trouble is What I Do The Interruption of Everything Mama

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Socrates Fortlow Porter, Connie 14. Sin of a Woman 1. , All-Bright Court 15. Better Late Than Never Always Outgunned Imani All Mine Rowell, Victoria 2. Walkin’ the Dog Price-Thompson, Tracy Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva The Right Mistake Gather Together in My Name Sapphire Mullen, Thomas A Woman’s Worth The Kid Darktown Quartey, Kwei, Push 1. Darktown Darko Dawson Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson 2. Lightning Man 1. Wife of the Gods A Kind of Freedom Murray, J.J. 2. Children of the Street Shange, Ntozake Something Real 3. Murder at Cape Three Liliane Murray, Victoria Christopher Points Silk White Forever an Ex 4. Gold of Our Fathers Tears of a Hustler Fortune & Fame 5. Death by His Grace 1. Tears of a Hustler Joy Randall, Alice 2. Tears of a Hustler 2 Never Say Never The Wind Done Gone 3. Tears of a Hustler 3 A Sin and a Shame Rawles, Nancy 4. Tears of a Hustler 4: Truth be Told Crawfish Dreams You’ve Been Warned Seven Deadly Sins My Jim 5. Tears of a Hustler 5: The 1. Lust Rax, Cydney Spades 2. Envy Brothers and Wives 6. Tears of a Hustler: The 3. Greed My Best Friend and My Man Return of the Wolf Naylor, Gloria Ray, Francis Teflon Queen Bailey’s Café Not Even if You Begged 1. The Teflon Queen Linden Hills Only You 2. The Teflon Queen 2 The Men of Brewster Place Somebody’s Knocking at My Door 3. The Teflon Queen 3: Hard Ndibe, Okey Winter Nights to Kill Foreign Gods, Inc Reynolds, April 4. The Teflon Queen 4: Mr. Noire Knee-Deep in Wonder Death Misadventures of Mink LaRue Rhodes, Jewell Parker 5. The Teflon Queen 5: Deep 1. Natural Born Liar Douglass’ Women Cover 2. Sexy Little Liar Magic City 6. The Teflon Queen 6 3. Dirty Rotten Liar Rice, Patty Sinclair, April 4. Red Hot Liar Somethin’ Extra Ain’t Gonna be the Same Fool 5. Stone Cold Liar Roby, Kimberla Lawson Twice Packer, ZZ Best Friends Forever Coffee Will Make You Black Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Changing Faces I Left My Back Door Open Parks, Suzan-Lori A Christmas Prayer Souljah, Sister Getting Mother’s Body Copycat The Coldest Winter Ever Pelecanos, George A Deep, Dark Secret A Deeper Love Inside Drama City Here and Now Midnight The Night Gardener It’s a Thin Line 1. Midnight: A Gangster Love One in a Million Story The Sweet Forever The Perfect Marriage 2. Midnight and the Meaning The Turnaround Secret Obsession of Love Derek Strange and Terry Quinn Reverend Curtis Black 3. A Moment of Silence 1. 1. Casting the First Stone Spencer, Camika 2. 2. Too Much of a Good Thing When All Hell Breaks Loose 3. Soul Circus 3. The Best-Kept Secret Stetson, Jeff 4. Hard Revolution 4. Love and Lies Blood on the Leaves 5. What It Was 5. Sin No More Stimpson, Michelle Pesci, David 6. The Best of Everything Boaz Brown Amistad: The Thunder of Freedom 7. Be Careful What You Pray Stockett, Kathryn Piazza, Tom For The Help A Free State 8. Love, Honor, and Betray Story, Rosalyn Picoult, Jodi 9. The Reverend’s Wife More Than You Know Small Great Things 10. A House Divided Straight, Susan Pinkney, Darryl 11. The Prodigal Son Blacker Than a Thousand Black Deutschland 12. The Ultimate Betrayal Midnights 13. A Sinful Calling Highwire Moon

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The Gettin’ Place Ward, Jesmyn White, Franklin Street Chronicles: A Woman’s Men We Reaped Cup of Love Work Fed Up With the Fanny Tademy, Lalita Sing, Unburied, Sing Whitehead, Colson Tademy Family Chronicles Where the Line Bleeds John Henry Days 1. Cane River Watts, Stephanie Powell The Nickel Boys 2. Red River No One is Coming to Save Us Sag Harbor Talbert, David Weber, Carl The Underground Railroad Baggage Claim The Doctor is in Whitfield, Van Tanabe, Karin Influence Beeperless Remote The Gilded Years The Man in 3B Something’s Wrong with Your Tervalon, Jervey Man on the Run Scale! Dead Above Ground She Ain’t the One Wideman, John Edgar Thomas, Jacquelin Big Girls Philadelphia Fire A Change is Gonna Come 1. Something on the Side Reuben Jezebel 2. Big Girls Do Cry The Cattle Killing With a Song in My Heart 3. Torn Between Two Lovers Williams, Karen Thomas, Michael The Choir Director Harlem on Lock Man Gone Down 1. The Choir Director Woods, Teri Trafford, J.D. 2. Runaway Bride Alibi Little Boy Lost Church 1. Alibi Trice, Dawn Turner 1. The Preacher’s Son 2. Alibi: Nard’s Revenge An Eighth of August 2. So You Call Yourself a True to the Game Turner, Nikki Man 1. True to the Game I Black Widow 3. The First Lady 2. True to the Game II Death Before Dishonour 4. Up to No Good 3. True to the Game III Ghetto Superstar Family Business Wright, Richard Natural Born Hustler The Grand Opening The Outsider Relapse Grand Opening 2 Uncle Tom’s Children Riding Dirty on 1-95 No More Mr. Nice Guy Yanique, Tiphanie Banks Sisters To Paris With Love Land of Love and Drowning 1. The Banks Sisters Trouble in Rio Youngblood, Shay 2. The Banks Sisters 2 1. The Family Business Black Girl in Paris 3. The Banks Sisters 3 2. The Family Business 2 Glamorous Life 3. The Family Business 3 1. The Glamorous Life 4. The Family Business 4 2. All That Glitters Isn’t Gold 5. The Family Business 5 Yarni and Des Lookin’ for LUV 1. A Hustler’s Wife 1. Lookin’ for LUV 2. Forever a Hustler’s Wife 2. Married Men 3. Heartbreak of a Hustler’s 3. Baby Momma Drama Wife 4. Player Haters Turnipseed, Erica Simone Weisgarber, Ann A Love Noire The Personal History of Rachel Tyree, Omar DuPree Just Say No! Wesley, Valerie Wilson Walker, Alice Ain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do By the Light of My Father’s Smile Always True to You in My Fashion The Color Purple Playing My Mother’s Blues Meridian Where Do I Go From Here? Now is the Time to Open Your Tamara Hayle Heart 1. When Death Comes Possessing the Secret of Joy Stealing The Temple of My Familiar 2. Devil’s Gonna Get Him The Third Life of Grange Copeland 3. Where Evil Sleeps Walker, Margaret 4. No Hiding Place Jubilee 5. Easier to Kill Walker, Mari 6. The Devil Riding Never as Good as the First Time 7. Dying in the Dark 8. Of Blood and Sorrow Updated 2/12/2021 6 ** The Fort Smith Public Library does not currently have the books in italics.**