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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Hot girl	Dream Jordan	Kate, a fourteen-year-old Brooklyn girl and former gang member, risks losing her first good foster family when she adopts the risqué ways of her flirtatious new friend, Naleejah.	OL12005893W
A gangster's girl saga	Chunichi.	Ceazia Devereaux, obsessed with the finer things in life, starts her own escort service where she meets Virginia druglord Vegas and enters into a dangerous world of fast money, which she finds hard t…	OL13749716W
Marked by Passion	Kate Perry	Gabrielle Sansouci Chin is turned for a loop when she receives the ancient scroll that she was marked to protect. Her possession only means one thing...her father is dead. Gabe has no idea how she is…	OL15191420W
Growing pains	Dwayne S. Joseph	Brian Moore is a straight-A student struggling to escape the lure of the streets in Brooklyn, NY. With no father at home and a mother who works two jobs in order to keep a roof over his head and food…	OL15938274W
The first person	Péron Long	When gospel artist T'Shobi Wells moves from Atlanta to Charlotte, N.C., it isn't long before the skeletons in his closet begin to rattle, and Pastor Seth Reynolds and his wife Justine discover they a…	OL16484626W
All that is	James Salter	Un deslumbrante y en ocasiones devastador laberinto de amor y ambición. Un retrato intimista de las conmociones y los placeres de estar vivo. Ambientada en las décadas doradas que siguieron a la Segu…	OL16672348W
The Scatter Here Is Too Great	Bilal Tanweer	La jaquette indique : "The Scatter Here Is Too Great heralds a major new voice from Pakistan with a stunning debut - a novel told in a rich variety of distinctives voices that converge at a single ho…	OL17573887W
The block	Treasure Hernandez	"On the outside, Tone seems to have it all. He has a father he looks up to and an older brother who keeps him under his wing--until the day his father crosses a line that changes everything. Tone is …	OL17650440W
Kiss kiss, bang bang	Ashley & JaQuavis,Honey Jones	When a set-up goes wrong and Six finds herself sleeping with the enemy, who [sic] will she choose: the man she loves or the man she's supposed to hate?--P. [4] of cover.	OL17738184W
Hard Candy	Amaleka G. McCall	Candice Hardaway is the daughter of rising New York drug kingpin Eric "Easy" Hardaway, who has plenty of money and just as many enemies. When Candy arrives home from school and finds that her entire …	OL17894521W
The apartment	Greg Baxter	"One snowy holiday morning in an old European city, an American man leaves his shabby hotel to meet a local woman who has agreed to help him search for an apartment to rent. Told with an affecting an…	OL18150988W
Girls from da hood 2	Nikki Turner,Joy,KaShamba Williams	Presents three short stories in which Africa Evans depends on the wrong man to help her out, Harmony finds herself leading a double life, and Unique lives up to her reputation as a hoodrat.	OL18161695W
Visitation Street	Ivy Pochoda	Summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue collar neighborhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against tired housing projects, and the East River opens into the bay. Bored and listless, fifteen-yea…	OL19704813W
Bad behavior	Kiki Swinson	NINE LIVES: Wild-card Aiden. Dead-shot Ava. Efficient, fast, and brutal, this notorious brother-sister hit team grew up abused, unwanted--and in lethal tune with each other. Killing nine targets in t…	OL19730964W
Why we came to the city	Kristopher Jansma	A "novel about a tight-knit group of twentysomethings in New York whose lives are forever altered by an unexpected tragedy... Five years after their college graduation, the devoted friends once known…	OL20019953W
Dog food	Raynesha Pittman	Upon his release from prison, Demarcus gets caught up in selling heroin, and finds himself on the losing side of a Memphis drug war.	OL20033276W
A weekend affair	Noelle Vella	332 pages ; 17 cm	OL20059548W
Watch Out for the Big Girls 3	J. M. Benjamin	266 pages ; 21 cm	OL21143261W
The coldest winter ever	Sister Souljah,Sister Souljah	A New York Times and USA TODAY Bestseller “50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years.” —Essence Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read The inst…	OL55286W
True to the Game III	Teri Woods	The third and most explosive installment of the groundbreaking True to the Game trilogy will take you on a marathon race through the mean streets of Philly. Starting off where the second installment'…	OL8135773W