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This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the Earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

Since childhood, identical twins Leona and Fiona Dunbar have been getting in—and out—of trouble by pretending to be each other. Yet underneath, they couldn’t be more different. Outspoken Leona lives to break rules, have a good time, and scandalize their respectable hometown of Lexington. Fiona is a seemingly demure churchgoing girl who is the apple of her domineering, widowed mother Mavis’s eye. But together, the twins have fooled teachers, boyfriends, bosses, racist police—and most importantly, straitlaced Mavis.

***NEW COVER*** She got burned by the boss after a one night stand. Can he talk her into a second chance? Holding a grudge for seven years was easy for Maya McDonald, resisting the sexy object of that grudge was a lot harder... Maya makes a wish on her twenty-ninth birthday to finally be free of her day job at the candle factory. Not only does she hate the work, but the company’s owner is the man who broke her heart seven years ago. Making it on her own as an artist is her number one goal. Number two on her list is avoiding Everett Evans. Everett never forgot the way Maya rocked his world...

Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem.

Winter Santiaga hit time served. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. She’s eager to pay back her enemies, rebuild her father’s empire, reset his crown, and ultimately to snatch Midnight back into her life no matter which bitch had him while she was locked up. But Winter is not the only one with revenge on her mind.

After the arrest of Chancellor King and the murder of his eldest son and heir, Ghost, the King family and the streets of New York City are thrown into chaos. Chancellor’s older brother, Chapman, takes the opportunity to usurp the crown, breaking the line of succession and stepping over his nephew Shadow. Chapman’s first act as the new king is to banish what remains of his broken family, branding them enemies of the crown. Stripped of all wealth and power, Maureen King places a seemingly impossible task on the shoulders of Shadow.

Khalil “Loon” Simmons thinks that he has his life all figured out. Although young, he has what most men twice his age could only fathom. He has no shortage of money, power, and the respect of the streets that he serves. Oddly, what he valued most was that he had someone to share it with… his long time girlfriend Mia. But in a shocking twist of events, Loon is blindsided when the reality of life turns his fairytale into a mockery. He gives his best attempt at living life as he now knows it but wounds that deep never heal. He’s left hardened, angry, vengeful and above all else…...

You are cordially invited to the wedding of Amerie Cross and Arnold Hightower.

A menace, I was, the duration of my life. Unsure of what was next, who was next, or where I was headed next. The only for-sure shit in my world was my paper and my people. The ice around my heart was still intact, never being penetrated or as much as tapped.

For months I stood in the wings, an understudy waiting for my time to shine. I never imagined he would be in the audience that night. Canon Holt. Famous film director. Talented. Fine. Before I could catch my breath, everything changed. I went from backstage Broadway to center stage Hollywood. From being unknown, to my name, Neevah Saint, on everyone's lips when Canon casts me in a star-studded Harlem Renaissance biopic. But stars shine brightest in the dead of night. Forbidden attraction, scandal and circumstances beyond my control jeopardize my dream.

When Bonnie and Mansour meet in New York in 1968—his piercing gaze in a downtown jazz club threatening to carry her away—their connection is undeniable. Both from fractured homes, with childhoods spent crossing the Atlantic, they quickly find peace with each other. And as Mansour’s soaring Senegalese melodies continue to break new ground, keeping time with the sound of revolution and taking him and Bonnie from Paris to Rio and Switzerland, it seems as though happiness might finally be around the corner for them both.

Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil’s Half Acre.

Meet Heaven: a young girl who is loving, submissive, and beyond appreciative of her husband, Ross. As a teenager, Heaven lived solely for her sister, Divine, and her daughter, Sunshine. Because her mother is mentally ill and her father ran off, Heaven had to do some unimaginable things just to feed the family. Then came Ross, and everything changed. He wasn't some filthy rich, dope boy that some young girls dream of, but Heaven felt like Ross was her blessing.

What do you do when the person you would jump in front of a bullet for, is the one pulling the trigger? For the last three years, Khalil “Loon” Simmons has lived his life emotionless. But like the saying goes “to heal a wound you need to stop touching it” and the scars of his past have resurfaced. One after another, every emotion he has vowed that he would never feel again slowly but surely returns. Loon knows that if he continues to keep these feelings bottled up, he’ll eventually explode in the most dangerous way. So instead of continuing to suppress these emotions, Loon faces ...

Faith Langston has made her choice as to whom she loves. But when the love of her life goes home just before Christmas and runs into his first love—he’s faced with choices of his own . . .

Breonna’s main focus is to remain focused as she navigates her way through her current relationship and her career as a daycare teacher. Betrayal turns her heart cold when she experiences the ultimate heartbreak. Jaseon has never felt a love deeper than one he has for his daughter. He will do anything to protect her at all cost. But, he quickly finds out that the cost may be his heart. Family secrets and deep rooted betrayals will either make or break their connection. Can love be enough when you’re Cuffed by a Certified Maniac?

MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE! Get ready to meet Raelyn, Symba, and Blue! These 3 friends go through it all together including relationships, heartaches, and drama. But things really get interesting when Caesar and his boy Canyon come into the picture. These rich thugs have always been ones to get whatever they want--even sexy, stubborn women who think they can't be tamed!

Every family is different, but every family has secrets. The Helaire family is no different. Imagine being a child and one of the two people put on this earth to mold, guide and shape you into an adult is the one causing you the most pain. How would you deal with it?

In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps create a world-class collection.

Two worlds collide when flights from opposite sides of the world land in the Dominican Republic for the same exact reason. Kelcee Michaels, on a much needed vacation with her best friend with the intent to let loose and rid her mind of the problems back home. It’s on this very island that she crosses paths with Xander Frasier. For 7 days, all is well in the world as they spend time healing one another. That is, until they both realize that paradise only exists in Punta Cana. At the end of the vacation they part ways as they each return to their chaotic lives. Once the plane lands and the ...