Saundra
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"For seventeen-year-old Mya Bedford, life in a Detroit project is hard enough, but when her mother develops a drug habit, Mya has to take on raising her younger siblings. Too bad the only man who can teach her how to survive--her dad--is behind bars. For life. All he can tell her is that she'll have to navigate the mean streets on her own terms. Mya's not sure what that means--until her mother is seriously beaten by a notorious gang. Then it all becomes...
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Rising urban lit star Saundra ignites a sizzling tale of a good girl turned drug kingpin's lady . . .
A hard-working daddy's girl, Precious Cummings is sure she's going to college. But when her father is murdered, she discovers he lied for years about money they never had-and hid a shocking family secret. Shattered and lost, she starts hangin' with savvy hood chick Keisha-and falls hard for DaVon, LA's most powerful drug dealer. As his new lady,...
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Three friends. One slim chance to beat the streets. But even when you fight your way out by any means necessary, cold hard cash is still no guarantee you'll escape . . .
Secret. Penny. Isis. Two sisters, one best friend. Between neglectful parents and growing up in Miami's worst neighborhood, the three have had each others' backs since forever. So there's nothing Secret won't do to grab the cash flow and glamorous lives she, innocent Penny, and...
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Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
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[2015]
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After her mother is beaten by a notorious gang, seventeen-year-old Mya Bedford launches a string of robberies to get her revenge, but then a dark secret, a risky romance, and a tenuous scheme make things even more complicated.
5) Hustle Hard
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Three friends who escaped the streets. Now they're cashing in on a brilliant hustle and living their million-dollar dreams. But it may cost them their friendship-and their lives.
For Isis, Secret, and Penny, the good times just keep getting better. As "managers" of Miami's hottest custom car shop, they're moving vast kilos of product faster than their scammer boss, Kirk, can pimp out rides-and living la vida luxurious. So they've got things under...
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Urban lit star Saundra delivers her most incendiary novel yet as a good girl turned Cali drug queenpin goes nationwide, where the success is explosive, the new conspiracies brutal-and the betrayals could finally take her down for the count...
Once an innocent college-bound girl, Precious Cummings rapidly took over her lover"s LA drug hustle. Now with a nationwide empire handed to her by kingpin El Guado, she and her sexy partner Marlo control the...
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Saundra, a good girl turned L.A. drug kingpin's lady discovers lethal skills, mega-success, and deadly secrets, she never banked on…Forced to trade her college plans for dealing on the streets of L.A., Precious Cummings has a new priority: stay on top of the game and carry on her murdered lover's kingpin legacy. With the empire growing under her watch, and her late father's dry-cleaning business still booming, Precious sets her sights on owning...
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Into the queer new yonder!
To conclude the trio of anthologies that started with critically acclaimed All Out and Out Now, Out There features seventeen original short stories set in the future from fantastic queer YA authors.
Explore new and familiar worlds where the human consciousness can be uploaded into a body on Mars…an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels…two teens get stuck in a time loop at a...
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Sadie meets Girl in Pieces in this dark, emotional thriller by acclaimed author Saundra Mitchell.
Something happened to Ava. The curving scar on her face is proof. Ava would rather keep that something hidden-buried deep in her heart and her soul.
But in the woods on the outskirts of town, the traces of someone else's secrets lie frozen, awaiting Ava's discovery-and what Ava finds threatens to topple the carefully constructed wall of normalcy that...
10) Camp Murderface
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Summer camp turns sinister in Camp Murderface, a spooky middle grade read perfect for fans of scare masters like R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike.
The year: 1983. The place: Ohio. The camp: Scary as heck.
Camp Sweetwater is finally reopening, three decades after it mysteriously shut down. Campers Corryn Quinn and Tez Jones have each had more than enough of their regular lives—they’re so ready to take their summer at Sweetwater by storm.
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Viking
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2019.
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Emma Nolan wants only one thing before she graduates: to dance with her girlfriend at the senior prom. But in her small town of Edgewater, Indiana, that's like asking for the moon. Alyssa Greene is her high school's "it" girl: popular, head of student council, and daughter of the PTA president. She also has a secret. She's been dating Emma for the last year and a half. When word gets out that Emma plans to bring a girl as her date, it stirs a community-wide...
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Queer We Go Again!
A follow-up to the critically acclaimed All Out anthology, Out Now features seventeen new short stories from amazing queer YA authors. Vampires crash prom, aliens run from the government, a president's daughter comes into her own, a true romantic tries to soften the heart of a cynical social media influencer, a selkie and the sea call out to a lost soul. Teapots and barbershops, skateboards and VW vans, Street Fighter and Ares's...
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It is an important time to celebrate the advancement of women. We have made visible progress in the last few decades. The number of women entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders in corporate leadership roles is growing. However, there are still many challenges women face that are different from their male counterparts. Women sometimes have beliefs or career myths that may interfere with their personal career satisfaction and success.
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Some might describe Peter Kirk's story as one of riches to rags, but it is more like, top hat and tails to smart casual. This biography begins with a short introduction to the English iron mogul and how he arrived in Seattle, Washington Territory in 1886. It explains his family's 100-year history in the iron industry, riding the wave of success during the Industrial Revolution through Britain's successful Victorian era rail expansion. Transferring...
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They were both on a dating break. Tired of the letdown of dealing with the shallow, self-absorbed dating stock of the world-as they each saw their personal intimate histories.
They weren't looking for one another, or for anyone at all. A chance meeting at the supermarket with a hot, handsome jock, and later, a man in disguise. Which one would she choose? Angel thought that their chosen professional subjects made them such an unlikely pair. But things...
16) Pegasus Mountain
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Cassaundra and Katrina are needed for this magic on Pegasus Mountain. An evil wizard brings death and disaster to a peaceful mountain. Pegasus are in danger of being destroyed. New creatures find a way to help. It is a magical amazing journey between Pegasus Mountain and back to Mystical Mountain. Do you believe in magic?
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This is a tale about Dallas, the cutest black-and-white puppy ever, who lives in an animal shelter (called the puppy pound) with many of her dog friends. Dallas is hoping that a loving family will adopt her. She becomes very frightened when she is stolen after a Mardi Gras Krewe of Mutts parade! Happily, she later learns that adoption is a wonderful thing for dogs and humans!
18) The Vespertine
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It's the summer of 1889, and Amelia van den Broek is new to Baltimore and eager to take in all the pleasures the city has to offer. But her gaiety is interrupted by disturbing, dreamlike visions she has only at sunset-visions that offer glimpses of the future. Soon, friends and strangers alike call on Amelia to hear her prophecies. However, a forbidden romance with Nathaniel, an artist, threatens the new life Amelia is building in Baltimore. This...
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Would you like to get the most out of your time spent in prayer? Throne Room Prayers will take you on a journey of discovery about how you are known in heaven. You will learn to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in prayer and walk into your divine inheritance. Your time in prayer will become the most cherished part of your day as you learn how to co-labor with the Father of all creation to bring His will to the Earth, as it is in heaven. Through journaling...
20) The Elementals
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Kate Witherspoon has lived a bohemian life with her artist parents. In 1917, the new art form of the motion picture is changing entertainment-and Kate is determined to become a director.
Meanwhile, midwestern farm boy Julian Birch has inherited the wanderlust that fueled his parents' adventures. A childhood bout with polio has left him crippled, but he refuses to let his disability define him.
Strangers driven by a shared vision, Kate and Julian set...