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  We Are A Haunting - A Novel

  Tyriek White

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  2023 First Novel Prize - Winner 
  "What a beautiful, haunting and hued narrative of American living. I’m in love with this story and the way Tyriek White breathes life into these characters." —Jacqueline Woodson, MacArthur Fellow and author of Another Brooklyn 
   
  A poignant debut for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Jamel Brinkley, We Are a Haunting follows three generations of a working class family and their inherited ghosts: a story of hope and transformation. 
   
  In 1980’s Brooklyn, Key is enchanted with her world, glowing with her dreams. A charming and tender doula serving the Black women of her East New York neighborhood, she lives, like her mother, among the departed and learns to speak to and for them. Her untimely death leaves behind her mother Audrey, who is on the verge of losing the public housing apartment they once shared. Colly, Key’s grieving son, soon learns that he too has inherited this sacred gift and begins to slip into the liminal space between the living and the dead on his journey to self-realization. 
   
  In the present, an expulsion from school forces Colly across town where, feeling increasingly detached and disenchanted with the condition of his community, he begins to realize that he must, ultimately, be accountable to the place he is from. After college, having forged an understanding of friendship, kinship, community, and how to foster love in places where it seems impossible, Colly returns to East New York to work toward addressing structural neglect and the crumbling blocks of New York City public housing he was born to; discovering a collective path forward from the wreckages of the past. A supernatural family saga, a searing social critique, and a lyrical and potent account of displaced lives, We Are a Haunting unravels the threads connecting the past, present, and future, and depicts the palpable, breathing essence of the neglected corridors of a pulsing city with pathos and poise.

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  Dream Life and Real Life

  Olive Schreiner

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  Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was a South African author, suffragist and political activist. She is best known for her novel The Story of an African Farm, but some of her most haunting and memorable works are her short stories. "Dream Life and Real Life" is a haunting short story about a little orphan girl in servitude to a cruel Boer family. One night, following a beating, she runs away and hides in a cave. But there she overhears three men plotting to rob and burn down the Boer's farm and kill the family. What should she do? Warn them, or let them burn to death?

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  Emerald Queen

  LC Taylor

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  WARNING THIS BOOK CONTAINS A CLIFFHANGER 
  Six Queens. 
  Each with a common thread. 
  But it is not what everyone thinks. 
  When an evil force threatens to annihilate all they know, they will be faced with a truth –a truth that could change everything. 
  And what happens when an even bigger secret is revealed, fracturing all that they believed? 
    
  Emersyn wasn't ready to be queen. 
  When her parents were murdered, she was thrust into the position early. 
  Now, barely twenty-one, she must unravel the mystery of their death and rule a kingdom. 
  The truth about who she is will shatter her very existence. 
  When a mysterious letter arrives, Emersyn is caught in a tangle of lies. 
  When a botched attack puts one of the other Kingdom's queens in harm's way, 
  Emersyn will stop at nothing to unravel the lies. 
    
  With the support of a man she's falling in love with, 
  Emersyn will rise above her fears and show the Kingdom she will protect them. 
    
  After all... 
    
  She is the Emerald Queen 
    
    
  Emerald Queen is the FIRST BOOK in the ELEMENTAL QUEEN SERIES 
  Mature Reader warning: This book contains a lot of panty-dropping sexiness! There is raw sexual language (aka dirty talk), a little violence, and tons of heat! It is intended for readers 18+ and fans of the naughty stuff.

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  Eenie Meenie

  Willow Rose

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  Johnny is a criminal. He has been locked up before - but never in a place quite like this. Now he wonders if he will ever make it through to his release date - alive.... Eenie, Meenie is a 15,000-word thriller novella from Willow Rose, author of the international best-selling horror series starring the Danish reporter Rebekka Franck. It is not for the faint at heart. This book also includes an excerpt from her novel One, Two...He Is Coming for You, the first book in her Rebekka Franck series.

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  Hell Is Empty And All The Devils...

  Rachel Lawson

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  Scratch a killer and you get a monster. 
  "What are you doing in a lonely blind ally in the city at night?" asked the father of a very suspicious character, a man in black wearing a long black trench coat he was wanted as a serial killer. 
  "Go away I'm working Dad," hissed the son Lance. 
  "I won't," said the father hoping to prevent a murder. 
  "Go away I don't need skeletons coming out of closets and getting in my way," said Lance the son cryptically. A car started nearby and left. 
  "You scared them off deadhead," snapped Lance shortly then he stomped off. 
  A man who was hidden in the dark clubbed the father on the head he fell to the ground.Lance seemingly goes mad while trying to find his father will he ever find him alive? 
  Music by Suno AI

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  My Eye Adored You

  Kylie Marcus

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  He may only have one eye, but it adores her . . . he just doesn't know it yet.Reece Spencer became a monster after a Halloween party gone wrong, but instead of letting it ruin his life, he dedicated his life to monsters. After selling his portion of a successful investment firm, he funded the creation of a college for monsters just outside the monstrous little town of Screaming Woods.This is his life now, trying to help monsters live as normally as possible, and nothing could disrupt that except for one new student who sets his entire world off-kilter: Kamila Letreuc, his former business partner's daughter.The last time he saw her, she was a grieving seventeen-year-old, and now she's blossomed into a gorgeous woman. He may only have one eye, but he can tell how beautiful she is. Too bad she's off-limits.When Kamila's father asks him to keep his eye on her, Reece makes a promise that soon becomes personal.Now he's got an injured Kamila staying in his house, flouncing around in his clothing, and keeping his eye and hands off her is increasingly difficult—not to mention that someone is out to kill his gorgeous little half-dryad.Contains mature themes.

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