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  Calling Things by Their Right...

  Booker T. Washington

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  Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  CALLING THINGS BY THEIR RIGHT NAMES: A few evenings ago I talked with you about the importance of learning to be simple, humble and child-like before going out into the world. You should remain in school until you get to the point where you feel that you do not know anything, where you feel that you are willing to learn from any one who can teach you.

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  Compromised Undercover

  G.K. Parks, Elisa Archer

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  When Officer Lexie Sarconi transferred out of vice, she never thought they'd send her back, especially after making detective and finding a new home with the gangs unit. But now she's walking the streets in a pair of fishnets and a miniskirt. Detective Michael Riley's been sent on a deep cover assignment that he can't or won't tell her about. Not only is she worried about Riley's safety, but she's also worried about their relationship. 
  The setback's supposed to be temporary. So why is Riley meeting his ex in a trashy hotel? Lexie can't think about that now. The entire police department has been tasked with cracking down on crime, and the john she just arrested doesn't exist, at least not on paper. 
  The deeper she delves into his phony background, the more anxious the police brass become. This arrest is huge, and every department wants a piece of this guy. But he wants a piece of her.

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  Gone But Not For Garden

  Kate Collins

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  Athena Spencer works with her big Greek-American family (whom she also anonymously blogs about) at their garden center near Lake Michigan. She's also gained a reputation for crime-solving—and that's what brings flower-shop owner and fellow sleuth Abby Knight Salvare to her door . . . 
   
   
    
  Abby has come from Indiana to this Lake Michigan town to help her cousin, Jillian, who was emceeing a local fashion show and now stands accused of murdering one of the models. Some of Sequoia's most prominent citizens were there on the catwalk, so there's increasing pressure to have the next event be a perp walk. 
   
   
    
  The clueless Jillian is in jail after ignoring orders not to leave town, and she isn't happy—orange is not her color. Along with her handsome PI partner, Case, Athena starts making inquiries, while tiptoeing around the wives of the town's mayor and police chief. In the meantime, the two detectives are becoming fast friends. After all, in addition to homicide, Abby and Athena share an interest in horticulture—though right now the only thing they're growing is their list of suspects . . .

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  The Incredible Aliens - A...

  William Bender Jr.

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  The Incredible Aliens by William Bender Jr. - Narant's personal problem seemed of more importance than his mission as an interstellar investigator. But they combined when he met—The Incredible Aliens 
  It was only a tiny dot on the view screen when the military lookout on the armed cruiser identified it as an alien spaceship and sounded the general alert. Technicist Ninth Class Narant, chief psychanalyst aboard, studied its approach with a rebellious, almost passionate hope that the impossible was at last going to happen. 
  Or was it impossible? They were the first men to visit this planetary system. Why couldn't they expect to encounter a truly superior race for a change? 
  Intently, Narant examined the course of the alien craft. Rather mischievously he hoped the stranger would suddenly adopt evasion tactics showing it had detected their presence in the black void between the 6th and 7th planets of the Star Restus. That would certainly be a sign of superiority! And what a blow to Central Scientific Headquarters back home. The anti-detection shield was one of their proudest accomplishments. 
  And yet, though still wishful, Narant realized deep in his heart that such hopes were blighted. Illogical and improbable. No people in the Universe could even compare with them. Explorers and merchants and military ships and privateers had prowled all the great planetary systems of the galaxy. They and their technology reigned supreme everywhere. Indeed, the accumulated evidence of their supremacy even formed the irrefutable foundation of Central Scientific's dogma on selective breeding. 
  "I must ask you to leave the bridge now, doctor." The voice, crisp and authoritative, crackled over Narant's shoulder.

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  Unbroken - A Dark Mafia Single...

  Jane Henry

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  A dark single dad, forbidden, mafia romance from USA Today Bestselling author Jane Henry 
  Vadka Dragunov—Bratva executioner, cold-blooded strategist… and my dead sister’s husband. 
  The man who built his empire in blood and protected it with silence. The man with a stare that holds me hostage—and a voice that cuts straight through me. I've avoided him, and the way he makes me feel, as I've wallowed in my own grief following my sister's death. 
  But now there's no escape. I’m living in his world. I've been targeted. The Irish want war. And the only safe place left is under his watch… or under him. 
  He’s a single father now—haunted, vengeful, and dangerous. A man who reads bedtime stories with the same blood thirsty eyes that promise death and retribution. The man who would raze the world to keep his son safe. 
  He thinks I’m reckless, chaotic, unpredictable. I was only a child when we first met. But he doesn't see me as one anymore. 
  I see what he hides beneath all that control—the obsession simmering just below the surface. The way he watches me like he wants to equally destroy and devour me. 
  And now the same loss that tore us apart is now pulling us together. 
  I wasn’t supposed to end up in his bed. 
  But the Bratva is splintering. The Irish want blood. 
  And I’m spiraling - holding a secret that could end it all while falling for the man I can’t have. 
  Is there a future for Vadka and me, or will the secrets between us cause another tragedy?

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  The Grimoire's Heir

  Craig Walston

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  "Upon my death or madness, deliver this Grimoire to it's Heir." 
  When that note dropped out of the book and onto Huxley's lap he had no idea his life was about to change. He was holding no mere book but a Grimoire. A tome so secret and powerful most go their whole lives never even seeing one. They are written by Embers, powerful people who can bend the world around them with some form of magic no one understands but them. They are heroes to Huxley, and when he sees the opportunity to study one of their Grimoire's and unlock its secrets he takes it. What starts out as a dream quickly turns into something else as he is swept into an adventure that threatens his home, his life and his very sanity.C

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