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Too Much of a Good Thing by Kimberla Lawson Roby
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn the sequel to the enormously successful Casting the First Stone , Kimberla Lawson Roby brings back a character readers love to hate. Curtis Black might be a man of the cloth, but with his irresistible looks, seductive charm, and charismatic personality, he's particularly beloved by his female parishioners––and almost every other woman he's ever met. The trouble is, Curtis is married... -
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Starfire by AJ Sherwood, Katie Griffin
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLuca O’ Broín’s original wife checklist:. a loving marriagemother for his childrencapable of running a fortresssexually compatiblesomeone intelligentLuca’s REVISED non-negotiable husband checklist:. dependable friendcapable of running a fortresswilling to move to Bhodhsasomeone with brainsNoe Keller’s husband checklist:. LucaLuca’s UPDATED husband checklist:... -
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![Siren & Scion by J.D. Evans]()
Siren & Scion by J.D. Evans
She was beautiful the way the ocean was beautiful. In a new way every time one looked. She is water, bright and alluring, fathomless and profound. He is a bridge between peoples, artist and criminal, vengeful and compassionate. Amara Mutar has risen to the highest ranks of Tamar society by her wits and ambition... -
![Little Black Girl Lost 4: The Diary of Josephine Baptiste by Keith Lee Johnson]()
Little Black Girl Lost 4: The Diary of Josephine Baptiste by Keith Lee Johnson
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsRevealing the roots of Johnnie Wise's family tree, the author takes readers to Nigeria where a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl, preparing to marry a much older man, escapes with her young lover on the night before the arranged marriage is to take place on a Dutch slave ship bound for America where she becomes Josephine Baptiste.Categorized as:
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![Naamah's Kiss by Jacqueline Carey]()
Naamah's Kiss by Jacqueline Carey
Once there were great magicians born to the Maghuin Dhonn, the folk of the Brown Bear, the oldest tribe in Alba. But generations ago, the greatest of them all broke a sacred oath sworn in the name of all his people. Now only small gifts remain to them. Through her lineage, Moirin possesses such gifts - the ability to summon the twilight and conceal herself, and the skill to coax plants to grow... -
![Firstborn of the Sun by Marvellous Michael Anson]()
Firstborn of the Sun by Marvellous Michael Anson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA HEART-POUNDING YORUBA INSPIRED FANTASY NOVEL SET IN AN EPIC WORLD OF COURTLY INTRIGUE AND FORBIDDEN POWER . . . ‘Absolutely Radiant’ BEA FITZGERALD. ‘A Dazzling Debut’ ANDREA STEWART. ‘Enthralling and epic’ ANNA DAY. ‘Readers are going to LOVE THIS BOOK! ’ ANGELA MONTOYA. In Oru L'ore has a secret. She is the only one without agbára – the ability to harness power from the sun... -
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Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsIn his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters... -
![Zone of Action by A.J. Sherwood]()
Zone of Action by A.J. Sherwood
Ren’s homecoming wishlist includes:. •Arman not bashing everyone’s heads together (at least not without him). •Getting the fortress built before the Mongs attack (not at the rate they’re going with all the thefts happening). •Going home without incident (also, again, not likely). What it did not include was:. •Social reform. •A child. •A raiding party. •Arman actually using his words...Categorized as:
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![The Condemned by Irina Shapiro]()
The Condemned by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings2015. Dr. Quinn Allenby thinks she’s seen it all, but when the remains of a young woman and her newborn are discovered in a cave in Cornwall, the only clue to her death is a smooth-edged hole in the top of the skull and the indisputable evidence that the victim was still alive, and possibly in labor, when the coffin was sealed... -
![Saffron Alley by A.J. Demas]()
Saffron Alley by A.J. Demas
A month ago, eunuch sword-dancer and spy Varazda collided with ex-soldier Damiskos at a seaside villa during a dizzying week of intrigue, assassinations, and a fake love affair that—maybe—turned real. Now Varazda is back home in Boukos, at the center of a family and community he dearly loves, and Damiskos is coming to visit. Things aren’t going according to plan...Categorized as:
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![The Painted Crown by Megan Derr]()
The Painted Crown by Megan Derr
Prince Istari has spent his life reviled: his parents wish he had never been born, the royal court of Belemere avoids him for fear of angering the king, and everyone else is kept away by his notorious reputation as a deadly sharpshooter. Now a hostage of peace in Tallideth, he is subjected to their hatred as well—even that of Regent Vellem, who once considered him a comrade in arms... -
![Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola]()
Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola
"Perfection in short story form, I am in love with every single word Bolu Babalola has written. So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully. " --Candice Carty-Williams, international bestselling author of Queenie. A vibrant collection of love stories from a debut author, retelling myths, folktales, and histories from around the world... -
![The Wild Prince's Favorite by Jenny Fox]()
The Wild Prince's Favorite by Jenny Fox
She was destined to protect. He was born to destroy. Beaten and cast out by her own people, Alezya was left to die in the freezing mountains. Her crime? Protecting the child they never wanted. But fate had other plans. Instead of death, she is found by the Wild Prince of the Empire... -
![The Princess and The Warrior by Duncan Tonatiuh]()
The Princess and The Warrior by Duncan Tonatiuh
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsAward-winning creator Duncan Tonatiuh brings a cherished Mexican legend to life. A Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book and ALA/ALSC Notable Children's Book! Izta was the most beautiful princess in the land, and suitors traveled from far and wide to woo her. Even though she was the daughter of the emperor, Izta had no desire to marry a man of wealth and power...Categorized as:
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![The King's Seer by L.S. Bethel]()
The King's Seer by L.S. Bethel
Wake up. Check. Take shower. Check. Get car fixed. check. End up in an ancient feudal society where kings and warlords run the show. Wait. What? Serenity has no idea how she ended up in this place or how to get back home. She’s already made enemies of the most powerful men in the country and the threat of death is a very real concern...Categorized as:
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Bound by Elise Marion
She bound him in chains … he repaid her in kind … now she is bound to him, in more ways than one. Caden Maignart must choose a wife and sire a son—a burden weighing heavily upon him as the firstborn son of a high lord. Weighing even more heavily is the notion of impending war, which has become a near certainty thanks to the volatile feud brewing between two families entrenched in hate... -
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Chained by Elise Marion
House Toustain … House Maignart … two royal houses once embroiled in a bloody feud … Twenty years of peace now broken in an instant …. Sir Caden Maignart has been captured, beaten, locked in a dungeon, and wrongfully accused of kidnapping and oath-breaking... -
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The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsWith empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality---the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are. Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs’ weakness... -
![The Physician's Barbarian by Amy Padilla]()
The Physician's Barbarian by Amy Padilla
When my father schemed to marry my sister off to a decrepit old man to boost his standing, I swore I’d protect her. Together, we drove suitors away, but his fury only grew. To punish us, he rigged the barbarian lottery—and when Evelyn’s name was drawn, her fate was sealed. Unless I stopped it. There was only one way to spare her. I would take her place. I’d do anything for my family... -
![Red Blossom in Snow by Jeannie Lin]()
Red Blossom in Snow by Jeannie Lin
The next installment of the Lotus Palace mystery series. Magistrate Li Chen and celebrated courtesan Song Yi become entangled in a murder investigation when an outsider to the Pingkang li is found strangled in a pleasure house. As they search for the truth, the secrets they uncover turn out to be their own. Targeted release: March 21, 2022.Categorized as:
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Wicked Prince of Mirrors by Angela J. Ford
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsHe’s the kingdom's most dangerous prisoner. She just accidentally helped him escape. When forbidden magic awakens within Princess Esmira, she knows she must flee—or be executed. Hoping to escape through the palace’s hidden tunnels, she instead discovers a chamber of ancient mirrors. Mist coils. Magic stirs. One touch shatters the glass—and frees Prince Methrin, the Wicked Prince of Mirrors...Categorized as:
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![The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.]()
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsA novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. Isaiah was Samuel’s and Samuel was Isaiah’s. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end... -
![Knight's Bride by Juliette Caruso]()
Knight's Bride by Juliette Caruso
Lady Rachiele, 18, has spent the last eight years dreaming of a life at court with a loving husband. Then her parents sell her hand in marriage to a stranger. Sir Telon of Yovren is handsome enough, and seems charming at first. But when Rachiele learns he’s a drunkard and in love with someone else, she grows determined to escape and chart her own destiny... -
![Thornbound by Stephanie Burgis]()
Thornbound by Stephanie Burgis
Cassandra Harwood scandalized her nation when she became the first woman magician in Angland. Now, she's ready to teach a whole new generation of bright young women at her radical new school, the Thornfell College of Magic…... -
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![Clockwork Pirate by Lyn Gala]()
Clockwork Pirate by Lyn Gala
Alex hid his unnatural attraction to men for many years. That changes when the pirate Beche takes Alex after capturing his ship. At first Alex believes his fate is death and the only question a matter of how he might die. However, the longer he is on the ship, the more he realizes that Beche hates the world because it is unfair in ways Alex never understood... -
![Awaken by Minerva Kayden, Mythical Lake Design]()
Awaken by Minerva Kayden, Mythical Lake Design
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsApparently, I'm the granddaughter of the all-powerful Sea Witch of Nyxleia. Too bad dear old granny isn't telling me what that means exactly, in terms of magic or powers. No, she keeps telling me to figure that crap out on my own and fulfill my destiny. Such love... -
![The House of the Red Balconies by A.J. Demas]()
The House of the Red Balconies by A.J. Demas
Hylas has come to Tykanos to build an aqueduct. He has not come to enjoy the island’s main attraction: the six houses where the companions of Tykanos, courtesans both female and male, offer tea and elegant conversation. Yet he cannot ignore them as he finds himself renting a room in one of the tea houses and meeting his neighbour, the beautiful, chronically ill companion Zo...Categorized as:
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![The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson]()
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
A landmark work by a brilliant young author, THE SALT ROADS transports readers across centuries and civilizations as it fearlessly explores the relationships women have with their lovers, their people, and the divine. Jeanne Duval, the ginger-colored entertainer, struggles with her lover poet Charles Baudelaire. .. Mer, plantation slave and doctor, both hungers for and dreads liberation. . -
![The Last Empress by Anchee Min]()
The Last Empress by Anchee Min
The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China’s history marked by humiliating foreign incursions and domestic rebellion, ultimately ending in the demise of the Ch’ing dynasty... -
![The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron]()
The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the course of history. In the tumultuous town of Yáquimo, Santo Domingo, Jacquotte Delahaye is an unknown but up-and-coming shipwright... -
![Windward Heights: A Novel by Maryse Condé]()
Windward Heights: A Novel by Maryse Condé
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet in the late 18th and early 19th centuries on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, Maryse Condé's Windward Heights is a retelling of the Emily Brontë classic Wuthering Heights. The title of the novel alone might tell you that something formulaic is afoot--and the book does for the most part mirror the wretched and doomed story of Heathcliff and Cathy. But Condé's plan is actually ingenious... -
![Windward Heights by Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox]()
Windward Heights by Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet in the late 18th and early 19th centuries on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, Maryse Condé's Windward Heights is a retelling of the Emily Brontë classic Wuthering Heights. The title of the novel alone might tell you that something formulaic is afoot--and the book does for the most part mirror the wretched and doomed story of Heathcliff and Cathy. But Condé's plan is actually ingenious... -
![Windward Heights by Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox]()
Windward Heights by Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet in the late 18th and early 19th centuries on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, Maryse Condé's Windward Heights is a retelling of the Emily Brontë classic Wuthering Heights. The title of the novel alone might tell you that something formulaic is afoot--and the book does for the most part mirror the wretched and doomed story of Heathcliff and Cathy. But Condé's plan is actually ingenious... -
![A Singular Hostage by Thalassa Ali]()
A Singular Hostage by Thalassa Ali
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a land of exotic splendor, a young Englishwoman finds herself guardian of an orphan child believed by a dying maharajah to be endowed with magical gifts. It is a role that will take her on a perilous journey into a kingdom’s walled city to protect a child she doesn’t know from a culture she doesn’t understand. .. A Singular Hostage. The year is 1838... -
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![Spellswept by Stephanie Burgis]()
Spellswept by Stephanie Burgis
"A niftily done short romance in a satisfyingly gender-role-reversed world. ". – K. J. Charles, author of Spectred Isle. In the world of the Harwood Spellbook, 19th-century Angland is ruled by a powerful group of women known as the Boudiccate - but in order to become a member of that elite group, any ambitious young politician must satisfy tradition by taking a gentleman mage for her husband... -
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Something Real by J.J. Murray
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThanks to her black mother and her Irish father, Ruth "Penny" Borum is the color of a new penny. Big-boned and notoriously sassy, Ruth is nonetheless the organist and a member in good standing of Antioch, Virginia's most prominent black church--or at least she was until she dragged the popular Reverend Jonas Borum into an ugly divorce... -
![The Witch and the Monster by Chelsea Starling]()
The Witch and the Monster by Chelsea Starling
When a monster begins slaughtering the village of Wittsturm, a maiden is selected as a sacrifice to be sent into Glotterwal Forest to appease the beast. After taking her cousin's place as the sacrificial lamb, Cora Tahar journeys through the ancient wood then takes refuge in a witch's cabin. The monster is not at all what she was expecting. This book is perfect for fans of monster romances... -
![The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich]()
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her future but seems to resolve his. Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. He’s determined to steal her and is eager to be a home wrecker... -
![Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis]()
Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis
In nineteenth-century Angland, magic is reserved for gentlemen while ladies attend to the more practical business of politics. But Cassandra Harwood has never followed the rules. .. Four months ago, Cassandra Harwood was the first woman magician in Angland, and she was betrothed to the brilliant, intense love of her life...Categorized as:
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![Unladylike Lessons in Love by Amita Murray]()
Unladylike Lessons in Love by Amita Murray
Rated: 3.45 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAmita Murray takes us on a journey from the pleasure gardens of society to the dangerous streets of 19. th. century London, in this spectacular romantic debut by an unforgettable new voice. “Women mind their reputation if they want to marry. I don’t want to marry. ”...Categorized as:
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