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SPOTLIGHT ON........Adult Fiction |
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Celebrate Black History Month with these recommended titles by, for and about African Americans.
All of these library materials are owned by the Metropolitan Library System. Log on to CyberMars with your library card to reserve any titles that interest you, or ask a librarian for assistance.
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Best-Kept Secret
Roby, Kimberla Lawson (Morrow, c2005)
Shelf Number: FICTION/ROB
In this third novel about Curtis Black, he possesses a renewed commitment to behave after landing a new job and wife. Unfortunately, he soon finds himself tempted to fall into his old pattern of seducing women, but wonders if he has met his match in his third wife. |
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Blood on the Forge
Attaway, William(New York Review of Books, c2005)
Shelf Number: FICTION/ATT
n a new reprint of this novel of the harsh realities of industrialization, three African-American brothers leave their home in the Kentucky hills to work in the steel mills of Pittsburgh prior to World War I. |
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Fledgling
Butler , Octavia. (Seven Stories, c2005)
Shelf Number: FICTION/BUT
Nebula Award winning author introduces us to a supposed young girl, suffering from amnesia, who later finds out she is a 53-year-old vampire. |
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Interruption of Everything
McMillan, Terry (Viking, c2005)
Shelf Number: FICTION/MCM
Setting aside her dreams in her responsibilities as a wife and mother, as well as caretaker for her live-in mother-in-law, Marilyn Grimes struggles with being overworked and unsatisfied before realizing how to meet her own needs. |
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Mr. Right Now
Jackson, Monica (Dafina/Kensington, c2005)
Shelf Number: FICTION/JAC
As they near 30, three friends start husband hunting. That doesn't keep them from finding thrills and crazy attractions. |
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No More Playas
Jackson, Brenda (Griffin/St. Martin's, c2005)
Shelf Number: FICTION/JAC
This novel features two playboys who reform their ways when they meet two special women who turn their heads and lead them to the altar. |
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