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Omar Tyree, the New York Time’s bestselling author, 2001 NAACP Image
Award recipient for Outstanding Literature in Fiction, and 2006 Phillis
Wheatley Literary Award winner for Body of Work in Urban Fiction, has
published sixteen novels, five anthologies, and one children’s book. He
launched his new brand of "CinemaStories" of visual mastery in 2007,
with The Last Street Novel, to jump start an expanded career as a
filmmaker. With Pecking Order, Tyree continues in his books to film
transition, while solidifying himself once again as the "Godfather of
contemporary urban literature."
 The Equation
Click to order via Amazon Hardcover: 240 pages More than just another business self-help book, The Equation is a groundbreaking formula that looks at how all business is an art. The book will help business people rethink how they manage their art form and help businesses accelerate their productivity by creating a corporate culture driven by passion and zeal, as art is. The book will help entrepreneurs rethink how they manage their art form and help businesses accelerate their productivity by transforming corporate culture to be driven by passion and zeal, as art is. The Equation (L/A*S=B) reveals a foolproof blueprint for business and life. Readers will learn that, first you have to love what you do (L) and become a highly-skilled artist at it (A), while developing promotional and marketing tools to gather public and professional support (S), which ultimately leads to big business (B).
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Pecking Order: A Novel
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Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (July 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416541934
Omar Tyree continues to write thought-provoking novels with unrivaled skill and passion that uncover a wealth of subjects and introduce us to a host of captivating new characters. This time the subject is money, who has it, who does not, and how it effects the citizens of the beautiful Southern California city known as San Diego. The character is Ivan David, a mild-mannered accountant who finds himself running out of patience for his modest employment amongst the rich, famous and frivolous clients he works for.
Starting with a simple plan to promote business network parties, Ivan begins to make a small name for himself with the locals. Once his name begins to travel to optimistic ears, he comes face to face with Lucina Gallo, the reigning diva of San Diego club culture. She needs a new business partner who she can trust, and one who knows everything about money.
Perfect timing! Her experienced conversations about making big bucks was just what the hungry accountant had ordered. Who wouldn’t want to become partners with the most glamorous girl in the city? So with all ears, all eyes, and all emotions, Ivan quickly teams up with her for business, and for possible pleasure. However, for Lucina, business is business and nothing extra. Or is it?
After throwing a sizzling hot birthday party for a popular San Diego Charger, Ivan finds himself babysitting Lucina’s so-called girlfriends, who are some of most spoiled and exotic women he has ever laid eyes on. That’s when the business deals begin to fall outside the bounds of simple party promotions. And the man with the simple plan finds himself at the doorstep of all accessibility; women, cars, yachts, private jet planes, and multi million dollar real estate. But as the ridiculous amounts of money and power begin to pile on, leaving a trail of broken dreams, hearts and bank accounts, Ivan is forced to ask himself, How much money and carnage is enough?
Pecking Order, another urban classic novel as only Tyree can write them!
The
Last Street Novel
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Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (July 3, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416541845
The Last Street Novel Omar Tyree does it again! The Philadelphian-born author who jumpstarted the urban fiction craze over a dozen years ago with Flyy Girl, writes a riveting new tale of Shareef Crawford, a celebrated writer of romantic fiction, who returns to his roots of Harlem, New York, from the sunny mansion resides of South Florida, to pen a true crime book that may just end his life. Craving more respect for his craft as a writer, particularly from his peer group of urban men, Shareef allows an enticing new fan to pitch him on writing a no-holds-barred, tell-all about an imprisoned Harlem gangster, who has admired his writing from jail. With insane courage and an iron will, Shareef, the street-smart intellectual finally gets a chance to write something more edgy and purposeful to better highlight his skills.
However, the Harlem streets that he returns to in year 2006 has changed, and the stakes of survival are higher now than they've ever been. Amongst the rise of high-priced condominiums, a changing population, young criminals gunning to make names for themselves, and old criminals fighting to become legitimate businessmen, Shareef finds himself caught in the middle of a real-life thriller, where past foes become friends, and trusted friends become dangerous foes. Nevertheless, the Harlem legend is hell bent to do anything he feels he must to gain the respect on the streets that his career as a novelist has failed to give him.
What They
Want
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ISBN: 0743228693
Format: Hardcover, 256pp
Pub. Date: July 2006
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Fourteen novels and counting, New York Times bestselling author Omar Tyree returns with What They Want, adding another sexy, scorching novel to his growing list of urban literature.
Successful male model Terrance Mitchell had no plans at all to ever settle down. For what? Being single was freedom, where relationships were binding. Nor did he have any plans for a family, with snotty-nosed kids running around, cramping his style, and eating for free. To hell with all that.
Terrance loved his life as is. He was a well-traveled, good-looking male model in an industry full of insatiable and insecure beautiful women. Women who adored him and were willing to do almost anything to prove it. He liked it that way. And he had become accustomed to it.
Then it happened. One of his beautiful women fell over the cuckoo's nest and shattered his peace of mind. From then on, Terrance could never again lead the blind mice with his flute without feeling guilty about it. He realized that women had a purpose for him. That they had dreams and aspirations that included his participation. Of course, a man in his position, constantly surrounded by beautiful women, would know this already. But just because he knew what women wanted didn't mean he was capable of or willing to give it to them. Nevertheless, Terrance suddenly felt inspired to try.
From an award-winning novelist and storyteller, What They Want is Omar Tyree's most provocative and seductive novel to date.
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Boss Lady
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ISBN: 0743228685
Format: Hardcover, 336pp
Pub. Date: July 2005
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
When we first met Tracy Ellison in Omar Tyree's breakthrough novel Flyy Girl, she was still a fun-loving 'round-the-way girl coming up on the streets of Philly. Stardom beckoned for Tracy in For the Love of Money, which chronicled her struggles with the pressures of power and celebrity. Now, Tyree checks in on everybody's favorite flyy girl and finds her a little bit older, a whole lot wiser, and just as sassy as ever. Tracy takes on the dazzling world of Hollywood's A-list players to film a project close to her heart in Omar Tyree's latest and most entertaining novel to date -- Boss Lady.
Told from the point of view of Tracy's cousin and personal assistant, Vanessa, Boss Lady chronicles the trials and tribulations of adapting the story of Tracy Ellison's life. In this novel, Flyy Girl is becoming a major motion picture and Tracy is prepared to do anything and everything to tell her story and to make sure it's done right. Stepping in and taking charge of it all, from screenwriting and directing to executive producing and designing, Tracy quickly finds herself more than a little overextended. In the meantime, she's also juggling the highs and lows of her famously turbulent love life. Is it better to remain single and committed to her career? Or is she ready to take the plunge and embrace the married-with-children life?
Dark Thirst: An
Anthology
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Including Omar Tyree, Angela C. Allen, Monica Jackson, Linda Addison and Donna Hill, Kevin S. Brockenbrough
ISBN: 0743496663
Format: Paperback, 304pp
Pub. Date: October 2004
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Writing as The Urban Griot, Omar Tyree sizzles the senses with "Human Heat", the erotic memoir of a darkly handsome Creole in antebellum New Orleans. In Donna Hill's "The Touch", a hypnotically beautiful vampire has the power to seduce any man with a glance, yet yearns for more. One woman's quest for the perfect body has hilarious results in Monica Jackson's "The Perfect Diet", while Linda Addison's "Whispers Between Still Moments" pits a fierce vampire against a powerful vampire hunter determined to end her life. Whether seductive or scary, hilarious or haunting, each story is a groundbreaking collection of all-original vampire stories penned by Black American writers. The perfect read for anyone who wonders what it is that goes bump in the night.
Diary
of a Groupie
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ISBN: 0743228677
Format: Hardcover, 241pp
Pub. Date: June 2003
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Tabitha Knight lives a very peculiar life. A child of foster care who has grown into an attractive and ambitious adult, she now finds solace, excitement, and security in the company of rich and famous men whom she dates as a discreet and charming groupie.
Everyone wants to be loved. Tabitha understands that. She shares her gifts with
those who seek and, perhaps, need love the most, male celebrities. She remains
anonymous by changing her name, age, and address as often as she changes the men
she dates.
Only a few things remain constant in her life: the continued love and support of
her foster sisters in Seattle and the record she keeps of her life in her secret
diary.
When a wealthy banker offers Tabitha a huge paycheck to help bring to justice a
high-profile celebrity who is known to have sex with underage women, Tabitha
finds herself on the wrong side of desperate men, some of whom have more to lose
than just their privacy. Those who want the information in her diary to stay
secret threaten Tabitha, her sisters, and anyone who comes to know its contents.
Omar Tyree, the New York Times bestselling author, is back with a suspenseful
thriller of what happens when a young woman threatens the famous and powerful.
Just
Say No!
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Format: Hardcover, 496pp.
ISBN: 0684872935
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Pub. Date: August 2001
From the
Publisher
Darin Harmon and John Williams, two good church boys from Charlotte, North
Carolina, have been best friends since they were toddlers. Both use their
God-given talents to breeze through high school, and both are awarded
scholarships to North Carolina A&T State University: Darin for football, and
John for music.
During their sophomore year, John, the introverted momma's boy, showcases his musical genius in a homecoming talent show that changes both their lives forever. John's romantic crooning earns him the nickname "Loverboy." As his R&B career begins, he asks Darin to tag along as his manager. Darin wants no part in the music scene and has big dreams of his own, but when he suffers a season-ending football injury, he finally agrees to hop on the "Loverboy" bandwagon. The two set out to turn John into an R&B superstar. For Darin, dealing with John's rising fame and fortune proves a difficult challenge. The more the two adapt to the dangerous celebrity lifestyle of big-time money, fast women, and recreational drugs, the harder it gets for both of them to "just say no!"
With its page-turning narrative and irresistible characters, Just Say No! is destined to become another urban-American classic from Omar Tyree.
Sweet
St. Louis
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Format: Paperback, 368pp.
ISBN: 0684856115
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Pub. Date: August 2000
Edition Desc: 1 SCRIBNER
From the Publisher
A sultry-sweet novel with a contemporary edge by an up-and-coming
African-American writer. When a young auto mechanic with a creative approach to
the mating game tries out his latest pick-up line on Sharron Francis, he turns
her life upside down.
For
the Love of Money
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Format: Hardcover, 408pp.
ISBN: 0684872919
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Pub. Date: August 2000
From the Publisher
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"Those who create for the love of art are
consistently getting better. But those who
create for the love of money, those guys
are forever getting worse."
From hard-knocks Philly all the way to glamorous Hollywood, Tracy Ellison has truly walked the walk. Now twenty-eight years old and a major movie star, Omar Tyree's uncompromising Flyy Girl is returning to her East Coast roots. As Tracy drops in to reconnect with friends, she seems on the brink of a happily-ever-after existence, armed as she is with over-the-top beauty, unstoppable attitude, and new mountains of cash. But is attaining success and happiness really as simple as Tracy makes it look? As she begins to address the uncertainties of her youth, Tracy's homecoming stirs up a string of difficult questions about past loves, ambivalent family ties, and her artistic ambitions.
Crackling with honesty and passion, For the Love of Money is a triumphant continuation of the adventures of one of contemporary fiction's most outrageous young heroines.
Single Mom
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Format: Hardcover, 384pp.
Publisher: Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Pub. Date: September 1998
Synopsis from the publisher:
"I had become something else, some different kind of woman, and a different kind of human. What kind of a woman could not cry? I even tried to force myself to cry again, and could not do it. I shed not one tear." |
After more than ten years of raising her two sons alone, Denise Stewart finds herself again involved with both of her sons' fathers as well as in a relationship with a new man.
Jimmie, the father of her older child, suddenly wants a major role in his son's life. After being an absent father for thirteen years, he discovers his teenager is a top basketball prospect. That's when Jimmie decides to make some time to spend with his son.
Walter, the father of Denise's second son, is trying to gain custody of his twelve-year-old. After attending the Million Man March in Washington, Walter believes he should assume full responsibility for his son instead of just for two weekends out of each month.
And truck driver Dennis is failing in love with Denise, and is fond of her boys. Although he is uncertain whether he wants the burden of a ready-made family, he also feels insecure in an intimate relationship with a white-collar woman who earns more than he does.
All this as Denise runs her own thriving business, co-chairs a single mothers' organization with her best friend Camellia, and struggles to keep faith in her family. Suddenly, for this single mom, success takes on an all-new meaning in her increasingly complex life.
Omar Tyree offers a provocative look at the emotional lives of three black men as they grapple with their roles and changing views as fathers and lovers. And, at the center of this compelling novel, Tyree creates a single mother of striking character and independence.
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Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: September 1996
From Library Journal:
The dialog in this coming-of-age African American story by Tyree, who self-published two
books before getting his big break, is some of the best this reviewer has read in a long
time. Tyree has a way making each phrase of every conversation true to life, whether
spoken by a child or an adult. The story begins at Tracy Ellison's sixth birthday party.
We follow her through her parent's shaky marriage to grade school and high school.
Although the story does not venture much beyond Tracey's boy-chasing escapades and an
occasional side plot about her next-door-neighbor, Raheema, the book is an entertaining
diversion. Tyree writes so well that readers will put up with Tracey, who is selfish and
often unkind. The author captures growing up in the Eighties with a subtle and finely
rendered backdrop of songs and mischief reminiscent of the era. This should be enough to
keep folks reading to the mildly rushed ending while hoping that the nasty little
"flyy girl," Tracy, learns a few lessons along the way. Recommended for large
collections.Shirley Gibson Coleman, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., Mich. -Library
Journal
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: November 1997
From Kirkus:
Tyree (Flyy Girl, 1996) returns, this time, fortunately, focusing less on Afrocentric
theorizing and more on character- -resulting in a good deal more engaging read. The
first-person story centers on Bobby Dallas (the ``do right man''), who, despite the weight
he's obliged to shoulder as a prototypical Good Black Man, manages to come off as likable,
complex, and utterly confused. Bobby has always wanted to be ``in'' radio. And so at
Howard University he interns at a couple of stations and makes contacts that ought to be
useful in the future. Just before graduation, though, the campus babe and slick New Yorker
Pearl Davis takes a shine to Bobby, leading him to throw over best friend Faye Butler,
who's been expressing romantic interest in him for years, and follow Pearl to Manhattan,
where the talk-radio scene is as cut-throat as the city streets. Sure enough, once Pearl's
modeling career takes off, she dumps him fast, and Bobby moves back to Washington to make
a real run for his dream job. But while he hooks up there with lots of smart and beautiful
women, he finds he can't stop thinking about Faye. After finding professional success,
with women of all kinds banging down his door, Bobby is all the more convinced that Faye,
his soulmate, was the one he let get away. It will take a coincidence and an act of
bravery to gather all the ragged threads of Bobby's life together into a cohesive strand.
Tyree in a new, more subtle mode. -Kirkus
Capital City
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Publisher: United Brothers & Sisters Communications Systems
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: July 1997
Proverbs For The
People: Contemporary African-American Stories
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Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Kensington (July 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0758202873
Forward by Jewell Parker Rhodes, Edited by Tracey Price Thompson and TeRessa Stoval with Pearl Cleage, Donna Hill, Parry "Ebony Satin" Brown, Omar Tyree and others
If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing."
"Don't start none, won't be none." "If you don't stand for something
you'll fall for anything." Whether it was in the church on a hard-shined
wooden pew, or around the kitchen table after, listening to the wisdom
of mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles, grandparents, friends, and
leaders, the messages of the proverbs resonate in the souls of most
African-Americans—a sweet refrain heard through striving, reaching,
loving, and living. In this powerful collection of stories based on
African, African-American, and Biblical proverbs, some of today's most
exciting new African-American writers tackle the unifying themes,
delicious wit and undeniable wisdom of the proverbs, making them sing
for a whole new generation.
In the moving "Love Can Move Mountains," author Elizabeth Atkins Bowman
explores the meaning of the African-American saying, "Mountain, get out
of my way!" in a story about the miraculous, mysterious power of a
mother's stand-firm love. In Arethia Hornsby's "My Momma Said…," two
friends go out on the town and get schooled in a life lesson that proves
the truth behind the ages-old African-American proverb, "Never judge a
book by its cover." Town gossip gets the best of a loyal wife and gives
credence to C.F. Pope's saying, "Never declare war unless you mean to do
battle," in Gwynne
Forster's wry tale of comeuppance, "First Thing Monday Morning." And
in the flirty short story, "Something Special," Venise Berry shows what
the Cape Verde Islands maxim, "Every week has its Friday" really means
as one woman's weekly ritual promises seven days' worth of sensual
satisfaction.
In addition to such established writers as Pearl Cleage, Omar Tyree,
Margaret Johnson-Hodge, Timmothy McCann,
Brandon
Massey, Kambon Obayani, Earl Sewell, Maxine Thompson, and others,
here, too, are rising stars in the African-American literary world,
including fourteen-year-old Kharel Price and fifteen-year-old Tierra
French, proving that the wisdom of the past lives on in the next
generation.
From the struggle to break the chains of the past, (Pat
G'Orge-Walker's "The Consequence") to the fight to keep hope alive
in the face of injustice, (Robert
Fleming's "A Crisis of Faith"), from the joys of loving an older
woman (Parry "Ebony Satin" Brown's "Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do"),
to an African man's discovery of his own America (Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie's "Women Here Drive Buses"), this triumphant, stirring
anthology is a glorious reminder of the power of proverbs to heal, to
provoke, to unify, and to inspire.
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