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The Courage To Hope: How I Stood Up To The Politics Of Fear
The Courage To Hope: How I Stood Up To The Politics Of Fear Shirley Sherrod 9781451650945 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the summer of 2010, Shirley Sherrod was catapulted into a med...
The Courage To Hope
The Courage To Hope Shirley Sherrod 9781451651010 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Sherrod was a lifelong activist who served as Georgia’s first black director of rural development. In th...
Always Want More
Always Want More Banke Awopetu-McCullough 9781634130974 Fiction Mill City Press, Inc. Mill City Press, Inc. Tracy Mitchell’s rise in the hip-hop journalism world was swift and fierce. Having secure...
Keep Calm… It’s Just Real Estate: Your No-Stress Guide to Buying a Home
Keep Calm… It’s Just Real Estate: Your No-Stress Guide to Buying a Home Egypt Sherrod 9780762457557 Nonfiction Running Press Hachette Book Group Egypt Sherrod knows how to take nervous prospective hom...
The Imperfect Marriage: Help For Those Who Think It’s Over
The Imperfect Marriage: Help For Those Who Think It’s Over Tracy Strawberry and Darryl Strawberry 9781476738741 Nonfiction Howard Books Howard Books A marriage guidebook for the not-so-perfect marriag...
This Is My America
This Is My America Kim Johnson 9780593118764 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Incredible and searing. —Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin T...
Ordinary Light: A Memoir
Ordinary Light: A Memoir Tracy K. Smith 9780307962669 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House National Book Award Finalist From the dazzlingly original Pulitzer Prize-winning poet hailed for her “extrao...
Boss Lady: A Novel
Boss Lady: A Novel Omar Tyree 9780743228725 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Tracy Ellison, the star of Omar Tyree’s Flyy Girl and For the Love of Money, returns in this bestselling nov...
For the Love of Money : A Novel
For the Love of Money : A Novel Omar Tyree 9780684872926 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Tracy Ellison, the sizzling heroine of the bestselling Flyy Girl, returns in this razor-sharp s...
My Blue Suede Shoes: Four Novellas
My Blue Suede Shoes: Four Novellas Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper 9781416542087 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful collection of ...
1-900-A-N-Y-T-I-M-E: A Novel
1-900-A-N-Y-T-I-M-E: A Novel Tracy Price-Thompson 9781416533054 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the award-winning, nationally bestselling African-American author Tracy Price-Thompson, ...
Other People’s Skin: Four Novellas
Other People’s Skin: Four Novellas Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper 9781416542070 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In Other People’s Skin, T...
The Forest: Poems
The Forest: Poems Tracy K. Smith 9781644454312 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A visionary new collection by former poet laureate of the United States and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Tracy K. Sm...
Wade in the Water: Poems (paperback)
Wade in the Water: Poems (paperback) Tracy K. Smith 9781555978365 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection The ...
Wade in the Water: Poems
Wade in the Water: Poems Tracy K. Smith 9781555978136 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United StatesEven the men...
Life On Mars: Poems
Life On Mars: Poems Tracy K. Smith 9781555975845 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominated Book Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize* A New York Times Notable ...
Knockin’ Boots: A Novel
Knockin’ Boots: A Novel Tracy Price-Thompson 9780345477231 Fiction One World Penguin Random House Bestselling author Tracy Price-Thompson returns with another steamy novel, packed with wife swapping, ...
Secret Place
Secret Place Leslie J. Sherrod 9781601628947 Fiction Urban Christian Kensington Publishing Corp. When desperation leads to homicide, can healing, freedom - and faith - be found? A Sunday school teach...
Amistad: A Novel Based on the Screenplay
Amistad: A Novel Based on the Screenplay Alexs D. Pate 9780451195166 Fiction Signet Penguin Random House Based on the true story of the 1839 mutiny on board the Spanish slave ship, Amistad, here is th...
I Stand Accused
I Stand Accused Monica Anderson 9780978637811 Fiction TyMAC Books TyMAC Books Deep in the heart of Jefferson, Texas lies the secret to the mysterious nightmares tormenting James Adams, a handsome, suc...
Oathbound
Oathbound Tracy Deonn 9781665951906 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Tracy Deonn’s #1 New York Times bestselling Legendborn Cycle continues in the sensational th...
Such Color: New and Selected Poems
Such Color: New and Selected Poems Tracy K. Smith 9781644450673 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Celebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith ...
Legendborn
Legendborn Tracy Deonn 9781534441606 Fiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy Legendb...
Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People): The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People): The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World Tracy Kidder and Michael French 9780385743181 Nonfiction Delacorte Books for Young ...
Gather Together in My Name
Gather Together in My Name Tracy Price-Thompson 9781416533047 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the nationally bestselling and Hurston/Wright award-winning author Tracy Price-Thompson co...
Duende: Poems
Duende: Poems Tracy K. Smith 9781555974756 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Winner 2008 Essence Literary Award for Poetry (AALBC.com was on the selection committee) Every poem is the s...
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Tracy Brown 9781250834959 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to get what she wan...
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul Tracy K. Smith 9780593534762 Nonfiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that...
Hold You Down
Hold You Down Tracy Brown 9781250834935 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Hold You Down is an edgy novel from rising star Tracy Brown about the perils of love and the ties that bind. ...
Single Black Female
Single Black Female Tracy Brown 9781250043016 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Tracy Brown’s Single Black Female is a taut, edgy, deftly spun novel about four friends grappling with t...
The Sacrifice of Darkness
The Sacrifice of Darkness Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver, and Rebecca Kirby 9781684156245 Fiction Archaia BOOM! Studios Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver, and Rebecca Kirby adapt Gay’s New York Times bes...
Twisted
Twisted Tracy Brown 9781250750716 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Tracy Brown is the Essence bestselling author of Aftermath, Snapped, Twisted, White Lines and Criminal Minded. Writi...
Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin
Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin 9780812987096 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House Trayvon Martin’s parents take readers beyond the news cycl...
Boss
Boss Tracy Brown 9781250043009 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Empire meets Scandal meets Romeo and Juliet with an edgy twist in Boss, a new standalone novel from bestselling author ...
Melting the Blues
Melting the Blues Tracy Chiles McGhee 9780997135442 Fiction Gold Fern Press Gold Fern Press Winner of the 2016 Fauset Book Award in the Category of First Fiction Set in Arkansas in 1957, the comple...
White Lines III: All Falls Down: A Novel
White Lines III: All Falls Down: A Novel Tracy Brown 9781250042996 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The ultimate love story forged on the gritty streets of New York began with White L...
Killing Me Softly
Killing Me Softly Bianca Sloane 9781503275041 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A shocking murder. A web of deceit. A twist even Hitchcock wouldn’t see coming.It starts with a phone call - ...
White Lines II: Sunny
White Lines II: Sunny Tracy Brown 9780312555238 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers In her most stunning, riveting, unstoppable novel yet, bestselling and critically acclaimed author Tra...
Flirt
Flirt Tracy Brown, K’wan and Angel Mitchell 9780312537012 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers From the biggest names in urban fiction comes a collection of unforgettably hot short storie...
White Lines
White Lines Tracy Brown 9780312336486 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Essence bestselling author Tracy Brown presents a scorching new urban tale about falling in love and one girl’s ...
A Woman’s Worth: A Novel
A Woman’s Worth: A Novel Tracy Price-Thompson 9780375757785 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Embracing the shattered pieces of the soul and championing the resilient nature of the hea...
A Woman’s Worth: A Novel (Strivers Row)
A Woman’s Worth: A Novel (Strivers Row) Tracy Price-Thompson 9780375506505 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Embracing the shattered pieces of the soul and championing the resilient na...
The Body’s Question: Poems
The Body’s Question: Poems Tracy K. Smith 9781555973919 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press The Body’s Question debuts Tracy K. Smith’s ambitious and engaging new voiceYou are pure appetite. I am pur...
Chocolate Sangria: A Novel (Strivers Row)
Chocolate Sangria: A Novel (Strivers Row) Tracy Price-Thompson 9780375506512 Fiction Villard Villard Riding the waves of her national bestseller, Black Coffee, Tracy Price-Thompson keeps the rhythm ro...
We Want Our Bodies Back
We Want Our Bodies Back jessica Care moore 9780062955289 Poetry Amistad HarperCollins “We Want Our Bodies Back is a lyric encyclopedia, a psalm book, a conflagration of fire and fierce black joy. And ...
Ardency: A Chronicle Of The Amistad Rebels
Ardency: A Chronicle Of The Amistad Rebels Kevin Young 9780375711619 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, l...
Amistad: The Story of a Slave Ship
Amistad: The Story of a Slave Ship Patricia C. Mckissack 9780448439006 Nonfiction Penguin Young Readers Group Penguin Random House In Spanish, Amistad means friendship. It was also the name of a slave...
Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key
Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key Tracy Occomy Crowder 9781643795171 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books New Visions Award Winner, Tu Books It’s 2008, and ten-year-old Montgomery "Monty" Carve...
Starshine & Clay
Starshine & Clay Kamilah Aisha Moon 9781935536956 Poetry Four Way Books Four Way Books There are strong social justice themes related to the body throughout the book, and personas attempting to recove...
Bloodmarked
Bloodmarked Tracy Deonn 9781534441637 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! The shadows have risen, and the line is law. ...
Legendborn (Reprint)
Legendborn (Reprint) Tracy Deonn 9781534441613 Fiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Wounded
Wounded Nick Mann 9781681813028 Fiction Strategic Book Publishing Strategic Book Publishing Three lifelong friends — Ben, Levi, and Tracy — take very different paths after high school, but all have br...
Imitation of Wife
Imitation of Wife La Jill Hunt 9781601629289 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Dealing with the aftermath of her husband’s affair has not been easy for Sylvia Blackwell. When she vowed t...
There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis
There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman 9780593314692 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House This kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time ...
The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing Tracy Snipe with Sarah Collins Rudolph 9781569025413 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press O...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring& /& Summer 2015): Memory and Myth
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring& /& Summer 2015): Memory and Myth Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v7 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2015 “Memory and Myt...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2012): Reconstructing the Master Narrative
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2012): Reconstructing the Master Narrative Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v3 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 20...
Aftermath: A Snapped Novel
Aftermath: A Snapped Novel Tracy Brown 9780312555221 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers When Misa Atkinson confesses to the murder of Steven Bingham, her sister’s brother-in-law, for doin...
Snapped
Snapped Tracy Brown 9780312555214 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers As the pampered wife of Frankie Bingham, Camille wants for nothing. After all, Frankie and their life together are her...
Indecent Exposure (Sepia)
Indecent Exposure (Sepia) Victor McGlothin, Tracy Price-Thompson, and Carmen Green 9781583147092 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press Romance Novel.
Criminal Minded
Criminal Minded Tracy Brown 9780312336462 Fiction St. Martin’s Press-3PL Macmillan Publishers Lamin Michaels learned at his mother’s knee the importance of chasing paper, so it’s no surprise he gets i...
Proverbs For The People: Contemporary African-American Stories
Proverbs For The People: Contemporary African-American Stories Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Pearl Cleage, Donna Hill, Parry Brown, Omar Tyree 9780758202871 Fiction Kensington Kensing...
Dime Piece
Dime Piece Tracy Brown 9780974789576 Fiction Triple Crown Publications Triple Crown Publications Celeste Styles is a woman torn. On one hand, she has found happiness with the love of her life, Raheem ...
Black
Black Tracy Brown 9780970247285 Fiction Triple Crown Publications Triple Crown Publications Who said the streets don’t love nobody? Black is the novel that shatters the myth. Kaia didn’t choose the st...
Black Coffe
Black Coffe Tracy Price-Thompson 9780375757778 Fiction Strivers Row Penguin Random House “I may be a supersoldier but I sure as hell ain’t no Superwoman. Yes, it’s true my hand is steady, I have the e...
Flyy Girl
Flyy Girl Omar Tyree 9780743218573 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Tracy Ellison, a young knockout with tall hair and attitude, is living life as fast as she can. Motivated by the mate...
Hellified
Hellified Tracy Grant 9780967283609 Fiction Visao Press Visao Press A humorous and touching coming of age novel. Three young black men during their freshman year in college find out that school isn’t...
The Go On Girl!: Book Club Guide for Reading Groups
The Go On Girl!: Book Club Guide for Reading Groups Monique Greenwood, Lynda Johnson, and Tracy Mitchell-Brown 9780786883509 Nonfiction Hyperion Hachette Book Group Works Worth Reading, Tips For Start...
Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights
Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights Keisha N. Blain 9780393882292 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Even before they were recognized as citizens of th...
Vindicated
Vindicated Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172075 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing She’s a distraction he can’t resist…A spark ignites the moment security specialist, Hamilton Crosby, meets stuntwo...
Amistad: The Story of a Slave Ship
Amistad: The Story of a Slave Ship Patricia C. Mckissack 9780593432761 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House An amazing chapter in American history is now available in S...
Amistad Rising: A Story of Freedom
Amistad Rising: A Story of Freedom Veronica Chambers 9780152018030 Nonfiction Harcourt Children’s Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Joseph Cinqué is afraid he’ll never see his family again. Kidna...
Black Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad
Black Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad William A. Owens 9781574780048 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Set in 1839, this is the true story of a revolt on the Spanish slave ...
Wole Soyinka: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary Series)
Wole Soyinka: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary Series) Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9781567430516 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans Kadir Nelson 9780061730795 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins From Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, written an...
Black Profiles In Courage
Black Profiles In Courage Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Alan Steinberg 9780380813414 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins In this ideal introduction to black history, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar examines the lives of hero...
Ghalen: A Romance in Black
Ghalen: A Romance in Black Walter Mosley 9780063451551 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A stellar addition to the Amistad list: a beautiful coming-of-age novel from MWA Grand Master and PEN and Edgar Awa...
Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations
Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations Barbara Fant 9780063447899 Poetry Amistad HarperCollins The acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing an...
No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History
No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History Dick Gregory 9780062981288 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Read an excerpt Republished as part of Amistad’s Literary Revival Program, the gr...
United States V. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny (Supreme Court Milestones)
United States V. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny (Supreme Court Milestones) Susan Dudley Gold 9780761421436 Nonfiction Cavendish Square Publishing Cavendish Square Publishing
Lost Canyon
Lost Canyon Nina Revoyr 9781617753534 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Nina Revoyr’s fifth novel, Lost Canyon. Booklist called it “a gripping tale of unintended adventure and profound transformatio...
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets Kwame Alexander 9780316417525 Poetry Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heri...
The Book of Delights
The Book of Delights Ross Gay 9781643753287 Nonfiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. The New York Times bestselling book of essays celebrating ordinary delights in the world around us b...
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne 9780810141544 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press Furious Flower: Seeding the ...
The Book of Delights: Essays
The Book of Delights: Essays Ross Gay 9781616207922 Nonfiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. The New York Times bestselling book of essays celebrating ordinary delights in the world aro...
Breaking the Cycle
Breaking the Cycle Zane 9781593090210 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. An eagerly awaited collection of stories dealing with domestic abuse, edited by the New York Times bestselling author...
Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors
Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors Eleanor Taylor Bland 9780425200148 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A dazzling collection of crime and mystery stories,...
The Rib King
The Rib King Ladee Hubbard 9780062979070 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Thrillist - 30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021Book Riot - Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021Real Simple - The Best New Boo...
Something in the Water
Something in the Water Phyllis R. Dixon 9781496754196 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Buried secrets, environmental disaster, and a legacy of corruption hit too close to home when a Califor...
Minor Notes, Volume 1
Minor Notes, Volume 1 Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy 9780143137269 Poetry Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black po...
Women Talk Money
Women Talk Money Rebecca Walker 9781501154324 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women’s lives, edi...
Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire
Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire Nicole Givens Kurtz 9781735219547 Fiction Mocha Memoirs Press Mocha Memoirs Press Mocha Memoirs Press is proud to present SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire—a revolu...
midnight & indigo Issue 4: Twenty-two Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers
midnight & indigo Issue 4: Twenty-two Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers Ianna A. Small 9781732891777 Fiction Midnight & Indigo Midnight & Indigo Publishing midnight & indigo celebrates Black ...
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, Patricia Smith, and Terrance Hayes 9781682260951 Poetry University of Arkansas Press University of Arkansas P...
Honeyfish
Honeyfish Lauren K. Alleyne 9781936970599 Poetry New Issues Poetry & Prose New Issues Poetry & Prose "These poems love. Prophesize. Return us to our beginnings. To days that we want to remember. Or fo...
I’m a Pretty Little Black Girl!
I’m a Pretty Little Black Girl! Betty K. Bynum 9780615785516 Fiction Dreamtitle Publishing Dreamtitle Publishing I’M A PRETTY LITTLE BLACK GIRL! introduces adorable Mia, who wakes with her hair just-a...
Off the Record: Conversations with African American and Brazilian Women Musicians
Off the Record: Conversations with African American and Brazilian Women Musicians LaShonda Katrice Barnett 9780810877467 Nonfiction Scarecrow Press Rowman & Littlefield In the context of interviews wi...
The Hungry Ear: Poems Of Food And Drink
The Hungry Ear: Poems Of Food And Drink Kevin Young 9781608195510 Poetry Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Food and poetry: in so many ways, a natural pairing, from prayers over bread to street ven...
Section 8: A Hood Rat Novel
Section 8: A Hood Rat Novel K’wan 9780312536961 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Since she was a little girl, Tionna’s on and off addicted mother taught her to get hers by any means n...
Water Flows Under Doors
Water Flows Under Doors Keith Kareem Williams 9781419601484 Fiction BookSurge Publishing On-Demand Publishing LLC "SHH," he told her before he kissed the palm of her hand. "I should leave." Neither on...