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What happens when someone you love is in trouble? Do you endanger yourself to help lift their burdens? Or do you remain neutral in hopes that the trouble fades away? These were questions Sky Cunningham was faced with when approached by Arien Carson. What was her decision? Did she risk losing everything to save and avenge her loved one from the demons out to get them? Listen along to find out what became of Sky and Arien and those close to them, and those whom they loved dearly.

After a terrorist attack rocks the country and anti-Islamic sentiment stirs, three Black Muslim girls create a space where they can shatter assumptions and share truths. Sabriya has trained hard for summer ballet auditions, so she’s devastated when everything is canceled after a terrorist attack.

Being the wife of a hustler is all Sky Cunningham has ever known. He basically saved her life and taught her to have high self-esteem. But now she is on her own, facing the scorn of his old partners and trying to boss a new crew of three other females. She struggles with trusting their loyalty to her, and the daunting question of who to keep in her circle of team members. Tag along as Sky decides who joins her winner’s circle.

She comes from a broken home and looks for love in all the wrong places with all the wrong people. In this classic predator vs. prey teen drama, we will find out if Caprice's family can save her from a life of turmoil or allow her to succumb to a predator's advances and live a life of hardship.

Khari, also known as Ri, is a young man living in a society that tries to make life hard for him. With his strong-minded ways, he digs himself out his hole and becomes self-made. After leaving his life of crime with his best friend, Davey, Khari pursues a life as a hip-hop artist overseas. But on his journey to stardom, he makes a promise to a woman that he loves, and he is destined to keep it.

Jade has her life all planned out, with a mother with mental illness she has to be on top of things. With graduation in sight, she doesn't have time for boys. Liam has had his eye on Jade for years, with her nose in a book she doesn't notice him. With his bad-boy reputation, he has no business wanting this good girl, but she is all that he can think about. He has one shot at having her, and he doesn't waste time. A coming of age story about two teenagers that have to grow up faster than they ever imagined and a love that defies age.

Hurt by love, Empress, "Zorah Franklin", lives life on the conservative and celibate side. She is a single mother of one, an educator, and a woman who loves her community. Not quite ready to love, pro-black activist Redd, “Xyshaun Smith”, an entrepreneur and educator, falls in love with Empress’s essence. She is everything he wants in a woman, and he is ready to step up to the plate to make her trust in Black love again.

LLoyal Carter and Bev Hines have both power and privilege in the underworld. Lloyal is the boss of a powerful syndicate that everyone respects and fears. He is deemed untouchable. Bev is his beautiful wife and mother of his children. It seems as if they have the perfect, loving home on the outside, but things aren’t so sweet on the inside.

This is an urban novel based on the streets of Memphis Tennessee. Money, sex, murder, drugs, and trust....

Tori (Grace McLean) aims to be the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic. As a child, she raised her younger brother Lamar (John McGinty), defending him against discrimination and neighborhood bullies. Now, with nothing but her body and a hand-built boat, she squares off with her own tormentor: the ocean.

This audiobook is about a famous Black Male Stripper and the sins that go on at the Bachelorette parties that he do.

Passion is contagious in this offbeat, humorous journey making life in the pandemic a little more bearable. In a futuristic world of self-driving cars, drone aircraft, and robo-bartenders, Luna, a reluctant, wanna-be influencer meets Stryker, a mysterious undiscovered musician. Their lives change in ways that keep you guessing. He is self absorbed, and thinks the world revolves around him. She is beautiful, yet shy, and struggles with attention. A quirky character, Luna's voice is fresh and bubbly.

Gemini Berry is looking forward to spending a lazy summer in her small hometown of Meadow Lake, Pennsylvania, with her best friend, Sunny. The teens' main goal is to get their hands on the Ring of Atlantis, a supposedly enchanted object that brings the bearer wealth and luck. Along with their new friend, Ivy, they plan to try the ring for themselves. But their carefree caper is soon halted by a crime that outrages and divides the town.

Hear the heartwarming tales of ordinary people finding extraordinary lovers as they love and live, in vivid color....

Melanie Durst just about has her nest empty. However, the widowed mother of three grown up daughters soon finds herself the object of the girls' matchmaking schemes. In an effort to waylay these actions, Melanie joins forces with a handsome regular customer in her store, Tyson Brown. What begins as a farce to get her daughters off her back ends up being the beginning of a beautiful relationship.

Tisha Randall wants a boyfriend. When a likely specimen walks into her pet store to purchase "a dog or something," Tisha nearly turns him away with her disdain for would be animal owners who neglected their charges. Upon further review, Tisha realizes the man had a different type of void in his life, very possibly the same one that afflicts her.

Love is... is a collection of poems that chronicles the timeless nature of being in love by the American poet and writer S. D. Webb. Among the poems in the collection are "Just Because" and "What is Love?".

It seems that Baby Taylor has it all: love, happiness, and a blossoming new career. But when her soon-to-be husband is arrested on federal charges on her wedding day, her life takes a turn for the unexpected. With nowhere to go, she finds herself at the mercy of her best friend, Mona, and Mona's husband, Memphis. But with the past that Memphis and Baby share, things begin to get even more complicated.

Now that Baby has crossed the line with Memphis, her entire world has changed. After her so-called best friend abandons everyone for her own grandiose dreams, Baby is left putting out the fires that Mona created. Pushing her own desires to the side, Baby decides to be there for her goddaughter while controlling her feelings for Memphis, but it’s hard to keep her emotions in line with what she knows is right.

Her name's Antonia Toni Bennette (yeah, she's heard all the jokes before), and she's not a rock star. Neither are the Lillys - not yet. But the difference between being famous and being almost famous can be a single wrong note, or the start of something that'll change your life forever.