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Nothing But Trouble

By: Bettye Griffin

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Both hilarious and poignant, Bettye Griffin's latest novel explores the lives and loves of three best friends who discover that there's nothing in the world they can't handle--as long as they stick together. . . Dana Covington never thought she'd be a widow at 38--but sometimes, that's the way life works out. It's a good thing Dana's friends, Norell and Cecile, are always ready to give her a shoulder to cry on. . .even when they've got big problems of their own. Just as Norell gives up on her dream to have a baby, she's shocked when Cecile turns up pregnant--again. Norell's heartbreak throws her friendship with Cecile into a complete tailspin. And just when things can't get much worse, Cecile's sexy younger sister comes to town. As usual, Micheline is looking for trouble--and this time, she finds enough for everyone. With tension mounting between the trio, it seems like their friendship might not stand the test. But when all is said and done, true friends know that even their closest pals aren't perfect--and that the people who drive you crazy are the ones you love the most. . .

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A New Kind of Bliss

By: Bettye Griffin

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A New Kind of Bliss

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Griffin is a budding name in mainstream African American fiction. --Chicago magazine After her father's death, Emily Yancy agrees to move back to her dead-end hometown. But she's dreading every minute she'll have to spend in her mother's tiny apartment. After all, she's a forty-three-year-old divorcée who's doing just fine on her own. There are some rewards for dutiful daughters though--like Aaron Merritt, a rich, single doctor with chocolate skin and bedroom eyes. . . Aaron is soon taking Emily to fancy restaurants and inviting her to meet his family. But when the lights go out, something's missing. Enter Teddy Simms, Emily's eighth-grade crush. Teddy hasn't achieved what Aaron has--but he's picked up a few skills in other areas. Will Emily choose a relationship that doesn't satisfy her mind--or an easy compatibility that doesn't quite extend into the bedroom? Or is there some way she can find the best of both worlds? "A compelling drama about three families striving for the American dream." --Booklist on If These Walls Could Talk "Fear and joy practically leap off the pages. A well-written story you will hate to see end." --RT Book Reviews on Once Upon a Project "Griffin expertly explores the universal search for love." --Booklist

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0758285884

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If These Walls Could Talk

By: Bettye Griffin

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If These Walls Could Talk

By: Bettye Griffin

A Delightful Summer Read. --The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers Reuben and Camille have always been afraid to let their children play outside in their rough Bronx neighborhood. So when they see an ad for homes in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, they jump at the chance. Spirits are high--until Reuben loses his job. No one in Milo or Dawn's Brooklyn-based family has ever owned a house, and the Poconos seem perfect. But after they move in, it starts to look like their house was slapped together like a ham sandwich and isn't much stronger. Norman and Veronica are happy to leave Washington Heights for the country. . .and so are their relatives. Each weekend brings a parade of empty-handed guests expecting to be fed but not expecting to pitch in and help. Amid trials and triumphs, these families are about to discover that not all is perfect when your dreams come true. . . "[Griffin Is] A Budding Name In Mainstream African American Fiction." --Chicago magazine "A compelling drama about three families striving for the American dream." --Booklist

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0758271840

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Once Upon A Project

By: Bettye Griffin

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Once Upon A Project

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Elyse, Susan, and Grace couldn't be happier when their friend Pat organizes a reunion for past residents of the Chicago housing project where they all grew up. It is, after all, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its opening, and like their long-ago home, the lifelong friends are also turning fifty. But none of them suspects the event will have life-altering changes... Elyse plans to attend with her husband, but as usual lately, he bows out, pleading fatigue. He's thirteen years her senior, and Elyse fears he's slowing down. But does that mean she has to? Susan also arrives alone. Her marriage is faltering since her diagnosis of breast cancer. But when she runs into a former flame, it feels like time has stood still... Twice divorced, Grace needs a distraction, and she finds it in Eric. Once a cute kid four years Grace's junior, Eric is now a handsome man whose age doesn't matter--but their differences in financial status might... And forced by her parents to give up the love of her life after a family tragedy, Pat never again found love. When an old friend from law school sees a media report about the reunion and contacts her, will she at last find the love that's eluded her? Now it's time for four friends to kick off a new chapter in each of their lives as past memories join with present temptations and future hopes...

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1496702891

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The People Next Door

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The People Next Door

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Moving into a new development on the Florida waterfront, Lisa Canfield is stunned to discover that her first husband and his new family are moving in next door, and soon past mistakes, old rivalries, and vicious accusations run rampant, forcing them all to find a way to get along. Reprint.

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Trouble Down The Road

By: Bettye Griffin

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Trouble Down The Road

By: Bettye Griffin

From the author of The People Next Door comes a smart, sexy new novel that peeks behind the curtains of one very complicated Florida cul-de-sac, where the neighbors are a little too close for comfort. . . Suzanne and Brad Betancourt have a lot to be grateful for--their home, their children, and each other. They've even survived the fact that Brad's ex-wife lives next door and Suzanne's intrusive mother and siblings are just down the road. But Suzanne's confidence unravels at Brad's fiftieth birthday blowout, when young, voluptuous, neighbor Micheline brings a specially wrapped gift: herself. Suddenly, Suzanne feels like she's the one having the midlife crisis. . . Hoping to impress Brad, and ease family troubles that are already straining their relationship, Suzanne goes into business with a friend. But the endeavor stretches her too thin, leaving Brad hurt and alienated. Soon he begins to distance himself from her--moving right into the waiting arms of Micheline, who is all too ready to ditch her own husband. Now, with marriages on the line across the neighborhood, Suzanne and Brad will have to question their notion of loyalty to one another--and to themselves. Praise For The Novels Of Bettye Griffin "Fear and joy practically leap off the pages. A well-written story you will hate to see end." --Romantic Times on Once Upon a Project "A compelling drama about three families striving for the American dream."--Booklist on If These Walls Could Talk

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Trouble Down The Road

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If These Walls Could Talk

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If These Walls Could Talk

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A hilarious and entertaining novel about three very different families who dream of finding the perfect home.

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The People Next Door

By: Bettye Griffin

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From This Day Forward

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From This Day Forward

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Forced to work the night shift at Super Kmart in the small city of Farmingdale, Illinois, in order to care for her two teenage sisters and her ailing father, Cornelia Hatchet finds her world turned upside down by the arrival of TV news journalist Skye Audsley--a big-city man who steals her heart. Original.

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Once Upon A Project

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Once Upon A Project

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My Soul Is a Witness

A Chronicle of the Civil Rights Era, 1954–1964

By: Bettye Collier-Thomas,V. P. Franklin

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My Soul Is a Witness

A Chronicle of the Civil Rights Era, 1954–1964

By: Bettye Collier-Thomas,V. P. Franklin

A powerful and inspiring record of one of the most significant periods in America's history, which presents the full historic scope of the hard-fought battle for civil rights. From the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which legal segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional, to the Nashville sit-ins organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and from the Freedom Rides to the March on Washington, to the subsequent passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965-and covering everything in between--Bettye Collier-Thomas and V. P. Franklin's My Soul Is a Witness is the first comprehensive chronology of the civil rights era in America. This unique chronology extends the examination of civil rights activities beyond the South to include the North, Midwest, and Far West. Although Martin Luther King, Jr. was a towering figure during the era, the authors shift the focus to the thousands of people, places, and events that encompassed the Civil Rights movement. Each entry is based on information found in articles and reports published in three newspaper and periodical sources: The New York Times, Jet Magazine, and the Southern School News. Supplementing the basic chronology are longer features that explore larger topics in more depth and highlight issues well-known at the time but unknown today by scholars and the general public.

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1250107725

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A Woman Like Me

A Memoir

By: Bettye LaVette,David Ritz

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A Woman Like Me

A Memoir

By: Bettye LaVette,David Ritz

Acclaimed R&B singer Bettye LaVette celebrates her storied career in show business in this compelling memoir. As a teenager in Detroit, Bettye LaVette had a hit single with “My Man—He’s a Lovin’ Man.” By the time she was twenty, she had faded back into obscurity and was barely surviving in New York City. For the next forty years, despite being associated with legends such as Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, and James Brown, she remained relatively unknown outside a circle of devoted fans. Every time it seemed that her dream of stepping into the spotlight was finally coming true, bad luck smashed her hopes, again and again. Then, after a lifetime of singing in clubs and lounges, her unforgettable televised performances at the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors and at President Obama’s pre-Inaugural Concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 2009 won her the recognition she had sought for her entire life. Bettye LaVette’s career has been a one-of-a-kind roller-coaster ride through the world of music; it has taken her from the peaks to the pits and back. In this unflinchingly honest memoir, she boldly recounts her freewheeling childhood—her parents ran an illegal liquor business out of their living room, which was frequented by some of the top acts of the forties and fifties—her short-lived conquest of the R&B world in the 1960s, her decline into poverty and despair, and her recent comeback and career revival, with two Grammy-nominated CDs and numerous appearances on major television talk shows. Poignant, brazen, and fearless, A Woman Like Me is a tour de force from one of the most outspoken female performers singing today—and she’s a force to be reckoned with.

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1101600675

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Sisters in the Struggle

African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement

By: Bettye Collier-Thomas,V.P. Franklin

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Sisters in the Struggle

African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement

By: Bettye Collier-Thomas,V.P. Franklin

The rarely heard stories of the brave women at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their indvidiual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the central role women played in the battle for racial equality. In Sisters in the Struggle, we hear about the unsung heroes of the civil rights movements such as Ella Baker, who helped found the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper who took on segregation in the Democratic party (and won), and Septima Clark, who created a network of "Citizenship Schools" to teach poor Black men and women to read and write and help them to register to vote. We learn of Black women's activism in the Black Panther Party where they fought the police, as well as the entrenched male leadership, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where the behind-the-scenes work of women kept the organization afloat when it was under siege. It also includes first-person testimonials from the women who made headlines with their courageous resistance to segregation—Rosa Parks, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and Dorothy Height. This collection represents the coming of age of African-American women's history and presents new stories that point the way to future study. Contributors: Bettye Collier-Thomas, Vicki Crawford, Cynthia Griggs Fleming, V. P. Franklin, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Duchess Harris, Sharon Harley, Dorothy I. Height, Chana Kai Lee, Tracye Matthews, Genna Rae McNeil, Rosa Parks, Barbara Ransby, Jacqueline A. Rouse, Elaine Moore Smith, and Linda Faye Williams.

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081477234X

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Jesus, Jobs, and Justice

African American Women and Religion

By: Bettye Collier-Thomas

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Jesus, Jobs, and Justice

African American Women and Religion

By: Bettye Collier-Thomas

“The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black women’s agenda in 1958, as she anticipated the collapse of Jim Crow segregation and pondered the fate of African Americans. Following more than half a century of organizing and struggling against racism in American society, sexism in the National Baptist Convention, and the racism and paternalism of white women and the Southern Baptist Convention, Burroughs knew that black Americans would need more than religion to survive and to advance socially, economically, and politically. Jesus, jobs, and justice are the threads that weave through two hundred years of black women’s experiences in America. Bettye Collier-Thomas’s groundbreaking book gives us a remarkable account of the religious faith, social and political activism, and extraordinary resilience of black women during the centuries of American growth and change. It shows the beginnings of organized religion in slave communities and how the Bible was a source of inspiration; the enslaved saw in their condition a parallel to the suffering and persecution that Jesus had endured. The author makes clear that while religion has been a guiding force in the lives of most African Americans, for black women it has been essential. As co-creators of churches, women were a central factor in their development. Jesus, Jobs, and Justice explores the ways in which women had to cope with sexism in black churches, as well as racism in mostly white denominations, in their efforts to create missionary societies and form women’s conventions. It also reveals the hidden story of how issues of sex and sexuality have sometimes created tension and divisions within institutions. Black church women created national organizations such as the National Association of Colored Women, the National League of Colored Republican Women, and the National Council of Negro Women. They worked in the interracial movement, in white-led Christian groups such as the YWCA and Church Women United, and in male-dominated organizations such as the NAACP and National Urban League to demand civil rights, equal employment, and educational opportunities, and to protest lynching, segregation, and discrimination. And black women missionaries sacrificed their lives in service to their African sisters whose destiny they believed was tied to theirs. Jesus, Jobs, and Justice restores black women to their rightful place in American and black history and demonstrates their faith in themselves, their race, and their God.

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0307593053

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Raised on Old-Time Country Cooking

A Companion to the Trilogy

By: Bettye B. Burkhalter

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Raised on Old-Time Country Cooking

A Companion to the Trilogy

By: Bettye B. Burkhalter

Sixteen generations later, the same old winding roads and blazed trails throughout the three novels lead us all back home to nostalgic dishes and the worlds from which they came. Upon arrival at the old home place, we quickly find our favorite room: Mamas kitchen. The familiar sounds of pots and pans and aromas of old-time country cooking float in and out of our senses. Suddenly, visions of chocolate pies swirled high with meringues cooling on the kitchen window sill are as clear as yesterday. The sizzling sounds of Mama frying chicken on the old wood-stove remind us that her kitchen offered southern hospitality at its best. The trip down memory lane of days gone by rekindles the true meaning of Home Sweet Home. As we stop and reminisce, hot tears blur our vision and we ask ourselves where did all the years go?

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1477287205

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Bibliography of French Bibles

By: Bettye Thomas Chambers

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Bibliography of French Bibles

By: Bettye Thomas Chambers

[S]upplement serves as an update of the original work...maintains the format of the Bibliography - transcription of the title page (sometimes illustrated), bibliographical description, references, locations of copies, brief commentary on the edition, especially on the version of the text it represents - but with almost double the number of copies and locations found in the original work, more than 50 newly discovered editions or issues, more than 20 ghosts, and three new appendices"--Provided by publisher.

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260000016X

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Straight To The Heart

By: Bettye Griffin

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Straight To The Heart

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When newly single Monique Oliver arrives in Washington, North Carolina, to run a bed-and-breakfast, she soon has men knocking down her door, but she only has eyes for gorgeous but aloof construction foreman Russell McDonald. Original.

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1583144870

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A Love For All Seasons

By: Bettye Griffin

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A Love For All Seasons

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Alicia Timberlake is the woman of Jack Devlin's dreams, but she's always kept people at a distance, unwilling to let anyone--not even her family--close. When a family tragedy reveals a secret that shakes her very foundation, Alicia is determined to reassess her life and learn, finally, how to open herself to love. Original.

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0373830106

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A New Kind of Bliss

By: Bettye Griffin

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A New Kind of Bliss

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At Long Last Love

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At Long Last Love

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The owner of a successful take-out chain called Soul Food to Go, Kendall Lucas has little time for love, until she meets her gorgeous new neighbor, Spencer Barnes, but as their passion spins out of control, she discovers that Spencer is the owner of the new restaurant that threatens to destroy her business.

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Pinnacle Books

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0786006102

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One On One

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One On One

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Relocating to a small South Carolina town after the tragic loss of her husband in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, a woman finds solace with a new love. Original.

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1583146822

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A Love Of Her Own

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A Love Of Her Own

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A wedding consultant whose own marriage failed because of her inability to have children is about to give up all hope of happiness when a little boy comes into her life, followed by a warm-hearted business man who rekindles her desire.

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Nothing But Trouble

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Nothing But Trouble

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Dana Covington never thought she would be a widow at 38 - but sometimes, that's the way life works out. It's a good thing Dana's friends, Norell and Cecile, are always ready to give her a shoulder to cry on, even when they have big problems of their own. With tension mounting in the trio, it seems like their friendship may not be strong enough to withstand the test. But when all is said and done, true friends know that even their closest pals aren't perfect - and that the people who drive you crazy are the ones you love the most...

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Closer Than Close

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Closer Than Close

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In desperate need of a date for her high school reunion, a successful businesswoman invites a handsome post office clerk to accompany her...and wins his heart forever.

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1583142762

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Love Affair

By: Bettye Griffin

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Love Affair

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Desperately in need of a woman to pose as his wife while he travels on business in West Africa, Austin Hughs hires stunningly beautiful DesirTe Mack to be his pretend bride, and as an undeniable passion flares between, Austin realizes that he has found the perfect woman with whom to spend the rest of his life. Original.

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