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Searching for Wild Asparagus in Umbria 
, author - Terry H. Bhola
A travel/expat memoir by a Trinidadian set in Umbria, Italy!
Searching for Wild Asparagus in Umbria is a intriguing and deliciously candid memoir, unique in its authorial perspective. Terry H. Bhola not only conveys the surprising and often comical experiences that he and his wife encountered while settling into a new country, but also reveals the mood of modern Italy as a nation not known for embracing diversity, contending with immigration. Seasoned with countless comical scenes, Searching for Wild Asparagus in Umbria is an innovative dolce vita tale that will delight readers from cover to cover.
About the Author: Although a native of Trinidad and Tobago, Terry H. Bhola has never been able to settle in one place for too long. This has made Terry a resident of both Washington D.C. and New York City, where his thriving career in the publishing industry took place. Terry H. Bhola currently lives in Italy with his wife.
social site: http://www.twitter.com/tbhola

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Flavor Flav: The Icon
, author - Flavor Flav

Flavor Flav: The Icon," which is a new memoir from the man himself about his life and his time with Public Enemy, his second wave of fame, etc.
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Hot Summer, author - Judy Powell
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After her first embarrassing encounter, Summer Jones vows to stay away from cocky record producer, Lance Munroe. But then she ends up working for the man. Her quick temper and sharp tongue keep landing her in hot water with him but no matter how hard she tries she can't deny her growing attraction for him. Then they go on a business trip to Jamaica - and that's when things get really hot!

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Why Do I Have To Think Like A Man, author - Rhonda Frost
Finally the women have their say! Introducing the hottest dating book out, "Why Do I Have to Think Like a Man? How to Think Like a Lady and Still Get the Man" it is the retort to Steve Harvey's books, endorsed by Cederick the Entertainer and written by Former NFL wife, Shanae Hall and her Mother, Rhonda Frost. These two ladies bring you the dating/relationship discussion from a woman's point of view.
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Sweet & Sour Honey, author - Michelle Richards

Michelle Richards, a local Toronto Author, has released Sweet & Sour Honey, her second novel.
In the spirit of her first novel, It Could Never Happen to Me, Ms. Richards's sophomore release is a coming-of-age story in which characters struggle with tougher subject matter than can be found in most teen novels.

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100 Miscellaneous Thoughts, author - Matshona Dhliwayo
I am a student at York University in Toronto and the author of a new book 100 MISCELLANEOUS THOUGHTS.
A book of a hundred essays!
It is a guide for those who seek wisdom. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, family, friendship, religion, politics, commonsense, gratitude, courage, blessings, adversity and greatness to mention a few.

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Souled Out, author - Shaun Powell

Shaun Powell, Souled Out? That’s the question author Shaun Powell poses and ultimately answers with regard to the nature of blacks’ participation in American sports. Neither blacks nor whites—athletes, coaches, administrators, owners, media, parents, and yes, even fans—are without blame for race still being an issue in the athletic arena. And Powell, perhaps like you, is fed up with the excuses.
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Hot Chocolat, author - Judy Powell

Hot Chocolat is the sequel to her first romance novel, Hot Summer. That book placed second in the Toronto Romance Writers Contemporary Romance Competition. Hot Chocolat is a very worthy follow-up in continuing the story from her first release. Hot Chocolat gets off to very sizzling start and keeps it hot to the very end.
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Long Walk Up, author - Denise Turney

Long Walk Up is a significant and deeply engaging story about prevalent human conditions. This poignant story examines the life of a young orphan, a child pushed into the street alone when her mother dies from malaria. The child, a little girl from East Africa named Mulukan, goes on to become Africa’s first female president.
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What If I Can't?You Can!, author - Israelin Shockness

A three-book collection.
Volume 1 encompasses Youth Motivation for School & Youth Self-Development, with a section on Math Quick Tips.
Volume 2 deals with Youth Responsibility & Youth Rejecting Violence, plus English Quick Tips.
Volume 3 looks at Youth/Family Relationships & Youth Community Involvement, along with 225 Math Challenge Questions, Comprehension, Vocabulary Building and 350 General Knowledge & Discussion Questions.

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A powerful debut, Shades of Blue isnt just an enticing tale of rags to riches at the expense of ones soul, its a glamorous Cinderella story turned harsh reality quickly and unsympathetically. Its an extraordinary tale of a young beauty, Nala who takes a sexy but dangerous shortcut to the life she thought she always wanted. Her exhilarating, blissful relationship turns into an edgy, nerve wrecking, dangerous, and sometimes abusive courtship that she just cant walk way from, says author, Jordan Charles. Shades of Blue is a beautifully crafted novel that will make you want to scold its leading character for her common sense-less decisions while empathetically feeling her pain at the same time.
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The Rwandan Tutsis, author - Eugenie Mujawiyera
In The Rwandan Tutsis, Eugenie Mujawiyera, a young Rwandan Tutsi woman, discusses the story of her ancient ethnicity, weaving into her narrative the dramatic events which make up Rwandan history from independence to the present day. While the Tutsi are again an integral part of the Rwandan nation - along with the Hutu and Twa-- Mrs. Mujawiyera seeks an answer to a very fundamental question: Why did an entire ethnicity become the object of attempted physical extermination at the end of the twentieth century?
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In the book I tell a mostly autobiographical account of the difficulties a fifteen year old black kid in Surrey BC encountered after he became romantically involved with his fourteen-year-old white girlfriend. The time setting is l959.
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In Spiritual Lessons for My Sisters: How to Get Over the Drama and Live Your Best Life!, Natasha Munson offers strategies to help women remove themselves from the drama, issues, obstacles, negative people, bad environments and fears that are holding them back from creating the life they have always wanted.
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Challenges of Faith and Family tells of the authors journey thru the gang,drug, law enforcement, corporate, public housing, and faith systems. Journies which could have destroyed him.
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A Place For Ida, author - Patricia Richardson
A Place For Ida offers a fresh insight into racism and coming of age through the eyes of a child. Abandoned by her parents at a tender age, she was left to be raised by her grandmother. By the age of thirteen, Ida longed for touch and affection. “Everyone was already telling her she was a heartbreaker...with the strong shapely muscular legs of a stallion.” “It was pathetic the way she forced herself upon men.”
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Nigger's Heaven, author - Terence E Jackson
Nigger's Heaven is the haunting tale of a disillusioned young black man who suddenly finds himself, faced with the realization that sometimes, the road to salvation is not always as clear as it may seem.
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Black, author - Deborah Willis
Written by Deborah Willis, recipient of a MacArthur “genius award” for her services in archiving African-American photography, BLACK contains over 500 photographs in it’s 320 pages, spanning the whole of the 20th-century. “I thought about photographers’ works that focus on black life, photographs that celebrate and tell a story about everyday life,” said Deborah Willis, “This book is one story—our story—told through photographic imagery..”
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The Wolf, author - Amanda Grihm
Recent interviews and book discussions with Grihm reveal that she actually believes she traveled back through time and transformed into a wolf. According to Grihm the first transformation took place in a dream but subsequent transformations were real. The transformations coupled with a recurring dream about wolves on September 23rd from age thirteen to twenty fueled Grihm's desire to write The Wolf.
For more information about Amanda Grihm and The Wolf please visit: www.jagpublishing.com

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Spiral, author - Denise Turney
"With Spiral, I am honored to be able to contribute another thread to one of the world's greatest and most deeply moving resources - story that causes readers to think and decide to make changes in their lives and our communities - changes that benefit us all."
Turney's work is featured online at: www.chistell.com

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By the time Sierra Harper embarks on a singing career in New York, she has experienced such heartbreak in her young life that she can't wait to start anew in the glamorous city. Successful restaurateur, Eldridge Briarwood, offers her a job, music biz contacts, and what she has always ached for-love. Seduced by him, she is filled with ecstasy like she has never known. Yet this man is not the man Sierra believes him to be. He betrays her in an unimaginable way.
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The Brixton Experiment, author - M G Jackson
This tall story is packed full of action, including explosions, car chases, passion and double dealing and has an unexpected twist that keeps you gripped right to the end.
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Threesome, author - Brenda L. Thomas
Threesome, where seduction, power and basketball collide a novel by Brenda L. Thomas
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Life Is What You Make It Darlin, author - Marlene Taylor
It came as a pleasant surprise when I read the first comments of one book reviewer who said; "Love scenes are Taylor's specialty". This was good, especially since my goal in writing this book was to give women a mental coffee-break by providing a light-hearted, erotic, fictional, love story.
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Crescent Life, author - Bonita Thompson
Crescent Heights, a trendy, quaint and Old World community becomes the center of media frenzy when a twist of fate descends on the once tranquil and secluded Pacific Northwest Island. An impulsive, lascivious encounter between an African-American schoolteacher and a Caucasian international fashion model sets in motion a fervent liaison. What begins as a natural attraction turns out to be something more intricate and deep.
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Duplicity, author - Toni Lee
"Duplicity", an action "why done it" that connects Africans globally, while telling the story of a quest.
Clinton Creech, a former FBI agent begins looking for his brother at his mother's request. The trip takes him to Morocco where he has to match wits with a ruthless female villain named Saaiqa Mastoora. He ends up matching wits with her, while trying to find will and stay alive as well.
It is also a global examination of the effects of colonialism on Africans throughout the diaspora, in a fictional format.

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Fluctuating Life, author - Joshua Spencer
Fluctuating Life gives a deep intellectual image of the author's up-and-down experiences! You can actually share the emotional grills that the author endures as well as the few triumphs. You feel, smell, experience and see the author's fears at the time of his emergency surgery, his disappointments in relationship after relationship, his loneliness, his uncertainties but importantly, his unrelenting strength to succeed.
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