Omar Tyree
1) Capital city
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Life is supposed to be easy and carefree when you are young, but if you live in Washington D.C., that's not always the case. Flashing back to the 1990s, readers enter the lives of four black men looking to gain money, power, and respect. These four brothas come from different walks of life, but they have one thing in common: they are trying to make fast money in the harsh inner city. However, when the money comes too easily there's usually a price...
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Blackboard best-selling author Omar Tyree presents his fifth novel, one that grapples with the difficult juggling act of career, relationship, love and life. Bobby Dallas is an attractive, honest guy making his way in the radio broadcasting field. When a lucky break finally gains him some well deserved respect and excellent pay, his life is on track except for one very important thing: the perfect woman. As he searches earnestly for love, Bobby learns...
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Omar Tyree, New York Times and Blackboard bestselling author and winner of the 2001 NAACP Image Award for literary fiction, delivers a powerful story of two childhood friends lured into the sex, drugs, money, and madness of R&B stardom.
Darin Harmon and John Williams, two good church boys from Charlotte, North Carolina, have been best friends forever. Both use their God-given talents to breeze through high school, and both are awarded scholarships...
Darin Harmon and John Williams, two good church boys from Charlotte, North Carolina, have been best friends forever. Both use their God-given talents to breeze through high school, and both are awarded scholarships...
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Best-selling author Omar Tyree has written such popular novels as For the Love of Money, A Do Right Man, and Flyy Girl. Sweet St. Louis is a compelling story of looking for love—and trying to hold onto it. Anthony "Ant" Poole is a player. He tries his latest pickup line, "A piece of me for a piece of you," on Sharron Francis. Sharron is intrigued, yet she's looking for something more meaningful—and a commitment. With a little bit of fine tuning,...
5) Flyy girl
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A year in the life of Tracey, a 16-year-old black girl, showing her evolution from a promiscuous manipulator of boys to a responsible young woman thanks to, among other things, the teachings of Louis Farrakhan. The setting is a middle-class black suburb of Philadelphia.
6) Control
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Determined to prevent a tragedy, an Atlanta therapist uncovers a common denominator that is plaguing six of her clients from the rap and film world and debates the merits of violating her professional position to save lives.
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New York Times bestselling sensation Omar Tyree applies his signature passion and flair for the romantic to a thrilling new novel about a writer who returns to the Harlem streets of his youth in search of a new story to tell. The Last Street Novel tells the tale of Shareef Crawford, successful African American author of steamy romances, and his journey home to Harlem, where a search for literary inspiration leaves him in the crossfire of a world of...
8) Leslie
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To some she's intelligent and beautiful.
To others she's proud and dangerous.
At the historically black college of Dillard University in the lush mystical city of New Orleans, the beautiful and serious Leslie Beaudet is struggling with a dark secret of power in a world that is pulling her in many different directions.
In the eyes of her Haitian immigrant father, Leslie is a queen who deserves more than the broken dreams and carnage...
To others she's proud and dangerous.
At the historically black college of Dillard University in the lush mystical city of New Orleans, the beautiful and serious Leslie Beaudet is struggling with a dark secret of power in a world that is pulling her in many different directions.
In the eyes of her Haitian immigrant father, Leslie is a queen who deserves more than the broken dreams and carnage...
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Omar Tyree returns to the story of Tracy Ellison, the spirited heroine of his best-selling Flyy Girl. Now 28 years old and on the verge of superstardom as a screen writer and actress, Tracy is going back east to reconnect with family and friends. Tracy's worked hard for her success. She's made it in Hollywood on her own terms and without compromise. But returning to Philly proves to be more than the happy homecoming she expects. While trying to decide...
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When veteran Atlanta broadcast news anchor Judy Pierce joins a celebrity gossip website, she lands a major interview with volatile superstar Shawn Blake. The embattled entertainer then invites her into a reckless and unfiltered world that changes her life and career for the worse. Reported of having gang affiliations, domestic violence disputes, multiple child support cases and murder charges all of which never stick in court Blake is viewed by some...