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Private eye Amos Walker is a Vietnam veteran who was thrown out of the Police Academy for punching a fellow cadet. He’s a hard man in a ruined city, scratching out a living looking for lost things.
Walker’s latest case comes by way of ex-mobster...
A “funny [and] touching” novel of an African American woman determined to triumph, by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale (Detroit Free Press).
Mildred Peacock is fed up with poverty—and with the jealous rampages of her husband, Crook. When Crook runs over her foot with his ’59 Mercury, she finally kicks him out to raise her five kids on her own.
7) August Snow
12) Hold me down
13) Arm candy
14) Betty before X
18) Predators
A gritty and realistic tale set in Detroit amidst the late eighties and early nineties, Predators will grip you from the opening chapters and take you on an unbelievable, blood-soaked journey. Set amidst the decline of the traditional players, pimps, and smooth hustlers, and the emerging times of the drug lords and their violent methodologies, the streets of Motown finds itself thrust into a cataclysmic battle between the old ways and the new.
...Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Winner of the American Book Award
Winner of the Merle Curti Social History Award
Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize
Winner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction)
Finalist for the John Hope Franklin Prize
Finalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize
Finalist for the Cundill History Prize
A New York Times Editor's Choice selection