Author: Geneva Holliday
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: groove
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2005-06-28
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0767921143
ISBN-13: 9780767921145
Geneva Hollidays juicy novel brings a lighter touch to African American erotica, setting the sexual escapades amid the real-life folly and drama of four very different friends during one incredibly hot summer in New York City. This funny, sexy book has something for everyone!
Author: Alex Bledsoe
Publisher: Tor Book
Keywords: groove, blood
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-04-28
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0765323087
ISBN-13: 9780765323088
When centuries-old vampire Baron Rudolfo Zginski was staked in Wales in 1915, the last thing he expected was to reawaken in Memphis, Tennessee, sixty years later. Reborn into a new world of simmering racial tensions, the cunning nosferatu realizes he must adapt quickly if he is to survive.Finding willing victims is easy, as Zginski possesses all the powers of the undead, including the ability to sexually enslave anyone he chooses. Hoping to learn how his kind copes with this bizarre new era, Zginski tracks down a nest of teenage vampires. But these young vampires have little knowledge of their
Author: Gene Deitch
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Keywords: groove, thin, cat
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2013-03-27
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1606996177
ISBN-13: 9781606996171
Collects legendary animator/cartoonists covers for a record magazine, as well as his comic starring the record collector The Cat.On the long road to becoming an Oscar-winning animation director, Gene Deitch became an intense jazz fan. At the age of 21, he discovered The Record Changer magazine, a jazz fan magazine filled with obsessive, scholarly, and purist essays about jazz as well as listings of hard-to-find jazz albums. Every jazz swinger in the 40s was called a cat (as in cool cat), so Gene Deitch created a cartoon feature for Record Changer titled The Cat, which quickly became a
Author: Terry McMilla
Publisher: NAL Trade
Keywords: groove, stella
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-01-06
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0451209141
ISBN-13: 9780451209146
The author of Waiting to Exhale checks in again with a fresh, exuberant novel. Stella Payne is a Superwoman who has everything--except a man to rock her world, something she’s convinced she can well do without. On a spur-of-the-moment Jamaican vacation she meets Winston, a man half her age, and finds, to her dismay, that her world is indeed well and truly rocked. Stella soon realizes that she’s come to a cataclysmic juncture in her life, one that forces new and difficult questions about her passions and expectations.Capable Stella Payne does everything from financial analysis to fo
Author: Sophie Barnes
Publisher: Avon Impulse
Keywords: groove, rutherford, miss
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2012-02-21
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0062190334
ISBN-13: 9780062190338
Emily Rutherford is having a very bad day. Of course, having the man youve loved forever announce his engagement to your (now very former) best friend will do that. Emily is sure nothing good could possibly come out of this horrid situation. But she lets her sistersalong with Francis Riley, the delectable but brooding Earl of Dunhurstconvince her that a season in London will be just the thing. Now Emily has a choice: sulk in a corner while her sisters enjoy the glitter of the ton . . . or become the belle of the ball, dazzling everyone on an earls arm. But as Francis helps Emily get
Author: Ellen Hart
Publisher: Minotaur Book
Keywords: mysteries, lawless, jane, groove, mortal
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-11-11
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0312377878
ISBN-13: 9780312377878
Ellen Hart??s newest Lambda Award Finalist The Mortal Groove is a haunting and accomplished tale of dark secrets.Minneapolis restaurateur and amateur sleuth Jane Lawless is in the middle of ringing in the New Year when the biggest financial backers in Minnesota politics break up the party with a backroom proposition for her father: How??d he like to be the state??s next governor?Flattered, Ray Lawless, a retired attorney, agrees to run, and the latecomer??s sprint to the state capital is a huge success until reporters start digging. He and his family are fair game, but worse than that, so
Author: Gerald Lyn Early
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/Regional
Keywords: american, culture, motown, groove, nation, one
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2004-03-25
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0472089560
ISBN-13: 9780472089567
Gerald Early, an award-winning music, sports, and popular-culture scholar, brings us a concise study of Motown Records, one of the most famous and successful black-owned businesses in American history, and, arguably, the most significant of all American independent record labels.Early tells the story of the historical and cultural conditions that made this record company possible, including the dramatic shifts in American popular music, changes in race relations and racial attitudes, and the rise of a black urban population. Early concentrates in particular on the 1960s and 70s, when Motown ha
