Aya De León
Author
Series
Factory volume 01
Publisher
Candlewick Press
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Not Supplied
Language
English
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"Fourteen-year-old Andrea Hernandez-Baldoquin hails from a family of spies working for the Factory, an international organization dedicated to protecting people of color. Andrea has dreamed about getting her first solo mission, but she never imagined that she would have to straighten her hair and go undercover as a white girl to befriend the estranged son of a dangerous white supremacist. In order to gain the boy's trust, Andrea finds herself doing...
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Not Supplied
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Not Supplied
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English
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"Coming from a troubled youth, Morgan Faraday grabs every opportunity to up-level her life. So she definitely plans to keep oil company heir Sebastian Reid interested...all the way to the altar. He's brilliant, supportive, and is turning his billion-dollar company green to make up for his ancestors' exploitation. With him, Morgan can have love, money, and the power to make the world better. And securing her future is far more important than the attractive...
Author
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When she is chosen to headline her record label's first-ever all-female national tour, Deza, a young female rap superstar, goes up against brutal industry misogyny and corporate big money to claim respect for herself--and for everyone and everything she believes in.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Fed up with her married Miami boyfriend, savvy Dulce has no problem stealing his drug-dealer stash and fleeing to her family in the Caribbean. But when she gets bored in rural Santo Domingo, she escapes on a sugar daddy adventure to Puerto Rico. Her new life is one endless party, until she's caught in Hurricane Maria--and witnesses the brutal collision of colonization and climate change, as well as the international vultures who plunder the tragedy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Sisters from Trinidad, Violet and Lily have never had much in common. Stunning Lily arrives undocumented in New York and makes her way as a stripper. But Harvard-educated Violet is this close to the perfect assimilated life, thanks to a prestigious job, and her rich bougie fianc©♭... Until she aids a woman in trouble, and is mistaken for a notorious strip-club mogul's mistress. When she's wrongly accused of helping him embezzle millions, Violet...
6) Untraceable
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Amani Kendall's biggest problem is being the only plus-size Black girl at a mostly white private school - until her house burns down and her family is unexpectedly on the run. Worse, her formerly boring mom is being pursued by an ex-boyfriend turned stalker and her scientist dad has gone MIA. Amani also has to navigate her new underfunded school in the city and suffer the cultural whiplash of being surrounded by other Black students,...
7) The boss
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Tyesha Couvillier becomes the new director of the Lower East Side Women's Health Clinic and works to stop local exotic dancers from being turned into sex workers. Meanwhile, she deals with the trauma of being a past sex workers herself, as well as having a high-drama family. And a notorious celebrity ex-lover is out to win back her heart.
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Since childhood, Yolanda Vance has forged her desire to escape poverty into a laser-like focus that took her through prep school and Harvard Law. So when her prestigious New York law firm is raided by the FBI, Yolanda turns in her corrupt bosses to save her career--and goes to work for the Bureau. Soon she's sent undercover at Red, Black, and Green--an African-American extremist activist group back in her California college town. They claim a biotech...
Publisher
Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Starting with the 2021, the annual short story anthology will now become The Best American Mystery and Suspense and the new series editor, Steph Cha, and best-selling guest editor, Alafair Burke, will select the best short mystery and suspense fiction of the year.