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"Bailey-Williams writes with a chilling precision that's disturbingly eloquent, and readers will be entranced by...Peach's shrewdness."

"A modern-day morality play of the classic emotions of love, lust, hatred, and the need for retribution."

Claudia “Peach” Fryar is a vixen. Born to a mother who works as a domestic for the Harrisons, an affluent African American family who resides in Philadelphia’s East Oak Lane section, Claudia has felt like an outsider all of her life. She’s chubby, she stutters, and she grows up with her nose pressed against the windowpane, peering in on the lives of the privileged Harrison girls. It’s not enough that they grew up attending elite events and holding membership in exclusive clubs, but the matriarch of the Harrison clan seems to revel in torturing young Claudia. Why? Her husband, the respectable Louis Harrison, is young Claudia’s father also. When he dies, Claudia’s mother is fired, and the two are virtually run out of town, oblivious to the fact that Louis has made provisions in his will to take care of his “love child.” When Claudia returns to Philadelphia years later after learning that she’s been cheated out of her share of wealth, she’s full of venom with an ax to grind. She’s vowed to get revenge for every privilege that she’s been denied, and she’ll stop at nothing to get it.

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Edited by literary luminary Marita Golden, these stories and essays about love will make romantics and cynics alike sit up and take notice.  Proceeds from this book benefit the Hurston Wright Foundation.

Joy Newhouse is the dive of the airwaves, a relationship expert who scores big with listeners for her jaw-dropping, scathing commentary on men, women, sex--no subject is taboo for this provocative radio jock. When she's fired suddenly by new management, Joy isn't happy off the air and out of the spotlight. So she writes a book that features her most titillating calls and letters, a bestseller ripe with the kind of gossip intended to put Joy back where she belongs: on top.

Soon, however, negative and righteous feedback from those listeners she exploited in her book stirs up a media scandal, giving Joy a crisis of conscience--and a taste of payback. Perhaps it wasn't so wise of her to hitch her star to her readers' most personal stories--tales of scret affairs, office romances, baby-daddy drama, cheaters, swingers, sibling rivalries, job infighting and more. Perhaps there's a better way to reinvent herself?

In her highly anticipated sophomore release, Nicole Bailey-Williams, returns readers to Philadelphia where they meet Shanna Washington, a biracial girl who is abandoned by her socialite mother. In this modern twist on the 'tragic mulatto' theme, readers are drawn into Shanna's world where they learn to see that things aren't always just black and white.

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"Like a gifted quilter, Bailey-Williams has stitched together the pieces of a woman's life to form a seamless portrait of survival and healing."

"Bailey-Williams's spare narration and concise prose establish her as a new author with a powerful voice and plenty to say."

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