Karen E. Quinones Miller
1) Passin'
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Essence best-selling author and winner of the Nubian Literary Award, Karen E. Quinones Miller was also named Author of the Year by Turning Pages Book Club.
Passin' introduces Shanika Ann Jenkins, a light-skinned black woman who decides to remake herself. Shanika is blonde and beautiful. But after being rejected for a job she makes an incredible choice: to use her God-given assets to become the white woman she always imagined she could be.
2) Satin Nights
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Karen E. Quinones Miller pens sizzling tales of passion and intrigue. Her books, including Using What You Got (F0146), have appeared on Essence and Blackboard best-seller lists. Thirty-something writer Regina lives in Harlem with her four-year-old daughter. And no matter what she does, drama follows her wherever she goes. Her world is thrown for a loop when shady Little Joe re-enters her life looking for some action. Unfortunately, her lingering feelings...
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Using What You Got is a provocative novel from a best-selling author. Young and beautiful Tiara Bynum expects to be treated like a princess. Her father will give her anything she asks for, even if he can't afford it. But when the man of Tiara's dreams doesn't seem to return her feelings, her confidence is shaken, and she makes some decisions with disastrous consequences
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The first and only full biography on legendary Harlem gangster, Bumpy Johnson who was depicted in the movies Cotton Club, Hoodlum and American Gangster Al Capone may have ruled Chicago. Lucky Luciano may have run most of New York City. But from the 1930s to the late 1960s, when it came to Harlem, the undisputed king of the underworld was Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson. Bumpy was a man whose contradictions are still the root of many an argument in Harlem....