The Accidental Diva
The Accidental Diva

Author: Tia Williams

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-05-03

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1101210311

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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick Seven Days in June comes a hot and hilarious borough-crossed love story about a Manhattan beauty editor, a Brooklyn writer, and the attraction that takes them by storm. Billie Burke is smart, endlessly driven, and fabulous—it’s no accident she landed a job as the beauty editor at the world’s leading fashion magazine. Caught in a whirlwind of long office hours and fashion industry party-hopping, she hasn’t had time to focus on her nonexistent love life. Instead, she’s been living vicariously through her friends. Then she meets Jay Lane, a gorgeous up-and-coming Brooklyn writer who pretty much knocks her right out of her stilettos. Soon Billie finds herself doing things with Jay in broad daylight that she’s never even dared to think about in the privacy of her own head. In no time at all she’s absolutely addicted to an affair that’s as crazy and seductive as New York itself. But there’s a lot she doesn’t know about Jay, whose rough past seems determined to start creeping back into their present....

It Chicks
It Chicks

Author: Tia Williams

Publisher: Paw Prints

Published: 2009-07-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781439598283

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Centering around a prestigious performing arts school in New York City, students Tangie, Skye, Eden, Trey, C.J., Izzy, and Regina learn valuable lessons in love, friendship, fame, and fortune.

The Perfect Find
The Perfect Find

Author: Tia Williams

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1538708221

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Soon to be a Netflix movie starring Gabrielle Union! Will a forty-year-old woman with everything on the line – her high-stakes career, ticking biological clock, bank account – risk it all for a secret romance with the one person who could destroy her comeback, for good? Jenna Jones, former It-girl fashion editor, is forty, broke and desperate for a second chance. When she’s dumped by her longtime fiancé and fired from Darling magazine, she begs for a job from her arch nemesis, Darcy Vale. Darcy, the beyond-bitchy publisher of StyleZine.com, agrees to hire her rival – only because her fashion site needs a jolt from Jenna’s old school cred. But Jenna soon realizes she’s in over her head. Jenna’s working with digital-savvy millennials half her age, has never even “Twittered,” and pretends to still be a Fashion Somebody while living a style lie (she sold her designer wardrobe to afford her sketched-out studio, and now quietly wears Walmart’s finest). What’s worse is that the twenty-two-year-old videographer assigned to shoot her web series is driving her crazy. Wildly sexy with a smile Jenna feels in her thighs, Eric Combs is way off-limits – but almost too delicious to resist.

Ain't I a Diva?
Ain't I a Diva?

Author: Kevin Allred

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 2019-06-11

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 193693261X

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“[Allred] interrogates Beyoncé’s music and videos to explore the complicated spaces where racism, sexism, and capitalism collide.” —Kirkus Reviews In 2010, Professor Kevin Allred created the university course “Politicizing Beyoncé” to both wide acclaim and controversy. He outlines his pedagogical philosophy in Ain’t I a Diva?, exploring what it means to build a syllabus around a celebrity. Topics range from a capitalist critique of “Run the World (Girls)” to the politics of self-care found in “Flawless”; Beyoncé’s art is read alongside black feminist thinkers including Kimberlé Crenshaw, Octavia Butler, and Sojourner Truth. Combining analysis with classroom anecdotes, Allred attests that pop culture is so much more than a guilty pleasure, it’s an access point—for education, entertainment, critical inquiry, and politics. “Proving himself a worthy member of the BeyHive, Kevin Allred takes us on a journey through Beyoncé’s greatest hits and expansive career—peeling back their multiple layers to explore gender, race, sexuality, and power in today’s modern world. A fun, engaging, and important read for long-time Beyoncé fans and newcomers alike.” —Franchesca Ramsey, author of Well, That Escalated Quickly “Ain’t I a Diva? explores the phenomenon of Beyoncé while explicitly championing not only her immense talent and grace but what we can learn from it. In this celebration of Beyoncé, and through her, other Black women, Allred is giving us room to be exactly who we are so that maybe we, too, can stop the world then carry on!” —Keah Brown, author of The Pretty One “A must-read for any fan of Beyoncé and of fascinating feminist discourse.” —Zeba Blay, senior culture writer, HuffPost

The Diva Wraps It Up
The Diva Wraps It Up

Author: Krista Davis

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0698143183

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The eighth mystery in the New York Times bestselling Domestic Diva series includes delicious recipes and entertaining tips! The holidays are Sophie Winston’s favorite time of year. But this season, there seem to be more mishaps than mistletoe. First, Horace Scroggins tumbles from a balcony during his office Christmas party. Then, Sophie’s neighbor takes a fall from his ladder while decorating his roof with lights. But it’s the cookie swap that really starts her wondering who’s naughty or nice... Sophie arrives at the annual event with high spirits and thirteen dozen chocolate-drizzled gingersnaps. But when an argument erupts and a murder ensues, it becomes clear that the recent string of events is anything but accidental. Now Sophie has to make a list of suspects...and check it twice!

Diana's Dogs
Diana's Dogs

Author: Ed Ifkovic

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2007-10

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0595471048

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The Guinness Book of World Records calls her the best-selling female singer in history. Billboard named her the Celebrity of the Century. Diana Ross, lead singer of the most popular girl group of the 1960s and later a consummate solo artist, has been in the public eye for over four decades. From 1964-when "Where Did Our Love Go?" rose to number one on the pop charts-to the present day, she has been the ultimate diva, an artist worshiped by fanatical fans, yet pilloried in the press for her temper tantrums and untoward demands. Ed Ifkovic delivers his own spin on this international celebrity, an idiosyncratic collection of short pieces that create a portrait of the mercurial star. From a Detroit housing project to a Connecticut mansion-who is this woman who exacts such loyalty from her fans and such vitriol from her detractors? There are pieces on Diana's tantrums, true, but also jottings on the homes she's lived in, the food she eats, the cars she drives, even her role as muse for writers. There is a collection of poetic similes commentators have employed to describe her, as well as a mind-boggling catalogue of garish tabloid headlines. This off-beat book, admittedly an obsessive fan's unembarrassed send-up-equal parts delight and censure-is a spirited yet sardonic tale that also explores the integration of black music into the white mainstream. Frankly, Diana led that noble charge. What the author delights in is the unorthodox observation and gossipy tidbit that accompanied that revolution.

The Accidental Werewolf
The Accidental Werewolf

Author: Dakota Cassidy

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-02-05

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780425219300

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When Marty Andrews gets bitten by a mangy mutt while walking her teacup poodle, her blond hair darkens, the hair on her legs starts growing at an alarming rate, and her mood swings put her dream job as a sales rep for Bobbie-Sue Cosmetics in serious jeopardy. Then a drool-worthy man shows up at her door claiming that he accidentally bit Marty. And since he's a werewolf, she is now, too. Thinking Keegan Flaherty is clearly insane, Marty refuses to believe a word until a kidnapping makes her realize there's more at stake than just her highlights. And she must put her out-of-control life in the hands of the man who makes her blood run wild in more ways than one...

Sixteen Candles (An It Chicks Novel)
Sixteen Candles (An It Chicks Novel)

Author: Tia Williams

Publisher: Jump At The Sun

Published: 2008-05-06

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781423110323

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First-day-of-school buzz? So over! It’s the end of September, and the spotlight-loving, drama-obsessed It Chicks’ lives are getting juicier by the second. /DIV With Skye getting ready for her very own “My Super Sweet Sixteen” episode on MTV, she’s finally back in the center of attention—and she and Tangie are back to BFF status. Meanwhile, when Tangie least expects it, her secret fling with senior stud Trey Stevens takes a turn that leaves everyone wondering if true players really can have a change of heart. But will Skye’s jealousy get the best of her when Tangie’s love life takes center stage? And how long can CJ keep quiet before Izzy spills the secret that’ll change Tangie’s life forever? DIV This time around, Tangie’s friendship drama takes a back seat to her romance—can they handle the heat?

Appetite
Appetite

Author: Erika J. Kendrick

Publisher: One World

Published: 2009-06-23

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 034551484X

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MANY CULTURES • ONE WORLD With her exotic looks and killer body, Kennedy Lee is a rising star in the reality TV and soap opera worlds. Now she’s really hit the big time and landed a role on the hugely popular daytime drama America’s Next Sweetheart. As this great news coincides with Kennedy’s birthday, her friends take her out for a wild night on the town. So wild, in fact, that the next morning Kennedy wakes up with a hard-bodied hunk in her bed, a vicious headache, and no recollection of how this gorgeous guy ended up beside her–naked. Not only that, but it’s her first day at the new gig, and Page Six has already chronicled her previous night’s exploits, calling her “America’s Next Lush.” Now Kennedy must endure dirty looks on the set, abuse from the soap’s bitchy diva, and the shocker that the guy who broke her five-year celibacy streak is none other than her co-star, Jesse James. As she battles catty actors, snarky production assistants, malicious gossip, and her growing appetite for food and sex, she struggles to fit in, find her true Prince Charming, and eat a slice of red velvet cake without any guilt.

MetamorphosUS
MetamorphosUS

Author: Rebecca Rose Vassy

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-11

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13:

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All Mariposa Valdes wanted was a safe place to crash and a few days to breathe. But there are forces calling her to the fire festival MetamorphosUS. They whisper in dreams and visions of a soul in mortal danger there, and of a deadly enemy who must at all costs be stopped. Mari knows, all too well, the face of this demon...because once, it was nearly the last thing she saw. Or she would know it, if he had a face. With no idea who his target is or how to save them, but with nowhere else to go, Mari enters the carnivalesque art fields of MetamorphosUS alone and afraid. She quickly discovers that the demon's intended victim is just one piece of a paranormal threat involving an unseelie fae terrorist attack, a gestating army of nightmares, and the race for control of a supernatural weapon that could devastate humanity. Mari has gifts unleashed by her brush with death, and a premonition of allies among the revelers. But if she has any hope of facing her demon, first she'll be forced to re-forge the shattered pieces of her spirit and claim her deathright as a witch. CONTENT NOTE: This book has frank discussion of suicide, suicidal depression, and mental illness.