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1) Mina's Joint
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Once again she's back! Keisha Ervin, that is, with her spellbinding tale of love, family, money, and scandal.
In this sizzling new story, Keisha introduces you to Mina Matthews. She is not your typical around-the-way girl. Her dreams of making a life for herself outside the hood are now a reality. At the age of twenty-five, she has her own full-service salon, Mina's Joint, drives a CLK55, and is engaged to Andrew, the son of the mayor of St. Louis.
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A glorious literary debut set in Africa about five unforgettable women-two of them haunted by a shared tragedy-whose lives intersect in unexpected and sometimes explosive ways
When Adjoa leaves Ghana to find work in the Ivory Coast, she hopes that one day she'll return home to open a beauty parlor. Her dream comes true, though not before she suffers a devastating loss-one that will haunt her for years, and one that also deeply affects Janice, an...
3) Leaving Eden
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When Glamour Day comes to the Klip-N-Kurl beauty parlor in tiny Lovettsville, Virginia, Tallie Brock sees her ticket to Hollywood and stardom. By turns funny and tender, joyous and poignant, bestselling author Anne LeClaire has written a winning, stylish novel of small-town Southern life-and what it means to be a mother, daughter, best friend, wife, and lover.
4) Suspicions
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When an abandoned baby girl is left on her doorstep with a mysterious note, Noelle Gordon, the owner of the hottest beauty salon on the south side of Chicago, is filled with uncertainty about her marriage and will stop at nothing to find the truth.
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"After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale. Loretha Curry's life is full. A little crowded sometimes, but full indeed. On the eve of her sixty-eighth birthday, she has a booming beauty-supply empire, a gaggle of lifelong friends, and a husband...
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Eleven years ago, LilyAnn Bronte was the Peachy-Keen Queen of Blessings, Georgia--the prettiest, smartest, and most popular girl in town, going steady with the star quarterback, a high school career on a fast track to success. Then Randy Joe was killed in Iraq, and somehow LilyAnn just let herself go to seed. Ruby, Mabel Jean, Vera and Vesta of the Curl Up and Dye have been itching to give LilyAnn a makeover, but she knows it would take more than...
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Set adrift when her mother sells the salon that has been a neighborhood institution for decades, Nora Rolvaag takes a camping trip, intending to do nothing more than roast marshmallows over an open fire and under a starry sky. Two chance encounters, however, will have enormous consequences, and her getaway turns out to be more of a retreat from her daily life than she ever imagined. But Nora is the do-or-die-trying daughter of Patty Jane, who now...
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Kensington Books
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"Presley Cline has put aside dreams of Hollywood stardom and come back to Ellery, Tennessee, to work in a beauty shop. In truth, the dreams in question were more her mother's than her own. Presley may have the face and body of a movie icon, but she lacks the stomach for it. Yet a loving relationship and normal home life seem almost as unattainable as an Oscar. Being able to see and speak to dead people certainly isn't helping. Presley's first job,...
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Gansett Island ; 20
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"Finn McCarthy, the youngest of the McCarthy cousins, is at a crossroads. As the lease on his Gansett Island rental comes to an end, he's making plans to return to his real life on the mainland. He's enjoyed the nearly two years on Gansett with his boisterous fun loving family, but it's time to get back to the life he put on hold when he came to the island for his cousin's wedding and never left. With renovations to the Wayfarer, the family's latest...
10) Making waves
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The first novel by the author of acclaimed national bestseller The Sunday Wife, now reissued in paperback. In a small Alabama town in Zion County, life is finally looking up for 20-year-old Donnette Sullivan. Having just inherited her aunt's old house and beauty shop, she's taken over the business. Her husband, Tim, recently crippled in an accident, is beginning to cope not only with his disability but also with the loss of his dreams. Once a promising...
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Forever
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2011.
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"Dear Reader,Yes, our town is way off the beaten path, but strange, wonderful miracles happen a lot around here.I've owned the Cut 'n' Curl beauty shop for years, and I've seen folks come for a visit, then stay for a lifetime. Take Jane-that pretty firecracker of a girl who just arrived in town. I would swear she's running from something. She came with only five dollars in her pocket but she's worked real hard to make a fresh start. She's turned my...
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Last Chance ; 4
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Forever
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2012.
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English
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"Lark is in Last Chance to bury her father and dig up his past and inadvertently stirs up a whole mess of trouble." --
18) A dyeing shame
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Elizabeth Spann Craig
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[2013]
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English
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"When Beauty Box beautician Tammy Smith is discovered with a pair of hair shears in her back, there are suspects and secrets aplenty in her small Southern town. Octogenarian Myrtle Clover, bored by bingo and bridge, is intrigued by the crime-- and her neighbors' secrets. But discovering, and blabbing, secrets got Tami killed and Myrtle soon learns her sleuthing isn't just dangerous-- it's deadly."--Page 4 of cover.
19) The do-over: 1
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Clarion Books
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[2023]
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English
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When shy newcomer Mariana meets science whiz Zoe and creative maven Everly, the three girls decide to start their own hair styling salon, and Mariana finds the friends, and the calling, she's been searching for.
20) Killer kung pao
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
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2020.
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"Lana Lee's plate is already plenty full. Running her family's Chinese restaurant in Cleveland's Asia Village is challenging on the best of days. But just when Lana thinks she might be able to catch her breath before the weekend--which she's eager to spend with her equally overworked boyfriend, Detective Adam Trudeau--Lana witnesses a car accident in the parking lot. And now she has no choice but to get involved. June Yi, of Yi's Tea and Bakery,...
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