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E. Lynn Harris has wowed and seduced more than three million readers with the wicked drama and undeniable heart in his novels. He has packed Outwrite consistently for every reading in our history. Now he's back with another winner sure to top the bestseller lists--a rip-roaring tale of sex, secrets, betrayal . . . and blackmail. Aldridge James "AJ" Richardson is living the good life. He has a gorgeous town house in always-flavorful New Orleans, plenty of frequent-flier miles from jet-setting around the country on a whim, and an MBA--but he's never had to work a regular job. He owes it all to his longtime lover, Dray Jones. Dray Jones the rich and famous NBA star. They fell in love in college when AJ was hired to tutor Dray, a freshman on the basketball team. But Dray knew if he wanted to make it to the big time, he must juggle his public image and his private desires. Built on a deep, abiding love, their hidden relationship sustains them both, but when Dray's teammates begin to ask insinuating questions about AJ, Dray puts their doubts to rest by marrying Judi, a beautiful and ambitious woman. Judi knows nothing about Dray's "other life." Or does she? In "Basketball Jones," E. Lynn Harris explores the consequences of loving someone who is forced to conform to the rules society demands its public heroes follow. Filled with nonstop twists and turns, it will keep readers riveted from the first page to the last.

I love to travel but don't get to go as much as I like to. So when I go, I always like to have the best all around guide that has good gay travel suggestions. Time Out always succeeds & my next trip is to Costa Rica. Written by a team of local experts, "Time Out Costa Rica" offers complete coverage of the country's natural destinations, from beaches, rainforests, and active volcanoes to 25 national parks and countless wildlife refuges and reserves. Here too are independent picks of boutique hotels, wildlife lodges, and luxury hotels, as well as bars, restaurants, and resources. For each destination, the writers identify the best, the worst, the most fashionable, and the most overrated. Emphasizing how to enjoy this beautiful but fragile country in the most eco-friendly way possible, the guide includes smart surveys of Costa Rica's often overlooked Caribbean culture -- its unique food, calypso music, and nontraditional medicine.

If you are watching anything about politics (and who isn't), this book is reading 101. In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl).

I have been to at least a dozen events with Doug Blackmon & he always changes people's lives when they here this painful but true history of the South. Now out in paperback, In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history--an "Age of Neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Douglas A. Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter. By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.