Kimberla Lawson Roby, Author . Morrow $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-056849-8
Curtis Black, the charismatic pastor with a taste for life's finer things (slick clothes, hot cars and even hotter women) who previously wreaked havoc in 2001's Casting the First Stone
, returns to the pulpit in Roby's sixth outing....
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Kimberla Lawson Roby. Grand Central, $20 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4555-6971-7
Bestseller Roby’s idea to bring a copycat nightmare to life strains credibility because of too many plot holes. It’s hard to believe that Traci Calloway Cole, a bestselling new author, would befriend Simone Phillips, a stranger and unpublished...
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Kimberla Lawson Roby. Grand Central, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-446-57247-7
This engrossing book by Roby (Love, Honor and Betray) follows the trajectory of nearly a dozen others in the Reverend Curtis Black series. Charlotte, the wife of the famous pastor-author Rev. Curtis Black, has betrayed him and he wants a divorce. He’
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Kimberla Lawson Roby. Grand Central, $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-446-57242-2
Paige Donohue has spent her entire life feeling inferior to her sister, Camille, who gets all the love and affection from their parents while Paige is treated like the bad seed. So Paige devises a convoluted plan to fake her own rape, hoping that...
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Kimberla Lawson Roby, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $22 (300p) ISBN 978-1-57566-489-7
There are few surprises in the insubstantial plot of Roby's third novel (after Here and Now), a story of a marriage that, obviously doomed from the book's opening pages, drags on through repetitive and melodramatic scenes. When she married him eight
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Kimberla Lawson Roby, Grand Central, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-446-57245-3
In Roby's eighth update exploring the family of the righteous Reverend Black (after 2010's Be Careful What You Pray For), life at the Deliverance Outreach ministry of Mitchell, Ill., is relatively calm (except for a sneaky chief financial officer;...
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Kimberla Lawson Roby, Author . Morrow $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-144309-1
Sexually abused for five years, studious 12-year-old Jillian Maxwell lives in terror of her pedophile stepfather, Byron James, in Roby's (The Best of Everything
) powerful short novel. The nightmare begins with her stepfather's...
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Kimberla Lawson Roby, Author . Morrow $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-144306-0
Roby’s disappointing sixth entry in her Rev. Curtis Black series (after 2008’s Sin No More
) focuses on Alicia Black Sullivan, his beautiful and spoiled 22-year-old daughter. Accustomed to getting anything she wants, Alicia shops like...
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Kimberla Lawson Roby, Author . Morrow $23.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-06-089250-0
Flawed Rev. Curtis Black returns in Roby’s latest melodrama (following Love and Lies). The repentant, 46-year-old Curtis has finally made amends with his 31-year-old wife, Charlotte: she’s forgiven him for his five-year affair with...
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Kimberla Lawson Roby, Author . Morrow $23.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-06-089249-4
For Charlotte Black, there are some good things about being married to the "world renowned" Rev. Curtis Black (whose flashy, trashy life Roby has dished in earlier works). Her husband's bestselling books and flourishing ministry allow...
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Kimberla Lawson Roby, Author . Morrow $23.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-06-078077-7
Roby's thin portrayal (after The Best-Kept Secret
) of three steadfast best friends in Chicago shows how they cope with waves of individual and interpersonal troubles. Whitney is an intelligent, overweight singleton who consoles herself at...
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Kimberla Lawson Roby, Author . Morrow $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-073443-5
Rev. Curtis Black has finally changed his ways: no more close encounters with temptation, either of the flesh or of the wallet, just a simple existence running his new church and loving his young wife of two years, Charlotte, and their son, Matthew.
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Kimberla Lawson Roby, Author . Kensington/ Dafina $23 (275p) ISBN 978-1-57566-629-7
The story of the private heartaches of three Chicago siblings before and after their mother's debilitating stroke drives this amiable family-and-faith-centered novel by Roby (Casting the First Stone). At 36, Sydney Taylor attempts to be dutiful...
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Kimberla Lawson Roby, Author, Lynn Chavis, Performed by, Audra Alise Polk, Performed by , read by Lynn Chavis, Audra Alise Polk, Delores King Williams. HarperAudio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-087637-1
Three performers give a warm, believable feeling to this tale of friendship. Polk is the standout here: as Whitney, she latches onto the reader like a best friend eager to spill all her news. Whether bemoaning her inability to lose weight or...
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Kimberla Lawson Roby, Author, Lawson, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $22 (288p) ISBN 978-1-57566-336-4
The soap operatic plot of Kimberla Lawson Roby's second novel (Behind Closed Doors) revolves around the lives of two African-American sisters, Marcella and Racquel. Teacher Racquel threatens the stability of her four-year marriage with her...
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Kimberla Lawson Roby. Grand Central, $29 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5387-0895-8
In the uneven latest from Roby (It’s a Thin Line), four friends help each other weather hard times and remain grounded in their Christian faith. Kenya, Lynette, Michelle, and Serena have been best friends since they met at church as young children,...
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