Mary Monroe, Author . Kensington $24 (314p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0346-5
In this third novel in Monroe's bestselling God Don't series, Annette Goode finally has it all: a sexy husband who adores her, a beautiful young daughter, a comfy house, a good job and a perfect best friend. But why is someone suddenly...
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Mary Monroe, Author . Dafina $24 (281p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1217-7
Bestseller Monroe delivers what could be her wildest and most entertaining novel yet. Greed, betrayal and murder intersect as Wade Eddie Fisher, who looks “like a low-income Lenny Kravitz,” and Christine Thurman, the wife of super-success
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Mary Monroe, Author . Kensington/Dafina $24 (298p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1219-1
The question in Monroe's steamy but seedy shocker is who should suffer the most: the unreliable narrator or her BFF who commits murder on the night of their senior prom? Dolores Reese, a foster child, and her best friend, Valerie Proctor, get...
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Mary Monroe, Author . Kensington/Dafina $15 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2551-1
In her 11th novel, Monroe (She Had It Coming
; God Don't Play
) takes on the music industry, walking in the Jimmy Choos of Teri Stewart, Eclectic Record's hardworking executive publicity director. Much to the chagrin of her best friend/assi
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Mary Monroe, Author . Dafina $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1221-4
Hilarious, raunchy soul sistahs Annette Davis and Rhoda O'Toole return in this latest wacky adventure in Monroe's God series (God Don't Play
, etc.). This time, Rhoda persuades her 46-year-old BFF to have an affair since Pee Wee,...
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Mary Monroe, Author . Kensington/Dafina $24 (326p) ISBN 978-0-7582-3859-7
Monroe tacks on another witty and wise installment to her God series (God Ain't Blind
; etc.), picking up after Annette Davis's disastrous affair with a con man. This time out, Annette's long-suffering “perfect husband,”...
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Mary Monroe, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $24 (384p) ISBN 978-1-57566-911-3
Mary Monroe's Gonna Lay Down My Burdens opens with a bang, when Carmen Taylor intervenes in a violent lovers' quarrel between her friends Chester and Desiree, and Chester winds up dead. Most of the novel is told in flashback, following Carmen...
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Mary Monroe. Kensington/Dafina, $24 (406p) ISBN 978-0-7582-3861-0
Mary Monroe's prequel to The Upper Room reintroduces readers to Mama Ruby, a fierce and indomitable woman. This time Monroe focuses on Ruby's early adolescence as the youngest daughter of a preacher in 1930s Louisiana. While her parents shelter her...
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Mary Monroe. Dafina, $25 (387p) ISBN 978-0-7582-7472-4
This latest installment in Monroe's popular Mama Ruby series is a spicy mixture of family scandal, mother-daughter betrayal, and good-for-nothing men. Our heroine is Maureen, whom Mama Ruby, a fearsome matriarch now deceased, kidnapped as an infant...
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Mary Monroe, Author, Victor McGlothin, Author . Dafina $24 (297p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1223-8
Monroe (God Don't Like Ugly
) and McGlothin (Down on My Knees
) each contribute a short novel to this curiously packaged product. Monroe's Nightmare in Paradise
features 31-year-old Renee, a second grade teacher and self-proclaimed "Miss
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Mary Monroe, Author, Monroe, Author Dafina Books $15 (352p) ISBN 978-1-57566-607-5
Annette Goode, born in the racist South of the 1950s, is the heroine of Monroe's strong second novel (after The Upper Room), a coming-of-age journey depicted with wit, poignancy and bite. Up until 1963, when 13-year-old, overweight Annette Goode...
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Mary Monroe, Author, Monroe Mary, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $24 (352p) ISBN 978-1-57566-910-6
Originally published in 1985, Mary Monroe's engaging debut novel, The Upper Room, features Ruby Montgomery, an obese, indomitable character who steals her best friend's baby daughter and flees to rural Florida, where she establishes herself as an
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Mary Monroe. Dafina, $20 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1584-5
Set in Northern Ohio, this soft single-dad romance focuses on taking a chance on love after loss and despite miscommunications. Felicia Hawkins is a successful woman who works hard at her job coordinating workshops and training sessions for...
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