Nia Long
3) Missing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When the mother of a young woman goes missing with her boyfriend while vacationing in Columbia, she fears the worse. Although she is thousands of miles away, she uses everything in her power to get answers. After getting stonewalled and running into miles of international red tape, the young woman relies on her wit and savvy to find the answers. As time runs out, can she get the proof she needs to find her mother?
4) Alfie
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Alfie is what you'd call an unrepentant womanizer. He is a limo driver working in New York City, which, of course, provides him ample opportunity to continue his womanizing ways. That is until reality slaps him in the face. His carnality eventually gets in the way, and he decides to change his wandering ways.
5) Keanu
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clarence and Rell, cousins who live in the city but are far from streetwise. When Rell2s beloved kitten, Keanu, is catnapped, the hopelessly straight-laced pair must impersonate ruthless killers in order to infiltrate a street gang and retrieve the purloined feline. But the incredibly adorable kitten becomes so coveted that the fight over his custody creates a gang war, forcing our two unwitting heroes to take the law into their own hands.
6) Soul food
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Sunday dinner at Mother Joe's is a mouth-watering, 40-year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad, love and laughs are always on the menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mom Maxine and her sisters Teri and Bird. But when serious bickering starts to tear the family apart, the good times suddenly stop. Now it's up to Ahmad to get everyone back together and teach them the true meaning of soul food.
7) Friday
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Craig and Smokey must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won't be a Saturday.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to the hilarious 2005 family comedy Are We There Yet?, Are We Done Yet? picks up where the last story left off. Now married to Suzanne (Nia Long), Nick Persons (Ice Cube) has bought a quiet suburban house to escape the rat race of the big city and to provide more space for his new wife and kids, Lindsey and Kevin (Aleisha Allen and Philip Bolden). But when his new home quickly becomes a costly "fixer upper" and he finds himself at the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the delightful road comedy Are We There Yet?, a playboy bachelor's karma comes due – just in time for the holidays. Nick (Ice Cube), a smooth operator, is trying to land a date with Suzanne (Nia Long), a divorcee with whom he would like to ring in the New Year. Problem is Suzanne is stuck working in Vancouver and miserable because she misses her kids. Seizing the opportunity, Nick gallantly offers to make her New Year's wish come true – and...
10) Love Jones
Author
Language
English
Description
Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friend, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius' feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.
11) Never 2 Big
Author
Language
English
Description
When Rhythm Records' biggest artist is found dead just hours after she threatens to leave the label, her brother suspects the label' s ruthless CEO Curtis "Eightball" Harris is responsible. Now Freddy has to prove it before Eightball's hired thugs shut him up permanently. When you make a deal with Rhythm Records, you sign your life away in this suspenseful, action-packed look at the music biz backed by a pulsing hip-hop soundtrack.
12) In Too Deep
Author
Language
English
Description
Officer Jeff Cole is given a dangerous mission: infiltrate the syndicate of "God", a crime lord who rules the city's streets! But as Cole sinks deeper into God's crew, the line that separates his true identity from his street persona begins to disappear!
14) Mooz-lum
Author
Language
English
Description
Amid a strict Muslim rearing and a social life he's never had, Tariq enters college confused. New peers, family and mentors help him find his place, but the 9-11 attacks force him to face his past and make the biggest decisions of his life.
15) Hav Plenty
Author
Language
English
Description
Lee Plenty is a flailing, wannabe writer, homeless and apartment-sitting for his friend, the wealthy Havilland Savage, while she is off visiting family. So Lee jumps at the chance to see Havilland, whom he has secretly loved for years.
