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DeBerry & Grant
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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2010

Uptown

ENTER THE WORLD OF UPTOWN Uptown . . . where money rules Uptown . . . where ambition trumps tradition Uptown . . . where politics come before everything Uptown . . . where a family’s secrets will bring them together—or down After twenty years away, Avery Lyons returns to New York when her mother and uncle suffer a serious car accident. The tragedy brings the family together, but...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2009

What Doesn't Kill You

“I really thought I had a handle on life—then it broke off.”Divorced since her daughter, Amber, was young, forty-something Tee has been “handling her business”—supporting herself after her would-be songwriter husband took off for L.A.—and she’s done all right. But then everything changes. First, she’s outplaced from her longtime job and doesn’t tell anyone. Then she throws her...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.08.2008

Gotta Keep on Tryin

Gayle Saunders and Patricia Reid have been lifelong friends, as close as sisters. When they were teens their dreams led them down separate paths and away from each other. But they reunited as adults, drawn back together by a bond of friendship that stood the test of time. Now Pat and Gayle co-own the Ell & Me Company, a business they founded based on a character Gayle created...

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PUBLISHED: May.01.2004

Better Than I Know Myself

The beloved bestselling authors of Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made now deliver a novel in which you'll meet their most unforgettable characters yet. Carmen, Jewel, and Regina could not be more different. When they meet as freshmen at Columbia University, they're pretty confident that a friendship among them isn't in the cards. Jewel is Hollywood royalty: as the teenage star of...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.1997

Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made

Gayle Saunders and Patricia Reid were total opposites who chose each other as best friends when they were children.Through the years they were raised together, as close as sisters.Gayle, the beauty pampered by her working-class parents, believes a man will make her world complete.Pat, the brainy one, is the hand-me-down child whose mystery parentage haunts her.She`s determined to...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.1990

Exposures

As a glamorous, successful fashion photographer, adored by New York and Paris trend makers, Brett Larsen has dedicated her life to capturing beauty. Yet the corruption and betrayals that lie just beneath the glittering surface of that world prevent her from recognizing her own beauty and its glorious possibilities. The first collaboration by Virginia DeBerry & Donna...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.09.2000

Far From the Tree

Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Celeste is a doctor's wife, living a perfect and elegant life. But secretly, she is terrified: her marriage is falling apart and her need to control the people around her threatens to alienate her entire family. And Celeste allows no one to see how vulnerable she really is. Ronnie is an actress,...

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May.23.2011 - 3:00 pm

Naked--or Not

When Patti Davis walked into World Gym that morning, what she did was reclaim the vitality she had allowed drugs to deplete. Her decision to bare herself to the world, once again...

May.14.2011 - 7:47 am

The Nothingness That Is a Size Zero

After the untimely death of plus model Mia Amber Davis earlier this week, we were asked by AOL/BlackVoices via RedRoom, to blog on the subject of body image and black women...

Sep.08.2010 - 7:27 am

Show and Tell--Or why LeBron and Lilo are emblematic of what's wrong with US (U.S.)

(I actually wrote and posted this blog on Opensalon.com, in July. ) No, I’m not just a bitter, middle-aged hater with no life. I do not begrudge them their youth, their talent (...

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About DeBerry

With seven novels to their credit, Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, best friends for nearly 30 years, have turned a friendship into one of the most successful and enduring writing collaborations in contemporary women's fiction. Their first mainstream novel,...

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