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Today! 1:04 PM central standard time and 2:04 PM Eastern standard time!

Free the girls ⛓️‍💥 😭😭😭🥹🩷🙌🏿

Is it time for another trim?

Those conversations be REAL🤣

🖤 Evermore Series Book 2 | Black Romance | Spicy 🌶️ okay so Cree has me in a chokehold and I need to talk about it 😭 he is not loud. he is not dramatic. he just SHOWS UP. every single time. without being asked. without needing credit. and the fact that he cannot have her makes it ten times

🖤 Genre: Black Romance / Urban Romance / Novella 🌶️ Spicy her girls dared her to have a one night stand and Sovanna said bet 😭 y’all. ZAHIR. that man walked down those steps and it was over. the chemistry between him and Sovanna was so electric I had to put my phone down and collect myself

95 years of costumes, wigs, props & chaos, and St. Louis has been keeping this a SECRET?! The Dungeon is not a store, it’s an experience 🔥🎭 #JohnnieBrocks #StLouis #CosplayCreator

South Grand in St. Louis said let us give the readers EVERYTHING and Leviathan Bookstore did not miss 😭📚 Feminism. African American lit. government. humanity. queer. literary fiction. sci-fi. fantasy. journals. gifts. a little smut for the grown folks 😌 AND a children’s play area with books so t

I fell yall😅😭😭😭

I feel a crashout is on the horizon😭🙃

I finally made it to Dunaway Books in St. Louis and I am NOT okay 😭📚 nearly 80,000 books across three floors! used, rare, out of print, history, philosophy, sci-fi, mystery, poetry, Black history, first editions… there is even a piano you can play and vinyl for the music lovers. this place has e

📚 If I Ruled the World by Amy DuBois Barnett 🖤 Genre: Contemporary Fiction / 90s Workplace Drama 1999 NYC. Hip hop. High fashion. A Black woman who got told “Black girls don’t sell magazines” one too many times and said absolutely not. and the author literally LIVED this. first Black woman

📚 Kin by Tayari Jones 🖤 Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction ⚠️ TW: parental abandonment, domestic violence, racism, queer relationship POV: You and your best friend grew up motherless, side by side in a small Louisiana town. Then life splits you in two completely different directi

Goodreads dropped the April picks and I blacked out 🤣📚😭🕺 📚 The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer A woman who can literally jump inside any book to save it from being destroyed. Cozy magic, forbidden love, and a cat familiar. Yes please. 🧙🏽‍♀️ 📚 We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune Two husbands. 40 years

12 years in and I still hype myself up before every shift 😤 Not because I’m not ready, but because this field will humble you FAST. Nobody talks about the racism you’ll face (even the kind nobody says out loud). The coworkers who drain you. The doctors who try to shrink you. The nights you cry o

They freed a real 🥷

Y’all need to do better 🥹

If you find me, mind ur business 😭👾😆🥹

All the Sinners Bleed — S.A. Cosby 🖤 Genre: Southern Noir / Crime Thriller ⚠️ TW: gun violence, racism, child harm, religious trauma POV: You’re the first Black sheriff of a small Virginia town, a serial killer is hiding behind a church smile, and the whole community is watching you sink o