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Barbara Neely
Born
in Lebanon, PA, The United States
November 30, 1941
Died
March 02, 2020
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Blanche on the Lam (Blanche White, #1)
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1992
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35 editions
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Blanche Among the Talented Tenth (Blanche White, #2)
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1994
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2 editions
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Blanche Cleans Up (Blanche White, #3)
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1998
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17 editions
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Blanche Passes Go (Blanche White, #4)
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2000
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16 editions
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Breaking Ice: an Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction
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1990
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12 editions
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Boston Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Noir)
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2012
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8 editions
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Blanche: All Four Novels
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Hardboiled Women
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“Love and sex, honey. Either one can make you do the damndest things. The two combined will make you a sure ’nough fool.”
― Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
― Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
“He gave Blanche the cheeky “Hey, girl” greeting that teenage white boys working up to being full-fledged rednecks give grown black women in the South. Blanche hissed some broken Swahili and Yoruba phrases she'd picked up at the Freedom Library in Harlem and told the boy it was a curse that would render his penis as slim and sticky as a lizard's tongue. The look on his face and the way he clutched his crotch lifted her spirits considerably.”
― Blanche on the Lam
― Blanche on the Lam
“Anytime you get this many light-skinned black people together at least half of them are going to be folks who act light-skinned.”
― Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
― Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Mystery/Thriller ...: First Lines | 123 | 110 | Oct 01, 2010 06:02AM | |
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Reading with Style:
SP 2017 AotD Plans
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14 | 57 | Feb 23, 2017 12:30PM | |
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Cozy Mysteries :
Title and Author game, Round 3
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13653 | 557 | Apr 03, 2017 09:53AM | |
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Cozy Mysteries :
Mystery ABC's, Round 3
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13220 | 635 | Apr 24, 2017 10:00AM | |
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SP 2017 Completed Tasks
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924 | 120 | May 31, 2017 09:01PM | |
| 2-3-4 Challenge: Meera's Reading Plan for July | 9 | 11 | Jul 04, 2017 08:35AM | |
| The Mystery, Crim...: Mysteries with a regular person as sleuth | 11 | 45 | May 12, 2018 08:33PM | |
| Around the World ...: Maine | 16 | 407 | Dec 28, 2018 02:09PM |
