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  <name><![CDATA[Gary Phillips]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Sofa Quintero is the author of several novels and short stories that cross genres.  Born into a working-class Puerto Rican-Dominican family in the Bronx., the self-proclaimed Ivy League homegirl earned a BA in history-sociology from Columbia University in 1990 and her MPA from the university's School of International and Public Affairs in 1992. After years of working on a range of policy issues from multicultural education to HIV/AIDS, she decided to pursue career that married arts and activism. Under the pen name Black Artemis, she wrote the hip hop novels Explicit Content, Picture Me Rollin and Burn.  Sofa is also the author of the novel Divas Dont Yield and contributed novellas to the chica lit anthologies Friday Night Chicas and Names I Call My Sister.  As an activist, she co-founded Chica Luna Productions (chicaluna.com), a nonprofit organization that seeks to identify, develop and support women of color who wish to create socially conscious entertainment. She is also a founding creative partner of Sister Outsider Entertainment, a multimedia production company that produces quality entertainment for multicultural audiences.  Sofa is presently working on her first young adult novel Efrains Secret which will be published by Knopf in 2009.  To learn more about Sofia and her work, visit blackartemis.com, sisteroutsider.biz or myspace.com/sofiaquintero.&quot;]]></about>            
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Darker Mask]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Christopher Chambers]]></name>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Cocaine Chronicles]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gary Phillips]]></name>
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  <published>2005</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Jook]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gary Phillips]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.20</average_rating>
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  <published>1999</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Politics Noir: Dark Tales from the Corridors of Power]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gary Phillips]]></name>
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  <ratings_count>6</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[High Hand]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gary Phillips]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.60</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>5</ratings_count>
  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Bangers]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gary Phillips]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.67</average_rating>
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  <published>2003</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Shot Callerz]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gary Phillips]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Brett Weldele]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <published>2003</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Monkology: The Ivan Monk Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gary Phillips]]></name>
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  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
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  <published>2004</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Perdition USA]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Gary Phillips]]></name>
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  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
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  <published>1996</published>  
  
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        <book id="2833940">
  <title><![CDATA[Violent Spring (Ivan Monk Mystery, no.1)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Gary Phillips]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
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  <published>1994</published>  
  
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