E. Lynn Harris Books In Order

Bentley L. Dean Books In Publication Order

  1. In My Father’s House (2010)

Invisible Life Books In Publication Order

  1. Invisible Life (1991)
  2. Just As I Am (1994)
  3. Abide With Me (1999)

Yancey Harrington Braxton Books In Publication Order

  1. Any Way the Wind Blows (1998)
  2. Not a Day Goes By (2000)
  3. Mama Dearest (2008)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. And This Too Shall Pass (1996)
  2. If This World Were Mine (1997)
  3. A Love of My Own (2002)
  4. I Say a Little Prayer (2003)
  5. Just Too Good to Be True (2008)
  6. Basketball Jones (2009)
  7. No One in the World (2011)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Got to be Real (2000)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Mystic Spirituality of A.W. Tozer (1992)
  2. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted (2003)
  3. Freedom in this Village Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men’s Writing (2004)

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E. Lynn Harris Books Overview

In My Father’s House

For his final new series, New York Times mega bestselling author E. Lynn Harris introduces Bentley L. Dean, owner of the hottest modeling agency in Miami’s sexy South Beach. Only the world s most beautiful models make the roster of Picture Perfect Modeling agency and they only do shoots for the most elite photographers and magazines. They are fashionista royalty and the owners, Bentley L. Dean and his beautiful partner Alexandra, know it. But even Picture Perfect isn t immune from hard times, so when Sterling Sneed, a rich, celebrity party planner promises to pay a ludicrously high fee for some models, Bentley finds he can t refuse. Even though the job is not exactly a photo shoot, Bentley agrees to supply fifteen gorgeous models as eye candy for an A list party to look good, be charming and, well, entertain the guests. They don t have to do anything they don t want to, but…
His models are pros and he figures they can handle the pressure, until one drops out and Bentley asks his prot g Jah, a beautiful kid who Bentley treats as if he were his own son, to substitute. Suddenly, the stakes are much higher, particularly when Jah falls in love with the hottest African American movie star in America. Seth Sinclair is very handsome, very famous, and very married and his closeted gay life makes him very dangerous as well. Can Bentley s fatherly guidance save Jah from making a fatal mistake?

Invisible Life

Available at last, E. Lynn Harris’s beloved first novel in a hardcover edition. Just a few years ago, E. Lynn Harris was selling his self published novel Invisible Life out of the back of his car. Today he is a bestselling publishing sensation, with more than one million copies of his four novels sold. To celebrate Harris’s incredible success, and offer his fans the opportunity to own, at last, a hardcover version of Invisible Life, Doubleday is proud to announce a special edition of the book so many have cherished. Invisible Life is the story of a young man’s coming of age. Law school, girlfriends, and career choices were all part of Raymond Tyler’s life, but there were other, more terrifying issues for him to confront. Being black was tough enough, but Raymond was becoming more and more conscious of sexual feelings that he knew weren’t ‘right.’ He was completely committed to Sela, his longtime girlfriend, but his attraction to Kelvin, whom he had met during his last year in law school, had become more than just a friendship. No matter how much he tried to suppress them, his feelings were deeply sexual. Fleeing to New York to escape both Sela and Kelvin, Raymond finds himself more confused than ever before. New relationships both male and female give him enormous pleasure but keep him from finding the inner peace and lasting love he so desperately desires. The horrible illness and death of a friend force Raymond, at last, to face the truth. Invisible Life has been hailed as ‘one of the most thought provoking books since James Baldwin’s Another Country’ Richmond Voice, and Harris’s ‘stories have become the toast of bookstores, reading groups, men, women, and gay and straight people’ Atlanta Journal Constitution. Proceeds from the sale of this special fifth anniversary edition will go to the E. Lynn Harris Foundation, a charitable organization that gives young people across the country the opportunity to study writing with established authors, and also aids emerging artists.

Just As I Am

E. Lynn Harris’s blend of rich, romantic storytelling and controversial contemporary issues like race and bisexuality have found an enthusiastic and diverse audience across America. Readers celebrate the arrival in paperback of his second novel, Just As I Am, which picks up where Invisible Life left off, introducing Harris’s appealing and authentic characters to a new set of joys, conflicts, and choices. Raymond, a young black lawyer from the South, struggles to come to terms with his sexuality and with the grim reality of AIDS. Nicole, an aspiring singer/actress, experiences frustration in both her career and in her attempts to find a genuine love relationship. Both characters share an eclectic group of friends who challenge them, and the reader, to look at themselves and the world around them through different eyes. By portraying Nicole’s and Raymond’s joys, as well as their pain, Harris never ceases to remind us that life, like love, is about self acceptance. In this vivid portrait of contemporary black life, with all its pressures and the complications of bisexuality, AIDS, and racism, Harris confirms a faith in the power of love love of all kinds to thrill and to heal, which will warm the hearts of readers everywhere.

Abide With Me

Dare to dream Since the publication of E. Lynn Harris’s stunning debut novel, Invisible Life, millions of readers have laughed, cried, and anguished along with his unforgettable cast of characters. Now, his growing legions of fans will finally find out what happens in this delicious conclusion to the ‘Invisible Life’ trilogy. In Abide With Me, Harris returns with the utmost finesse to his signature themes of love, friendship, and family, and craftily guides his irresistible characters through new challenges and heartbreaks, and ultimately to redemption through love. At the end of Just As I Am, Raymond Tyler, Jr., was beginning a relationship with Trent, a fraternity brother from his college days, while Nicole had found love with Jared, Raymond’s buddy from Atlanta. As Abide With Me opens, Raymond and Trent are settled in Seattle, where Trent’s career as an architect has blossomed and Raymond’s law practice is booming. All seems well. Then, late one night, Raymond gets a call from a United States Senator that threatens everything he’s built. Raymond, facing a crisis of faith, travels to New York hoping for the support of his best friend, Jared, who’s moved North after five years in Atlanta. His wife, Nicole, is performing in a revival of Dreamgirls, her lifelong fantasy at last coming true. Nicole is thrilled to return to the stage, but when things start to go wrong, her young and beautiful understudy, Yancey Harrington Braxton, steps into the spotlight a little too smoothly. And Nicole, far from achieving her dream, is suddenly forced to reevaluate her life and her marriage. Back, too, are the other beloved inhabitants of Harris’s world: Raymond’s family; the sexy and dangerous gray eyed sportscaster and ex football player, John Basil Henderson; and Peaches, the spirited owner of the Harlem shop Cuts ‘n’ Cobblers and the mother of Raymond’s late friend Kyle. In Abide With Me, Harris once again encourages his readers to live, love, and dream. His masterful storytelling, wit, and sensitivity permeate this enormously satisfying novel, which is both a tribute to his loyal following and an invitation to a new audience to enter his irresistible world. His ‘unique spin on the ever fascinating topics of identity, class, intimacy, sexuality, and friendship’ Vibe will once more put E. Lynn Harris at the top of the bestseller lists.

Any Way the Wind Blows

At the end of Not a Day Goes By, the terminally bisexual John Basil Henderson declares: I m back, in full form. And I m out there. Roamin . And switching lanes. Now, in Any Way the Wind Blows, Basil, good looking gadabout and homme fatal, is back at the top of his game razzle dazzling both the women and the men. All is well until Basil’s picture perfect life starts to unravel…
Left at the altar a year before, jilted Broadway bombshell Yancey Harrington Braxton stages her comeback this time as a recording star but has she forgiven ex fianc Basil, or does she still need to even the score? As Yancey s star continues to rise, her past threatens to catch up with her and she fears someone may be after her as well…
In a wicked little dance of revenge, Basil and Yancey struggle to keep their lives on track, while a chorus of unforgettable characters either come to their aid, or make matters worse. In the mix are: Yancey s mother, Ava Mama Dearest Braxton, a diva s diva and a second rate showgirl housed in the body of an aging supermodel; the wise and wonderful Windsor Adams; and the new guy in town, Bartholomew Bart Dunbar, a rogue s rogue and handsome hunk of a man who stands to make Basil look like a choirboy. With just the right amount of wickedness, love, and compassion, Harris s masterful storytelling and delicious plot twists will have fans and newcomers alike frantically turning pages trying to find the answer to the ultimate question: Does revenge ever really pay?

Not a Day Goes By

Four cassettes, 6 hoursPerformance by Rocky CarrollWelcome to the irresistible world of E. Lynn Harris He is a devilish and handsome ex football player, now a rising sports agent at one of the hottest firms in the country. Irrepressible and dangerously alluring, John ‘Basil’ Henderson has a history with women and a few men. He’s a commitment phobe gadfly who’s known for a double edged magnetism that has the ability to thrill and wound. She is the uncompromising Yancey Harrington Braxton, an up and coming Broadway star who oozes charm and bleeds ambition. Young, beautiful and dangerously crafty, Yancey is prepared to do whatever she must to get what she wants. A femme fatale who has left more than a few broken hearted men in her wake, Yancey is intrigued by Basil. Both believe that in each other they’ve finally met their match. A lavish wedding is planned, and the ultimate power couple plans to spend their lives in holy matrimony. But just before the nuptials, fate, and a little comeuppance from the past threaten the happy couple’s future. Masterful storyteller E. Lynn Harris takes listeners on a delicious little ride into the mischievous lives of two very unforgettable characters in this fun and satisfying cautionary tale.

Mama Dearest

One of E. Lynn Harris’s incomparable hero*ines, Yancey Harrington Braxton, is working her way back to Broadway and beyond. And this diva supreme always stirs up drama in and out of the spotlight…
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New York City, you’ve been warned: Yancey Harrington Braxton is back. The ambitious singer and actress is fired up to move past her recent professional and personal setbacks including an explosive romance with NFL tight end John Basil Henderson and prove her talents are stronger than ever. After being out on tour, Yancey realizes what she really wants is to star in her own reality TV series, and she’s even found a rich and well connected lover to make it happen. There are, however, two women fierce enough to derail Yancey’s plans with ambitions of their own: Madison B., a hot new bombshell taking the music industry by storm, and Ava Middlebrooks, who happens to be Yancey’s own Mama Dearest.

Ava is out, about, and ready to reclaim her throne. Not even a stint in prison for attempted murder has curbed Ava’s competitive nature, and it doesn’t faze her in the least that her 1 rival is her own daughter. Ava is willing to do whatever it takes to make Yancey pay, including using Madison B. to turn Yancey’s world upside down by forcing her to confront the past…
and making her comeback dreams more exciting and dangerous than she ever imagined.

Taking readers on a wild, passion filled tour of the entertainment world, E. Lynn Harris’s Mama Dearest delivers sensual thrills and electric plot twists with one unforgettable woman of radiant star power, sexual magnetism, and unapologetic ambition at the heart of the action.

And This Too Shall Pass

A stellar quarterback, an ambitious sportscaster. What happens when rising stars collide?In And This Too Shall Pass, Harris takes us into the locker rooms and newsrooms of Chicago, where four lives are about to intersect in romance and scandal. At the heart of the novel is the celibate Zurich, a rookiequarterback for the Chicago Cougars whose trajectory for superstardom is interrupted by a sexual assault charge by Mia, a sportscaster with her own sights on fame. With his career in jeopardy, Zurich hires Tamela, a high powered attorney, to defend him, while Sean, a gay sportswriter, covers the story and uncovers his heart. All of these characters face the challenge of keeping the faith in themselves and in God while Harris’s heartfelt storytelling reveals how the love of family can help one to face the terrible legacy of long held secrets. Throughout these characters’ search for self knowledge, Harris weaves the stories of MamaCee, Zurich’s grandmother, whose lessons of faith teach one and all that ‘this too shall pass.’Breaking new ground in contemporary fiction, And This Too Shall Pass entertains and affirms with its stirring message about the healing power of family and faith.

If This World Were Mine

Set in Chicago, this powerful novel by the author of ‘Just As I Am’ dwells on four people, friends since college, whose lives have gone in different directions. When one of the group faces death, the crisis forces the others to recognize and accept the inner strength that the group has nurtured in each of them.

A Love of My Own

Friendship. Love. Family.

Bestselling author E. Lynn Harris is back with another new tale that embraces his signature themes.

Zola Denise Norwood is a young hot editor in chief of Bling Bling, the magazine for people who want everything! who’s at the top of her game, ruling the roost in business as well as the bedroom. Having discovered the power of three not tying herself down to just one guy Zola surrounds herself with a coterie of men : her best male friend, the gay Hayden; her Monday night man, Jabar, and enjoys stolen nights with married Bling Bling owner and media mogul Davis Vincent McClinton, a man who chases power at all costs Still, Zola dreams of finding true love.

Raymond Tyler, Jr., a favorite and classic Harris character has suffered a personal loss and picks up and moves to New York to re build his life. As CEO of Bling Bling,Raymond struggles to enjoy his newfound success in business as he searches for love and meaning in his personal life. John Basil Henderson returns with a new lady in his life, and Raymond and Basil renew a friendship that is fraught with sexual tension. As Raymond examines his life and strains to move forward, tragedy strikes, and Raymond faces his biggest challenge ever.

As Zola and Raymond search for a love of their own, several characters from the past make cameo appearances and round out another E. Lynn Harris classic tale. A Love of My Own is filled with all the marvelous ingredients the author s fans the globe over have come to love. Sit back and get ready as E. Lynn Harris takes you on another satisfying and rip roaring ride. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content E. Lynne Harris’s A Love of My Own is the story of Zola Norwood, the attractive, ambitious editor in chief of Bling, Bling, a hot new magazine for young and hip African Americans. Having achieved success in her professional life, Zola embarks on a quest for true love. She makes clean breaks from her clandestine affairs with Davis McClinton, Bling, Bling‘s powerful owner, and Jabar, the seemingly simple yet undeniably sexy personal trainer at her club. Adding to the intrigue is Raymond Tyler Jr., whose relationship with his longtime partner, Trent, has just ended badly. In a search for refuge and rebirth, Raymond moves to New York and begins work as the CEO of Bling, Bling. As Zora and Raymond chart their own courses to love and personal fulfillment, Harris grapples with familiar themes like love, deception, family, and power. In a tale woven together by up to the minute current events the characters watch Denzel Washington and Halle Berry take home awards on Oscar night; Zora awakes to the news of pop star Aaliyah’s tragic death, E. Lynne Harris has yet again taken his formula for success and created another winner. Gisele Toueg

I Say a Little Prayer

Bestselling author E. Lynn Harris is back with another sexy, shocking, and immensely satisfying novel that explores some of today’s toughest and most timely issues.

Chauncey Greer is the owner of Cute Boy Card Company, a thriving company in Atlanta. As a teenager, he was a member of a popular boy band, but left in disgrace when word got out that he and his bandmate D were more than good friends. Chauncey is a free spirit, on the brink of forty with a body admired by both men and women. Not into being categorized, Chauncey s been known to hook up with men and women, but now in the age of the down low, he s found that women ask too many questions, so he s just focusing on the fellas.

After one too many bad dates, Chauncey finds himself in church, where the minister s message inspires him to follow his dream of a singing career once again. Although he s lost touch with D, as he starts writing songs his thoughts inevitably turn to his former lover. Chauncey s powerful performance at the church earns him a standing ovation and an invitation to participate in an upcoming revival. But Chauncey soon discovers that an ambitious fundamentalist preacher plans to use the revival to speak out against gays and gay marriage. Feeling angry and betrayed, Chauncey and other gay members of the church decide to take a stand against the church s homophobia by staging a Day of Absence when all of the gay members and their friends and family stay home. Everything is going as planned…
until D appears on the scene and Chauncey has to confront his past and make some hard decisions about his future.

I Say a Little Prayer is filled with the delicious plot twists, humor, compassion, and up to the minute controversy fans expect from their beloved E. Lynn. Harris has returned with another gem of a novel that will rocket to the top of bestseller lists nationwide.

Just Too Good to Be True

Harris serves up a treat that will capture and enchant audiences everywhere a big, bold, and irresistible novel about football, family, and secrets.

Brady Bledsoe and his mother, Carmyn, have a strong relationship. A single mother, faithful churchgoer, and the owner of several successful Atlanta beauty salons, Carmyn has devoted herself to her son and his dream of becoming a professional football player. Brady has always followed her lead, including becoming a member of the church’s ‘Celibacy Circle.’ Now in his senior year at college, the smart, and very handsome, Brady is a lead contender for the Heisman Trophy and a spot in the NFL.

As sports agents hover around Brady, Barrett, a beautiful and charming cheerleader, sets her mind on tempting the celibate Brady and getting a piece of his multimillion dollar future but is that all she wants from him, and is she acting alone?

Carmyn is determined to protect her son. She s also determined to protect the secret she s kept from Brady his whole life. As things heat up on campus and Carmyn and Brady s idyllic relationship starts to crumble, mother and son begin to wonder about the other are you Just Too Good to Be True?

A sweeping novel about mothers and sons, football and beauty shops, secrets and lies, Just Too Good to Be True has all the ingredients that have made E. Lynn Harris a bestselling author: family, friendship, faith, and love.

Basketball Jones

E. Lynn Harris has wowed and seduced more than three million readers with the wicked drama and undeniable heart in his novels. Now he’s back with another winner sure to top the bestseller lists a rip roaring tale of sex, secrets, betrayal…
and blackmail.

Aldridge James AJ Richardson is living the good life. He has a gorgeous town house in always flavorful New Orleans, plenty of frequent flier miles from jet setting around the country on a whim, and an MBA but he s never had to work a regular job. He owes it all to his longtime lover, Dray Jones. Dray Jones the rich and famous NBA star. They fell in love in college when AJ was hired to tutor Dray, a freshman on the basketball team. But Dray knew if he wanted to make it to the big time, he must juggle his public image and his private desires. Built on a deep, abiding love, their hidden relationship sustains them both, but when Dray s teammates begin to ask insinuating questions about AJ, Dray puts their doubts to rest by marrying Judi, a beautiful and ambitious woman. Judi knows nothing about Dray s other life. Or does she?
In Basketball Jones, E. Lynn Harris explores the consequences of loving someone who is forced to conform to the rules society demands its public heroes follow. Filled with nonstop twists and turns, it will keep readers riveted from the first page to the last.

No One in the World

E. Lynn Harris and RM Johnson two powerful voices of a generation unite with an insightful and emotional project that tackles themes of family, loyalty and identity. The untimely passing of the beloved New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn Harris has left fans pining for more. With this collaboration, fans are given the book they ve been clamoring to read and the book that Harris and Essence bestselling author RM Johnson long wanted to write. Cobi Winslow, a handsome, well educated district attorney, knows nothing about the life of his estranged twin brother, Eric Reed, a career criminal raised in the foster care system. Following their parents death, Cobi searches for and finds his brother, hoping to regain lost years. Meanwhile, Cobi navigates the pressures of society as he lives life in the closet. The stress comes to a head when he learns that in order to inherit the wealth of his father’s estate and save the struggling family business, he must marry a woman before he turns thirty five. The task becomes more convoluted when Cobi s sister proposes to pay Austen Greer, a once successful and wealthy businesswoman who lost everything in the recession, to be Cobi s wife. Eric discovers Cobi is gay and promises to keep it a secret. Instead, he entrusts the information to his former prison cellmate, Blac, who endears himself to Cobi in hopes of securing a $150,000 loan from him to pay back a debt racked up by cocaine sales. As the clock runs down both on Blac s efforts to pay his deadly creditor and on Cobi s attempts to save the family company, rash moves are executed, family and friendship bonds are tested, and life altering sacrifices are made.

Got to be Real

‘This anthology features the qualities that distinguish the authors’ best writing enduring characters, touching story lines and new insight into the world of love.’ Ebony

‘Gratifying and sexy.’ USA Today

‘Groundbreaking…
Succeeds on a grand scale.’ Publishers Weekly

The Mystic Spirituality of A.W. Tozer

Though much work has been done in the fields of Catholic and Oriental spirituality, Protestant spirituality has often been neglected. After a brief biography of A.W. Tozer, this study compares Tozer’s mysticism to 35 mystical classics he recommended, such as ‘John of the Cross’, ‘Teresa of Avila’, etc. The focus is on the nature of contemporary Protestant mysticism and the examination of a 20th century figure operating within a very conservative section of Protestantism who was influenced by mystical prayer. The position which Tozer reached may be of value to others also having to cope with the pressures of contemporary life in a metropolitan environment.

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted

For almost a decade, beloved storyteller E. Lynn Harris has welcomed you into his family with his passionate, warm and trail blazing novels. Now, he invites you into the most intimate world ever his own. Since his first book Invisible Life was published in the early 1990s, New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn Harris has wowed, charmed and romanced millions of readers. As a master storyteller, E. Lynn Harris has created an intimate and glamorous world centered around his signature themes of love, friendship and family. People all over the world have fallen in love with his characters and laughed and cried with them. Now, in his most daring act yet, E. Lynn Harris writes the memoir of his life from his childhood in Arkansas as a closeted gay boy through his struggling days as a self published author to his rise as a New York Times bestselling author. In What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, E. Lynn Harris shares an extraordinary life touched by loneliness and depression, but more important, he reveals the triumphant life of a small town dreamer who was able through writing to make his dreams and more come true.

Freedom in this Village Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men’s Writing

Freedom in this Village is the first book to chart the course of black gay male literature over the past thirty five years. Beginning at the birth of Gay Liberation with the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969, editor and New York Times best selling author E. Lynn Harris collects sixty entries, many never previously published. Fiction and poetry is matched in eloquence by nonfiction pieces, including essays and excerpts from memoirs, novels, biography, and autobiography. A new short story by E. Lynn Harris is featured, along with original work by twenty five other authors. Among the roster of established writers are James Baldwin, Samuel R. Delany, Melvin Dixon, Peter J. Gomes, George C. Wolfe, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Hilton Als, Keith Boykin, Randall Kenan, Thomas Glave, James Earl Hardy, Brian Keith Jackson, Essex Hemphill from whose poetry the title Freedom in this Village was borrowed, and the latest generation of writers who contribute fresh perspectives that choose to affirm rather than negate the interconnections between sex, race, and masculinity.

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