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    Pecking Order
    Pecking Order
    Pecking Order
    Audiobook16 hours

    Pecking Order

    Written by Omar Tyree

    Narrated by Kevin R. Free

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times and Essence best-selling author Omar Tyree is a pioneer in the megapopular urban fiction genre. His stories feature sexy guys and girls navigating life and love in the city. Set in sunny San Diego, Pecking Order follows Ivan David, an accountant slowly growing fed up with his rich, spoiled clientele. He has a plan to promote business networking parties, but when he meets local diva Lucina Gallo, his simple plan becomes more trouble than it's worth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 19, 2008
    ISBN9781436185295
    Pecking Order
    Author

    Omar Tyree

    New York Times bestselling author Omar Tyree is the winner of the 2001 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work—Fiction, and the 2006 Phillis Wheatley Literary Award for Body of Work in Urban Fiction. He has published more than twenty books on African American people and culture, including five New York Times bestselling novels. He is a popular national speaker, and a strong advocate of urban literacy. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. Learn more at OmarTyree.com.

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    • 4/5
      It was a good book. I felt like I saw everything coming. No real surprises. No suspense. Just an underdog story. Window shopper to..: well you’ll see.
    • 2/5
      Seemed like it was heading for a great story but it was just too slow moving for my taste.