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Kensington Kensington is a district of West London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, located 2.8 miles (4.5 km) west of Charing Cross. An affluent and densely-populated area, its commercial heart is Kensington High Street and it contains the well-known museum  announced in October that it would once again publish books in the African-American romance genre. Its new line of romancew will be published under the Dafina imprint im·print  
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1. To produce (a mark or pattern) on a surface by pressure.

2. To produce a mark on (a surface) by pressure.

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. The move comes a decade after it started the original Arabesque arabesque (ărəbĕsk`) [Fr.,=Arabian], in art, term applied to any complex, linear decoration based on flowing lines. In Islamic art it was often exploited to cover entire surfaces.  imprint to publish black romance. Arabesque was sold to BET in 1998. Kensington struck a new deal with BET that allows it to publish competing titles.

The first mass market romance title, Say Yes, by Donna Hill, is scheduled for publication in summer 2004. Dafina expects to publish as many as 12 books a year in the line.

Karen Thomas Karen Thomas co-hosted The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime from the second season onwards with Jim Lange, and filled in as a guest dealer on the Bob Eubanks version of Card Sharks for a week in late 1988 while regular dealer Lacey Pemberton was on maternity leave. , the editorial director, said the line will be "breaking a lot of the 'rules' set up within genre imprints."
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Publication:Black Issues Book Review
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jan 1, 2004
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