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In this book, Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. Working against conventional scholarship, Hazzard-Donald argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters" and that after the turn of the 19th century, Hoodoo took on a national rather than regional profile. 

With a .38 on her hip and 38DD’s on her chest, motorcycle cop Marnie Muckleroy is fully equipped and ready for action. Having recently divorced and relocated to the small Texas town where she was born and raised, Marnie is also ready for romance. There’s no lack of eligible men in Jacksburg. Problem is, they’re eligible for social security, food stamps, or parole. After a mystery man on a Ninja motorbike rides into her town and into her fantasies, she’s determined to find out who he is. If only dispatch and fate would stop getting in her way....

Your "until" moment is coming–that victorious moment of breakthrough after your long season of desperate prayer finally pays off! When it seems like the fight is lost, don't despair—this fight is fixed for you to win! 

As the only daughter of a successful businesswoman, Grace grew up with nothing but the best. Sheltered by her single mother and educated in an exclusive private school in Detroit, Grace was not ready for the harsh realities of an unforgiving world. Grace's naivete coupled with her desire to experience life on her own terms leads her down a path of emotional devastation and physical abuse. 

Widowed and officially retired, Eugeena Patterson throws herself into organizing the neighborhood association. This presents a great opportunity to re-connect with old friends and get to know new neighbors, like recently widowed Amos Jones, that is until Eugeena stumbles upon her estranged neighbor’s dead body. Eugeena’s daughter is fingered as a prime suspect, but where is she? Determined to find her missing daughter, Eugeena and Amos sort through a list of neighbors with shady or unknown backgrounds.

Now that Deborah has finally let go of the past that haunted her for so many years, is she ready to grab hold of love? The handsome Lynox Chase certainly hopes so, as he tries everything to win Deborah's heart. Even though she believes in her heart that Lynox is the husband God has for her, there still seems to be a barrier separating the two. The ringing of the wedding bells between Paige and Blake can still be heard echoing, but will the roar of temptation rear its ugly head when Paige begins to find comfort in the least-expected old friend?  

Brunch at Ruby's is warm, funny Southern women's fiction about finding and keeping love, lifelong friendships with women who are like sisters, and the bonds between them that bend but don't break. Brunch at Ruby's is book one in a growing series set in the heart of Decatur, Georgia.

Eugeena and Amos are married, but the happy couple may see their new life fall apart when Amos’ daughter moves in next door. Briana Jones is cooking up mayhem when she hooks up with old friends. When Amos receives a call in the middle of the night, he jumps into action to help his daughter, who's quickly becoming a suspect in a murder. Eugeena doesn’t want to rock the boat between Amos and his daughter, but she can tell Briana is keeping secrets. How is Eugeena going to help find the real murderer and keep her new marriage together?

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, Dr. Stella Immanuel started treating her patients with hydroxychloroquine and saw surprising success. Let America Live, Dr. Immanuel shares her story - from unassuming Houston physician to one of the left's favorite punching bags. A minister as well as a physician, Dr. Immanuel also exposes the dark spiritual agenda she believes is behind the medical community's opposition to hydroxychloroquine as a COVID treatment and the vaccination push.

"Your daddy killed Chris!" When Nikki heard her little cousin utter these four words, she had no idea they would change the course of her young life forever. Had no idea that her beloved father would be ripped away from her, drawn into a protracted legal battle. Had no idea that she would be forced to flee her home and go into hiding with her mother and siblings. 

Abigail Walker and Jarvis Daniels, longtime sweethearts, are beginning to find themselves worlds apart. Abby, an aspiring cellist, wants out of her humble Detroit surroundings and is more than willing to shed blood, sweat, and tears to make it happen. Jarvis, on the other hand, is perfectly content with his life. He's got everything a man could want, including the love of a good woman. A twist of fate turns their worlds upside down when the couple is involved in a near-fatal car accident. 

Grace Cambridge is a young Black Christian with a new husband, old friends, and a shocking moral dilemma. A proverbial "cat fight" opens the story and draws you into a complex relational web. The audiobook peels through layers of dysfunction between Grace and Trina and follows their individual, sometimes intertwining, lives, to reveal how they find their way back to Christ and to each other. Grace is intelligent, determined, well-spoken yet vulnerable. Grace's Christianity isn't sugar-coated. Her faith is real and so is her life - riddled with plenty of twists, turns, and conflicts.

Retiree Eugeena Patterson has picked up some new activities which include volunteering at an afterschool program and helping her future daughter-in-law plan a wedding. Eugeena is more than thrilled to see her son, Dr. Cedric Patterson, a longtime bachelor soon wed his girlfriend, Carmen Alpine. During wedding planning errands, Eugeena notices a man is tailing her and Carmen. When Eugeena finds out the man is Carmen's ex-husband, this lessens her enthusiasm for the upcoming nuptials, especially since Carmen had failed to share this information about her past.

When Evonne takes a step toward adulting and moves out of her parent’s home, she discovers that the cute house she’s renting belongs to the handsome, sexy nurse with the eyes she can’t forget. But she’s not in Potter Lake to meet a man. She’s on a mission to prove to her parents that she isn’t the failure that showed up on their doorstep 10 years ago. Taj is delighted to rent his guest house to the pretty, snappy former patient he can’t stop thinking about. Potter Lake was a place to run when his dream died, a haven to start over and give back what was given to him.

1966, Drum's Crossroad, North Carolina. Court-ordered desegregation is about to sweep over the lives of the town's citizens, white and black. Tensions are rising, and trouble is sure to follow. Mama Kodo, a mysterious, seemingly ageless black woman who dwells in a shack deep in the woods just outside town, is waiting. Soon, she will do what only she can: work her magic as the town teeters on the edge of something made of hatred, power, and vengeance.

Los Angeles TV journalist Beatrice Middleton has lost her job. With a possible employment offer in Atlanta, she heads home to Savannah, Georgia, to reconnect with her contentious African-American family, arriving to find that her 15-year-old nephew has been murdered. This begins the unraveling of a cloak of family secrets surrounding another devastating crime, one that shattered Bea's world when she was a teen. The traumatic memory has been buried so deep it almost feels like it never happened - almost.

The love of two families coming together where this African American guy and this Caucasian guy become roommates in college and the African American guy introduces the Caucasian guy to his wife because he knew her from high school and after college, the roommates lost contact and years later run into one another and find out that they live miles apart. Now they reunite, and their children become close, blending their families. A love story, with ups and downs. 

Eugeena Patterson is not happy about her next-door neighbor, Louise Hopkins, being sent to live in a nursing home. Without her fellow neighborhood watch buddy, Sugar Creek isn’t the same anymore. And Eugeena’s budding romance with Amos Jones has her emotions in upheaval. When a stranger reveals a stunning secret about Louise’s past, Eugeena questions if the young woman’s claim is for real or if she is a con artist? Roping in Amos for help, Eugeena digs up a few skeletons from her elderly friend’s closet.

Things went from better to worse the last time we heard from these four cousins, and now, six months later, some things in their lives are still in shambles. Valerie, Vanessa, Amina, and Yasmin are far cries from the good girls they once projected themselves to be, and this time around, they’re owning it. But change isn’t always good, and if you thought things were bad for these four ladies before, you haven’t seen anything yet!

 An Unscrupulous Mind is One Ironwoman Publishing's audiobook preview introduction to the empress of romantic murder suspense, author K.F. Johnson. Prepare yourself to delve into the first four chapters of some of her current releases and get a taste of some of the crazy, dysfunctional, and unscrupulous characters that await you in the audiobook!