Showing results for "Tell" in African American

Two college roommates. Four hidden secrets. One semester that will change everything. Rose thought she'd found love online until a devastating truth turns her world upside down. Veronica's carefully constructed walls begin to crumble when her past catches up with her in ways she never expected. And Nae Nae's dreams of a peaceful life with her new family are threatened when someone from her history refuses to let go.

When secrets come to light, the truth will set you free — but first it will turn your world upside down. Nae Nae's world is turned upside down when she discovers the man she believed was her father is not related to her at all. In a shocking reveal, she learns that Deacon Robert, the head deacon at her church, is actually her biological father. This wouldn't be too much of a problem... if Nae Nae wasn't pregnant with Ricardo's baby. Who is Ricardo? Deacon Robert's son.

The truth will set you free... but first it must break your chains… When Nae Nae receives a disturbing call from her best friend Veronica during her baby shower, she knows something is terribly wrong. Veronica has been changing - from her music choices to her clothing - ever since joining a new church called Holy Edifice of the Apostles. But these aren't just simple lifestyle changes; they're symptoms of something far more concerning.

A floundering twenty-something who’s sworn off romance finds herself roped into her meddling sister’s matchmaking business in this sparkling debut romcom that asks: Can we protect ourselves while falling in love? “A sharp, funny, feel-good love story about bad dates, big feelings, and one...

In a moment of restlessness, Tate Grayson sold his multimillion-dollar company and spun his love of sports into a radio talk show. Life, and love, is too short to take seriously - a fact he enjoys rubbing in uptight radio host Noelle Butler's face. After the death of her parents, a tragedy she blamed on herself, Noelle vowed to live a controlled, focused life. Now a psychologist, she channels her need for connection into her radio show.

Trainee relationship counsellor Delilah Braithwaite is better at breaking couples up than bringing them together. But after one break-up too many, she’s suspended and ordered to get to grips with her own baggage if she hopes to get her job back. Desperate to prove she’s not the problem, Delilah accepts a challenge from her sister: track down five exes and make amends for dumping them all with no good reason. But when she runs into Noah - the fiancé she left at the altar - her plans take a complicated turn.

A major work of American literature from a major American writer that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war. "Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American writers." —Saturday Review At the height of...

“Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information.” —New York Times Book Review Based on Zora Neale Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather...

James Baldwin's haunting coming-of-age story, with a new introduction by Roxane Gay. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic...

At thirty-seven years of age, I haven’t taken the plunge, nor do I plan to. I’ve seen the damage love can do. It pretends to care, but then it tears a person down. It’s manipulative. Damaging. It lies. It hurts. It makes one weak. I know that all too well after seeing what it did to my dear mother. That’s why when women – beautiful, successful women – try to get my attention, I easily shun them. All of them. They see the exceptionally fine, black man with money. They know nothing of the dark secrets I carry – secrets I can never share with anyone.

I’ve never known love like this. It’s potent. Life-changing. It changed mine and now I can’t live without her. The problem is, I don’t necessarily get along with her family–not because I don’t like them. It’s the other way around. She brushes it off, but I’m against anything and anyone who threatens my relationship. My marriage. My happiness. My obsession.

After a meet-cute that's way too cute, Kahlea and Sherrod can't stay away from each other. The only problem is neither wants anything serious right now. Oh, also, he comes from a huge family, and she doesn't do family. Will their casual relationship stay casual or turn into something neither of them could have imagined...love?

Does tithing put a restraining order on trouble? Facing eviction, unemployment, and more past-due notices than provision, Lennox O'Day doesn't think so. But it's hard to convince her husband, Zeke, that prophecies won't pay the bills. Brighton Finch is spiritually depleted, wields her bank account like a weapon, and is ready to evict her baby from her belly. Instead of glorifying God, Bright uses her 10 percent to put others to shame. Cassidy Moore can sing heaven down but can't summon a psalm to protect her anointing...or save her life.

In the heart of Los Angeles lives the Evans clan - a middle-class black family that is educated and somewhat snobby. Naomi, the youngest of three daughters, already knows what she wants out of life. After all, her parents have worked hard to ensure that she and her sisters aim high with their goals and are hypergamous in their relationships. Naomi is on track and following the cookie-cutter lifestyle her parents have laid out for her, but then she meets Judah - a talented but dysfunctional artist who wants to do right, but only knows how to do wrong.

Don’t Tell a Soul is best-selling author Tiffany L. Warren’s sequel to her fan-favorite novel What a Sista Should Do. Here, a trio of faithful friends face trials in their personal lives. When Pam’s husband, Troy, blows their fortune, his partner starts making moves on Pam. Meanwhile, Taylor must decide whether to forgive her ex, Luke, for the sake of their son. And newly divorced Yvonne finds reprieve from her loneliness by befriending a new church member. But only time will tell if the women can keep their faith and friendship intact.

Chyanne Johnson has finally gotten her act together. She's found a man to call her own and is raising a son. After all of the drama that ensued behind finding out that Aric McHale, former boss, lover, and father to her son, was married, Chyanne finally has it made in the shade...or so she thinks. Stephanie, Aric's ex-wife, may have been found guilty of attempted murder, but she hasn't been sentenced yet and is still free to walk to streets.

This program includes an author's note read by Stacey Abrams. From popular former gubernatorial candidate, lawyer, and New York Times bestselling author Stacey Abrams comes an audiobook reissue of her romantic suspense novel, Never Tell, written under the name Selena Montgomery. Criminal...

The Love Zion members are in the middle of a spiritual tsunami. The flood has them up to their necks, deep in muck and mire, and treading water looking for a life raft. The full-figured Esther Redding doesn’t realize it, but she desperately needs a change. Her Cinderella tiara is tarnished, and her glass slippers are cracked.

Hit man-turned-husband Dr. Robert Bryant never imagined that he would fall for his assignment, the beautiful Aubrey Nolan. He thinks he has his life under control, until a woman from his past shows up. Now, with the new threat, he has to go back to the man that he was to protect, the family that he has grown to love, and hiding who he is in plain sight from the woman he was never supposed to love.

At last, shy Kimberly has the love she's longed for - complete with a lavish destination wedding. But her fiancé's past relationships, and her baggage, are about to turn their special dream day into a perfect nightmare. Meanwhile, a shattering business reversal has all-about-the-money Hahna at odds with the young boho writer she loves - and tempted big-time by the man who got away. And Twila is still reeling from a sexual assault - and out for revenge, no matter what the personal cost.