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This book is a series of fictional short stories with a deep Southern lingo. Written for your interest and entertainment. We hope that you enjoy every minute of these breathtaking memories of the transition periods in the life of black people from slaves to Kings and Queens.

In the club, with flashing lights and loud music, seeing him across the room is a scene out of a movie. We lock eyes and sway to the beat—instantly connecting. He nudges his head, calling me to the other side. Me? Of all the women in the club, this sexy man wants me to join him in VIP. So I do. And then I realize how tall he is, and the other guys surrounding him are also. Wait. This guy was on the basketball court at the game I watched the night before. The guys standing around him are his teammates on the Houston Outlaws.

An important medical breakthrough has a shameful history. In 1840s Alabama, a slave-owning doctor performs medical experiments on involuntary subjects - enslaved women - in an effort to solve the problem of fistulas, a post-childbirth anomaly. As the experiments proceed, and he gets close to a solution, the women try to survive and even find dignity in the face of inhuman treatment.

In five autobiographical vignettes, Charlayne Woodard tells the moving and inspirational tale of her African-American family through three generations of love, struggle, and triumph.

Zarité ha nove anni quando il giovane francese Toulouse Valmorain la compra perché si occupi delle faccende di casa. Intorno, campi di canna da zucchero, la calura dell'isola, il lavoro degli schiavi. La storia di una donna che lotta per emanciparsi dalla sua condizione di schiava nella Haiti di fine '700. Un'eroina modernissima che arriva da lontano per ricordarci la fede nella libertà e la dignità delle passioni.

Loving someone with demons is hard but leaving them is harder. That's a lesson I learned roughly a decade ago when I left the love of my life. Choosing the child we made but weren't ready for over any hope for what could be. Trading in potential for reality, my dreams for motherhood and the warmth of his embrace for a lonely world. Despite how tragic it sounds, everything turned out okay. I made peace with my decisions . . . until now. Now, I'm back in New Haven and nothing is the way it should be. The man I left behind is not the one I keep running into around town.

Barbara Cartland a conquis des millions de lecteurs à travers le monde et écrit plus de 700 romans où l'amour triomphe toujours. Après le remariage de son père, Julia de Wentwood a compris que sa belle-mère la détestait, parce qu'elle est ravissante, cultivée, bonne cavalière... Ce ne sont donc que piques, vexations et brimades dès que le comte a le dos tourné. Or, profitant de l'absence de ce dernier, la comtesse convoque Julia.

En 1972, des ouvriers de Pottstown, Pennsylvanie, découvrent des restes humains au fond d’un puits. À Chicken Hill, quartier pauvre où se côtoient Juifs et noirs américains, l’identité du squelette et la manière dont il est arrivé là sont deux secrets bien gardés.

After the terrible accident that killed my sister, I decided to leave my hometown behind and head to the Big Apple, New York City. I thought with a new job, new apartment, and the makings of what could be a new love I would get the fresh start I needed. He was mysterious and perfect in every way. Alex was the definition of the ultimate, dreamy package. Handsome, charming, and romantic with just an air of mystery.

Ibby’s parents gave up everything for a chance at a better life. So, after a terrible accident leaves her alone in London, Ibby works her internship at the British Museum and goes to her classes to make them proud. But when Ibby encounters a mysterious professor in the bowels of the museum, she learns that her lineage means bigger responsibilities than good grades. Training in the secrecy of a ghostly underground tube station defunct since 1933, her waking powers means Ibby must face the wrath of a titan with a vendetta against her kind...and she has to do it alone.

They’re both determined to win the two million dollar poker tournament, but there can only be one winner. Jax Bass will stop at nothing to defeat her rival, Miri Black, and build her own legacy. Miri wants nothing more than to silence her critics and prove she’s the superior player.

As Modern Magazine’s Sex and Relationship Director, Luz De Los Santos can talk about pleasure all day long. Nobody knows desire like she does. But love? That’s a four-letter word she’s never mastered. When her editor dares her to write The Love Bet—a feature testing her own theory that you can fall in love by the third time you have sex—Luz agrees. For research, obviously.

Tony and Rose, deeply in debt, need a substantial influx of cash or they stand to lose their upper-middle-class lifestyle. Fortunately for them, Cam, a former fashion model turned venture capitalist with a talent for making money, is willing to bail them out. In return Tony agrees (reluctantly) to sleep with Cam one night every month for twelve months. It doesn't take long for Tony, Rose, and Cam to discover their pact comes with complications none of them anticipated.

Last year, Timothy gambled everything on love—and lost. He never planned to fall, but Naima made it impossible not to. When she walked away, nothing felt right again. Now she’s back in Providence, and resisting her is the last thing he wants to do. Naima’s ready for a fresh start, not a repeat heartbreak. But one look, one touch, and all the old feelings come rushing back.

Shakur's protagonist is Lapeace, the leader of the Eight Tray Crips gang in South Central Los Angeles. In a deadly gunfight with Anyhow, a Blood and Lapeace's rival since childhood, eight innocent civilians are killed. Anyhow is captured. Lapeace becomes a fugitive and he must hide out in the home of his girlfriend Tashima, a hip-hop mogul, as a pair of crooked LA detectives, John Sweeney and Jesse Mendoza, attempt to track him down.

Deena's life is in shambles. She is grieving the loss of her brother and has just lost her job. She is struggling to find her way through all of the obstacles that have been placed in front of her. With a little help from her brother on the other side, Deena is given the gift of a list that will change her life forever.

When things in her life start to happen unexpectedly, Terri is hellbent on solving a mystery she thought was put to rest years ago. She is willing to commit every act of sin to satisfy her hidden desires and remain the pastor's right-hand empress. But when Richard is tempted to fall back on his old tricks, Evangelist Terri may have to take a few steps back.

A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 "Narrator Adam Lazarre-White's voice exudes confidence and depth; his performance is an example of how the best audiobooks deliver pure storytelling." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner A husband, a father, a son, a business owner…And the best...

Caddo Parish, 1913. On an October morning, a Klansman confronts 17-year-old David Walker at a hidden oxbow lake where he has gone to hunt. David accidentally kills the man and hides the crime. His determination to protect his family from reprisal drives him far from home and into manhood. Shreveport, 1927. Cargie Barre and Mae Compton are two vastly different young women, but both are defying convention to reach for their dreams. After years in hiding, David Walker finally resurfaces, and we discover the past is never as far from the present as it seems.

Vaughn Harper, a young boy born into generational trauma, navigates a chilling and unpredictably dangerous world of domestic and urban violence as he seeks peace and his true calling. Based on true events, this gritty, memoir-styled journey spans from the mid 1970s through the late '80s in South Los Angeles.