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(0)Suzette D Harrison
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Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A heartbreaking and inspirational novel about redemption, family secrets, and the spirit of survival found at the hardest time. Montgomery, Alabama, 1955. On a cold December evening, Mattie Banks packs a suitcase and leaves her family home. Sixteen years old and pregnant, she has already made the mistake that will ruin her life and disgrace her widowed mother. Boarding the 2857 bus, she sits with her case on her lap, hoping that the driver will take...
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Language
English
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Yazmeen Williams is a busy woman. The former professional dancer is a church Administrative Assistant by day and the mother of three-year old twin boys, always. What she isn't, is interested in love thanks to a monster of an ex-husband who's a danger to the well-being of her sons. When retired NBA player Tavares Alvarez enters her life looking "utterly orgasmic," that disinterest is severely challenged as is her hold on celibacy. But he'll need to...
3) My Joy
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Language
English
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Joy Matthews isn't afraid of risks. She's quit her Fortune 500 job and enrolled in culinary school, chasing her dream. Joy wants her own couture cake boutique. Pursuing her dream by day, Joy pays the bills working nights at The Hourglass-an exclusive gentlemen's club catering to patrons who enjoy "a little extra fine on a woman's frame." Joy's catching up to her dream when a chance encounter reconnects her with Quinton Daley, a childhood friend. Mutual...
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English
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Floretta Coleman is young, determined, and gifted. A graduate of Madame C.J. Walker's esteemed beauty school, Floretta is on the brink of a bright future with plans to explore the world after completing her studies at Oberlin College. Her long-held dreams seem within reach until one telephone call shatters everything. Her mother, Iva Rae Coleman, has died unexpectedly. Devastated, Floretta returns to the small, all-Black town founded by enslaved ancestors...
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English
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New Hampshire, 1796. "My name is Ona Judge, and I escaped from the household of the President of the United States. I was the favored maid of George and Martha Washington, but they deemed me a slave and thought me property, and I hear ten dollars is offered as reward for my capture. Now I must write the truth that I have lived, and tell my story…" Chincoteague, Virginia, present day. Rain soaks Tessa Scott as she runs from her car to the old vine-covered...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Oklahoma, 1935. Fifteen-year-old Faith Wilson takes her little sister Hope's hand. In worn-down shoes, they walk through the choking heat of the Dust Bowl towards a new life in California. But when a storm blows in, the girls are separated from their parents. How will they survive in a place where just the color of their skin puts them in terrible danger? Starving and forced to sleep on the streets, Faith thinks a room in a small boarding house will...