Popular obsession with genealogy has some twisted roots. Let’s talk about it – but first: An award-winning actress and gladiator receives a call from her parents on a routine afternoon. Their nervous hesitations let her know something is wrong. She turns her car around, drives to the home, and sits in the living of the people she’s known all her life as mom and dad, her protectors, her withholding parents. There, in that familiar home, they share a secret that begins to unravel the loose ends of her childhood memories.
From the streets of Baltimore to the big screen, this actress has done a lot of living. You may have heard about her, read the blogs, and listened to the gossip revolving around her marriage to megastar Will Smith, but this is her life, her story, in her own words.
In an intimate letter to his son, a father explains his identity and fears within the galaxy of America, its race invention, and the mythology it has produced.
Obi Okonkwo, grandson of deceased village leader Okonkwo, is returning to Nigeria from England after earning a proper British education. He quickly finds his world is riddled with bribes and corruption, but Obi is determined never to accept an illegal payment and never compromise his principles. But as his black-and-white world becomes grey, he must wrestle with who he truly is versus who he’d like to believe himself to be. Does his African culture and Western lifestyle render him a hypocrite, and if so, which world is to judge him, the black world or the white?
From Herman Petty to LaVan Hawkins, Franchise tells the hidden history of the intertwined relationship between fast food and civil rights.
(Be prepared for surprises and thought-provoking discussions about this book for years to come!)
In a novel that reads like nonfiction, two girls find love at the end of adolescence and the beginning of adulthood. The choices made with that newfound love lead to consequences neither imagined and in the end, they must fight for their destiny and future, alone or lonely.
Tabitha is a woman with a plan. She’s 33 years old, moving her way up the corporate ladder at her television anchor job, and is dating the man of her dreams. But Tabitha quickly realizes that her life may not be going to plan when her doctor gives her unexpected news that forces her to look hard at herself and her values. Will she pull it together in time to save the most precious thing she’s ever wanted? Or will her ideal future be snatched from her grasp forever?
It’s 2009, and Tiffany, an intelligent, hard-working, first-generation American, faces foreclosure and bankruptcy. How did this happen? More importantly, how can you be sure this never happens to you?! Fortunately, this is only the beginning of Tiffany’s story.
Our parents have a past. Sometimes that past catches up with them, leaving their children holding the pieces. Sometimes, though, that past reveals itself and helps their children realize more fully who they are and from where they come. One mother has chosen to expose the darkness of her life, but only after her death. Will her children be able to handle learning who the woman they know best really is?
Monday Charles is missing, and no one seems to care, except for her best friend Claudia. On her search to find Monday, Claudia must question if she ever really knew her friend or herself. In the end, she’s left with an unimaginable task as her world changes forever.
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