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The incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves, rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America's most famous wedding dresses of all time for Jackie Kennedy. 1953, New York City Less than a week before the society...

Kaycee's life is full of scandalous secrets. On the outside, she's a bright, well adjusted young woman about to embark on a blessed future with the love of her life. On the inside, everything that's happening is part of a much darker plan. One she hopes no one will find out about because if they do, it could bring deadly consequences. She's on the brink of her future, but on the morning of her wedding, she suddenly disappears. Where is Kaycee? No one knows. But they are about to find out. And what's more is that Kaycee isn't the only one holding secrets.

TV writer Yara Gibson’s hometown of Palmdale, California, isn’t her first choice for a vacation. But she’s back to host her parents’ twentieth-anniversary party and find the perfect family mementos for the celebration. Everything is going to plan until Yara receives a disturbing text: I have information that will change your life. The message is from Felicia Campbell, who claims to be a childhood friend of Yara’s mother. But they’ve been estranged for years - drama best ignored and forgotten.

When you spend your whole life being a protector, it’s hard to let others be one for you. From the young age of nine, Cory Tate has always had to be the strong one. She constantly had to protect and care for her younger siblings because their mom was busy living a life that no child should ever be exposed to. But even after they moved in with her dad, that didn’t stop her from continuing to worry about her mom, constantly visiting to convince her to do better.

Two strangers: A biker & a black woman. One night together... No Memories... Just a creamy mess to clean up. Magnum doesn’t flirt with loud, plus-sized black women rocking bubblegum-pink hair and curves for days. He has enough problems... He knows when a woman is nothing but trouble, with a butt that could have him wrapped around her finger. Damara draws him into her honey trap with a bright smile and high cheek bones. He can't resist her curvy, deliciously sweet peach, even if he tries. Magnum had to break his rules to buy her a shot. And it's the last thing they both remember.

Her ex sold her to pay off a gambling debt. And now her body belongs to Nashville's hottest heartthrob, The rebellious guitarist Seb Jefferson. Angie hates celebrities. She would never relent to a sin-soaked playboy like him. Nothing will change her mind... Not his flawlessly chiseled body. Not his skills with his tongue... And especially not his money.

Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters directly to God.

Light-skinned Black woman Irene Redfield encounters an old childhood friend - Clare - who is now "passing" as a White woman. Clare is married to a racist White man, who doesn't know she has African American blood. In spite of the danger of being found out by her husband and society at large, she finds herself helplessly drawn to Irene's world.

Lançado originalmente em 1953, Proclamem nas montanhas é o livro de estreia de um dos escritores mais notáveis do século XX. Harlem, Nova York, década de 1930. John Grimes acorda no dia do seu aniversário de catorze anos e ninguém ao redor parece se lembrar da data. Apesar do entorno apático e por vezes violento, o protagonista não abandona seu otimismo. É então que ele percebe que a fé pode dar um novo rumo para a sua vida e decide mergulhar em uma profunda jornada espiritual.

What do you do when the love of your life forgets? Not the good times. Not the love. Not the passion. But the pain and heartbreak and betrayal. He doesn't remember that he broke my heart. But I do. He doesn't remember the darkest parts of our marriage. He doesn't remember that six months ago, I said goodbye. What do you do when the love of your life remembers your marriage but not your divorce?

You’d think it was the perfect setup: living next door to the grumpy single dad who needs my help with his troublemaking kids—just until football season is over. Swoony stuff, right? You know who’s not swooning? Me. I’m as grumpy as he is, and I’m fairly certain that for NFL Coach Barrett King, it was hate at first sight. It’s nothing I’ll lose sleep over because 1) the feeling is mutual, and 2) I’m not a people person. Just me and my dog, Larry, moving around when the mood strikes, is what I prefer.

Sloane: Dominic Alexander is my late husband's best friend and the last man that I should want. For the last ten years, he's taken a sick pleasure in making me feel paper thin, like my existence is of no consequence to him at all. But now, things are different. After a drunken night, and a surprisingly sexy act of heroism, he's started to be . . . nice. Treating me like something other than the embodiment of his annoyance, which would be nice if it didn't make me feel things I swore to never feel for another man after my husband died.

This remarkable novel begins in 1850s Louisiana, where Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. After being initiated into eternal life as one who "shares the blood" by two women there, Gilda spends the next 200 years searching for a place to call home. An instant lesbian classic when it was first published in 1991, The Gilda Stories has endured as an auspiciously prescient book in its explorations of blackness, radical ecology, re-definitions of family, and yes, the erotic potential of the vampire story.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A dedicated journalist unearths a generations-old family secret—and a connection to a string of missing girls that hits way too close to home—in this “nail-biting debut” (Booklist). “A well-written, emotionally wrenching tale.”—Associated Press A PUBLISHERS...

Yoshiro escaped a career of crime with the mafia after they killed his family. For five years, he's dropped out of life. All he wants this Christmas is to be left alone. Then, Ebony and her kids accidentally crash onto his property during a snowstorm. For three years, they've been running from her husband - who's been more monster than man. The storm picks up. They are forced to remain with Yoshiro until it dies down. And the threat of Ebony's monster remains, lurking within the shadows and threatening her safety. But Yoshiro knows all about death and blood.

In this groundbreaking novel, The Blacker the Berry delves into the complex intersection of race, identity, and colorism within the Black community. The story follows Emma Lou Morgan, a young woman struggling with her own internalized racism as she navigates a world where lighter skin is often seen as more desirable. Emma Lou’s journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance is a raw and poignant exploration of the pain that comes with being judged by the color of one’s skin—not only by society at large but by those within one’s own community.

From the moment forty-eight alien superheroes crash-landed on Earth, photographer Monika Neumann had a favorite. She’s been crushing on the literally electrifying Taranis ever since she saw the cutie crawling out of his pod. Unfortunately, his popularity isn’t exactly crackling these days. He could use an image boost. Monika is in. One right photo op and she’ll put her ridiculously hot lightning-bolt-wielding hero back in the public’s favor. The best part is, the mission will bring her closer to Taranis.

A FINALIST for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the VCU/Cabell First Novelist Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award “A blistering coming of age story” —O: The Oprah Magazine...

Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, whom they consider to be less than human.

Part historical drama, part supernatural horror, and part alternate history, Blood Slaves is an ingenuous and defiant new creation myth of the vampire, one rooted in both justice and the sometimes-violent means necessary to achieve it.