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What would make a woman leave her family after 25 years of what seemed to be a great life? Lena Spencer has a wealthy husband, Randall, and two wonderful children, but somehow she isn’t happy. It’s a mystery on the surface, but peek behind closed doors in their luxurious home and the answer is clear. Her husband isn’t abusive but he’s emotionally distant. Her son is on drugs and her daughter is constantly at odds with Lena about her overbearing behavior. When Randall offers her an ultimatum: “Be grateful for all I've done for you or leave,” Lena packs her bags. Drawing strength from Tina Turner’s life story, she embarks on a quest to find herself and at last realize the happiness that has always eluded her.
Four different women face their life decisions and the consequences of their choices in this powerful novel. Diana denounced the existence of God when she was little and her religious mother died, but today, she’s living the life she always dreamed of. Diana’s best friend, Kendra, grew up in a sin-ridden household without a trace of God to be found, but grown, she found Christ, got married and became the virtuous First Lady of her husband’s ministry. But both women are about to be shaken up when secrets from their past lives surface. And Pricilla and Aquila have been friends since they were orphaned as kids. Now back in each other’s lives, they’re seeking solace and salvation—and to find the biological mothers they never knew.
Single mom Sasha is a competent, well-respected nurse on the surface, but deep down, she struggles over the demise of her recently dissolved marriage and the death of her drug-addicted mother. She tries not to think about her personal life on the job—and especially not about the possibility of a new love.... Enter Eric Prince, the hospital’s handsome playboy physician. He’s also burying the pain of a divorce—under countless meaningless affairs. Then he meets Sasha, and his whole perspective changes. She’s not interested in romance, so he agrees to be just friends with her, but the attraction between them soon becomes too electric to ignore. Will he convince her that his love for her is the real thing?
Danger, drama and sex combine in this unforgettable scorcher as a sizzling attraction sparks between a fugitive and a woman he’s holding captive… The last thing Audra Lopez expects in her boring, uneventful life is to find the man known as the “Turnpike Cop Killer” holed up in her home with a gun. Dean Casey may be known as dangerous and deadly, but really he’s just a troubled guy trying to cope with the molestation of his young daughter. So finding himself in a strange woman’s home with a gun is just as surreal to this devoted, hardworking dad as being on the run. But more surreal for both is the chemistry that crackles between them—and a passion neither could ever believe possible in this sexy, urban Bonnie-and-Clyde adventure!
The New Day Single’s Ministry was set up by Doreen, herself healing from a failed marriage, to help single church members get empowered, encouraged and enlightened. But all it’s done is create a pack of New Day divas who are more eager to land men than ever before! Tamarra was a faithful wife for 15 years—until a 14-year-old girl showed up on her doorstep looking for her “Daddy.” Paige has found nothing but flaws in all the men she’s dated—many before she’s even kissed them. And literary agent Deborah toys with the notion of a scandalous affair with a new author. But before these women set flight to include men in their futures, they’ll have to realize that it’s their pasts that have been holding them back.
Tom Burrell is a pioneering advertising leader who shaped the world of multicultural marketing and was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame. He’s seen first-hand how African Americans have excelled against the odds to greatness, and is now on a mission to help black people everywhere shake the centuries of deprivation and humiliation that have worn down our spirits and brainwashed our minds. Burrell chronicles twelve myths of black inferiority, showing not only why so many black Americans still have a “slave mentality” 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, but also how to deprogram the self-defeating attitudes and actions that keep us locked in that crushing mentality—to help us not only to heal but to thrive.
Not since Jackie O has a First Lady enchanted Americans as much as Michelle Obama. Now this beautiful, pictorial story takes us on the journey of Michelle’s dramatic transformation from working mother to First Lady, from her first tentative steps on the campaign trail to her spontaneous hug of the Queen, to her fairy-tale-like “date night” on Broadway and beyond. With nearly 200 photographs, this stunning, visual biography not only showcases the impeccable, elegant yet down-to-earth style we adore, but also provides thoughtful commentary as well as an easy-to-follow historical context that demonstrates how Michelle Obama represents the true culmination of America’s evolving views on women, race, motherhood and beauty.
Lutishia Lovely serves up another scandalous church drama about a womanizing young pastor who’s more than happy to “minister” to his female congregation…
While he carries on the tradition begun by his great-grandfather, preaching prodigy Nathaniel “Nate” Thicke is also just plain carrying on—wherever the spirit and the flesh may lead. But he gets into hot water when it leads him to “sharing the love” with three women from the same family. Nate is surprised himself to discover he’s fallen head-over-heels in love with young, beautiful Destiny, and he wants to devote himself to her completely. But the others aren’t about to give him up, and they’ll lay their religion down to get him back in their clutches—and their beds!
On March 23, 2003, Shoshana Johnson of the US Army 507th Maintenance Company was captured after an ambush in the city of an-Nasiriyah, which killed and wounded many in her division. Shoshana herself suffered bullet wounds to both ankles. Along with four other members of her unit, she was held in captivity for 22 days, until a valiant rescue freed her and her fellow troops. Following this headline-making rescue, the courageous soldier returned to the States and received the Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal and Prisoner of War Medal, and made numerous appearances. Now, the first-ever black female prisoner of war shares her poignant, inspiring story of bravery and strength in this candid and compelling memoir.
Precious Jones is obese, HIV-positive and living in a physically and sexually abusive household. At sixteen, she’s pregnant by her father—again. Aside from heartache, she has nothing but a fierce determination to break free of her parents and change her life. She starts by enrolling in a GED program, where she meets the tireless Blue Rain. Much more than a literacy teacher, Miss Rain shows Precious how to read and write, but also encourages her to keep a journal—which becomes the vehicle readers have to experience Precious' horrendous beginnings and miraculous transformation. An urban classic, Push is intense, heartbreaking and frightening—a remarkable story that will continue to haunt and inspire you long after you’ve put it down.
