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Sands Rising by H M Wilhelmborn
epub |eng | 2019-09-21 | Author:H M Wilhelmborn [Wilhelmborn, H M]

9 Would You Take a Bullet for Me? Though I do not celebrate my imprisonment, I’ve come to think—and jail has made this clearer for me—that life is nothing but ...
( Category: Family Life November 20,2019 )
Wish for Love by Daria White
epub |eng | | Author:Daria White

Chapter 17 Leah paced the floor, her chest tightening in fear. Could it work between her and Cole? The way he held her and swayed them across the floor. Their ...
( Category: Romance November 19,2019 )
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Rivers Solomon [Rivers Solomon]

* * * The first time Oori stayed longer than a few moments, Yetu got to see her in the sunlight. She had dark skin, darker even than Suka’s, and ...
( Category: African American November 6,2019 )
Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Nicky Drayden

My costume’s “fur” is shedding bits of red moss all over the place. My mask is stuffy inside, smells faintly of mildew, and the entirety of my vision is reduced ...
( Category: Dark Humor October 20,2019 )
Trust in No Man 3 by Cash
epub |eng | 2017-02-10 | Author:Cash [Cash]

As if I didn’t already have enough on my plate, my sister, Laquanda, called me crying. I asked, “What’s wrong?” “Mama tried to make me suck this man’s thing so ...
( Category: African American October 8,2019 )
The Collected Novels of Charles Wright by Charles Wright
epub |eng | 2019-07-02 | Author:Charles Wright

Eleven MORNING CAME as I knew it would: gray with rain. Cooing pigeons and doves. The smell of bacon grease and burnt toast and powerful black Negro coffee, spiced with ...
( Category: Urban October 7,2019 )
Trust in No Man by Cash
epub |eng | 2017-02-10 | Author:Cash [Cash]

When I woke up, I was in a hospital room, hooked up to mad machines. I was so drugged up I couldn’t recognize faces, only voices. They said I didn’t ...
( Category: African American October 7,2019 )
A Li'l Dab of Drama by LaJill Hunt
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:LaJill Hunt [Hunt, LaJill]

* * * * * * * * * * It was almost six in the evening when I was finally able to leave for the day. I had just ...
( Category: African American October 7,2019 )
Trust in No Man 2 by Cash
epub |eng | 2017-02-10 | Author:Cash [Cash]

Months after Toi was buried, I still had no clear answer as to who was responsible for murdering her. Like me, Murder Mike suspected Rich Kid, but we’d seen no ...
( Category: African American October 7,2019 )
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Jacqueline Woodson

* * * — Truth was you’d never met somebody lonelier than I was that year. I’d left my mama back in Brooklyn to go to a school I’d never ...
( Category: African American September 26,2019 )
Small Silent Things by Robin Page
epub |eng | 2019-07-07 | Author:Robin Page

5 “IT WASN’T A HOLIDAY, SO WE KNEW,” SHE SAYS IN THE SMALL OFFICE. “WE never got gifts anyway. Holiday or not.” She is loose and free from the sex ...
( Category: African American September 8,2019 )
Where Triples Go to Die by Hutcheon Phil
epub |eng | 2017-10-02 | Author:Hutcheon, Phil [Hutcheon, Phil]

Part II: 2016 If I knew back then what I know now, I would have never played football. —Bo Jackson, quoted by Bob Nightengale in USA Today My son, if ...
( Category: African American September 6,2019 )
Butterfly Bitch! by Wahida Clark
epub |eng | 2017-04-30 | Author:Wahida Clark

Chapter Twenty-Six I Have To Have Him Two days had passed, and Buffy had gotten settled back in, and the compound had returned to normal. Almost. It was the weekend, ...
( Category: African American September 6,2019 )
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
epub |eng | | Author:Ntozake Shange

My Mama & Her Mama ’Fore Her: Codfish Cakes (Accra) 4 ounces salt fish (cod) 1 small onion, chopped 2 cups flour ¼ teaspoon black pepper 1 teaspoon dried yeast ...
( Category: African American September 5,2019 )
Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin
epub |eng | 2015-12-08 | Author:Kate Chopin [Chopin, Kate]

A MATTER OF PREJUDICE Madame Carambeau wanted it strictly understood that she was not to be disturbed by Gustave’s birthday party. They carried her big rocking-chair from the back gallery, ...
( Category: United States September 5,2019 )

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