It’s a dog eat dog world, especially when all the dogs involved are hungry! For a sheltered mama’s boy like Demarcus, everything was all roses until a life-changing experience showed him that every rose has thorns. After a well-orchestrated set up, Demarcus's plans to go to college are derailed by a trip to state prison. It is while in the belly of the beast that the mama's boy has to make the choice between being a man or being a victim.Upon his release, Demarcus tries to get his li...
Men and women test the limits of love and devotion in this sexy and suspenseful novel, which evokes the emotional honesty and moral complexity of real life. When Yani Fenton married Jarrin Miller, she thought it would last forever. But five years ago, her husband of fifteen years walked out on his family without a last glance. Since then, Yani and her two children have played a waiting game, certain that he would come back. Now, with the help of her friends and her sister, Yani is finally over...
Invincible Heart (John Baker Chronicles, #1)
by Bryan Tann and Kindra Sowder
Frank London Brown's powerful debut novel, originally published in 1959, fictionalizes the real-life ordeals of the first black families to integrate Chicago's Trumbull Park public housing project in the 1950s. Protagonist Buggy Martin tells the first-person story of moving with his wife, Helen, and two children from a rotting tenement on the South Side to the new development, where the family is besieged by angry whites. With honesty and humor, the richly textured narrative chronicles how the...