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1966, Drum's Crossroad, North Carolina. Court-ordered desegregation is about to sweep over the lives of the town's citizens, white and black. Tensions are rising, and trouble is sure to follow. Mama Kodo, a mysterious, seemingly ageless black woman who dwells in a shack deep in the woods just outside town, is waiting. Soon, she will do what only she can: work her magic as the town teeters on the edge of something made of hatred, power, and vengeance.

Los Angeles TV journalist Beatrice Middleton has lost her job. With a possible employment offer in Atlanta, she heads home to Savannah, Georgia, to reconnect with her contentious African-American family, arriving to find that her 15-year-old nephew has been murdered. This begins the unraveling of a cloak of family secrets surrounding another devastating crime, one that shattered Bea's world when she was a teen. The traumatic memory has been buried so deep it almost feels like it never happened - almost.

The love of two families coming together where this African American guy and this Caucasian guy become roommates in college and the African American guy introduces the Caucasian guy to his wife because he knew her from high school and after college, the roommates lost contact and years later run into one another and find out that they live miles apart. Now they reunite, and their children become close, blending their families. A love story, with ups and downs.

Eugeena Patterson is not happy about her next-door neighbor, Louise Hopkins, being sent to live in a nursing home. Without her fellow neighborhood watch buddy, Sugar Creek isn’t the same anymore. And Eugeena’s budding romance with Amos Jones has her emotions in upheaval. When a stranger reveals a stunning secret about Louise’s past, Eugeena questions if the young woman’s claim is for real or if she is a con artist? Roping in Amos for help, Eugeena digs up a few skeletons from her elderly friend’s closet.

Things went from better to worse the last time we heard from these four cousins, and now, six months later, some things in their lives are still in shambles. Valerie, Vanessa, Amina, and Yasmin are far cries from the good girls they once projected themselves to be, and this time around, they’re owning it. But change isn’t always good, and if you thought things were bad for these four ladies before, you haven’t seen anything yet!

An Unscrupulous Mind is One Ironwoman Publishing's audiobook preview introduction to the empress of romantic murder suspense, author K.F. Johnson. Prepare yourself to delve into the first four chapters of some of her current releases and get a taste of some of the crazy, dysfunctional, and unscrupulous characters that await you in the audiobook!

Leslie Baker, owner of Potter Lake's original hometown beauty shop, the Curl & Dye, has a muscular, handsome, six-foot-four-inch problem. Her college sweetheart, former basketball superstar Kade "KC" Cavanaugh, is back in Potter Lake following his NBA retirement, and the shop he's opened, a slick and shiny coed salon, directly competes with Curl & Dye.

Bashaun and Terri, since their almost fatal incident that brought them into each other's life, held on to that one thing that matters the most regardless of the situation, and that was realness. Just keeping it real had always been a challenge. Both had demanding lives but fought to press on with the love that was found between them.

A Collection of Sayings of Mama 'Nem: The Wit and Wisdom of Mama, Muhdear and Othermothers is an intergenerational collection of folk expressions (or sayings) that heralds moral lessons, discipline, wisdom, and love of women (sometimes referred to as village elders), whose sayings and teachings were designed to press into our psyches rich lessons they knew we would need as we came of age and beyond.

Rome wasn't built in a day and in this present-day drama neither was the façade these four cousins expended a lifespan constructing. They say good girls finish last, but when they're bad, are they really better?

Widowed and officially retired, Eugeena Patterson throws herself into organizing the neighborhood association. This presents a great opportunity to reconnect with old friends and get to know new neighbors, like recently widowed Amos Jones - that is until Eugeena stumbles upon her estranged neighbor’s dead body. Eugeena’s daughter is fingered as a prime suspect, but where is she? Determined to find her missing daughter, Eugeena and Amos sort through a list of neighbors with shady or unknown backgrounds.

Seventy-six-year-old Emma Lee Baker has lived a seemingly ordinary life near the banks of Thomas Bay, but a shocking discovery turns her ordinary life into something altogether extraordinary. Honour Blue Baker is the polar opposite of her gentile mother. There are only two things in life she fears: her past and the idea of falling in love. Those fears come full circle when she returns to Barrow County to visit her mother, never knowing that her journey home will become a journey of a lifetime.

Black women are not a monolith. They are many things - beautiful and mysterious. Through magical and musical verse, Mixon offers alternative narratives, origin stories that challenge the limited societal views of women whose mere existence is at times a mystery, an amalgam of experiences - inherited and otherwise. An orphan (who is adopted by a storm) tries to hold thunder in her mouth; a battered grandmother taps into her ancestral powers; an adolescent girl befriends a woman at the end of her life; and more.

Neither Bashaun Young or Terri “HI-Def” Essence was looking for love, but both found it in each other at a time when life started to take a turn. Newly married, Bashaun opens two successful fitness centers and becomes a world-renowned business owner. But being on top comes with a spotlight. And while that light shines on you, it lets you be seen by everyone, including those that are jealous and want what you have - and would stop at nothing to get it.

Transcend to Legacy: Facing Myself is a self-help book that describes mental, physical, and spiritual events that many of us face today. How many of us can honestly admit that when we look into a mirror each day, we face ourselves? The book provides engaging activities and scenarios that can be applied to real-world situations that many of us are battling. The book sends the message that although we have flaws, we are not here by happenstance.

Life Gave Me a Twist is about a girl growing up in the ghetto of New York City (the Bronx) and the many hardships and achievements she has made in her life. Shantel has overcome many barriers while living in a drug and impoverished ghetto of the south Bronx.

Imagine living in your car for months. Thinking you have met the love of your life, only to discover he is not the one. Unrequited love that you are waiting for another to quench. Being made to feel inferior by the people you love the most. Your mom dying of cancer. This autobiographical account of love, loss, and expectations offers an intimate view into life events unknown even to family and friends. Ms.Sledge has embellished circumstances surrounding the trials and tribulations of a life full of love, joy, exploitation, and injustice as only a poet can.

Lorain has been a prisoner of her secrets for almost her entire life. At the age of 13 she managed to keep her pregnancy a secret, discarding the infant and leaving it for dead. Years later, Lorain's mother finally met the love of her life, and Lorain couldn't find the courage to tell her mother that her new beau was the man who had molested Lorain and impregnated her. To complicate matters even more, Lorain discovered that the baby she'd abandoned all those years ago survived.

Mother Doreen has left New Day Temple of Faith in Malvonia, Ohio, and moved to Kentucky to help her diabetic sister. Her sister's husband, a truck driver, pretty much lives on the road. Mother Doreen feels in her spirit that she's needed to intervene on her sister's behalf, especially when the assistant pastor of her sister's church seems to be there just a little bit too much. Her suspicions really grow when her sister's belly does too.