Category: Excerpt
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{Excerpt} Share My Life : A Journey of Love, Faith and Redemption by: Kem, David Ritz
Chapter 1: NINETEEN I had dropped out of high school. After I had disappeared for weeks, my father wouldn’t let me return. He was permanently kicking me out to protect my mother, who was a recovering alcoholic. My presence would only make her worse. She didn’t want to see me. That was hard to hear, but…
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{Excerpt} We Over Me : The Counterintuitive Approach to Getting Everything You Want from Your Relationship by: Khadeen Ellis, Devale Ellis
Introduction We would like to start this book by stating that there is no perfect way to exist in this world. In fact, we’ll take it a step further and say that no one has unequivocally figured this thing out. We are all in search of this mythical place called “Happily Ever After.” Yet, we…
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{Excerpt} Turning by: Joy L. Smith
Chapter One: The Barre Miss Kuznetsova was right; I don’t know what hard work is. I’m ghost-knuckling the barre, doing the opposite of what I was taught in ballet—clinging for dear life, trying to hold myself up. I want to tilt my head to reroute the highway of sweat working its way down my face,…
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{Excerpt} Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood Edited by:Kwame Mbalia
There’s Going to Be a Fight in the Cafeteria on Friday and You Better Not Bring Batman By Lamar Giles **Batman (perma-banned)** Spider-Man Captain America Superman War Machine Wonder Woman Thor Iron Man The Hulk The Winter Soldier The Flash Wolverine Doctor Strange Thanos Black Panther The school bus squealed to a stop at the…
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{Excerpt} A Little Devil in America : Notes in Praise of Black Performance by:Hanif Abdurraqib
Soul Train was guided by Don Cornelius, who got his start as a backup disc jockey at Chicago radio station WVON. Cornelius was born in Chicago in 1936, as the era of dance marathons began to die down. He worked primarily as a news and sports reporter, but he spent his downtime emceeing a series…
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{Excerpt} Before the Ever After by:Jacqueline Woodson
Memory like a MovieThe memory goes like this: Ollie’s got the ball and he’s running across my yard whenDad comes out of nowhere,soft tackles him to the ground.Then everyone is cheering and laughing becausewe didn’t even know my dad was home. I thought you had a game, I say, grabbing him.It’s a half hug, half…
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{Excerpt} The Woman God Created You to Be: Finding Success Through Faith—Spiritually, Personally, and Professionally by:Kimberla Lawson Roby
INTRODUCTION A Question Every Woman Should Ask Herself Are you the real woman God created you to be? Have you wanted to become her? Have you wondered how to make that happen? If so, then you’re the amazing woman I wrote this book for. You’re the woman who wants to become even better than she…
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{Excerpt} Make It Work: 22 Time-Tested, Real-Life Lessons for Sustaining a Healthy, Happy Relationship by:Tony A. Gaskins
introduction Love is the greatest wonder of the world. For thousands of years we have tried to figure it out, but still we struggle to make it work. I became a student of love early in life. I had my first girlfriend in kindergarten, although I’m not sure that counts. As early as tenth grade,…
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{Excerpt} Josie and the Brood by:Jayde Brooks
The trick with her was not to make any sudden moves. And to pretend to be more incapacitated than he truly was. Probably not the way to start a relationship, but Chapman wanted to buy as much time with her as he could. Relationship. Is that he wanted with her? And just how was that…
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{Excerpt} Wrath: Seven Deadly Sins by:Cassandra Baker-Durham
Baxter Reed waited until his wife’s body seeped beneath the surface of the water. The area smelled of high humidity and algae, making his sinuses drain to the back of his throat. He hated that he felt nothing. He had hoped to feel some release as he choked the life out of her. He waited…
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