Author: Che Walker
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 057132925X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 61
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I can't believe my own sister would come with this thievery and anarchy to my door.Tree and Ree Etienne are laying their mother to rest when an unwelcome arrival at the graveside intrudes on their grief. It's Bo, their troublesome estranged half-sister.To comfort her sisters Bo moves in for a while and things begin to look up. But cracks appear as childhood memories, deep resentments and long-put-away dreams come to the fore. Tensions build before erupting in a confrontation during which harsh truths are said. Will the sisters destroy all that is left of their family and each other?The Etienne Sisters by Ché Walker premiered at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London, in September 2015.
Author: David Grace
Publisher: David Grace
ISBN: 1452399425
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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Secretary of State, Randall Tanner, was shocked when he read the Top Secret file discovered by one of his Ambassadors that revealed that the President was guilty of treason. After three agonizing days he decided that there was no other solution: The President had to die. Tanner initiated a plot to have President Ted Hoskins assassinated in a way that would make his death look like an accident. Fearing what she might know about the President's activities, the plotters also killed Hoskins' mistress, the Secretary of the Interior, Sarah Brewster. For five years it looked like they had gotten away with it, until Sarah's alcoholic husband found her diary including the details of her affair with the President. Broke, drunk and angry, the husband contacted an ex-CIA agent turned international affairs writer to ghost-write a book spilling all of Hoskins' dirty secrets, revelations that would raise questions that the conspirators couldn't afford to have asked. The killers quickly got rid of Sarah's husband, but by then the diary had fallen into the hands of his daughter, Allison, and the ghostwriter, Steve Grant. Barely one step ahead of the killers, Steve and Allison desperately search for Sarah's last hidden file that contains the whole story about the President, a file they have to find before the killers find them if they expect to have any hope of staying alive.
Author: Sue Redman
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781480148062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Emerald Washington, 11, watches her often destructive family deteriorate. Desperate, she sets off to search Los Angeles for her older sister. Evading sheriffs and foster care workers, she makes her way into the inner city where she sleeps among the homeless, some caring and helpful, some dangerous. Ultimately she enters the world of human trafficking and under-age prostitution, It is her spirit, coupled with the strength of a few other caring, brave people, that allows her to persist and find unexpected resolution.
Author: Linda Ivy Cooper
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456729926
Category : Adult child abuse victims
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Molly is an adult. She has returned to the home of her childhood. The setting where she begins to tell her story is Bradenton, Florida.She remembers and begins to reveal the secrets of a past shared by four displaced children. Molly and her brother Jake were given up for adoption to their mother's sister, (a victim of abuse and sexual molestation) and her husband the ex-marine of German heritage. Jake suffers both physical and mental abuse at the hands of his new father.Molly is convinced if she does everything possible to please her new parents, they will love her. But, when her new father withholds food from her as a way to lose weight and her mother forcibly removes her teeth; she comes to believe they hate her because she is ugly.Through divorce and other atrocities, one-by-one the three other children are banished from the family. Molly is left to face the downward spiral of a mother obsessed with grandeur thoughts of fame; associated with a distorted view of religion.
Author: Leigh Smith
Publisher: Norvern Monkey
ISBN: 9780955728907
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Author: Toy
Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing
ISBN: 1648543219
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
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At the very moment Shawn and Renee decide to make a go of things, her whole world falls apart yet again. With her son missing, a relationship was the last thing on her mind. Feeling like she’s destined to be in the middle of drama, Renee makes choices that she may regret. Shawn feels that the weight of the world is on his shoulders. The pressure is on him to find Jashon and put a smile back on Renee’s face. He knows that the love he has for her will stand through this, but he doubts that she realizes how strong their bond really is. Jaybo has never acknowledged the wife that he kept at a distance. Keeping her tucked away was his gift to her for the act of disloyalty. Just when he thinks he gets to the source of one problem, he realizes that he’s uncovered something that he may never recover from emotionally. Kelly and Demarcus’ affair starts and moves forward with lightning speed. Demarcus knows exactly what he wants from and with Kelly. He only needs her to get on the same page as him. Kelly keeps fighting, but is she only avoiding the inevitable? Renee’s life is in a whirlwind, so she doubts her decisions and emotions. Shawn wants to be the one to take Renee’s worry away because he needs her more than she knows. Will Kelly and Renee understand the position that they are in? Will they realize that they have not only taken Shawn and Demarcus’ lives by storm but, they have also taken a hitta’s heart with them?
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Pages : 196
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Author: Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 0307559467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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This astonishing novel takes us on a journey along the river of one family's history, carving a course across two centuries and three continents, from ancient Africa into today's America. Here, through the lives of Mother Africa's many daughters, we come to understand the real meaning of roots: the captive Proud Mary, who has been savagely punished for refusing to relinquish her child to slavery; Earlene, who witnesses her father's murder at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan; Big Momma, a modern-day matriarch who can make a woman of a girl; proud and sassy Cinnamon Brown, whose wild abandon hides a bitter loss; and smart, ambitious Alma, who is torn between the love of a man and the song of her soul. In The River Where Blood Is Born, the seen and unseen worlds are seamlessly joined--the spirit realms where the great river goddess and ancestor mothers watch over the lives of their descendants, both the living and those not yet born. Stringing beads of destiny, they work to lead one daughter back to her source. But what must Alma sacrifice to honor the River Mother's call?
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Languages : en
Pages : 660
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