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A remarkable dramatic portrait of life in New York City in 1930, as the Harlem Renaissance starts to feel the bite of the Great Depression.

Zehn großartige Jahre lang hatte ich immer den besten Platz im Haus." -Bruce W. Talamon Eigentlich hatte Bruce W. Talamon Anwalt werden sollen, aber dann lockte ihn doch die Welt des Entertainments. Als junger afroamerikanischer Fotograf trieb sich Talamon, später erfolgreicher Still Photographer in Hollywood, in der quecksilbrigen Jazz- und R&B-Szene, von Los Angeles herum und versuchte sich einen Namen zu machen als jemand, der mehr als nu...

In this inspiring memoir--that Jane Fonda raves "will make you braver...want to live your life better and make a difference"--the award-winning playwright and bestselling author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day reminisces on the art of juggling marriage, motherhood, and politics while working to hone her craft as a writer. Before she become one of America's most popular playwrights and a bestselling author with a novel endorsed by O...

In the tradition of Maya Angelous Phenomenal Woman, best-selling author Pearl Cleage brings us an inspiring, celebratory poem for all women, destined to become a classic. The praise poem acknowledges the legacy of those who have gone before and a realization that we are part of something better, truer, deeper.

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Catherine Sanderson seems to have it all: a fulfilling career helping immigrant women find jobs, a lovely home, and a beautiful, intelligent daughter on her way to Smith College. What Catherine doesn't have: a father for her child- and she's spent many years dodging her daughter's questions about it. Now Phoebe is old enough to start poking around on her own. It doesn't help matters that the mystery man, B.J. Johnson-the only man Catherine has...

Bestselling author Pearl Cleage returns to the site of her Oprah pick novel, "What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day, " to affirm life's precious wonder once again. Since Joyce Mitchell was widowed five years ago, she's kept herself mercifully busy by running The Sewing Circus, an all-female group she founded to provide badly needed services to single mothers and other young women at risk. But some nights, home alone, she knows something is ...

After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild—her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines to be the end is, instead, a beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since Ava left, all the problems of the big city have come to roost in the sleepy North Michigan co...

In this inspiring memoir, the award-winning playwright and bestselling author of What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day reminisces on the art of juggling marriage, motherhood, and politics while working to become a successful writer. In addition to being one of the most popular living playwrights in America, Pearl Cleage is a bestselling author with an Oprah Book Club pick and multiple awards to her credit. But there was a time when such ste...

In this inspiring memoir, the award-winning playwright and bestselling author of What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day reminisces on the art of juggling marriage, motherhood, and politics while working to become a successful writer. In addition to being one of the most popular living playwrights in America, Pearl Cleage is a bestselling author with an Oprah Book Club pick and multiple awards to her credit. But there was a time when such ste...

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When Regina Burns married Blue Hamilton, she knew he was no ordinary man. A charismatic R&B, singer who gave up his career to assume responsibility for the safety of Atlanta's West End community, Blue had created an African American urban oasis where crime and violence were virtually nonexistent. In the beginning, Regina enjoyed a circle of engaging friends and her own work as a freelance communications consultant. Most of all, she relished th...

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When Regina Burns married Blue Hamilton, she knew he was no ordinary man. Regina enjoyed a circle of engaging friends and her own work as communications consultant, but she especially relished the company of her husband, who never ceased to be a source of passion and delight. Then everything changes. Frightened women are showing up in West End, seeking Blue's protection from lovers who have suddenly become violent. When the worst offenders beg...

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Catherine Sanderson and her daughter, Phoebe, have always been as close as a mother and daughter could be, except for one secret between them: the identity of Phoebe's father. Catherine, busy working with refugee and immigrant women through her small firm, Babylon Sisters, has taken on a powerful new client. She doesn't have much time for Phoebe's complicated questions of paternity--that is, until Phoebe's real father, B. J., a renowned invest...

A mesmerizing slice of not-so-everyday life, brimming with wicked wit and spiced with a few supernatural surprises, "Just Wanna Testify" showcases Cleage's masterly storytelling at its soulful and satisfying finest.

Catherine Sanderson has it all: a fulfilling career helping immigrant women find jobs, a lovely home, and a beautiful daughter on her way to Smith College. What Catherine doesn't have is a father for her child, or good answers for Phoebe's probing questions. And B. J., the only man she's ever loved, doesn't even know about Phoebe. But now B. J., a renowned reporter, is back in town, and he needs Catherine's help in cracking the story of a fema...