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My name is Chantelle. I live in Atlanta. Through my college years, I was like a lot of young women, unnoticed, and content to live in the background. To celebrate my 25th birthday, I stepped out of the shadows ready to be seen. That was the night I caught Teddy's eyes. Unaccustomed to all the attention, I got caught up in a whirlwind of what I thought was love. Five years later, when the dust settled, I found myself married, raising three chil...

It's 2014. Grieving the loss of family members and friends killed in a plane crash, renowned megachurch pastor Priscilla Sinclair sits on her patio, prepared to take her own life. But before she can end it all, a stranger shows up at her Virginia home and changes everything. Trying to strengthen her faith, the stranger challenges Priscilla to lean on God's promises and on the examples of faith left to her by her ancestors. He tells her a story...

It's 2014. Grieving the loss of family members and friends killed in a plane crash, renowned megachurch pastor Priscilla Sinclair sits on her patio, prepared to take her own life. But before she can end it all, a stranger shows up at her Virginia home and changes everything. Trying to strengthen her faith, the stranger challenges Priscilla to lean on God's promises and on the examples of faith left to her by her ancestors. He tells her a story...

It's 2014. Grieving the loss of family members and friends killed in a plane crash, renowned megachurch pastor Priscilla Sinclair sits on her patio, prepared to take her own life. But before she can end it all, a stranger shows up at her Virginia home and changes everything. Trying to strengthen her faith, the stranger challenges Priscilla to lean on God's promises and on the examples of faith left to her by her ancestors. He tells her a story...

Ernest was the owner and head barber at the King Cut Barber Shop. He could cut out the likeness of Barack Obama, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X with the words 'By Any Means Necessary' onto a client's scalp with his straight-razor that would rival any accomplished artist. He'd done all right for himself and his family with a successful business on a rough corner in the hood, except he wanted more. All he needed was a loan...

Rafiki is the Crown Prince of the Singer Frog Kingdom. His mom and dad, the King and Queen, want him to follow in their footsteps and become a great singer. To their dismay, Rafiki has the heart of an adventurer. He wants to explore the world beyond the pond kingdom where his parents give grand performances to the delight of all its inhabitants. When Rafiki befriends a family of chameleons, he is invited to accompany them on their annual trek ...

Rafiki is the Crown Prince of the Singer Frog Kingdom. His mom and dad, the King and Queen, want him to follow in their footsteps and become a great singer. To their dismay, Rafiki has the heart of an adventurer. He wants to explore the world beyond the pond kingdom where his parents give grand performances to the delight of all its inhabitants. When Rafiki befriends a family of chameleons, he is invited to accompany them on their annual trek ...

This book, God's Transforming Love, is authored by eighteen women who have grasped the truth of who God is and how much He truly loves them. These women have sought to become a living, breathing tangible demonstration of God's transforming love. They have taken a leap of faith that they had not dared to take before. These authors have told their stories of how a loving God changed their perspectives when they surrendered their challenges to Hi...

You can never foresee the trials or tragedies taht will challenge you in this life but I have to say that the loss of a child has to be the worst of them. It's unimaginable, unfathomable, and unbearable. 72 Steps is my experience. Almost too painful to put on paper, I hope it will inspire others who feel their lives have been devastated or destroyed beyond repair to trust and believe that joy does come in the morning. This is my testimony to t...

Not again. Another unarmed young black teenager is murdered by a white shooter pleading self defense, this time in Philadelphia. Protests and riots tear the city apart, racially divided on who was the innocent victim. Victoria Perry, an up and coming Assistant District Attorney wants a jury to decide. Not everyone wants to see the case go to trial, including her politically ambitious significant other, Leonard Sterling. The defendant's wealthy...

The most sophisticated weapon in the world is the human voice, more often than not it also the most damaging. The power of the voice can be used to bless or to destroy, it can be used to spread truth or lies, to speak peace or violence, to encourage or tear down, to build nations or pillage countries. Without the power of a voice you can become vulnerable, weak, and helpless. Your thoughts, requests, and protests, go unheard. That's what makes...

This collection of poetry was written over the last twenty-five years of Rev. Cordell Sloan's life. Still, his voice and the themes embodied are ageless. Each poem is a window that gives a glimpse into his heart, his soul, and the depth of his faith. This collection expresses all the emotions of life, love, pain, joy, disappointment, expectation, perseverance, and death. They represent the human condition and are divided into nine categories, ...

A contemporary history book that expands before and beyond the Civil Rights Movement in a decade by decade examination of the journey of Black Americans from Jim Crow in 1909 to Barack Obama in 2009. The book is designed to be informative as well as entertaining, covering a broadly based range of subject matter. Every reader will find a decade in which they can identify or relate to as they follow the changes that have taken place in the aspec...

Fresh back from her youngest daughter's destination wedding in the Bahamas, Evelyn Winters is ready to celebrate her 50th birthday and get her life back. Finally it was her time to start living for herself instead of Nelson and the girls. Except that part of her life is not over yet, unexpectedly she's gets another baby to raise and Nelson isn't happy about it. From the start Elijah wasn't like her other babies, he was so happy and peaceful. T...

Portia Roberts was in a day-to-day struggle to recover from the tragedy that tore her family apart. Desperate for a way out from under the dark cloud that constantly hovered above her, a major event on the news captures her curiosity and convinces her that there is a path to regain her peace of mind. Her odyssey carries her back and forth between her past and present before she can move on to her future. Go with Portia on her supernatural ques...

From the beginning, as written in Genesis 8:22, "While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." Described by many as the two faces of fortune, it is the blues and our blessings, one causing much heartbreak and the other providing immense joy. The Fortunes of Blues and Blessing is a historical American saga telling the story of a black family in America beginning in 1849 that sp...

Tia King knows she's a "total package, " attractive, trustworthy, personable, a great cook, and educated, only one semester away from earning her Ph.D. But like Billy Dee Williams said in the movie, Mahogany, "Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with!" Men had always been drawn to her like black folks to a picnic but the relationships never lasted. She was way past tired of standing up as a bridesmaid watching her girlfrien...

A Reflection is a decade by decade review of African-American history from 1909 until 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as the first Black President. Every aspect of life for African-Americans from the changes that have taken place in our leadership, business and personal finances, our thinking and aspirations, our culture, values, and attitudes, and how have they affected the quality of life and personal growth for African Americans tod...

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to giv...

The only thing Luke was sure of was that he didn't want to be like his father, John. Raised on a one-way ghetto street in North Philly the odds weren't in his favor. Nothing special had ever happened to him until he met Ruthie on the day Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. When Ruthie got pregnant, he finally had something to live for. Even being drafted into Vietnam wasn't about to take that away from him. Back home Ruthie did hair to help mak...