![]() This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can’t reach. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family-and raise the baby together? When Ames’s boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she’s pregnant with his baby-and that she’s not sure whether she wants to keep it-Ames wonders if this is the chance he’s been waiting for. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. ![]() He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese-and losing her meant losing his only family. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.Īmes isn’t happy either. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. ![]() Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn’t hate. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Tell us about your career as a college professor: From UCLA, I got my BA in Political Science and Soviet Studies University of Pittsburgh-MFA in Fiction Writing Georgia State University-Ph.D. ![]() Click here to learn about all of her books. Her next series, Migrations of the Heart, follows the loves and lives of African American sisters during America’s most significant internal migration in the first part of the twentieth century. Her first books are part of the Home to Milford Collegeseries, including Amazon bestsellers The Lawyer’s Luck, The Preacher’s Promise, The Mayor’s Mission, and The Representative’s Revolt. Please scroll down for our Q&A with Piper, whose goal is to make new inroads in the publication of historical romance by featuring African American Christian characters. Case in point: Her current book, By Her Own Design.We meet Ann Lowe, the fashion designer to the social register who designed the world-famous wedding gown for Jackie Kennedy, among other prestigious accomplishments. ![]() A note from Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher, Inkandescent Women magazine - What a privilege it is to introduce our readers to professor Piper Huguley, author of a series of historical fiction novels that teach us about some of the amazing black women that history has not focused on. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the second day of school, JT, the cute boy who Marlee secretly has a crush on, asks Marlee to help her with his math homework. Marlee would rather be alone, but she sees that Liz is friendly and funny, and isn’t afraid of being the new kid. Marlee’s father drives her to school, and at lunch, a new girl named Liz sits with her. ![]() When school starts up a few days later, Judy’s high school stays closed the Governor has shut down Central High School because he doesn’t want any Black students to enter. The sounds of the lions roaring at the nearby zoo comfort Marlee, and she feels she can relate to the animals in many ways. Marlee also counts prime numbers in her head when she’s nervous, which is quite often. Judy is a cold cola, her brother David is a sweet glass of iced tea, and her “friend” Sally is like cough syrup. Marlee likes to compare people to types of drinks. Her big sister Judy helps her down off the board, but her confidence and ego is hurt. She is so quiet that some of the mean kids call her “mute”. It seems like Marlee is afraid of a lot these days, especially speaking to people. She is afraid of heights, yet finds herself on the high diving board at the pool, too afraid to jump. How does Marlee’s opinion of JT change?.How does Marlee change from the beginning to the end of the book?.When does the novel take place? What is happening in the South during this time?. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For more information click here or talk to your local librarian. Friends groups raise money for improvements to their library through memberships, used book sales and other activities. There is a “Friends of the Library” group for most branch libraries and departments of the Central Library. You can support the Los Angeles Public Library in several ways: ![]() With more people than ever before using the library-a record 17 million last year alone-your support helps the Library provide people with the resources they need to succeed and thrive. Through its Central Library and 72 branches, the Los Angeles Public Library provides free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual in our city's diverse communities. The Los Angeles Public Library serves the largest most diverse population of any library in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sev is raised in the midst of a vicious family feud, but all seems worth it when his adoptive aunt gives birth to a beautiful little girl whom Sev falls instantly and irrevocably in love with. The story revolves around Sev, a young, handsome prince and member of a royal family who rises to become king of the Oceanan race. A Forgotten Kitten zips along at just the right pace, allowing the reader to digest the complexity of the plot and interrelation between the characters without having to think too hard. ![]() She has created a highly complex story with fully developed characters, and the themes explored here are inarguably adult, yet the reading level required is no more than eighth grade. ![]() Few authors have managed to combine the two genres in such a seamless way as Jessica A. Many readers enjoy Star Wars-esque stories of conflict on faraway planets, while other readers tend to stick to epic romances. ![]() ![]() ![]() Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4).Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796).An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution and the Effect It Has produced in Europe (1794).A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Moral and Political Subjects (1792).A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke (1790), a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1791). ![]() ![]() To which is prefixed a preface, containing some hints on female education (1789) The Female Reader: or, Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse selected from the best writers, and disposed under proper heads for the improvement of young women.Original Stories from Real Life: With Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness (1788).Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787). ![]() ![]() more kitten, Fluff, suffering while looking for the little girl, Ella, that she had fallen in love with. ![]() Review 2: I listened to the audiobook version of this book, and it was a good book for children, but it wasn't for me.Most of the book is about the. A big cat, a dog, a fox are all scary and she can't find her way back to the farm. She is lost and scared and has no food, and snow starts falling. ![]() Then a boy comes to see the kitten but he really wants a snake or spider, so he tells Fluff that the big dog next door will eat her.Poor Fluff runs away and the farm family cannot find her. The others go to good homes but when a girl caled Ella would like Fluff, her parents don't want that. Review 1: This is a nice tale for pre-teens, probably four to eight years could read it.A farm cat has five kittens and the smallest is a fluffy tabby girl. ![]() ![]() But usually you have to seek it out.īy opening our hearts, revealing our scars, we are made human and flawed and whole. Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders. ![]() In an attempt to protect him, Pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier-a move they think will keep him out of combat. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. He’s a normal Italian teenager-obsessed with music, food, and girls-but his days of innocence are numbered. ![]() Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. Audiobook Length: 17 hours and 43 minutes ![]() ![]() ![]() And I am absolutely in love with storytelling and word-building by C.S.Pacat. This series is set in a fantasy world where surprisingly there aren’t mythical creatures or magic but rather a world where there are human slaves and pets. C.S.Pacat managed to break and mend my heart with Captive Prince Series. ![]() Captive Prince by C.S.Pacat is one of the most beautifully written series in the enemies to lover and slow-burn category that I have come across. This series has changed my opinions, made me think, question my writing skills and raised a bar for Romance books. ![]() Fortunately, I am on the list of those people who not only loved these books but became obsessed with them and who can’t seem to stop talking about them. This trilogy has two spectra of audience, either those who love this series or those who hate this series. Front cover of Captive Prince, Prince’s Gambit and Kings Rising by C.S.Pacat. Before we talk about this beautiful masterpiece, let’s talk about Trigger Warnings for this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() When she responds to a domestic violence call, she finds the victim, Tempe Brown, trying to protect her abuser, a married man named Darren Goodall, a decorated Scotland Yard detective afraid of no one.Īs Philomena pursues the case against him, she not only encounters resistance from her police force colleagues but also becomes dangerously entangled with the victim-who is not at all whom she appears to be-much to the increasing endangerment of herself and Henry, her fiancée.Ĭomplicating matters is Philomena’s estranged father Edward McCarthy, a powerful man who has built a criminal empire along with his brothers. ![]() Philomena McCarthy is a young, ambitious police office with the elite Metropolitan Police in London. ![]() |