James Hannaham
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English
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"Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns to drugs, and quickly forms an addiction. One day she disappears without a trace. Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old Eddie, now left behind in a panic-stricken search for her, Darlene has been lured away with false promises of a good job and a rosy life. A shady company...
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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After more than twenty years in prison, a trans woman newly released on parole spends a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend in Brooklyn trying to reconcile with the son she left behind and to reunite with a family reluctant to accept her true identity. Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she'd grown up with in Fort Greene, Brooklyn - before it gentrified....
3) God Says No
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English
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Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are nineteen, God-fearing, and eager to start a family. But a week before their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop bathroom and lets something happen.
God Says No is his testimony-the story of a young black Christian struggling with desire and belief, with his love for his wife and his appetite for other...
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Español
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Darlene es una mujer rota. Después de la muerte violenta de su marido su vida ha quedado destrozada. Hasta que un día se le presenta una vía de escape en forma de autobús, promesa de futuro y trabajo. En ese momento, empieza un largo recorrido hasta la Delicious Foods, una empresa especializada en reclutar a desdichados y marginados. Pero la realidad a la cual se tendrá que enfrentar Darlene no será la que ella espera. Con esta novela pluripremiada,...
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen"--