Bloodthirsty enemies of the state have kidnapped the president’s daughter. With more enemies than friends in the white house and abroad, the commander-in-chief is unsure whom he can trust and if he’ll ever bring his baby girl home safely.
Bloodthirsty enemies of the state have kidnapped the president’s daughter. With more enemies than friends in the white house and abroad, the commander-in-chief is unsure whom he can trust and if he’ll ever bring his baby girl home safely.
In an intimate letter to his son, a father explains his identity and fears within the galaxy of America, its race invention, and the mythology it has produced.
Willa Noble is on a quest to discover who killed the person dearest to her. She discovers nearly everyone she knows is a suspect. Dancing with danger, she soon finds herself in the nation’s capital alongside her benevolent employer, a strange and mysterious woman invested in the case’s outcome.
Alex and Josie are from different worlds. They’ve come to know each other after discovering they’re “birthday twins.” Alex’s work inspires Josie, and she soon decides she wants Alex to document her transformation story as she steps out of her tainted world into a new life.
Obi Okonkwo, grandson of deceased village leader Okonkwo, is returning to Nigeria from England after earning a proper British education. He quickly finds his world is riddled with bribes and corruption, but Obi is determined never to accept an illegal payment and never compromise his principles. But as his black-and-white world becomes grey, he must wrestle with who he truly is versus who he’d like to believe himself to be. Does his African culture and Western lifestyle render him a hypocrite, and if so, which world is to judge him, the black world or the white?
From Herman Petty to LaVan Hawkins, Franchise tells the hidden history of the intertwined relationship between fast food and civil rights.
(Be prepared for surprises and thought-provoking discussions about this book for years to come!)
Athena is a writing wunderkind, and June, an unsuccessful author, is jealous of her friend’s success. When a tragedy leaves one dead, will the other exploit the memory of her companion for her personal gain?
In a novel that reads like nonfiction, two girls find love at the end of adolescence and the beginning of adulthood. The choices made with that newfound love lead to consequences neither imagined and in the end, they must fight for their destiny and future, alone or lonely.
Myriam loves her children, but after months of caring for her newborns, she feels they’re literally “sucking the life out of her!” She’s ready to get back to her craft as a lawyer. Fortunately, her family finds and hires the perfect nanny, a woman who is in many ways a child but utterly devoted to her duty and the children. She goes above and beyond consistently, but at what point is beyond too far? As the family realizes they cannot function without the nanny, love turns to jealousy, and devotion becomes an obsession.
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