Résultats pour "The Moor" dans Afro-américaine

Ein verfallenes Herrenhaus wird für Laura Milton zum Schlüssel in die Vergangenheit. Denn das Schicksal der Lady Victoria Milton wirft seine Schatten bis in die Gegenwart ... Exmoor, gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts: Die 20-jährige Victoria wird bald ein ansehnliches Vermögen erben. Doch ihr Vormund Richard hat seine eigenen Pläne mit ihrem Geld und verbannt sie in eine Anstalt für Geisteskranke – aus der Arthur, einer von Richards Bediensteten, ihr zur Flucht verhilft.

Diabolical Tales of Woe is a thrilling collection of short horror stories that leave you in excited trepidation to see what will happen next! Prepare to face one horrific encounter after the next in this captivating novel.

Read by the author. Do you feel like you live life looking in from the outside? From the way you speak, to the color of your skin, to the way you vote, or the way you pray, you don't fit the mold. And yet you find yourself still trying to prove yourself to others. In Set Me Free, New York Times...

In this novel of family and redemption, a mother struggles to save her eighteen-year-old daughter from the devastating consequences of mental illness by forcing her to deal with her bipolar disorder. New York Times best-selling author Bebe Moore Campbell draws on her own powerful emotions and...

The New Jersey bar scene is a big deal. Ocean Avenue is full of them.... Who could be found there, and why would they go there? The list is endless, but we all agree to go there to have fun, hang out with our neighbors, and have a beverage where usually no mixed drinks are allowed! In most cases, you can only have brown liquor or white liquor. It's a place where everybody knows your name. Come on in, my seat is in the corner on the right in the dark...but hey, I look good.

Three Urban Audiobooks authors have teamed up to bring the drama in this latest installment of the popular Girls from Da Hood series.

Desirae Fernandez is kicked out of her parents' home in Little Havana on her 18th birthday. She has only one plan, and that is to be grown. When her best friend gives her the opportunity to make fast money at Miami's Queen of Diamonds gentlemen's club, Desirae dives headfirst into the business and meets a handsome, hood-rich, up-and-coming rap label CEO by the name of Luxury.

Kapri James wasn't born into the struggle of the game, but she craves it. Despite pleas from her mother, the upper-middle-class teen is addicted to "slumming" and living the fast life. Everything about the blackhearted mentality of Detroit draws her in with ease. Drug dealing, carjackings, home invasions, snatch and grabs, and mayhem in general have to be on a man's resume to catch her eye. Hardcore criminal Nolan White, known citywide as a shooter, fits that description to a tee, and Kapri has to have him.

After a deadly domestic dispute nearly takes both parents away, his mother’s self-sacrifice is followed by a sudden move to Philadelphia to Camden, New Jersey which offers an opportunity for a new life and a clean slate. Then he comes face to face with the family “business”...integrating mainstream business principle and integrity with the raw rules and politics of the street don’t come easy. At lease, not without a little dirty work to ensure problems disappear and their enemies can’t draw another breath.

Simone knows if she plays with fire, she runs the risk of getting burned, but she just can't help herself. Living large off the paternity scam of a lifetime, she has two baby daddies cashing her out for her infant son. Even her own best friends are getting tired of her low-down, manipulative ways. Unfortunately, the streets begin to talk, and the out-for-self mother's luck taps out.

Life is great for thick-boned Keisha Jackson. With a good education, well-paying job, and a promising future, she has everything a young woman could ask for, including high self-esteem. But after a chance meeting with Rico, the neighborhood "bad boy", her fairy-tale life is quickly dismantled. Blinded by emotion, she gives in to all his cruel intentions. Having endured physical, mental, and sexual abuse, Keisha finally sees the light, and she's not having it anymore. The tables are turned, and Rico feels her well-deserved wrath.

"Secure the bag" is their motto, and death before dishonor is their G-code, so when greed, disloyalty, and hidden agendas threaten their enterprises, these outlaw mamis exact revenge on a whole new level! This volume contains: "Blood of My Blood" by Jasmine Williams; "Honor Among Boss Chicks" by Niyah Moore; "Dishonorable" by India; and more!

Two Essence best-selling Urban Books authors have teamed up to bring the Motor City drama in this latest installment of the popular Girls from Da Hood series. In this audiobook are All the Way In by Treasure Hernandez and Escaping a Thug's Love by Ms. Michel Moore.

Forced to flee Detroit, ruthless and rotten Kenya and her identical twin, London, have dodged the bullets of a vicious hired hitman and endured the pain of a brutal rape. Now, due to mistaken identity, the girls must deal with Storm's strange disappearance and his partner's heinous murder before it's too late and they're next. Once again the sisters' lives are turned upside down. This time, the consequences could land them both in jail - or dead and unclaimed in the county morgue.

An unexpected turn of events forces Omar's world upside down. Wrongfully convicted of a murder he didn't commit, his entire life changes in the blink of an eye. With all of the odds stacked against him, he quickly finds himself fighting for his innocence and the love of his life.

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Cleveland lawyer Casey Cort lost more than her job when she crossed the wrong political family—she lost her idealism. Casey’s scraped together a career as a solo practitioner which has offered her more than one opportunity for redemption…but it's also threatened her life. In Judged, one thread is pulled and everything unravels. In Ransomed, Casey faces the Brodys again. The Brody family destroyed her. Now they want her back. In Caged, Casey Cort must decide between violation of her sworn duty of confidentiality or forging a path to justice.

This book tells a not so unique tale of an individual's journey to find God, love, and acceptance while being single, gay, and sick. It is a beautiful journey of self acceptance, dealing with rejection, and finding the Greatest Love and Life in the midst.

Laurel Dixon has it all. She is a Caucasian woman, living the American Dream... or so she thinks. She has a successful career in a world where women are expected to be home and stay silent. She is a proponent for equal rights, and has finally given birth to her first child after years of failed pregnancies.

A New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana. Beginning with her great-great-great-great grandmother, a slave owned by a...