Titres dans Afro-américaine

Der hersker fred og idyl i en større vestjysk by. Lige indtil en ung lokalpolitiker findes myrdet under mystiske omstændigheder. Under kriminalkommissær Anne Nielsens efterforskningsarbejde begynder et mysterium at udfolde sig, der både omfatter magtopgør og store sociale problemer, som huserer i den vestjyske by. En by, der måske kun på overfladen er fredelig og idyllisk...

I’m out searching for my drunk of a dad in the middle of the night. The last thing I expect to find is a hot stranger on my property with a broken-down car. Raelynn promises to be out of my hair by morning. I hate drama and drama is Raelynn’s middle name. So why am I so desperate to keep her by my side? The more she tries to run from us, the more I want to chase after her.

Two successful professionals, Kent Maxwell and Ashtyn Wilson, met at an African American caucus in Atlanta. Their love story began there, leading to marriage, children, and a life together in Columbus. Despite some expressing faith and others expressing doubt, they faced numerous challenges that tested their commitment.

When you spend your whole life being a protector, it’s hard to let others be one for you. From the young age of nine, Cory Tate has always had to be the strong one. She constantly had to protect and care for her younger siblings because their mom was busy living a life that no child should ever be exposed to. But even after they moved in with her dad, that didn’t stop her from continuing to worry about her mom, constantly visiting to convince her to do better.

You are cordially invited to the wedding of Amerie Cross and Arnold Hightower.

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award–winning film. Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow...

NBA player Leland McClain, the baby of the McClain family, is tall, handsome, talented...and spoiled. He's a man who gets what he wants, and what he wants is the lovely Kimberly Hampton. Kim Hampton is the director of a community center, a woman who lives to help others while trying to forget a troubling past. As far as she's concerned, a relationship with any man is a horrible idea. But a relationship with Leland McClain? That's just out of the question. He has to have her. She is undeniably attracted to him. But will she lower her guard and let him hold her?

Seit Stunden belauern sie sich gegenseitig: das Alligatorenweibchen, das seine Jungen beschützen muss, und Gertrude, deren vier Töchter seit Tagen nichts gegessen haben. Ein Schuss fällt, doch er trifft nicht das Reptil - es gibt Schlimmeres als den Hunger. Auch Annie, die Plantagenbesitzerin, hat einen größeren Feind, als sie wahrhaben möchte. Ihren jüngsten Sohn kostete das bereits das Leben. Doch als Oretta, Annies schwarze Haushälterin und in erster Generation von der Sklaverei befreit, Gertrudes kranke neunjährige Tochter bei sich aufnimmt, finden diese drei Frauen, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein können, zusammen.

I'm a protector, and my family is my responsibility. When it comes to my team, I'm the same way. They are family and the reason that me and Capone are able to do us in the streets, knowing they are tucked away safe. As a man, you sometimes fall short, and something—someone—falls through the cracks. I know one thing; I put that on my grandson that I'm going to crack his uncle's skull. He has hurt his own family, tossed them out to the wolves, and has hurt mine. I don't take too kindly to people hurting mine.

East Oakland. Kiara, dix-sept ans, décide de vendre son corps afin de survivre. Sa vie changera drastiquement après une arrestation banale, qui deviendra une véritable descente en enfer.

What elevates teaching my mother how to give birth, what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times -...

From one of Britain's most celebrated writers of color, Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of black British women. Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and short-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize, Girl, Woman, Other paints a vivid portrait of the state of post-Brexit Britain, as well as looking back to the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.

She’s an angel. And she doesn’t mind dancing with a demon. That’s why I’d move mountains, dry seas, and hydrate the desert if it made her happy. She brought goodness to the world. It was only right that I made it hers, along with the two tiny beauties that shared her hazel eyes and perfect smile. For them, I’d do whatever. For them, I’d become whoever.

God is change. That is the central truth of the Earthseed movement, whose unlikely prophet is 18-year-old Lauren Olamina. The young woman's diary entries tell the story of her life amid a violent 21st-century hell of walled neighborhoods and drug-crazed pyromaniacs—and reveal her evolving Earthseed philosophy. Against a backdrop of horror emerges a message of hope: if we are willing to embrace divine change, we will survive to fulfill our destiny among the stars.

Barbara Cartland a conquis des millions de lecteurs à travers le monde et écrit plus de 700 romans où l'amour triomphe toujours. Après le remariage de son père, Julia de Wentwood a compris que sa belle-mère la détestait, parce qu'elle est ravissante, cultivée, bonne cavalière... Ce ne sont donc que piques, vexations et brimades dès que le comte a le dos tourné. Or, profitant de l'absence de ce dernier, la comtesse convoque Julia.

Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by society and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters to God. The letters, spanning 20 years, record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment guided by the light of a few strong women.

One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She...

Part historical drama, part supernatural horror, and part alternate history, Blood Slaves is an ingenuous and defiant new creation myth of the vampire, one rooted in both justice and the sometimes-violent means necessary to achieve it.

Two girls who grow up to become women...two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret.