Titres dans Afro-américaine

Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning White boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes she's been given a challenge.

Book club favorite and acclaimed author of No Better Time and The Secret Women makes her first foray into the mythical fantasy genre with this epic tale of legacy, power, sacrifice, and family bonds that is a call to action wrapped in elemental magic. Aeola St. James is no ordinary CEO. While...

A moment in time… insignificant and fleeting for most, but for Nicole, Mark, and Eric, it is life-altering. Three strangers meet in a town they don’t know in a place they hadn’t expected to end up only to find that they are exactly where they were supposed to be… again.

In the quiet snowfall of Burlington, Vermont, love is tested, secrets are unearthed, and a heart must decide whether to hold on or finally let go. Zayvion, a respected doctor with a guarded heart, never expected betrayal to come from the person he trusted most. Sanova, a passionate dance teacher carrying the weight of unspoken pain, is determined to save the love they built—before it disappears beneath the snow. As the coldest Christmas on record settles over the town, the warmth between them begins to fade.

Growing up in an abusive household, Lux Abraham dealt with most things that a child should never have to deal with at a young age. He and his brother both witnessed their father die at the hands of their mother. Not finding it easy to forgive their mother, the two enter a pact to walk away from her and never visit her in prison again. Lux decided that he would pursue a career that would allow him to help people and that is why he became a detective, and his brother became a paramedic.

When Seraphina Jones's car breaks down in a Montana snowstorm, she finds herself stranded in the last place she ever expected to be: a remote country town with no cell service, no Wi-Fi, and no escape route. A high-powered marketing executive from Chicago, Sera has built her entire identity around climbing the corporate ladder, convinced that success is the only thing that matters. But a broken-down car and a delayed repair have other plans, forcing her to spend the Christmas season in a place that couldn't be more different from the fast-paced city life she knows.

10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION NATIONAL BESTSELLER A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home. From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow...

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.

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage—Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds...

Barbara Cartland a conquis des millions de lecteurs à travers le monde et écrit plus de 700 romans où l'amour triomphe toujours. Nous sommes invités chez le Duc de Lyndbrooke. Je vous conseille de rester modeste et de vous faire oublier, mademoiselle ! Ce sermon n'étonne pas Katrina Darley. Sa tante, jalouse de sa fraicheur, l'a toujours détestée. De toute façon, Katrina n'a nullement l'intention de faire son intéressante. Pourtant, elle va découvrir au château de Lyndbrooke un univers de luxe enchanteur. Quant au propriétaire, il est beau comme un Dieu.

« B&B, il y a un petit gâteau noir dans le congélateur pour vous. Ne le jetez pas. Je veux que vous vous asseyiez ensemble et que vous partagiez ce gâteau. Vous saurez quand le moment sera venu.Je vous aime, Ma. » Ce sont les dernières volontés de la mère de Byron et Benny. Avec le gâteau, elle a laissé un enregistrement audio réalisé avant sa mort. Elle y livre l'histoire d'une jeune nageuse venue d'une île des Caraïbes, forcée de quitter son pays natal après avoir été accusée de meurtre.

James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel with a new introduction. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while...

As turmoil simmers within a divided nation, smoke from another blaze begins to rise. Sparked by individual acts of resistance among those enslaved across the American South, their seemingly disparate rebellions fuel a singular inferno of justice, connecting them in ways quiet at times, explosive at others. As these flames rise, so will they. Luke, quick-witted and literate, and Henri, a man with a strong and defiant spirit, forge an unbreakable bond at a Virginia plantation called Magnolia Row. Both seek escape from unimaginable cruelty.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NATIONAL BESTSELLER This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. "One of the most gifted novelists in...

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.

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding.

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...

Over one million copies sold! The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! “Historical fiction at its best!”* A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal...

With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers whom the system has mostly abandoned. When his efforts to reach these troubled students are met with threats, suspicion, and derision, Braithwaite takes a radical new approach. He will treat his students as people poised to enter the adult world.