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📘 Read Now     📥 Download Part Two of The Dogwood Plantation four-part series is a family story and a love story. These themes are intertwined with the history of slavery and race prejudice in America. But combined with them is the constant hope that things will improve as time goes by. John McLachlan, son of Soola, the slave leader of past years, is manager of the plantation, and Robert McLachlan, son of past owner Gertrude, is now the owner. These two friends from childhood agree in their effort to make this a kinder, happier place to live and work, where their children, Meggie, Janelle, and Charles, can grow up together with hope for the future.However, as the years go by, new challenges, which seem insoluble, develop. John frets over major struggles and uncertainties on the farm. Robert seems unconcerned, until finally he comes up with a solution that will bring renewed hope.The backdrop of the rising national political battle over the slavery question is much on...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a feel-good story of four outcasts who learn that some bonds are stronger than blood. On an isolated Texas ranch, Dr. Lucy cares for abandoned animals. The solitude allows her to avoid the people and places that remind her of the past. Not that any of the townsfolk care. In 1959, no one is interested in a woman doctor. Nor are they welcoming Calvin and Justin Bell, a newly arrived African American father and son.When Pete Solomon, a neglected twelve-year-old boy, and Justin bring a wounded wolf-dog hybrid to Dr. Lucy, the outcasts soon find refuge in one another. Lucy never thought she’d make connections again, never mind fall in love. Pete never imagined he’d find friends as loyal as Justin and the dog. But these four people aren’t allowed to be friends, much less a family, when the whole town turns violently against them.With heavy hearts, Dr. Lucy and Pete ...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download “Some things just don’t keep well inside this house …”The summer of 1966 burned hot across America but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi. Finding herself in a precarious position as a black woman living alone, Bernice accepts her brother Floyd’s invitation to join him as a servant for a white family and she enters the web of hostility and deception that is the Kern plantation household.The secrets of the house are plentiful yet the silence that has encompassed it for so many years suddenly breaks with the arrival of the harvest and the appearance of Jesse and Fletcher to the plantation as cotton pickers. These two brothers, the sons of the house servant Silva, awaken a vengeful seed within the Missus of the house as she plots to punish not only her husband but Silva’s family as well. When the Missus starts flirting with Jesse, she sets into motion a dangerous game that could get Jesse kil...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download Top 10 Book of the Year: New York Times , Washington Post , TIME , Entertainment Weekly , Slate One of the Best Books of the Year: Boston Globe , NPR, Minneapolis Star-Tribune , The Economist , Bustle Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist for The Man Booker Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize "Enthralling" (The Boston Globe) "Extraordinary" (The Seattle Times) "A rip-roaring tale" (The Washington Post) A dazzling adventure story about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world. George Washington Black, or "Wash," an 11-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is terrified to be chosen by his master's brother as his manservant. To his surprise, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine c...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download In this emotional powerhouse of a novel, Frank Money is a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary black man.  When Frank joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, he journeys to his native Georgia with a renewed sense of purpose in search of his sister, but it becomes clear that their troubles began well before their wartime separation. Together, they return to their rural hometown of Lotus, where buried secrets are unearthed and where Frank learns at last what it means to be a man, what it takes to heal, and--above all--what it means to come home.A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: NPR, AV Club, St. Louis Dispatch eBook details Title: Home (Vintage International) Author : Toni Morrison Release Date : * Genre: Books,...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery.  One of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year and a PEN/Hemingway award winner, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.  A New York Times Notable Book eBook details Title: Homegoing: A novel Author : Yaa Gyasi Release Date : * G...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download Meet Pastor Joseph Kendricks, the founding pastor of Passion for Christ, who appears to have it all together. He is very well-known and respected in the community of Memphis, Tennessee. What happens when a man who is battling sexual addictions is placed in the pulpit? Can he tame his inner demons or will it cause him to lose everything he has built for himself and his family? Meet First Lady Kimberly Kendricks who has been married to Joseph for the past 9 years. She is the head Labor and Delivery nurse at the local hospital and is loved by everyone. The men wish they had her and the women wish they could be her. She has dedicated her life to being a good wife and mother to her two sons. But what happens when she finds out the ideal marriage that everyone wishes they had isn’t so ideal after all? When secrets and lies come to the surface, will she run or will she stay and fight for her marriage? Meet Asia, the single choir director, who ...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download My life has always been in the spotlight. Born to two famous parents and then quickly rising to "super" status in the modeling world ensured that I, Astoria "Tori" Bell, would always have my image plastered across newsstands. Unfortunately, adoring fans weren't always magnanimous and now I have a stalker on my hands.Oddly enough, the tall, dark, and all-too handsome bodyguard hired to protect me seems more harmful than the threatening notes from the stalker. As well as his plan to flush out the danger by proposing a fake engagement.The lines between pretend and reality blur and I have to shore up my resolves. Baggage from my past means I can't let myself be vulnerable. But the way Marcel Fox treats me has me thinking otherwise. With a new rock on my finger and the man who put it there by my side, happily ever after seems like a possibility or is that as fake as my public persona?The Truth About Fame is the second book in t...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose. A true literary wonder, Hurston's masterwork remains as relevant and affecting today as when it was first published - perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature. eBook details Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God Author : Zora Neale Hurston Release Date : * Genre: Books,Literature & Fiction,United States Pages : * pages Size : * KB Free PDF Download "Their Eyes ...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download Staci Bernard, the ambitious and beautiful jewel of the California church circuit, began rising in the ranks since she was a teenager. She always had dreams of becoming a pastor one day, despite the fact that she was a woman. Following the death of a beloved preacher in Watts, California, she is appointed the pastor of Center of Praise COGIC. The transition isn’t easy at first because most churchgoers still have a hard time believing that a woman is capable of filling the shoes of the late Bishop Mattison. However, her position as pastor is further overshadowed by her glaring single status. Staci wants to be married but now that she is a pastor, she knows it will be much harder to find, “the one.” After a brief stint of Christian online dating, Staci meets Marcus, an aspiring minister from Los Angeles. He’s tall, handsome, well-spoken and saved. After he sweeps her off her feet, Staci is sure that she’s found th...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—n ominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read . 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 keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure.Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town... eBook details Title: The Help Author : Kathryn Stockett Release Da...