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The two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter bares her heart and soul in this intimate memoir, a story of music, stardom, love, family, heritage, and resilience. She inspired songs—Leon Russell wrote “A Song for You” and “Delta Lady” for her, Stephen Stills wrote “Cherokee...

Contributors to the latest book in the Guys Read series present a bone-chilling collection of original ghost stories perfect for sharing around the campfire, listening to under the covers with a flashlight, and scaring your friends' pants off.

Sofia daydreams of a comfortable life beyond the slums of Ecuador and hopes a man, young or old, would come and sweep her off her feet and off the coast of her country. Then one day her star shines as she stumbles into George at a mall in Ecuador; he is single, a tourist, and finds Sofia attractive. After series of communication, he proposes, marries, and sponsors her to Canada, and then her nightmare begins. George has changed, and Sofia misses being in love and appreciated, that is, until an old flame resurfaces, and she does the unthinkable that could possibly give her a spine to stand ...

Aisha is a young girl forcefully married to a wealthy forty-year-old man.The poverty in her family is heightened by the drought in her country. Daily, she visits her mother’s dry farmland, praying for rain to fall and moisten the soil. She knows all hope is lost. Having sustained her family for as long as he could, after her father’s sudden disappearance, her uncle decides the marriage is their last resort. She must marry her old suitor, or bear the responsibility should her mother and younger ones perish in poverty. Aisha weighs her options and decides to marry, with a hidden agenda ...

Anna is from a poor home. It's only a matter of time before she loses her sick younger sister to a deadly illness. Without money for constant medical care, she would die. Anna seizes an opportunity to travel abroad, but she is in for a surprise when she finds herself among trafficked teenagers heading to Italy. Caged in a web of human trafficking, she must either choose to flee from her nightmare, or stay and prevent her sister from dying.

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Fifteen-year-old Bri is a sophomore who has her future planned out: No teen sex in school, good grades, scholarship, college or university, financial independence, then marriage.Hours to her sixteenth birthday, after a searing, unexplainable pain, her dreams, and aspirations come tumbling down when she tests and finds out she’s pregnant without the knowledge of ever consenting to sex. She hadn’t even experienced her first period, yet.When she confronts her boyfriend Hunter, she’s in for a surprise when he not only denies ever having sex with her but has a deadly secret that would ...

Early morning, while sweeping the village in preparation for the village festival, Boma—an only son— is kidnapped and whisked away from the shores of Calabar to the Caribbean Island as a slave. The village festival requires all participants to remain mute throughout the spiritual cleansing to prevent misfortunes from befalling the Kalabari community. When caught in the captives’ net, Boma faces a dilemma to save himself or his people. He chooses to protect his family and embarks on a journey to the unknown. In chains, he organizes with the other captives to kill the slave masters and ...

Twelve-year-old Mary Braga prays all the time, much more than other little girls her age. Every Sunday, before she goes to the Sunday-school class taught by her own father, she cries and begs for the bad thing not to happen again. She prays that Daddy will get better, that he’ll quit hurting her in the way that makes her feel like she wants to throw up. She especially prays that her mother will figure it out and rescue her.Despite such horrific circumstances, Mary is thankful for one thing: Daddy isn’t hurting her little sister Lucy. As long as his focus is elsewhere, he won’t have a ...

Isoken Omoruyi looks forward to marrying Uyi, the love of her life, but keeps her relationship a secret from her family because of his financial status. Two moons to her introduction day, everything falls apart. Uyi Eguavoen works hard to save some money as he prepares for the introduction day. He looks forward to starting a family with Isoken and promises to see her parents in the next two months, but his plan is marred when king Ohuan pays Isoken’s bride price to her parents without her consent. The king gets what he wants, and no one dares to question his orders. Trapped and cheated of...

On a chilly, fall night, Cathy McCain’s nightmares become a reality. She encounters extraterrestrial entities from a different dimension. The mysteries surrounding her pregnancies are frightening, and she keeps vigils to foil her abduction but realizes she is powerless against them, and her efforts yield nothing.Determined to forget her past, She starts a new family, but just when she thought everything had fallen into place, her past resurfaces and threatens to shatter everything she’d painfully built.

Precy Bee was only five years old when the civil war that devastated her country and claimed the lives of over two hundred and fifty thousand people ended. The Liberians sighed with relief and began to piece their economy together, but not for long. While Precy and her family humbly live their low standard lifestyle, Ebola slowly creeps into her country and deals them a fatal blow, shaking the very foundation of her family. Once again, her people are dying as they fight a different war against a fatal Virus more lethal than AIDS, and Precy doubts the possibility of her precious family ...

Jessica Hanes’ life crumbles down the day her mother dies of a drug overdose. With no knowledge of a close relative, she is shuffled from one foster home to another. Her life is far from being happy, or stable. She is broken. She yearns for a real family and a lovely home, and warms up to her new adoptive mother’s brother, who treats her like his little sister, but she is in for a surprise when she realizes he has a plan against her. Refusing to be a victim of circumstances,she takes an aggressive action against him in self-defense. She is on the run, but where can she hide?

When Tonia Enahoro agreed to go on that boat ride with Edward Landis, little did she know she had shifted the arm of her destiny in another direction. Tonia Enahoro is a regular schoolgirl studying relentlessly to make good grades that could determine her ability to escape from her detested Makoko slum home. Edward Landis is a rich, biracial newbie who found companionship in Tonia at school. Over the years, their friendship develops. Edward wants to take things to the next level, but despite Tonia liking him, she’s hesitant. He plans a canoe picnic for two, and Tonia accepts his ...

What if you realize that your life has been a lie and everything you hold dear could easily slip from your fingers? Aurora Scea, having lost an only sister, believes she’s seen it all until she returns to school and series of events begins to occur. Two mysterious boys enroll in her school and vie for her friendship. She’s smitten by both, but she soon finds that they aren’t strangers; her life is woven around theirs, and she isn’t what she thought she was. They are determined to win her over; each having his agenda. Curious to know the full mystery behind her existence, she ...

Sam's daily challenges is far from having good grades and being a good boy. He dreads waking up to an intolerant stepfather and escaping to school into the traps of his bullies. His struggles to keep up with his grades is proving futile as his ordeal grows by the day. He loses the only girl who made him feel loved and accepted to cancer, and then turns into the monster his tormentors created. Once and for all standing up for himself and taking the others down with him.