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To someone on the outside, Nicolette Winters seems just like your average girl that has everything under control but that couldn’t be the furthest thing from the truth. Little does she know that her world is about to crumble out of control and there’s nothing she can do about it, or is it? She is completely fed up with her man, Kilo and all of his shenanigans and nothing that he attempts to do or say seems to make any difference to her anymore...she has become sick and tired of having Enough of No Love!

This motivational metaphorical memoir reflects on the “fairly unequal” treatment of individuals in poverty. Not everyone knows the right person, have wealth or financial stability. It’s easier for some and harder for others. College is not guaranteed to save you. Continue striving to pursue your dreams along the way.

Darling is only 10 years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: She has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few.

Les proverbes sont une véritable sagesse populaire. Ils sont le fruit de centaines d'années d'histoires, de légendes, de spiritualité d'un peuple. Transmis oralement pendant des siècles, leur vérité et leur simplicité nous parlent immédiatement. Ces proverbes visent à donner accès à un peuple, une culture populaire, dans un format accessible à tous. Un proverbe est plus qu'une phrase anodine, ce peut être un trait d'esprit, un résumé d'une pensée complexe, une maxime, une ouverture sur une réflexion plus profonde.

Queste 100 proverbi mirano a fornire l'accesso a un'opera o a una vita eccezionale, attraverso una selezione dei pensieri più eclatanti, in un formato accessibile a tutti. Una citazione è più di un estratto di un'affermazione, può essere un colpo di mente, una sintesi di un pensiero complesso, una massima, un'apertura a una riflessione più profonda. Si dice che certe frasi possono cambiare la vita. Altri ragioneranno dentro di voi per un tempo infinito, facendo eco a una personale ricerca intellettuale o spirituale.

Horace Mungin’s brave attempt to fight against the multiple manifestations of injustice imposed by the conscious erasure of African American history is in keeping with the best of contemporary African American literature.

With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women and teenage girls.

Touching on themes from perceptions of beauty to the betrayals of the body, from what it means to give consent to how we grapple with demons internal and external, Woman, Eat Me Whole is an entirely fresh and powerful look at womanhood and personhood in a shifting world. Moving between Ghana and the United States, Diaka probes those countries’ ever-changing cultural expectations and norms while investigating the dislocation and fragmentation of a body—and a mind—so often restless or ill at ease.

Whilst it’s impossible to capture the essence of Nigeria in one story, its writers have given listeners the opportunity to experience the many different parts that make up Africa’s most populous nation. In Of This Our Country, acclaimed and award-winning Nigerian writers go a step further and describe their Nigeria, sharing personal essays about a country that holds so much more than any one perspective could. Through the words of these writers, a living portrait of Nigeria is woven, one that is as beautiful as it is complex.

Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner’s beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman.

Kamali Danladi has sworn never to get married again. But his meddling mother is bent on hitching him to any eligible female that comes along to the next family gathering. There's only one thing for it. Get fake-hitched to his executive assistant. If anyone is more averse to marriage than he is, it's her. So they'll be perfect together. Or at least, they'll fake perfect together. Ebun Forson doesn't do families. She certainly doesn't do festivities.

New York City's tough girl and Bronx native, Geena Samuels, is back with even more drama. She has left the drug game alone. Geena is refocused on getting herself back on track and healthy while taking care of her children and man. However, her one time allies have now become her enemies. Geena embarks on a deadly cat and mouse game in order to come out victorious. Get ready because the bait has already been left in the trap. Who will bite first? To find out Geena must encounter new friends and family members just as strong as her.

Reflections is an anthology by Lewis Wamwanda that aims to voice the voice of the weak people in the society, it contains poems from every genre all the way from love poems to family, and hope. "...Nights will not be time to sleep for fear will be roaming at the darkest hours waiting to pounce on our beaten souls and take control of the long nights we will be enslaved by our memories tortured by the past bitter pains..." The Sacrifices We Make.

Twenty-five-year-old Alissa Myers, AKA Sweetie, is a top real estate agent with Century 21 Realtors. She's attractive, intelligent, outgoing, and everything that a man could ever want in a woman. That is until she ends up selling a property to Mr. Odom Sparks. Meeting him and starting a whirlwind affair behind closed doors begins a whole new change in Alissa...One that no one ever saw coming.

Miguel is a man with a troubled past and transforms into a man who is self-centered with destructive social patterns. He meets Amelia, a beautiful divorcee with two children, and uses a charade of love, protectiveness, and kindness to lure in her children to love and trust him. Amelia is swept off her feet with his charming personality, handsomeness without knowing that the unhappy man feels no one deserves to be happy. Amelia would not listen to the warning from Miguel’s mother, that her son is not good for her.

The moment you’ve been waiting on has finally arrived. Welcome back to the infamous Twinkle Town suburbs where lies, deception, and drama all continue to reign. What ever happened to Deb and that conniving husband of hers, Drako? Will Deb and King finally get to live their happily ever after? Or will RaDrako finally get Deb to come back after all the havoc he’s caused her? Will Mel and Ray-Ray stay together? Or has he bitten off way more than he can chew when it comes to the likes of Michelle? Will true love prevail now that the explosive truth has been revealed?

Immerse your spirit in a world of darkened, narrative poetry, blended with insightful and twisted humor. An hourglass is tilted; but, but, death is nothing, compared to possessing of a hunted soul and spirit.

On a mission to follow her soul’s journey, she risks it all! "Why are you here," they wonder. "How is it there?" They ask. Lioness trod from the islands of her birth to the mainland of her soul. “Will they save me,” Lioness wonders. Did she ever find her path? Her divine purpose? Who knows. What does Lioness think?

Welcome back to the infamous Twinkle Town suburbs where the lives of Sasha, Mel, and Deb continue to unfold. In part two, the sisterhood continues to blossom through good, bad, and unexpected times. What ever happened with Nick Harris? Will Sasha finally receive some well-deserved closure? Or will she forever wonder what happened to her husband? And now that Nick is gone, will she finally give Ken-Ken the chance that he’s been longing for? When we last left off, Ray-Ray and Mel were back in full stride and more in love than ever.

Kayla and Bryan are trying to find a happy medium in their relationship. Unfortunately, people they dealt with in the past won't allow it. Bryan is adding more skeletons to his closet while Kayla is trying to keep hers suppressed. The forbidden fruit is up for grasp, and temptation is too heavy to resist. Dirty secrets become the foundation to a relationship that was doomed from the beginning. With all the lying and sneaking around going on, the wedding they're planning may turn into a funeral.