Resultados para "Novellen" en Afroamericana

This collection contains four historical novellas by award-winning author Alyssa Cole: Be Not Afraid, That Could Be Enough, Let Us Dream, and Let It Shine.

One thing about me? I don't play games. Another thing about me? I don't waste time. In my role as Mr. Black Detroit, my focus is supporting my community and planning the city's annual Juneteenth celebration. Again, my time is valuable. I should've ignored the text. But . . . there's something about Daphne that makes me want to engage. Maybe it's the way she commands a room and isn't afraid to get her hands dirty. Or maybe it's the glimpse of vulnerability in her eyes. It's probably just her. Whatever it is in the beginning quickly morphs into something else entirely, though.

On the day that Minister Peters boards a train from South Carolina heading north, he has nothing left but ghosts: the ghost of his murdered wife, the ghost of his drowned daughter, the ghosts of his father, and his grandmother, and the people who disappeared from his town without trace or explanation. In the cramped car, Minister finds himself in close quarters with three passengers also joining the exodus from the South - people seeking a new life, whose motives, declared or otherwise, will change Minister's life with devastating consequences.

Jaxon Daniels was supposed to be my forever. I've loved him since I was thirteen years old, and like a foolish little girl, I believed that our love would carry us through everything. Every challenge. Every obstacle. Every heartbreak. But that was before I knew anything about pain and the challenge of overcoming crushing disappointment. Before I knew that loving someone doesn't always mean you get to have them, sometimes it means you have to let them go. Now, thanks to my sister marrying his brother at a romantic resort in Mexico, he's back in my orbit.

For Jasmine Ware, curating books for an exclusive clientele is her passion. Until an old friend, a dealer of rare books, goes missing and his partner is murdered. Linked to an artifact smuggled out of the ancient library at Timbuktu, the mystery draws Jasmine deeper into a plot that could cost her her life.

En dag, när Sveriges kung var ute och åkte i sin vagn, stötte han på en liten by. Han bestämde sig för att stanna ett tag, och besökte byns kyrka. Han bad om att få träffa prästen, men kunde aldrig ana att den enkelt klädda man som tog emot honom var något annat än en simpel bonde. Prästen, som valde att inte avslöja sin identitet för kungen, berättade i stället en historia om en gång då folket i byn hittade ett berg av det renaste silver...

Gayl Jones, who was first edited by Toni Morrison, has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century and was recently a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. This new collection of short fiction is only the second in her rich career, and one that displays her strengths in the genre in many facets. Opening with two novella-length works, “Butter” and “Sophia,” this collection features Jones’s legendary talents in a range of settings and styles.

Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratves’ novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present.

Abomination. That's what Thomas Brewster's father decreed him before he took his first breath. He'd always feared it to be true, then fate sent him a blessing in the form of his first love, Louella Kemp. They were inseparable and planned to spend forever together. The NBA superstar was on top of the world. Until the unthinkable happened. In the blink of an eye, he lost everything, proving the curse was real.

As the matriarch in one of Chicago's elite families, Bridgette Valentine has the weight of the world on her shoulders. Coordinating soirees for every season, along with pulling her weight as the co-owner of Valentine Media Group, Bridgette is left little time to indulge in the one person who rocks her world, Leslie Valentine.

Cole and Warren reconvene in San Francisco, hot on the trail of the mastermind of the nine murders. But when a Brazilian media mogul is killed while taking a selfie on the Golden Gate Bridge, they realize that the plot was even bigger than they imagined.

In the past year Detective Josephine "Jo" Reed-Powell brought down one of the most notorious serial killers in a decade in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County. When Jo arrives at a new crime scene, something seems very familiar to her. She immediately thinks she may be dealing with a copycat killer. Or is she? How can she keep her mind on finding a killer when her life is falling apart? Jo is struggling with her shattered marriage knowing her husband, Bryan Powell, has had an affair. As Jo questions the twists and turns of her murder investigations, can she let God mend her broken heart?

This exciting collection presents two previously unpublished stories by SF legend Octavia E. Butler. A Necessary Being precedes the events of Survivor, Butler's third (famously disowned) installment in her Patternist series, and includes characters from it, focusing exclusively on the Kohn, aliens who build their social hierarchies on the blueness of their fur. In Childfinder, a black woman with the gift of identifying children with latent psychic ability refuses to share her skill with an organization of white telepaths.

It's holiday time. The leaves have turned, the air has grown crisp, and love is all around - love of family, freedom, and life in the dreamy, community-oriented township nestled in the Maryland countryside. But will love be enough to overcome all the challenges that our favorite Baymoor residents will face in this festive gathering of the Carlton siblings, their significant others, and host of extended family and friends? Only a hearty meal (or two), a good cry (or three), and a reaffirming commitment to one another, like only the Carlton siblings know how.

Adam döljer sin oerhörda nyfikenhet bakom artiga frågor, förstående nickar och en levande mimik. Efter två förrätter med vitt vin känner jag mig stärkt. Värmen plågar mig inte längre, även om jag känner att svetten fortsätter rinna fram under armarna. En droppe hittar vägen ned mellan mina bröst och kittlar mig på väg nedöver magen. Adam berättar en rolig historia. Jag skrattar. Hans lätta humör smittar.

Min tro på omedelbar kärlek uppstod på en buss över en fjällövergång i ett främmande land. De kulturella skillnaderna mellan oss skapade ofta mindre konflikter, och mitt bristande språk och hennes våldsamma temperament gav extra näring åt elden. Men vår älskog tog ingen skada av våra sammanstötningar, den blev snarare mer intensiv efter varje liten konfrontation. Hon erkände att hon njöt av känslan att bli tagen – hårt och en aning mot sin vilja. Detta berättade hon för mig i små stycken över tid, som om hon avslöjade svaret på en gåta bit för bit.

Med ens kom han ihåg henne. Två-tre dagar tidigare hade hon lämnat in filmerna för framkallning. Han hade lagt märke till henne. Doften av henne. Utseendet. Hon hade haft en erotisk aura, trots att hon varit insvept i en fotsid regnkappa. Under en moderiktig sydväst i svart lack hade en aning av ett leende lekt mot honom. Men så var hon borta. Bara doften av henne hade hängt kvar en stund. Leon drog efter andan. Han minskade farten på maskinen så att han kunde studera varje bild noggrant. Kvinnan strippade framför honom.

"Du höjer upp ditt skrivbord så att vi båda kan stå upp och titta på kalkylbladet på skärmen. Du sträcker ut armen och pekar på en siffra. Du drar tillbaka armen igen. Din överarm rör vid min. Varenda rörelse gör att doften av din parfym tränger ännu längre in i min hjärna. Långsamt tar den kontroll över mina tankar, mina rörelser, mina stämband. Jag flyttar min fot en aning så att jag snuddar vid din höft. Men jag har ingen aning om vad ditt kalkylblad handlar om. Försiktigt kastar jag en blick mot Karin, som sitter vid skrivbordet mitt emot ditt.

A chance encounter and one night of passion leads to a mutually beneficial arrangement for two souls from different worlds. When love creeps into the equation, neither is sure how to feel or what to do. The only thing either is certain of, is their need for the other.