JUST LIKE YOUR DADDY is an expressive story filled with daily affirmations for any young child. This story is meant to encourage and reiterate to them that GREAT daddies do exist. It's an important reminder that the narrative around black fathers and the negative perception of saying "You're just like your daddy" can be changed. It can be a good thing. It can be a really great thing. We have the power to break those cycles by speaking LIFE into our kids every chance we get. It is also a great reminder to our dads that our kids are always watching and want to be just like you!
A grandmother describes to her granddaughter how her mother was just like her as a child, playing peek-a-boo, getting sent to time out, and collecting crazy things.
This is a story of L.A. life.the hustle & struggle of two young men, and the life changing decision theyre left to make. African-American, Romeo Jackson Mexican American, Romero Ramirez grow up in Los Angeles challenged by neighborhood struggles and societys expectations on different sides of our racial palisade. although these two young men are different culturally, they yet share similar destructive addictions to L.A.s gang lifestyle, in search of money, power, and respect. With only one truly positive goal in common and thats raising their sons to be more than just another Black and Mexican product of Los Angeles destructive trend. They will bond as brothers in their struggles to survive The Game....All the while, watchful eyes and impressionable souls pay close attention....
"Daddy, when I grow up, I want to be just like you!" Daniel thinks his daddy is the greatest hero of all time, but his daddy just doesn't understand why. What will it take for Daniel to show him just how special he really is? In this heartwarming book for both daddies and their little guys, read how one little boy's love for his father helped him to see himself through new eyes. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. --2 Corinthians 5:17
Everyone’s bringing baggage to this baby shower… Carmen James is nowhere near finished picking up the pieces after her divorce, and the last thing she needs is a positive pregnancy test. The fact that she doesn’t know for sure who the father is doesn’t help matters, but on the bright side, there’s only two candidates: Donovan, her best friend… or Isaac, his longtime boyfriend. Carmen’s struggling with an impossible-to-please family in between getting back on her feet. Donovan has his hands full with a teenager, plus a strained relationship with his own father, whose approval Donovan desperately craves. Isaac’s questioning his sexuality, not to mention wondering if he can handle a newborn at forty. And to top it off, they won’t know who the father actually is until the baby’s born, which has both men questioning how the outcome will affect their longstanding relationship. Oh, and there’s that minor detail about the undeniable three-way attraction that got them all into bed in the first place. Since they’re all quite compatible in the bedroom, and Carmen’s already pregnant, a casual sexual relationship seems like a good idea in the beginning. When emotions get involved, though, they could drive Carmen, Donovan, and Isaac apart when they need each other the most. Get ready for three people in one hell of a pickle (anyone have any ice cream?), parents who suck at parenthood, parents-to-be who think they’ll suck at parenthood, a relationship-friendship-sexual-kind-of-thing that keeps getting more complicated, and a Chuck Norris joke. This 99,000 word bisexual menage romance novel was previously published.
HISTORICAL FICTION YES'm J.M. DUKE It is 1950 in rural Virginia when Samantha Lee is born into an upper middle class white family in a town divided along racial lines by both railroad tracks and philosophies. As the baby arrives home, she is welcomed into the arms of Pearl, the God-fearing, uneducated black hired help who will eventually become Sammie's confidant, ally, and teacher of life's greatest lessons. As Sammie matures through the tumultuous 1960s, Pearl makes it her personal mission to deter the girl from a predetermined life of self-importance and bigotry. After Sammie's mother takes a job, Pearl becomes the mother figure in her life, nursing her through illness, teaching her Bible lessons, and sharing life stories. But as the little girl and her caretaker bond, they both struggle with the tension between their love for each other and their obligations. Nine years later, as the nation battles to achieve civil rights, Sammie and Pearl find themselves in very different places in the same small town. "Yes'm" is a story of hope, trust, wisdom, reconciliation, and respect as a black maid and her white charge share the winds of historical change. "The stories of Pearl and Sammie intertwine in a way that will leave you both nostalgic for an earlier era and grateful that the uglier parts of the past are behind us." S. E. Jacobs, attorney, Richmond, Virginia "The chapters flow like vignettes as Sammie and Pearl come to life." B. L. Cloud, MEd, University of Virginia; Goodreads reviewer ""Yes'm" makes us remember the joys and pains of being part of a family wherever we may have grown up." E. T. Fife, retired educator
