Prepare to go on an unforgettable journey with eight college friends in the illustrious city of Atlanta, GA. They've known each other for many years, but no one could've foreseen how their lives would yield such dangerous and unexpected turns. Will "the crew" prevail and remain loyal to one another? Or will their demise occur in the form of betrayal and hidden secrets?
The crew is back!!! They are facing unknown forces that are hell bent on destroying them. Will they find out who is behind these plots? Or will the unknown entity's revenge become their karma!!!
Lana May is young, beautiful, and well taken care of. She's been living her life with her only concern being the well-being of her son. Many have questioned over the years how she moves, but as far she's concerned if they aren't feeding or financing her who are they to question how her bills get paid or by whom? No one's opinion has mattered to her until her phone rang with her past calling. Jabari Charm spent the last four years of his life in jail, but is finally a free man. He has a plan and that plan is to build a relationship with his son and rekindle his romance with the only woman he's ever cared about. He's shocked to see just how good his baby mama is living without a job or a care in the world. While he wants to be with Lana and their son he can't shake the feeling that her glittery lifestyle is the product of living foul. What happens when the past and present play bigger part in your future than you would like it to? Love is hard when loyalty is questioned but most of all Betrayal will turn your world upside down.
“My lungs began to burn as I started sprinting. It wasn’t just that I wanted to catch Fritz. I had the distinct feeling that I was chasing him, that I had to catch up with him, before something caught up with me.” How long must we pay for the crimes of our youth? That is just one question Christopher Swann explores in this compulsively readable debut, a literary thriller set in the elite—and sometimes dark—environs of Blackburne, a prep school in Virginia. When Matthias Glass’s best friend, Fritz, vanishes without a trace in the middle of an argument during their senior year, Matthias tries to move on with his life, only to realize that until he discovers what happened to his missing friend, he will be stuck in the past, guilty, responsible, alone. Almost ten years after Fritz’s disappearance, Matthias gets his chance. Offered a job teaching English at Blackburne, he gets swiftly drawn into the mystery. In the shadowy woods of his alma mater, he stumbles into a web of surveillance, dangerous lies, and buried secrets—and discovers the troubled underbelly of a school where the future had once always seemed bright. A sharp tale full of false leads and surprise turns, Shadow of the Lions is also wise and moving. Christopher Swann has given us a gripping debut about friendship, redemption, and what it means to lay the past to rest.
From the New York Times Bestselling Author of An American Marriage “A love story . . . Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy . . . Jones’s skill for wry understatement never wavers.” —O: The Oprah Magazine “Silver Sparrow will break your heart before you even know it. Tayari Jones has written a novel filled with characters I’ll never forget. This is a book I’ll read more than once.” —Judy Blume With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families—the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode. This is the third stunning novel from an author deemed "one of the most important writers of her generation" (the Atlanta Journal Constitution).
A shattered mirror can never project a perfect image of what we want others to see in us. And somehow in this autobiography Jay Burton painted a portrait unlike any other gritty street-life legend. Jay's experience growing up in Watts California, from raising Pitbulls and Roller Pigeons. To playing sports, then trading it all in for the "Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods" And drug dealing. It's a seductive testament to him. Shattered Mirror, is the first half of a two-part autobiography. " Love, Loyalty, & Betrayal " picks up where this rollercoaster ride ends. Where Jay colors in all the consequences of the causes and effects, of manchild growing wild in search of steeet fame. That leads to a crooked L.A Sheriff's Division, crossing Jay up with a murder at the tender age of 16. This story crosses all racial and economical boundaries. The portrait is framed a posted. Readers will identify themselves, or someone they know or heard of, within this well written true story. "Love, Loyalty, and Betrayal" Part 2 is coming soon!
______________________ She was the Princess Diana of her day. She loved clothes and jewels and parties. She had exquisite taste in interior design. She seemed destined to reign as one of England's most glamorous queens, famed for the beautiful palaces she designed and decorated. Instead, Princess Henrietta Maria of France became caught up in the Civil War, one of the greatest cataclysms in English history. Swept from her life of luxury into the squalid brutality of battle and the loneliness of exile, her heart was torn by the two men she loved - her husband, tragic Charles I and charismatic Harry Jermyn, who designed and built most of London's West End, including the street which bears his name. This is their story.
From Jane Hamilton, author of the beloved New York Times bestsellers A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth, comes a warmly humorous, poignant novel about a young man, his mother's e-mail, and the often surprising path of infidelity. Henry Shaw, a high school senior, is about as comfortable with his family as any seventeen-year-old can be. His father, Kevin, teaches history with a decidedly socialist tinge at the Chicago private school Henry and his sister attend. His mother, Beth, who plays the piano in a group specializing in antique music, is a loving, attentive wife and parent. Henry even accepts the offbeat behavior of his thirteen-year-old sister, Elvira, who is obsessed with Civil War reenactments and insists on dressing in handmade Union uniforms at inopportune times. When he stumbles on his mother's e-mail account, however, Henry realizes that all is not as it seems. There, under the name Liza38, a name that Henry innocently established for her, is undeniable evidence that his mother is having an affair with one Richard Polloco, a violin maker and unlikely paramour who nonetheless has a very appealing way with words and a romantic spirit that, in Henry's estimation, his own father woefully lacks. Against his better judgment, Henry charts the progress of his mother's infatuation, her feelings of euphoria, of guilt, and of profound, touching confusion. His knowledge of Beth's secret life colors his own tentative explorations of love and sex with the ephemeral Lily, and casts a new light on the arguments-usually focused on Elvira-in which his parents regularly indulge. Over the course of his final year of high school, Henry observes each member of the family, trying to anticipate when they will find out about the infidelity and what the knowledge will mean to each of them. Henry's observations, set down ten years after that fateful year, are much more than the "old story" of adultery his mother deemed her affair to be. With her inimitable grace and compassion, Jane Hamilton has created a novel full of gentle humor and rich insights into the nature of love and the deep, mysterious bonds that hold families together.
