Chicago deejay Daphne "Dee Dee" Dupree is sassy and successful--but a series of catastrophic relationships has left her gun-shy. Now with her own life and the lives of those closest to her seemingly coming apart at the seams, she's going to have to leave the safe cocoon of her broadcasting booth to face her world, her secrets, and a new promise of mature love fearlessly and head-on.
“A funny, fresh novel about growing up African-American in 1960s Chicago” by an author who “writes like Terry McMillan’s kid sister” (Entertainment Weekly). In this hilarious and insightful coming-of-age novel, author April Sinclair introduces the charming Jean “Stevie” Stevenson, a young woman raised on Chicago’s South Side during an era of irrevocable social upheaval. Curious and witty, bold but naïve, Stevie grows up debating the qualities of good hair and dark skin. As the years pass, her family and neighborhood are changed by the times, from the War on Poverty to race riots and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., from “Black Is Beautiful” to Black Power. Against this remarkable backdrop, Stevie makes the sometimes harrowing, often comic, always enthralling transformation into a young adult—socially aware, discovering her sexuality, and proud of her identity. “Whether she’s dealing with a subject as monumental as the civil rights movement or as intimate as Stevie’s first sexual encounters,” writes the Los Angeles Times, “Sinclair never fails to make you laugh and never sacrifices the narrative to make a point.” Winner of the Carl Sandburg Award from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library and named a best book of the year in young adult fiction by the American Library Association, Coffee Will Make You Black is an exquisite portrait of adolescence that will resonate with readers of all ages.
Memories. Some memories are elusive, fleeting, like a butterfly that touches down and is free until it is caught. Others are haunting. You'd rather forget them, but they won't be forgotten. And some are always there. No matter where you are, they are there, too.In this moving story of legacy and reclamation, two young sisters are taken from their home and family. Powerless in a broken system, April and Cheryl are separated and placed in different foster homes. Despite the distance, they remain close, even as their decisions threaten to divide them emotionally, culturally, and geographically. As one sister embraces her Métis identity, the other tries to leave it behind.Will the sisters’ bond survive as they struggle to make their way in a society that is often indifferent, hostile, and violent?Beloved for more than 40 years, In Search of April Raintree is a timeless story that lingers long after the final page. This anniversary edition features a foreword by Governor General’s Award–winning author Katherena Vermette, and an afterword by University of Regina professor, Dr. Raven Sinclair (Ôtiskewâpit), an expert on Indigenous child welfare.
Twelve women connected by the death of another, realizing what they most want from life and reaching for it - this is the year of discovery, the year of new beginnings.Rosie's life seemed perfect to outside observers. She had a good marriage and two sons who were doing well in school, but something was missing. Her job as a loan officer had become tedious, but the idea of going back to school when her family needed her seemed like a risky move. Until she met Madelyn Yates and discovered that sometimes you have to take a risk if you want to live out your dreams.Now Rosie faces going to college decades after most people have already left, but unlike her classmates, Rosie has responsibilities that do not make room for things like lectures and midterms. Will she be able to balance it all or will the strain drive a wedge between her and those she loves most?
25 Poems expressing that you will go through trials, fall short of some things, but if you stay strong and faithful, you will be victorious in the end.
Rollie Kemp is back All he has to do is find April.After April Bradberry's father was murdered in Hollywood California, and the police cleared her, she returned to her South Carolina home. Right after her arrival she disappeared, and Rollie Kemp was hired to find her. With his partner recuperating from a gunshot wound in Hawaii, Rollie took it upon himself to locate April. How dangerous could finding a missing person be? What started as a simple case rapidly developed into someone wanting him dead. It escalated when they shot at Rollie. That's when he got mad. Fighting back was part of his anger-management or lack thereof.
COUNT DOWN It's 1999. The overpopulation problem has been solved. On a planet decimated by a brutal plague. The number one pastime has been staying alive. The survivors -- teenagers -- thought they were the only people left on earth. But they are about to discover they're not alone. Something is watching them. Something ancient. Something evil. Something that has waited for centuries for its time to arrive.... The wait is finally over.
April Darling never thought she would be holding onto life by a thread. After she is found near death under the lifeless body of a notorious drug baron, April is nursed back to health and eventually visited in the hospital by the president of the United States, who credits her for helping to capture more powerful and dangerous drug lords. Anxious to heal and return to England as soon as possible, April settles into a chair in her hospital room after the president leaves and falls asleep.In her sleep, she dreams of the fateful day when a stranger changed her life beyond all recognition. As the dream continues, April drifts through memories of being drugged, abducted, and then transformed into a field agent. Unfortunately, as she attempts to stop an ominous global threat, she has no idea she is a dispensable decoy. Worse yet, she can remember her previous identity as George Partridge, a loving husband and father. Despite all the obstacles, however, April will not be deterred from her selfless assignment to make the world safer for others.In this gripping thriller, an agent tasked with the ultimate call to duty wonders if she will ever be able return to the life she once knew.
In "April: 30 Poems" Tom Driscoll shares a collection of poems evolved across the the month of April in 2021 writing in response to prompts shared by poet and teacher, Jan Hutchinson. From 'About These': "Jan sends out these seeds and her community of fellow poets, they are the various gardens, or gardeners. This "April: 30 Poems" is simply my crop, the result of my answering every prompt this year, 2021. I haven't lived with these a long time yet. Some may be forced flowers -and that's a problem, so I've been told. But I do know that compelling these answering poems, these various responses, has given me more than a few gifts. In at least trying to write them down, I've found things I wouldn't have even looked for, left to my own devices."
"Nicholson tarries with what remains of the ancient lineaments--discipline, devotion, works of corporal mercy--perhaps still seeking what Dante was after: the scraps that fall from the plates of the angels." --David Brazil, Colorado ReviewDeadpan, heartfelt and everything in between, Sara Nicholson poetry is a reluctant mystic who can both make us laugh and point us toward magical truths within a single poem. Her third collection of poems, April, is filled with the perverse and the sacred, whether the subject is art, love or sex, or whether it is ancient or contemporary. Nicholson's interests are timeless, and by the end of April, the reader may be convinced that they've brushed up against a somewhat strange and singular poet who is inventing a new way of seeing specifically for them.Sara Nicholson is the author of What the Lyric Is and The Living Method, both from The Song Cave. She lives in Boise, Idaho.
