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Group Buddy Read (First in a Series) - My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due - starting July 1, 2023
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Jul 10, 2023 01:01PM
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Group Buddy Read (First in a Series) - My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due - starting July 1, 2023
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Jul 01, 2023 12:16PM
When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, David makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago, he and other members of an Ethiopian sect traded their humanity so they would never die, a secret he must protect at any cost. Now, his immortal brethren have decided David must return and leave his family in Miami. Instead, David vows to invoke a forbidden ritual to keep Jessica and his daughter with him forever. Harrowing, engrossing and skillfully rendered, My Soul to Keep traps Jessica between the desperation of immortals who want to rob her of her life and a husband who wants to rob her of her soul. With deft plotting and an unforgettable climax, this tour de force reminiscent of early Anne Rice will win Due a new legion of fans.
Jul 01, 2023 12:15PM
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Group Buddy Read (YA Standalone) - Facing the Sun by Janice Lynn Mather - starting July 1, 2023
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Jul 01, 2023 12:13PM
A Caribbean-set story about four friends who experience unexpected changes in their lives during the summer when a hotel developer purchases their community’s beloved beach.Change is coming to Pinder Street…
Eve is the rock in her family of seven, the one they always depend on. But when her dad is diagnosed with cancer, she wants nothing more than to trade her worries for some red lipstick and a carefree night.
Faith is the dancer all the boys want, but she only has eyes for the one she can’t have. Only thing is, all the flirting in the world can’t distract her from her broken home life...or the secrets that she hides.
KeeKee is the poet who won’t follow the rules, not even to please her estranged father. But after a horrible betrayal, she’ll have to choose between being right and losing everyone she loves.
Nia is the prisoner longing to escape her overprotective mother. A summer art program might be her ticket to freedom, yet it comes with a terrible price—and the risk may not be worth the reward.
Ready or not, it’s time for these four friends to face the sun.
Jul 01, 2023 12:10PM
Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and Taiye. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that plagues a family with misfortune by being born and then dying in childhood to cause a human mother misery. She has made the unnatural choice of staying alive to love her human family but lives in fear of the consequences of her decision.Kambirinachi and her two daughters become estranged from one another because of a trauma that Kehinde experiences in childhood, which leads her to move away and cut off all contact. She ultimately finds her path as an artist and seeks to raise a family of her own, despite her fear that she won't be a good mother. Meanwhile, Taiye is plagued by guilt for what her sister suffered and also runs away, attempting to fill the void of that lost relationship with casual flings with women. She eventually discovers a way out of her stifling loneliness through a passion for food and cooking.
But now, after more than a decade of living apart, Taiye and Kehinde have returned home to Lagos. It is here that the three women must face each other and address the wounds of the past if they are to reconcile and move forward.
For readers of African diasporic authors such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and mending old ones, of voracious appetites, of queer love, of friendship, faith, and above all, family.
Jun 30, 2023 05:26AM
I give up. Dnf @ 56%
Jun 30, 2023 04:44AM
Jun 29, 2023 01:46PM
Jun 29, 2023 08:19AM
lol imagine trying to drown you as a warning
Jun 29, 2023 07:55AM
ch 7: This Madeline lady is so racist and annoying!!!
Jun 28, 2023 07:29AM
Goodness, the way they talk about their looks and how they need to look in order to be deemed acceptable ugh
Jun 28, 2023 06:57AM
'Rage is all I have left' - what a dismal situation 💔
Jun 28, 2023 06:52AM
*starting*
Jun 24, 2023 08:20AM
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Jun 23, 2023 02:24PM
On to part 2...I'm waiting for things to blow up
Jun 23, 2023 02:09PM
The spell is going to cost Nickie more than it gave her
Jun 23, 2023 02:06PM
This Russel guy is susssss
