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| Queen Midas Books "Where Drama Reigns Supreme" |
| Tabitha Williams, nineteen, doubles as a punching bag every time her boyfriend drinks one too many. When she stabs him and flees to her mother’s house with her three- year-old daughter, she thinks it’s finally over. Unfortunately, the drama has just begun! “Will she find the courage to leave him for good? And will he let her?” Lisa Perkins, seventeen, is the “strong one,” or at least that’s what Tabitha and Shanice think. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth. When she leaves her home after her mother refuses to believe that her stepfather has raped and impregnated her, she thinks that distance will solve everything. She finds that she couldn’t be more wrong. Shanice Thomas, fourteen, is giving teenage rebellion a whole new meaning. Her mother recently found Christ, and the party that was Shanice’s life is apparently over. Thrust into situations she isn’t equipped to handle, Shanice suddenly finds herself learning painful new lessons about the consequences of sleeping around. Strawberry Mansion: A Philadelphia Story is fierce fiction peppered with urban grit! It not only explores the girls’ struggles in vivid detail, it highlights their loyalty, love, and kindness for each other! You won’t be able to put this book down! This is a journey of three Sista-friends, Tabitha, Lisa and Shanice. You will not only recognize them, you will feel them instantly, because they love and laugh, hurt and cry and dream the dreams we all dare to dream. Each one is seeking to get through, get past, get over, and to survive inside the lives they were handed. You will relate to their struggle. You will applaud their victories. With realistic precision, debut author Julia Press Simmons has penned a modern day opus! ~ L.M. Ross, author of "Manhood," and "The Moanin' After" |
We were named for the flowers in Grandma's Garden. Begonias, Violets and Daisies, and much like those flowers, we were showered with a love that rivaled sun rays. We knew nothing of pain, or sorrow, or just how cruel the world could be until the day God saw fit to call Grandma home. Her heart stopped two weeks after Daisy was born. My mother smoked us homeless two weeks after that. Now with Grandma gone and mommy on a constant crack high it's up to me to keep our little family together, and you best believe I'll stop at nothing to do just that. My name is Begonia Brown. I am a 17-year-old hustler and this is my story. BEGONIA BROWN From the critically acclaimed author of Strawberry Mansion comes the tale of Begonia Brown. Raised in the unforgiving streets of North Philadelphia, Begonia Brown is undoubtedly a product of her environment, young, ruthless, and criminally minded. June 27th 2009 |
This is the story about what happens when parents are too busy making love to liquor bottles instead of raising their children… Meet 13 year-old Nadine Monroe. The wind blew through her hair and electricity coursed through her veins every time her feet hit the ground running. She lost and found herself in sports. It was where she could truly be free, until she became trapped by the seduction of an older man she trusted. Betrayed by her father’s love of rum and coke, she had no one to turn too. Rape and Molestation daily were the least of her worries. Hell had to be better than the life she was living, however… Her Nightmare is only beginning… October 10th 2009 |