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Influence, The

Monsters in the Desert Author: Bentley Little Ross Lowry is down on his luck. For years, he was the support system for his family. Showing up when no one else would, bank rolling everyone’s ideas and disasters, rescuing everyone. Now that he needs rescue, however, he finds himself all alone, until his cousin opens her rural guest house in Magdalena, Arizona for him. Just until he finds a job. Just until he gets over the hump. But things are happening out in that desert town. Luck is changing. Rich people are finding themselves poor; poor people are becoming rich. Healthy people [...]

2024-07-05T10:05:47-07:00July 5th, 2024|Tags: , , , |

Rip Tide

A Summer of Second Chances Author: Colleen McKeegan The old saying goes that you can’t step in the same river twice. But what if you can? What if the powerful, untamed, tragic longings of first love could be captured again? What if you could have what you always wanted? What if you could finally catch the one that got away? It’s been fifteen years since Kimmy Devine left her beach hometown in South Jersey to go to college and then pursue a successful financial career. She brokered billion-dollar deals; she made a name for herself. But in Kimmy’s heart, she always [...]

2024-07-01T07:42:17-07:00June 30th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

A Moving Memoir Author: Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a powerful memoir about survival, about finding beauty and a voice even in the most desperate circumstances. It’s a story about self-definition, one that starts with five-year-old Maya watching her grandmother, a respected, educated Black woman who owned a shop, being mistreated by jealous white people. From the opening lines, then, we see that Maya’s growing up will be interspersed by moments of connection and cataclysmic disruption, unfairness both inside and outside of the family. Maya doesn’t belong anywhere: not with the white community and not with [...]

2024-06-29T20:24:49-07:00June 29th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |
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