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How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Author : Terry McMillan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101209127
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book How Stella Got Her Groove Back written by Terry McMillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Stella Got Her Groove Back is full of Terry McMillan's signature humor, heart, and insight. More than a love story, it is ultimately a novel about how a woman saves her own life—and what she must risk to do it. Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon. She does it all well, too, if her chic house, personal trainer, BMW, and her loving son are any indication. So what if there's been no one to share her bed with lately, let alone rock her world? Stella doesn't mind it too much; she probably wouldn't have the energy for love—and all of love's nasty fallout—anyway. But when Stella takes a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Jamaica, her world gets rocked to the core—not just by the relaxing effects of the sun and sea and an island full of attractive men, but by one man in particular. He's tall, lean, soft-spoken, Jamaican, smells of citrus and the ocean—and is half her age. The tropics have cast their spell and Stella soon realizes she has come to a cataclysmic juncture: not only must she confront her hopes and fears about love, she must question all of her expectations, passions, and ideas about life and the way she has lived it.

It's Not All Downhill From Here

Author : Terry McMillan
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1984823752
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book It's Not All Downhill From Here written by Terry McMillan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she’s going to do with the rest of her life—from Terry McMillan, the bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING • “Poignant, funny and full of life, this is a balm for troubled times.”—People Loretha Curry’s life is full. A little crowded sometimes, but full indeed. On the eve of her sixty-eighth birthday, she has a booming beauty-supply empire, a gaggle of lifelong friends, and a husband whose moves still surprise. True, she’s carrying a few more pounds than she should be, but Loretha is not one of those women who think her best days are behind her—and she’s determined to prove wrong her mother, her twin sister, and everyone else with that outdated view of aging wrong. It’s not all downhill from here. But when an unexpected loss turns her world upside down, Loretha will have to summon all her strength, resourcefulness, and determination to keep on thriving, pursue joy, heal old wounds, and chart new paths. With a little help from her friends, of course.

Who Asked You?

Author : Terry McMillan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451417038
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Who Asked You? written by Terry McMillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trinetta drops off her two young boys with her mother, Betty Jean - and then pulls a disappearing act. BJ is a sassy, pull-no-punches, trademark McMillan matriarch, and she already has her hands full picking up the slack for her other kids, coaching her best friend Tammy through her own tribulations and dealing with two feuding sisters, all while holding down a job as a hotel maid. Who Asked You? raises questions about how we care for one another and how we set limits for those we love when the demands are too great.

Getting to Happy

Author : Terry McMillan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101442948
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Getting to Happy written by Terry McMillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan's exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale. Waiting to Exhale was more than just a bestselling novel—its publication was a watershed moment in literary history. McMillan's sassy and vibrant story about four black women struggling to find love and their place in the world touched a cultural nerve, inspired a blockbuster film, and generated a devoted audience. Now, McMillan revisits Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin fifteen years later. Each is at her own midlife crossroads: Savannah has awakened to the fact that she's made too many concessions in her marriage, and decides to face life single again—at fifty-one. Bernadine has watched her megadivorce settlement dwindle, been swindled by her husband number two, and conned herself into thinking that a few pills will help distract her from her pain. Robin has an all-American case of shopaholism, while the big dream of her life—to wear a wedding dress—has gone unrealized. And for years, Gloria has taken happiness and security for granted. But being at the wrong place at the wrong time can change everything. All four are learning to heal past hurts and to reclaim their joy and their dreams; but they return to us full of spirit, sass, and faith in one another. They've exhaled: now they are learning to breathe.

Waiting to Exhale

Author : Terry McMillan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101210338
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Waiting to Exhale written by Terry McMillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critically acclaimed novel about four women who learn how to carry on while leaning on each other from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and It's Not All Downhill From Here. When the men in their lives prove less than reliable, Savannah, Bernadine, Gloria, and Robin find new strength through a rare and enlightening friendship as they struggle to regain stability and an identity they don’t have to share with anyone. Because for the first time in a long time, their dreams are finally OFF hold.... “Hilarious, irreverent...Reading Waiting to Exhale is like being in the company of a great friend...thought-provoking, thoroughly entertaining, and very, very comforting.”—The New York Times Book Review

A Day Late and a Dollar Short

Author : Terry McMillan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451211081
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book A Day Late and a Dollar Short written by Terry McMillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Without question, this is McMillan’s best. A glorious novel....A moving tapestry of familial love and redemption.”—The Washington Post With her hallmark exuberance and a cast of characters so sassy, resilient, and full of life that they breathe, dream, and shout right off the page, Terry McMillan has given us a tour-de-force novel of family, healing, and redemption. A Day Late and a Dollar Short takes us deep into the hearts, minds, and souls of America—and gives us six more friends we never want to leave.

Angela Bassett

Author : Dawn Fitzgerald
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791058107
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Angela Bassett written by Dawn Fitzgerald and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It would take a long time for Hollywood to recognize veteran Angela Bassett as a superb actor -- not until she received an Academy award nomination in 1994 for her dead-on portrayal of pop star Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with it?

The Interruption of Everything

Author : Terry McMillan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451221184
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book The Interruption of Everything written by Terry McMillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan comes a “frank, no-holds-barred, humorous look at African-American midlife” (The Seattle Times). “Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultaneous careers: I've been a chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I've been a painter. A furniture restorer. A personal shopper. A veterinarian's assistant and sometimes the veterinarian. I've been an accountant, a banker, and on occasion, a broker. I've been a beautician. A map. A psychic. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. The T.V. Guide. A movie reviewer. An angel. God. A nurse and a nursemaid. A psychiatrist and psychologist. Evangelist. For a long time I have felt like I inadvertently got my master's in How to Take Care of Everybody Except Yourself and then a PhD in How to Pretend Like You Don't Mind. But I do mind.” Today forty-four year old Marilyn Grimes has decided to be something other than a wife, a mother, a sister, or a daughter: herself. But first, she has to figure out exactly who that is....

Disappearing Acts

Author : Terry McMillan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101657723
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Disappearing Acts written by Terry McMillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan comes an honest look at a modern romance, from love at first sight to painful reality to working toward a happy ending.... Franklin Swift was a sometimes-employed construction worker and a not-quite-divorced dad of two. Zora Banks was a teacher, singer, and songwriter. They met in a Brooklyn brownstone, and there could be no walking away.... In this funny, gritty love story, Franklin and Zora join the ranks of fiction’s most compelling couples as they move from Scrabble to sex, from layoffs to the limits of faith and trust. Disappearing Acts is about the mystery of desire and the burdens of the past. It’s about respect—what it can and can’t survive. And it’s about the safe and secret places that only love can find.

Mama

Author : Terry McMillan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451216717
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Mama written by Terry McMillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explosive novel that introduced the world to #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan. Mildred Peacock is the tough, funny, feisty heroine of Mama, a survivor who’ll do anything to keep her family together. In Mildred’s world, men come and go as quickly as her paychecks, but her five children are her dream, her hope, and her future. Not since Alice Walker’s The Color Purple has a black woman’s story been portrayed with such rich power, honesty, and love.

It's Ok If You're Clueless

Author : Terry McMillan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670032983
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book It's Ok If You're Clueless written by Terry McMillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features humorous recommendations that the author wishes she had received when graduating, in a lighthearted guide that includes such nuggets as "bring your laundry home" and "read anything and everything."

How Stella Got Her Groove Back - Groovy Cookbook for Your Girl's Night Out

Author : Dan Babel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book How Stella Got Her Groove Back - Groovy Cookbook for Your Girl's Night Out written by Dan Babel and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may have forgotten how Stella got her groove back, but your desire for tasty dishes hasn't diminished with the years that have passed since the movie was premiered, released, and carted numerous awards. Well, here is your chance to recreate those memories while learning simple, easy, and quick meals you can prepare to ace up the girl in you. So, are you having a party or some anniversary? You can make a list of finger foods that will keep your guests pleased the whole time or you can surprise your spouse with a memorable dinner- for-two kinds of meals. Lastly, your mind will interact with 30 awesome recipes across other continents, so, it is time to get really creative for your girl's night out next weekend or whatever occasion you have.

The Idea of You

Author : Robinne Lee
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250125901
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of You written by Robinne Lee and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solène Marchand begins an impassioned affair with a member of her daughter’s favorite boy band.

The Pursuit of Happiness

Author : Bianca C. Williams
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372134
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Happiness written by Bianca C. Williams and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the perils and disappointments of American racism by looking for intimacy, happiness, and a connection to their racial identities. Through their encounters with Jamaican online communities and their participation in trips organized by Girlfriend Tours International, the women construct notions of racial, sexual, and emotional belonging by forming relationships with Jamaican men and other "girlfriends." These relationships allow the women to exercise agency and find happiness in ways that resist the damaging intersections of racism and patriarchy in the United States. However, while the women require a spiritual and virtual connection to Jamaica in order to live happily in the United States, their notion of happiness relies on travel, which requires leveraging their national privilege as American citizens. Williams's theorization of "emotional transnationalism" and the construction of affect across diasporic distance attends to the connections between race, gender, and affect while highlighting how affective relationships mark nationalized and gendered power differentials within the African diaspora.

Children of the New World

Author : Alexander Weinstein
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250098998
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Children of the New World written by Alexander Weinstein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "After Yang," the basis for the acclaimed A24 film After Yang, starring Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Haley Lu Richardson, and directed by Kogonada. A New York Times Notable Book “A darkly mesmerizing, fearless, and exquisitely written work. Stunning, harrowing, and brilliantly imagined.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago. In “The Cartographers,” the main character works for a company that creates and sells virtual memories, while struggling to maintain a real-world relationship sabotaged by an addiction to his own creations. In “After Yang,” the robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child malfunctions, and only in his absence does the family realize how real a son he has become. Children of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary and singular voice in speculative fiction for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon.

On the Down Low

Author : J.L. King
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 076791399X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book On the Down Low written by J.L. King and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold exposé of the controversial secret that has potentially dire consequences in many African American communities. Delivering the first frank and thorough investigation of life “on the down low” (the DL), J. L. King exposes a closeted culture of sex between black men who lead “straight” lives. King explores his own past as a DL man, and the path that led him to let go of the lies and bring forth a message that can promote emotional healing and open discussions about relationships, sex, sexuality, and health in the black community. Providing a long-overdue wake-up call, J. L. King bravely puts the spotlight on a topic that has until now remained dangerously taboo. Drawn from hundreds of interviews, statistics, and the author’s firsthand knowledge of DL behavior, On the Down Low reveals the warning signs African American women need to know. King also discusses the potential health consequences of having unprotected sex, as African American women represent an alarming 64 percent of new HIV infections. Volatile yet vital, On the Down Low is sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year. “A survey by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta found that nearly a quarter of black HIV-positive men who had sex with men consider themselves heterosexual.” —Essence

Balancing Act

Author : Jonathan Plummer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476728321
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Balancing Act written by Jonathan Plummer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justin is living in Jamaica when tourist Tasha spots him selling sugar cane on the street. He has no idea that her modelling agency is one of the hottest in the business. He plans to live the island life he set out for himself, but Tasha wants him - she knows his perfect body and defiant attitude will make him a megastar. But soon, a relationship that began as strictly business crosses the line into a complex game of sexual desire and control. And when Justin discovers a hidden hunger for a male model, the stakes are higher than ever.