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It Was the Way She Said It: Short Stories, Essays, and Wisdom
It Was the Way She Said It: Short Stories, Essays, and Wisdom Terry McMillan 9780593357149 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got...
Who Asked You?
Who Asked You? Terry McMillan 9780670785698 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale an...
It&rsqupo;s OK if You’re Clueless: and 23 More Tips for the College Bound
It&rsqupo;s OK if You’re Clueless: and 23 More Tips for the College Bound Terry McMillan 9780670032983 Fiction Viking Books Penguin Random House When her son Solomon graduated from high school, Terry ...
I Almost Forgot about You
I Almost Forgot about You Terry McMillan 9781101902592 Fiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House Original Hardcover Published June 7, 2016 #1 AALBC.com bestselling author, Terry McMillan is...
Getting to Happy
Getting to Happy Terry McMillan 9780451233349 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan’s exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Wa...
Getting To Happy
Getting To Happy Terry McMillan 9780670022045 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House An exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale—the novel that changed African American fi...
Terry Mcmillan: The Unauthorized Biography
Terry Mcmillan: The Unauthorized Biography Diane Patrick 9780312267858 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Novelist Terry McMillan is widely considered to be the preeminent voice of y...
Reflections! (paperback): Looking in the Mirror
Reflections! (paperback): Looking in the Mirror Terry Wells-Jones 9781639374526 Nonfiction Dorrance Publishing Dorrance Publishing “This was the first time the newspaper had featured a Black (Negr...
Reflections!: Looking in the Mirror
Reflections!: Looking in the Mirror Terry Wells-Jones 9781639374243 Nonfiction Dorrance Publishing Dorrance Publishing “This was the first time the newspaper had featured a Black (Negro) model and...
Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell
Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell Karen Walrond 9781506487632 Nonfiction Beaming Books 1517 Media What if aging is something to aspire to, not to dread? What if t...
The Interruption of Everything
The Interruption of Everything Terry McMillan 9780670031443 Fiction Viking Books Penguin Random House "Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultane...
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
A Day Late and a Dollar Short Terry McMillan 9780451211088 Fiction NAL NAL Much-heralded and long awaited, Terry McMillan’s tour-de-force novel introduces the Price family-matriarch Viola, her sometim...
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
How Stella Got Her Groove Back Terry McMillan 9780451209146 Fiction NAL NAL Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it al...
Mama
Mama Terry McMillan 9780451216717 Fiction NAL NAL The explosive novel that introduced #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan-now in a new trade edition.
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing E. Lynn Harris and Marita Golden 9780767910415 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House A literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/Wright Founda...
Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction
Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction Terry McMillan 9780140116977 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House A striking collection of works from authors both establis...
Yesterday’s You: How to reverse aging using special foods, vitamins, natural supplements and a few secret practices (Volume 2)
Yesterday’s You: How to reverse aging using special foods, vitamins, natural supplements and a few secret practices (Volume 2) Walt Goodridge 9781502370358 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing ...
Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging
Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging Chester Higgins, Jr. 9780821226872 Nonfiction Bulfinch Bulfinch Elder Grace puts a positive, life affirming focus on the oft-thought-about-but-rarely-discussed subje...
Thick: And Other Essays
Thick: And Other Essays Tressie McMillan Cottom 9781620974360 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Gir...
It’s Not All Downhill from Here
It’s Not All Downhill from Here Terry McMillan 9781984823748 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figu...
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy Tressie McMillan Cottom 9781620970607 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press "The best book yet on the complex lives and choices ...
This Side of Eternity
This Side of Eternity Rosalyn McMillan 9780684862880 Fiction Free Press Free Press From the bestselling author of Knowing, One Better, Blue Collar Blues and The Flip Side of Sin, comes this beautiful ...
Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine
Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine Bryant Terry 9780738212289 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group The mere mention of soul food brings thoughts of greas...
Disappearing Acts
Disappearing Acts Terry McMillan 9780451205636 Fiction Signet Penguin Random House He was tall, dark as bittersweet chocolate, and impossibly gorgeous, with a woman-melting smile. She was pretty and i...
Who Asked You?
Who Asked You? Terry McMillan 9780451417039 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House When Who Asked You? begins, Trinetta leaves her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, and promptly disa...
The Light on Halsey Street
The Light on Halsey Street Vanessa Miller 9780840709936 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Download Book Club KitInspirational Christian fiction, Perfect for fans of Tara M. Stri...
The Minister Primarily
The Minister Primarily John Oliver Killens 9780063079595 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Featuring an Introduction by Ishmael Reed A major literary event—the eagerly anticipated publication of a long...
Daughters of Africa
Daughters of Africa Margaret Busby 9780345382689 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from Ancient Egyptian to the...
Loving Donovan
Loving Donovan Bernice L. McFadden 9781617753183 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Bernice L. McFadden is one of the best contemporary literary writers out there today…Her brilliance, her talent as...
America’s Dream
America’s Dream Esmeralda Santiago 9780060928261 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins America Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy for...
Mama
Mama Terry McMillan 9780671884482 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books Mildred Peacock is the touch, funny, feisty heroine of "Mama, " a survivor who’ll do anything to keep her family together. In Mildre...
Waiting To Exhale
Waiting To Exhale Terry McMillan 9780670839803 Fiction Viking Press Penguin Random House Waiting to Exhale is on President Obama’s Bookshelf Four African-American women console and support o...
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remix
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remix Bryant Terry 9781607745310 Nonfiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House African, Caribbean, and southern food are all known and...
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement Brandon M. Terry 9780674271289 Nonfiction Belknap Press Harvard University Press A landmark reinterpretation of the civil ...
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora Bryant Terry 9781984859723 Nonfiction 4 Color Books Penguin Random House A beautiful, rich, and groundbreaking book exploring Bla...
The Shirt Off His Back: A Novel (Strivers Row)
The Shirt Off His Back: A Novel (Strivers Row) Parry Brown 9780345491244 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House After a brief relationship in college, Catherine and Terry found themselves t...
Inside the Fall
Inside the Fall Terry E. Hill 9780963914729 Fiction ReGeJe Press ReGeJe Press Inside the Fall caused Barnes & Noble Booksellers to do a double take. Barnes & Noble took a second look at the thrilling...
Game Recognize Game - A Novel
Game Recognize Game - A Novel Terry DeRon 9780615307060 Fiction Terry DeRon Terry DeRon Game Recognize Game is a dynamic story highlighting the games and deceptions men and women use on one another wh...
Delightfulee: The Life And Music Of Lee Morgan (Jazz Perspectives)
Delightfulee: The Life And Music Of Lee Morgan (Jazz Perspectives) Jeff Mcmillan 9780472032815 Nonfiction University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press One of the most individual stylists ...
The Good Braider
The Good Braider Terry Farish 9781477816288 Fiction Skyscape Amazon Publishing In spare free verse laced with unforgettable images, Viola’s strikingly original voice sings out the story of her family’...
Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People
Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People Terry J. Stokes 9798889830818 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Isn't anarchy just chaos? How could it possibly rela...
Abstraktion und Einfühlung: Poems by Percival Everett
Abstraktion und Einfühlung: Poems by Percival Everett Percival Everett 9781933354705 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books “Everett’s talent is multifaceted, sparked by a satiric brilliance that cou...
Committee
Committee Terry E. Hill 9781622867226 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance The Committee is a beguiling tale that twirls Illuminati conspiracy, New Orleans voodoo, American politics and a subpl...
We Ain’t the Brontes
We Ain’t the Brontes Rosalyn McMillan 9781601622433 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Charity Evans and Lynzee Lavender haven’t always had the best relationship—for the most part thanks to t...
Prayers for the People: Things We Didn’t Know We Could Say to God
Prayers for the People: Things We Didn’t Know We Could Say to God Terry J. Stokes 9780593239438 Nonfiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House A collection of timely, stirring, and witty prayers tha...
Black Card
Black Card Chris L. Terry 9781646220199 Fiction Catapult Catapult In this NPR Best Book of the Year, a mixed-race punk rock musician must face the real dangers of being Black in America in this “wise ...
Vegetable Kingdom
Vegetable Kingdom Bryant Terry 9780399581045 Nonfiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • “Phenomenal … transforms the kitchen into a site for creating global culinary en...
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington Terry Teachout 9781592407491 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong ...
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell M.T. Pope, Tina Brooks Mckinney, Brenda Hampton, and Terry E. Hill 9781601623386 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Private Kyle Sullivan is a happily married m...
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong Terry Teachout 9780547386379 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. ...
The Massacre
The Massacre K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider 9780982492031 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing Gang Related by Terry L. Wroten Vice Vers...
When Divas Laugh: The Diva Squad Poetry Collective
When Divas Laugh: The Diva Squad Poetry Collective Ienett Nefertiti Allen, Linda Joy Burke, and Jaki Terry 9781580730310 Poetry Black Classic Press Black Classic Press This mesmerizing collection of v...
Black Feeling Black Talk
Black Feeling Black Talk Nikki Giovanni 9780688252946 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement is one of the single most important volumes of modern African-Amer...
Welcome To My Breakdown: A Memoir
Welcome To My Breakdown: A Memoir Benilde Little 9781476751955 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The nationally bestselling author of Good Hair and The Itch pens her first book of nonficti...
For-Profit Universities: The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education (2017)
For-Profit Universities: The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education (2017) Tressie McMillan Cottom 9783319471860 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers This edited volume propos...
Feeling the Spirit
Feeling the Spirit Chester Higgins, Jr. 9780553095562 Nonfiction Bantam Penguin Random House "We are Africans not because we are born in Africa, but because Africa is born in us. Look around you and b...
The Flip Side of Sin
The Flip Side of Sin Rosalyn McMillan 9780684862873 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Isaac Coleman’s tragic mistakes cost him years away from everyone and everything that mattered to hi...
Feeling the Heat & Night Heat: Feeling the HeatNight Heat (The Westmorelands)
Feeling the Heat & Night Heat: Feeling the HeatNight Heat (The Westmorelands) Brenda Jackson 9780373837762 Fiction Harlequin Harlequin Enterprises Limited A brand-new Westmoreland novel from New York ...
Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s
Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s Brenda M. Greene and Elizabeth Nunez 9780820442617 Nonfiction Peter Lang Publishing Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. Defining Ourselves offers perspectives on b...
Women Talk Money
Women Talk Money Rebecca Walker 9781501154324 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women’s lives, edi...
Blue Collar Blues
Blue Collar Blues Rosalyn McMillan 9780446522434 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group A brutal struggle for power in the manipulative automobile industry pits white collar against blue...
Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy
Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy Sharon Malone 9780593593868 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller • “A must-read for anyone ...
Two Old Broads: Stuff You Need to Know That You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know
Two Old Broads: Stuff You Need to Know That You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know Whoopi Goldberg and M. E. Hecht 9780785241645 Nonfiction Harper Horizon HarperCollins Written by renowned surgeon and exp...
Soul Clap Hands and Sing
Soul Clap Hands and Sing Paule Marshall 9781684220014 Fiction Martino Fine Books Martino Fine Books 2016 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Re...
You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories
You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories Gabrielle Union 9780062979933 Nonfiction Dey Street Books HarperCollins “Gabrielle Union has written another wonderful book that pulls no punches. The searing hones...
One Better
One Better Rosalyn McMillan 9780446605991 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group The hardships encountered by a Detroit restaurateur in her determination to see her children succeed.
Knowing
Knowing Rosalyn McMillan 9780446518666 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group After years of working in a factory, Ginger decides to go back to school and join the 9-to-5 white-collar wo...
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good adrienne maree brown 9781849353267 Nonfiction AK Press AK Press How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken w...
A Taste for More
A Taste for More Phyllis R. Dixon 9781496743138 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In a breathtaking saga spanning the final three decades of the Great Migration - from the Jim Crow south in r...
January Jackson and Friends
January Jackson and Friends Zonie Felder 9781462083558 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions Beautiful women can-and will-stoop to ugly acts in the name of love, lust, and power. In the face of unspea...
Web Development And Design Foundations With Html5 (7Th Edition)
Web Development And Design Foundations With Html5 (7Th Edition) Terry Felke-Morris 9780133571783 Nonfiction Pearson Pearson Web Development and Design Foundations with HTML5 is intended for use in...
Around Harvard Square
Around Harvard Square Christopher John Farley 9781617757143 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books "Wry, sly, and ferociously funny, Around Harvard Square is not just the satire Ivy League college life des...
Balancing Act
Balancing Act Jonathan Plummer and Karen Hunter 9781416537410 Fiction Karen Hunter Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Jonathan Plummer made headlines when New York Times bestselling author Terry McMill...
Strongholds (Blessed Trinity)
Strongholds (Blessed Trinity) Vanessa Davis Griggs 9780758217349 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From Vanessa Davis Griggs comes the second book in her Blessed Trinity Trilogy. Part Terry M...
Wifey’s Next Come Up
Wifey’s Next Come Up Kiki Swinson 9781496743572 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this sizzling, high-octane new series, the national bestselling author and urban lit superstar brings back...
The Hood Health Handbook: A Practical Guide To Health And Wellness In The Urban Community (Volume One)
The Hood Health Handbook: A Practical Guide To Health And Wellness In The Urban Community (Volume One) Supreme Understanding, C&rsquo,Bs Alife Allah, Dick Gregory, Supa Nova Slom, Wise Intelligent, Sc...
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul)
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul) Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, and Tom Joyner 9780757...
A History of the African-American People (Proposed)
A History of the African-American People (Proposed) Percival Everett and James Kincaid 9781888451573 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Praise for Percival Everett:If Percival Everett isn’t already ...
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry Charlotte Watson Sherman 9780060553517 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins A powerful collection of original and recent stories and poems by some of...
Something in the Water
Something in the Water Phyllis R. Dixon 9781496754196 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Buried secrets, environmental disaster, and a legacy of corruption hit too close to home when a Califor...
Tumbling: A Novel
Tumbling: A Novel Diane McKinney-Whetstone 9780061792120 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins “Even the air is palpable in Tumbling…The story moves forth on the power of Ms. McKinney-Whetstone’s cha...
Black Pearls: Daily Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-Americans
Black Pearls: Daily Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-Americans Eric V. Copage 9780688122911 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Eric V. Copage’s Black Pearls is an extraordinary bo...
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (New Americanists)
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (New Americanists) Elizabeth McHenry 9780822329800 Fiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books...
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies Elizabeth McHenry 9780822329954 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Over the past d...
Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature
Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature Charles Henry Rowell 9780312288983 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers This important book collects a wide range of fiction and poetry that fi...
The Minister Primarily (paperback)
The Minister Primarily (paperback) John Oliver Killens 9780063079601 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A major literary event—the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer...
A Sister’s Power
A Sister’s Power Cydney Rax 9781496715418 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. CYDNEY RAX became obsessed with becoming a writer after reading Terry McMillan’s Disappearing Acts. Her author drea...
Come Sunday Morning Saga
Come Sunday Morning Saga Terry E. Hill 9781622867066 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Hezekiah T. Cleaveland is the handsome pastor of New Testament Cathedral in Los Angeles. His beautiful...
A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter
A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter Nikki Giovanni 9780062399458 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins One of America’s most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a ru...
My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood
My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood Tameka Fryer Brown 9780670012855 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House What color is your mood? On a really good day, Jamie feels purple like t...
Never Can Say Goodbye: The Life of a Death Doula and the Art of a Peaceful End
Never Can Say Goodbye: The Life of a Death Doula and the Art of a Peaceful End Darnell Lamont Walker 9780063421837 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins “Never Can Say Goodbye is deliciously woven from t...
Eat Your Age: Feel Younger, Be Happier, Live Longer
Eat Your Age: Feel Younger, Be Happier, Live Longer Ian K. Smith 9780063383555 Nonfiction Harvest HarperCollins From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Ian K. Smith, learn how to defy the effect...
The Last Sunday
The Last Sunday Terry E. Hill 9781601623959 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Construction of New Testament Cathedral’s multimillion-dollar crystal sanctuary is complete. Pastor Samantha Cle...
Girl, I Had Enough
Girl, I Had Enough Terry L. Wroten 9780983457305 Fiction No Brakes Publishing No Brakes Publishing What if the person you would take a bullet for is the one behind the trigger? Girl I Had Enough is a ...
Motion Sickness
Motion Sickness Terry O’Neal 9780967944609 Poetry Motion Publishing Motion Publishing Motion Sickness is an easy reading poetry book that every one can relate to. All of our challenges, feelings, and ...
The End of Chiraq: A Literary Mixtape
The End of Chiraq: A Literary Mixtape Javon Johnson and Kevin Coval 9780810137189 Nonfiction Northwestern University Press Northwestern University Press The End of Chiraq: A Literary Mixtape is a coll...
Good Erotica for Good Girls: Short Stories of Consensual, Safe and Shameless Sex
Good Erotica for Good Girls: Short Stories of Consensual, Safe and Shameless Sex Stephanie Rochelle Redd 9781502341655 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC "Good Erotica for Good Girls" is ...
Be White With Me
Be White With Me R. E. Hayes 9798822958883 Fiction Palmetto Publishing Palmetto Publishing With apologies to the great Tolstoy, all happy Black families are not alike and every unhappy Black family is...
Dopefiend
Dopefiend Donald Goines 9781496733290 Fiction Holloway House Kensington Publishing Corp. Machiavelli was my tutor, Donald Goines my father figure. —Tupac ShakurThe true Black voice of his generation, ...
Boy I Had Enough
Boy I Had Enough Terry L. Wroten 9780983457336 Fiction No Brakes Publishing No Brakes Publishing Boy, I Had Enough… What if the man you love is not the man you love? A spin-off from the hit novel ’Gir...