Resultados para "Sky" en Afroamericana

After fifteen years in captivity, Nova Lefleur is free, back home, and reunited with her Louisiana family. Through her ordeal, she never forgot them. They never forgot her either. But things have changed since Nova’s been gone. Nova and her encouraging seventeen-year-old daughter, Skye, are getting to know each other for the first time. Her husband, Quinton, is rebuilding a relationship with a wife he thought was gone forever. And Nova’s sister, Leah, is overjoyed—and overwhelmed.

As climate disasters wreak havoc, a sister and brother take opposing sides on the fate of the human race. Syrah Carthan wants to save it. A tour guide for the Sequoia National Park, Syrah has an affinity for the millennia-old giants that extends to Rhiza, a subterranean world as ancient as Earth itself. Syrah is the reluctant heir apparent as its Keeper. Her duty is to maintain a balance between nature and humans. But Syrah’s greatest adversary has his duty as well.

International consultant Prescott Sweet's mission is to bring justice to countries suffering from America's imperialistic interventions. With his outspoken artist wife, Loretta, and their two children, he lives a life of equality and continental elegance amid Europe's glittering capitals - beyond anything he ever dared hope for. But he is still a man in hiding, from his past with the Bureau, from British Intelligence - and from his own tempting, dangerous skill at high-level espionage.

The daughter of a Danish immigrant and a black G.I., Rachel survives a family tragedy only to face new challenges. Sent to live with her strict African-American grandmother in a racially divided Northwest city, she must suppress her grief and reinvent herself in a mostly black community. A beauty with light brown skin and blue eyes, she attracts much attention in her new home. The world wants to see her as either black or white, but that's not how she sees herself.

Charlie and Demi are the most unlikely of suitors. They are polar opposites in every way, but somehow fate still brought them to one another. After hearing Charlie sing one night in a random smokey bar, Demi finds himself revisiting the hole in the wall just to see her. When given the chance to know her, he realizes that the life he's been living for fifteen years has led him in the wrong direction. With love as their compass, Charlie and Demi must trust themselves enough to get lost in love and in one another as they fight against gravity to let their love fly high.

“Bold and imaginative.” —Tananarive Due “This stunning allegory will spark much discussion.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A truly powerful and riveting story.” —Booklist In a world without white people, what does it mean to be Black? One day, a cataclysmic event occurs...

Ayana, Zay, Luna, and Mateo have awakened powers rooted not in fantasy—but in truth humanity has long forgotten. Now carrying the Fracture Key, they journey into a dimension between dimensions, where mimics are evolving and gods are being copied. But what happens when hope itself is imitated?

This compelling work represents the third installment in Teddy Hayes' acclaimed African American trilogy “Urban Outcries,” solidifying its place in modern African American literature and offering a mainstay drama experience that lingers long after the final moment.

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A “breathtaking space opera” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) about a young tea expert who is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government officials—a role that may empower her to win back her nation’s independence—perfect for fans of N.K...

From My Eye to the Sky places a magnifying glass on U.S. society and forces it to take a look at itself. Unrestrained and unabashed, this collection is a call not only for hope but organized and passionate action toward a better world.

Includes a special introduction by USA TODAY bestselling author, Mia Sosa, author of The Worst Best Man and The Wedding Crasher! It’s the end of the world as they know it—or so they think… When an international warning siren accidentally goes off, convincing everyone that a meteor shower...