Debi Thomas has a revelation. "I was never meant to win the gold," the championship skater told author, Carol Denise Mitchell. This book emcompasses two-years of in person interviews the award winning writer held with America's skating champ. Debi talks about being the victim of Domestic Violence, and how she came to live in a trailer with bed bugs and rats. The author interviews her fiance' Jamie Looney and lots more!

Noah is a heartbreaking saga about Tiffany Mitchell's often difficult journey to find love. From the start, Tiffany Mitchell's road to love took her through dramatic twists and turns that left her thinking that love would be forever out of her reach. In fact, for many years love seemed elusive, like a never-ending pathway to certain disappointment until Tiffany meets a handsome bartender named Noah Crawford and, she falls in love at once. The special event gave Tiffany an immediate attract...

This gripping story about an abused girl, who uses an unlikely prototype of as a guide to a better life, acts as a sort of metaphor of social realism regarding the rise of the African Americans to greater prominence and wealth in modern society as a whole. The narrative, which is closely written, and uses a realistic version of African American speech soon draws us into the central dilemma of a child, who due to her light skin, is rejected by the other children in her school, this then lea...

Using interwoven narratives — present-day United States, Trinidad, and the political tumult of Jamaica in the 1980s — Carol Mitchell's debut gives voice to the immigrant woman whose veneer of middle-class stability masks the violent trauma of a prior life."An engaging and life-affirming read." — Booklist"What start bad a mornin', cyan end good a evenin'." — Jamaican proverbAmaya Lin has few memories of the years before she tur...

This is Mrs. Mitchell's award-winning novel What Happened to Suzy, the 25th Anniversary Edition. For its' grit, for its' real life circumstances, What Happened to Suzy took the nation by storm and was added to the nation's Library of Congress and can be requested in the Adams Building reading room. What Happened to Suzy fully describes the story of a very young girl looking for love. Abused at home by a fatigued mother and, by the ongoing abuse of an older brother, who was put in charge of...

Fourteen-year-old Jaden has experience with abandonment.All that he has of his mother fits into the barrels of goodies that she sends from the US to St. Kitts where he lives with his grandmother, father, and brother Rashid. But when Rashid is killed in a gang-styled execution right outside their house on the "good" part of Barberry Hill, Jaden's grandmother dies, and his parents seem even more distant than ever, Jaden is at the end of his rope. The police, his mother, his father, a...

Mercy Jean Diamond was the highly intelligent, un-liked daughter of a good, but philandering doctor, and deranged mother, who hated her. Though they were the richest family in all Parish, California there were problems. After ten-years of abuse and being the only child, Mercy Diamond is ecstatic when her parents have adorable sister Roxy Ann Diamond so, Mercy takes exemplary care of her sister until an unpredictable tragedy occurs. Unfortunately, father Fred is having a hot affair that rip...

Shortlisted for the 2021 Bocas Children's Book PrizeWhen Mark's mother sends him and Chee Chee to St. Lucia to experience the cultural festival of Jounen Kwéyòl, Mark is thrown into another action-packed, time-travel adventure with one of the festival dancers. Mark and his new friend Danielle get caught in the middle of a cultural struggle between the British and the Afro-Caribbean people at a time when participating in creole festivals could land you in big trouble.About t...

In "Debi Thomas What Really Happened," Mitchell uncovers the truth about Debi's big losses in the 1988 Olympics up to how her medical career ended up failing in 2014. The author is stunned to learn that Debi Thomas felt she was not meant to win the gold in the 1988 Olympics in Calgary. Moreover, Mitchell uncovers extensive research on why Debi, who openly dared to "Question Authority" seemingly at her own peril, incurred many of her losses and how. Mitchell, described as one of the best wr...

"What start bad a mornin', cyan end good a evenin'."—Jamaican proverbAmaya Lin has few memories of the years before she turned eighteen. Now in her forties, she has compensated by carefully cultivating a satisfying life as a wife, mother, and business professional. Her husband’s law practice is on the brink of major success; her neurodiverse son hasgrown into an independent adult; and she has come to terms with her aunt’s dementia. This sense of order is disrupted, however, ...

Learn how to write and give a flawlessly funny speech for any occasion with Emmy-winning comedy writers Carol Leifer and Rick Mitchell. With a foreword by Carol Burnett.Giving a speech about someone is hard. Giving a funny speech that people are actually going to pay attention to is even harder. In How to Write a Funny Speech for a Wedding, Bar Mitzvah, Graduation & Every Other Event You Didn’t Want to Go to in the First Place, Leifer and Mitchell will tea...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...