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Bad Boy Dom is book 1 of the Forbidden Nights Trilogy. Books 2 and 3, Dom Next Door and Dom's Desires are available everywhere now!He left me broken. But now he’s back.The last time I saw Dom, I was moaning his name. I haven’t said it since.Once upon a time, he was my best friend. The star of the high school baseball team, Dom lived next door and made me feel like I was the luckiest teacher’s pet who ever lived. I was quiet...

Dom's Desires is book 3 and finale of the Forbidden Nights Trilogy!He left me broken. But now he’s back.The last time I saw Dom, I was moaning his name. I haven’t said it since.Once upon a time, he was my best friend. The star of the high school baseball team, Dom lived next door and made me feel like I was the luckiest teacher’s pet who ever lived. I was quiet, normal, and studious — completely the opposite of the bad boy ...

**Always a Song is a collection of stories from singer and songwriter Ellen Harper—folk matriarch and mother to the Grammy-winning musician Ben Harper.Harper shares vivid memories of growing up in Los Angeles through the 1960s among famous and small-town musicians, raising Ben, and the historic Folk Music Center.This beautifully written memoir includes stories of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, The New Lost City Ramblers, Doc Watson, and many more....

Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is an important example of early African American literature. This novel takes the form of a realist narrative that chronicles the struggles of African Americans to achieve freedom, dignity and equality in a post-Civil War society. Through its protagonist, Iola Leroy, Harper offers an uplifting story about the resilience of black people despite systemic oppression.

Dom Next Door is book 2 of the Forbidden Nights Trilogy. Book 3, Dom's Desires is available everywhere now!He left me broken. But now he’s back.The last time I saw Dom, I was moaning his name. I haven’t said it since.Once upon a time, he was my best friend. The star of the high school baseball team, Dom lived next door and made me feel like I was the luckiest teacher’s pet who ever lived. I was quiet, normal, and studious —...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted (1892) is a landmark Reconstruction novel that follows Iola, a mixed-race woman born into slavery, through war, emancipation, and the moral demands of citizenship. Combining sentimental fiction, abolitionist rhetoric, domestic realism, and political debate, Harper transforms the conventional romance plot into a meditation on race, gender, education, and national renewal. The novel stands within African American literary histor...

A landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermathFirst published in 1892, this stirring novel by the great writer and activist Frances Harper tells the story of the young daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter who travels to the North to attend school, only to be sold into slavery in the South when it is discovered that she has Negro blood. After she is freed by the Union army, she works to reunify her family and embrac...

All That I'm Allowed by Ellen Harper, with beautiful drawings by Marguerite Millard, is a storybook for grownups about learning to live with children and dogs. In this regard most grown people set out to do what's best for them, to be good examples, trusted companions to dog and child. But often times the lessons we think we are getting across are interpreted very differently by the receivers. All That I'm Allowed is not only a make-believe romp through these poignant and...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first African-American women to be published in the United States.At 67, she published her widely praised novel Lola Leroy (1892), placing her among the first Black women to publish a novel.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "Poems" is a profound collection that masterfully intertwines social commentary with lyrical beauty, reflecting the turbulence of 19th-century America. Harper's poetic style, characterized by vivid imagery and intricate rhyme schemes, captures the struggles of African Americans, women, and the poor, while also conveying messages of hope and resilience. Her work is often situated within the broader context of the Black literary renaissance, where a call for so...

'Iola Leroy', one of the first novels published by an African-American woman, follows a group of slaves who are seeking refuge with the approaching Union army during the Civil War. The Union commander is made aware that a beautiful young woman is being held as a slave in the neighbourhood and sets her free.The narrative then switches to Iola Leroy's point of view and follows her turmoil with being tricked, misled, and eventually sold off and taken away from her mother.In a ...

**Always a Song is a collection of stories from singer and songwriter Ellen Harper-folk matriarch and mother to the Grammy-winning musician Ben Harper.Harper shares vivid memories of growing up in Los Angeles through the 1960s among famous and small-town musicians, raising Ben, and the historic Folk Music Center.This beautifully written memoir includes stories of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, The New Lost City Ramblers, Doc Watson, and many more....