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The African-American Family's Guide to Tracing Your Roots by Denise Lamaute & Roland Barksdale-Hall The nation’s #1 book on genealogy for African Americans An award-winning historian helps readers rethink past events, explore vital health matters, and better understand their families. In addition to teaching readers how to honor ancestors and reflect upon African traditions, this book discusses a 12-step plan to health, wealth, and success. Roland Barksdale-Hall, MLS, MLLS, MA, founder of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS) of Pittsburgh has been researching the black family for more than 25 years. In 2004 he hosted a three-day healing family gathering, entitled "The Restoration of the Family." Mr. Barksdale-Hall's research resulted in the Millennium Family Reunion, held in Detroit, bringing together more than 300 African Americans. According to Mr. Barksdale-Hall, "Gaining knowledge is the first step in restoration." THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAMILY'S GUIDE TO TRACING OUR ROOTS IS BREATHTAKING as it guides us through the delicate lessons of knowing...knowing the good, and the not so good of Black America's rich history." - Janis F. Kearney, former Diarist for President Bill Clinton, Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir For interviews, speaking engagements or book signings, email: Mr. Roland Barksdale-Hall at best@surf274.com
HER BEAUTY WILL SCARE YOU Miss Mary Weather: A Southern Nightmare by Deon C. Sanders (pen: Deno Sandz) As a freshman horror author in the publishing world. Deon C. Sanders, a father of six, is on his way to writing numerous bestselling horror novels, inspiring poems, and feature film screenplays. However, his passion is horror writing. His first horror novel Miss Mary Weather: A Southern Nightmare has been a success in the minds of horror readers and has been well received in Synopsis: MISS MARY WEATHER: A SOUTHERN NIGHTMARE takes place in a rural black community in the deep South, where there is a myth of a woman who is the most terrifying female creature ever unleashed in this world. The evil's origination to this world starts when Miss Mary Weather goes insane after giving birth to her deformed child. She commits suicide on her front porch by slashing her wrists under the moonlight. As she journeys to hell, an evil spirit inhabits her soul. Thinking these stories are merely folk tales, the protagonist, Will first encounters the evil woman at the age of nine. A battle between good and evil ensues as he utilizes all of his wits and intelligence through his childhood, young adulthood, college, and finally adulthood. When he battles the immortal Miss Mary Weather in reality and wins, he continues his life. The feeling of her evil spirit being around descends and disappears as the years roll on, until Wills son has a dream that predicts that Miss Mary Weather has not been destroyed. E-mail: Author at dsanders4119@yahoo.com
The Author Serves the Reader a Delicious Plate of Evil in The Blues by bonita lee, Writers Block, Soul Pitt "Wow! That was a hot review! I appreciate it." Nimrod Shabazz N. M. Shabazz successfully intertwines his real life experience in the world of exotic dancing creating a tale of one man's good versus an ever growing calculated and erotic evil. We are invited into the world of a frustrated and arrogant Mark Stiles, as he tries in his own desperate ways to save his new marriage. He is on a deadly train ride trying to figure out why his fresh marriage to, Sharon, the woman he has been in love with since high school is spiraling through a dark endless tunnel. From the start their marriage was doomed, but was it due to his past life or perhaps something more sinister? At first Mark finds solace by frequenting a local strip joint, Peep-N-Toms. It's there his growing attraction to the stripper named The Blues, throws him into a confused and addictive state. Not being able to separate real life from his nightly erotic but disturbing dreams filled with her, including waking up to bloody sheets from the scratches on his back and the ever present hardness of his manhood. He soon finds that his dreams are not only affecting him but everyone connected to him, his wife, the psychologist, The Blues and even his dead Grandmother and Father. They are all factors in his fight with evil. But he has to put aside his arrogance and piece it all together to save his marriage, himself and The Blues. The Author leads us through his character's confrontation with evil along a dark, erotic filled path.
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by Denise Lamaute & Roland Barksdale-Hall
Author: Deon C. Sanders
Author: N. M. Shabazz
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