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Book of the Month
Love Changes by Eartha Watts Hicks
Mia Love , a twenty-six-year-old single mother , quit college to support her live-in boyfriend , Spider . When she became pregnant , her mother , his mother , and Romell , her handsome and flirtatious best friend , all thought that she made a bad decision . Mia was forced to care for both her newborn son and Spider . Tethered to a low wage job to pay the bills , she ' s urged him to commit to her . Spider , who ’ s underemployed , remained resistant , causing tension between them with arguments becoming very personal . Meanwhile , " good friend " Romell offered a shoulder to lean on . What ensued was a love triangle with a unique twist : two men vying for a lady with a baby . This heartwarming story of a young woman ' s struggle to remain true to herself received the 2013 " Literary Game Changers " award in the fiction category from the NYCHA branch of the NAACP and was selected as The New York Amsterdam News ' s recommended summer read for 2013 .
Weaver by Miriam Kelly Ferguson
Almena Johnstone , a young woman thought to be mentally slow , was thrust back to her small insular hometown . In Elktown , Maryland she expected nothing more than a lonely , unfulfilled life . Almena ' s passion was weaving , but her past was ugly . Unable to understand or articulate her needs , she hid her pain in the intricate stitching of her rugs . She became an easy target until one day , ' the best day ' of her life , Almena was abandoned . Her isolation was broken when a new family moved in nearby . But the neighbors , who she came to adore , arrived with their own sordid history of violence , trauma , and sexual abuse that played out in a horrific murder . Left with motherless twins , Almena must make a desperate escape to keep them safe and make a new start in New Haven , CT . But will Almena ' s tainted past disturb the peace she finds in the sanctity of her new home ?