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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?