Product Description: Book by McMillan, Terry

A collection of works by African American writers representing a wide range of voices, styles, and themes

A collection of works by African American writers representing a wide range of voices, styles, and themes includes selections by Amiri Baraka, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker

The Price family--Viola, the matriarch; her sometimes husband Cecil; and their four adult children--sticks together through life's most trying circumstances in this new novel by the author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale. Reprint.

The Price family--Viola, the matriarch; her sometimes husband Cecil; and their four adult children--sticks together through life's most trying circumstances in this new novel by the author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale. Read by Terry McMillan. Simultaneous.

When Franklin, a young construction worker, meets Zora, a struggling singer from Ohio, neither is certain they can make the sacrifices and commitments needed to build love. Reprint.

An exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale -- the novel that changed African American fiction forever. Now, McMillan revisits Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin fifteen years later. Each is at her own midlife crossroads: Savannah has awakened to the fact that she's made too many concessions in her marriage, and decides to face life single again -- at fifty-one. Bernadine has watched her megadivorce settlement dwindle, been swindled by her husband number two, and conned herself into thinking that a few pills will help distract her from her pain. Robin has an all-American case of shopaholism, while the big dream of her life-to wear a wedding dress- has gone unrealized. And for years, Gloria has taken happiness and security for granted. But being at the wrong place at the wrong time can change everything. All four are learning to heal past hurts and to reclaim their joy and their dreams; but they return to us full of spirit, sass, and faith in one another. They've exhaled: now they are learning to breathe.

Product Description: Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon...read more

Marilyn Grimes, a 45-year-old woman who is suffering from a midlife crisis and searching for new frontiers or a place to leap, must deal with her three children who have left the nest; her boring engineer husband, Leon, who is in a career crisis and apparently philandering; and her mother, who may be developing Alzheimer's.

The perfect wife and mother of three grown children, Marilyn Grimes struggles to deal with the problems of midlife--an empty nest, wildly fluctuating hormones, too many demands on her time, and too little room for herself--as she struggles to recall some of her own postponed dreams and reinvent her marriage, friendship, family, and herself. Reprint.

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Inspirational advice for high school graduates and their loved ones by the best-selling author of Waiting to Exhale features humorous recommendations that the author wishes she had received when graduating, in a lighthearted guide that includes such nuggets as 'Bring your laundry home' and 'Read anything and everything.' 200,000 first printing.

Mildred Peacock, a spirited African-American woman living in the declining Michigan town of Point Haven, decides to kick out her jealous husband, Crook, and raise her five children on her own, in a new edition of the best-selling author's first novel. Reprint.

Product Description: Book by McMillan, Terry, Bueno Camejo, Ma. Dolores

Product Description: The critically acclaimed novel about four women who learn how to carry on while leaning on each other from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and I Almost Forgot About You.When the men in their lives prove less than reliable, Savannah, Bernadine, Gloria, and Robin find new strength through a rare and enlightening friendship as they struggle to regain stability and an identity they don’t have to share with anyone...read more

Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from #1 "New York Times "bestselling author of "Waiting to Exhale" and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" With her wise, wry, and poignant novels of families and friendships--"Waiting to Exhale," "Getting to Happy," and "A Day Late and a Dollar Short "among them--Terry McMillan has touched millions of readers. Now, in her eighth novel, McMillan gives exuberant voice to characters who reveal how we live now--at least as lived in a racially diverse Los Angeles neighborhood. Kaleidoscopic, fast-paced, and filled with McMillan's inimitable humor, "Who Asked You?" opens as Trinetta leaves her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, and promptly disappears. BJ, a trademark McMillan heroine, already has her hands full dealing with her other adult children, two opinionated sisters, an ill husband, and her own postponed dreams--all while holding down a job delivering room service at a hotel. Her son Dexter is about to be paroled from prison; Quentin, the family success, can't be bothered to lend a hand; and taking care of two lively grandsons is the last thing BJ thinks she needs. The drama unfolds through the perspectives of a rotating cast of characters, pitch-perfect, each playing a part, and full of surprises. "Who Asked You? "casts an intimate look at the burdens and blessings of family and speaks to trusting your own judgment even when others don't agree. McMillan's signature voice and unforgettable characters bring universal issues to brilliant, vivid life.

Product Description: Family ties are tested and transformed in this novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back. With her wise, wry, and poignant novels of families and friendships, Terry McMillan has touched millions of readers...read more