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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Karen Brown s Little Sinners, and Other Stories features a sad, strange mosaic of women and men grappling with the loss and pain of everyday existence, people inhabiting a suburban landscape haunted by ghosts: a mother who leaps from a ridge, a mistress found at the bottom of the Connecticut River, a father who dresses in a pale blue-custom suit and disappears. The dead leave behind postcards, houses, bottles of sherry, bones. They become local legends, their stories part of the characters own: an expectant mother in an isolated...

Not again. Another unarmed young black teenager is murdered by a white shooter pleading self defense, this time in Philadelphia. Protests and riots tear the city apart, racially divided on who was the innocent victim. Victoria Perry, an up and coming Assistant District Attorney wants a jury to decide. Not everyone wants to see the case go to trial, including her politically ambitious significant other, Leonard Sterling. The defendant's wealthy family hires the top attorney in town to defend him, Benjamin Madison, who also happens to be the only person who casted a shadow on Victoria in law...

The only thing Luke was sure of was that he didn't want to be like his father, John. Raised on a one-way ghetto street in North Philly the odds weren't in his favor. Nothing special had ever happened to him until he met Ruthie on the day Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. When Ruthie got pregnant, he finally had something to live for. Even being drafted into Vietnam wasn't about to take that away from him. Back home Ruthie did hair to help make ends meet and developed a cream that made kinky hair curly. Together she and Luke built a successful cosmetic company. Luke's dream was to...

The most sophisticated weapon in the world is the human voice, more often than not it also the most damaging. The power of the voice can be used to bless or to destroy, it can be used to spread truth or lies, to speak peace or violence, to encourage or tear down, to build nations or pillage countries. Without the power of a voice you can become vulnerable, weak, and helpless. Your thoughts, requests, and protests, go unheard. That's what makes a democracy strong; each person has a voice in their vote. It's the manner that we choose and communicate with our representatives.

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You can never foresee the trials or tragedies taht will challenge you in this life but I have to say that the loss of a child has to be the worst of them. It's unimaginable, unfathomable, and unbearable. 72 Steps is my experience. Almost too painful to put on paper, I hope it will inspire others who feel their lives have been devastated or destroyed beyond repair to trust and believe that joy does come in the morning. This is my testimony to the faithfulness of God. Through his grace I was able to pick up the pieces of my broken heart, put it back together, find peace, hop, and the...