Sheila has finally gotten her nursing degree. Emily and Jared are back together...for now, at least. And seventeen-year old Amber is on the verge of womanhood, looking forward to the future. There are plenty of reasons for the women of this Philly neighborhood to celebrate...especially as they conquer new worlds by moving out to the suburbs. But life always has new surprises (and problems) in store-and even as they enjoy their reunion, these feisty ladies find they still need one another's support to make it through. From shopping addict ions to restraining orders, from the challenges of...

Arrivals has arrived By Frank D. Quattrone Ticket Editor, Montgomery Newspapers Ready for another roller-coaster ride? Adrienne Bellamy, the dynamic author of Departures and Connecting, two novels that explore the often dysfunctional, often comical interactions among several African-American families in modern-day Philadelphia, is at it again. In Arrivals, Bellamy continues the saga of these familiar yet totally original characters as they progress, or regress, in their latest set of life-affirming trials. And that, after all, is where Bellamy excels. Not only do her women characters...

While out of town for the Thanksgiving holiday, on Black Friday, Denise Garner listened to the words on the other end of the phone. It was Lenny's cousin. "Listen, Denise, you need to come home. Lenny died of a heart attack yesterday." Denise immediately smelled a rat named Carolyn Monroe. She had never trusted that trollop her husband had been shacked up with for the past fourteen years. Did Lenny indeed have a heart attack or did his bitch Carolyn have a smart attack? After all, he was worth a lot more to that wench dead than alive, so Denise estimated. In this fiction caper, through author...

*This description is already in GPS but never carried over to the Amazon detail page* While out of town for the Thanksgiving holiday, on Black Friday, Denise Garner listened to the words on the other end of the phone. It was Lenny's cousin. "Listen, Denise, you need to come home. Lenny died of a heart attack yesterday." Denise immediately smelled a rat named Carolyn Monroe. She had never trusted that trollop her husband had been shacked up with for the past fourteen years. Did Lenny indeed have a heart attack or did his bitch Carolyn have a smart attack? After all, he was worth a lot more to...