"Giving a Voice to the Ancestors" is a family saga, tracing the progress of five generations through slavery, reconstruction and the Jim Crow South. The ancestors are African Irish and Native American. The family's strength is phenomenal.

Bittersweet Memories is an intriguing memoir that begins when the author is visited by an angel as an infant. At age sixteen, she leaves her hometown of Milledgeville, GA. to enroll in Central State College in Wilberforce, Ohio. Being away from home for the first time at an early age, the young Emily is tempted into risk taking behavior that comes dangerously close to causing expulsion from the school that she loves. The story describes the struggles of a strong black woman who relies on faith in God to overcome many obstacles and temptations. She builds a career in social work that empowers...