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Set in 1950s New Orleans, Little Black Girl Lost is a powerful tale filled with sex, greed, and the explosive political and social climates of an America long gone. Fifteen-year-old beauty Johnnie Wise lives her life devoted to God. But her innocence is shattered when her mother, who has been a prostitute for years, sells Johnnie's body to lecherous insurance man Earl Shamus.

Essence best-selling author Keith Lee Johnson’s fifth installment in his ongoing "Little Black Girl Lost" series picks up where the fourth book left off by continuing the diary of Josephine Baptiste. As more details about Josephine’s past come to light, the African heritage of modern-day Johnnie Wise is further explained.

Teenage beauty Johnnie Wise has seen her share of hardship. Sold into prostitution at an early age, she is an accessory to a murder that sparks terrible race riots. Her boyfriend, Lucas, wants to give her a better life, but Johnnie has a powerful effect on men, and gangster Napoleon Bentley will stop at nothing to have her.

Fate or choice? What does a handsome roughneck do when he meets a beautiful young damsel in distress, who was recently acquitted of murdering her stockbroker? The enraged citizens of New Orleans thought she was guilty, and set her whole neighborhood ablaze, including the Fire Department. Broke, with nothing but the clothes on her back and the shoes on her feet, she watched her house burn to the ground. With the smell of burning wood and bricks lingering in the cool morning breeze, Johnnie left New Orleans while her home was still smoldering.

Unafraid to use her assets, young Johnnie has wiled her way into the lives of several dangerous men. She also happens to be connected to three murders. Now that her enemies are closing in from all sides, it seems her luck may run out.

Essence best-selling author Keith Lee Johnson's popular series continues with this fourth book, which reaches back to unearth the roots of JohnnieWise's family tree. On the eve of her arranged marriage in an African village, a 16-year-old girl elopes with her fiancé's younger brother. But the lovers are captured and sold into American slavery - and the girl wonders if she'll ever see her man again.

Johnnie Wise had always managed to escape the evil plans of her enemies. She had gotten away with so much. Now it was personal. No mercy. She was going to die this time. With unlimited finances, her new rival was more than willing to scour the earth to deliver the brand of justice that fury demanded. Johnnie was planning a daring escape to avoid whatever trumped-up charges an overeager prosecutor might bring against her.

On Christmas Eve, 1951 in New Orleans, fifteen-year-old Johnnie Wise is sold into prostitution by her domineering mother, and her dreams of being an Evangelist or nightclub singer like Billie Holiday vanish like the notes of an old song. In her new life, surrounded by powerful men with even more powerful secrets, Johnnie finds that she can use romance with the men that pay to sleep with her to her advantage, and the teenage girl finds herself thrown into a world of wealth, bribery, and cold-blooded gangsters. But, the underbelly of New Orleans in the fifties isn’t without its dangers.

William, a widower of five years, finds himself falling for a very persistent coworker by name of Terry Moretti, who will not take no for an answer. When he finally says yes, will the challenge of seducing him wean? Sterling, an attorney who fancies himself a lady's man and lives way above his means, is fired from a prestigious firm and the bills are piling up when a rich woman offers to fulfil all his dreams if he'll do her a favor that awakens his dormant conscience.

Denmark Wheeler survived a rough childhood on the streets of Cleveland to prosper as an adult. Then one day a DVD turns up on his front doorstep, revealing an explicit sexual encounter between his wife and a man whose face is concealed. Consumed by rage, he searches for the other man.

LaFayette was one of the primary organizers of the 1965 Selma voting rights movement and the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, and he relates his experiences of these historic initiatives in close detail. Today, as the constitutionality of Section Five of the Voting Rights Act is still questioned, citizens, students, and scholars alike will want to look to this audiobook as a guide. Important, compelling, and powerful, In Peace and Freedom presents a necessary perspective on the civil rights movement in the 1960s from one of its greatest leaders.

Set in a bitterly benighted, mine-polluted corner of Virginia, Nitro Mountain follows a group of people bound together by alcohol, small-time crime, and music. There's Leon, a hapless bass player who can embroil himself in trouble just by getting out of bed in the morning. And his would-be girlfriend, Jennifer, who's living with Arnett, the town's most dangerous thug - and hoping Leon will help poison him. And there's Arnett himself, a psychopath for the ages.

The sequel to the first book, titled The Forbidden, is a captivating and intense story that dives into irresistible TEMPTATION, delicious OBSESSION, and fiery VENGEANCE, making it a truly explosive and unyielding continuation. In The Forbidden, NAPOLEON BENTLEY emerges as a formidable character, reigning over the perilous French Quarter of New Orleans and establishing himself as a dominant force in organized crime. NAPOLEON’s reputation precedes him as someone who has no qualms about taking whatever he desires. He’s set his sights on stunning and curvaceous JOHNNIE WISE.

Expect another wild ride form the mind of Keith Lee Johnson with his original smash hits, Little Black Girl Lost Book 1: The Innocent and Little Black Girl Lost Book 2: The Forbidden. Written as only Keith Lee Johnson can, Little Black Girl Lost Book 3: Legal Tender takes you back into New Orleans' seedy underbelly, into a world where no one can be trusted; especially with $250,000 at stake. Will the past catch up with this beautiful, vivacious teenager? Or will her wise and nimble intellect preserve her young life in this edge of the seat roller coaster?

How does everyone else see me? How do I see myself? How does God see me? These women in the Bible asked the same three questions we still ask today. In this 12-session audio study, you'll see how the stories of Rahab, Hagar, and Naomi reflect our own lives and what we can learn about...

After a long stint at desk duty, Phoenix Perry is dragged back into the limelight when a family member is found beaten and near death. To complicate matters, there are two dead bodies at the scene, and Phoenix’s cousin is the prime suspect. Can Phoenix find her cousin’s attackers and prove her innocence before the body count becomes astronomical? A nationwide chase ensues, involving shady editors, crooked literary agents, and a host of others. If you’re into suspense thrillers, this one is not to be missed.

Little Black Girl Lost Book 4: Captive is the latest episode from the fertile imagination of Keith Lee Johnson's original epic tale. Captive introduces drop-dead gorgeous Lauren Renee Bouvier, a youthful teenager, the African Root of Johnnie and Marguerite Wise. Its survival of the fittest on the mean streets of 18th Century New Orleans. With her life and virtue constantly in danger, how does she survive the ruthless Monarch of Bouvier Hill?

Someone leaves the barn door open and there's chaos. Find out how Blue the dog comes to the rescue.

In this moving collection of short stories and essays, Gordon Lee Johnson (Cupeño/Cahuilla) cements his voice not only as a wry commentator on American Indian reservation life but also as a master of fiction writing. In Johnson’s stories, all of which are set on the fictional San Ignacio reservation in Southern California, we meet unforgettable characters like Plato Pena, the Stanford-bound geek who reads Kahlil Gibran during intertribal softball games; hardboiled investigator Roddy Foo; and Etta, whose motto is “early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise”.

CEO Nelson Kennard is about to pay his fiancée an impromptu visit when he sees her kissing a former rival in the doorway of her Victorian townhouse. Fuming and filled with inconsolable vengeance, he grabs his gun from the glove compartment of his vehicle, and enters her home with his personal set of keys. As he climbs the stairs, he hears Parris Stalls and her lover in the throes of passionate bliss. With his gun cocked, he enters the dark room and sees it all.