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Click on the titles to read more about the books we are giving away this time. We will be giving away the following books to 5 winners. To enter follow the rules below. No purchase is necessary. Must be 16 yrs or older to enter.
PRIZE #1
1 Winner will get 1 Hard Copy of I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land by Alaina Roberts.
Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of “40 acres and a mule”—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I’ve Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from.
About the Author
My name is Alaina Roberts and I’m an assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. My work uses my own family’s history to examine the intersection of Black and Native history–an understudied part of the African Diaspora.
Author’s Link
PRIZE #2
1 Winner will get a paperback of Home Front Lines by Brenda Sparks Prescott
It’s 1962. Betty Ann Johnson is an African American military spouse on an Air Force base outside Washington, DC. Sisters Lola, Chita, and Rosita are the proud keepers of the Montero name in Matanzas, Cuba.
Betty Ann gets wind that military preparations are ramping up for something more than just practice drills. Fearing that the Soviet presence in Cuba has become a tangible threat, she and a small band of military spouses, without telling their husbands, put together an evacuation plan for their children. At the same time in Cuba, Lola is asked to cook for the Soviet soldiers amassing there and accidentally witnesses a Soviet missile installation. She tells her sisters, and they devise a way to send their children to Florida on a boat while keeping this plan from their husbands.
Betty Ann Johnson and the Montero sisters may be on opposite sides of a life-threatening conflict, but they share the same heart when it comes to protecting their children.
Home Front Lines is a story of strong and determined women. Women that you know, grew up with, interact with every day, only these women are adorned with different cultural robes and live elsewhere in a different time.
About the Author
Brenda Sparks Prescott lives and writes in Eastern Massachusetts and Southern Vermont. Prescott is the co-editor of Solstice Literary Magazine and her writing has appeared in publications such as The Louisville Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Portland Magazine. She also serves on the advisory board for the Solstice MFA in creative writing program and is a founding member of Simply Not Done – a women’s writing collaborative. Brenda’s family has a long history of military service, with records stretching back to the Civil War.
Author’s Links
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PRIZE #3
3 Winners will get a paperback copy of No Handouts for Black Girls by Toshiba Billings
No Handouts For Black Girls is part cautionary tale, part love letter to Black women that will take the reader through a range of emotions. Fusing personal anecdotes with often hilarious real talk, no bullsh*t advice, this book dismantles the fallacy of the Strong Black Woman and how trying to live up to that narrative has kept us from living our whole truth. Toshiba goes in hard, but the weight of her words is tempered with humour and “say what now?” moments. At its core, it’s an outpouring of love to Black women everywhere and feels like a heart-to-heart conversation with your very best friend.
About the Author
I am a Jamaican-born writer, entrepreneur, and mother of a beautiful teenage daughter who grew up and currently resides in Toronto, Canada.
Writing has always been a passion of mine and I dreamed of being a published author someday. Sharing your innermost thoughts with strangers can be nerve-wracking which along with the barriers of traditional publishing, kept me from pursuing this dream until 2020. The amazon self-publishing option gave me the opportunity to turn my dream into reality.
My first published work the ‘Sienna Series’ was written and published over 6 months. After my experience with the series, I knew being an author was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
My current book ‘No Handouts for Black Girls’ was released on March 30, 2021, and is an Ode to Black women and all of our resilience.
When not living my day-to-day life, I love to travel, work out, spend time with loved ones, host my online talk and radio show, ‘Not Your Typical Girl Talk’. and work on my plan to take over the world (cue: Pinky and the Brain).
Author’s Link
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