Chanel Hardy Bücher

Mahogany Tales is a small collection of short stories, which revolve around the lives of four teenage black girls, Ciara, Porsha, Andrea, and Briana. First is Ciara, who moves down south from Chicago after her father's death, and deals with her crappy new life with her step mother and step sisters. Porsha, a born & raised city girl watching as her home suffers from the effects of gentrification, who meets a young man willing to help her preserve the culture of her beloved home. Andrea, who suffers from a curse that was put on her when she was just an infant. Briana, an introverted book lover who keeps to herself, and begins an unsuspecting romance with a bad boy. Enjoy these stories in this modern urban retelling of classic tales.

This 2020 Pride Special Edition features a brand new vibrant cover and inspiring quotes from LGBTQA artists and activists of the past and present! Ebook copies are available with first edition only. Darlene Jones is a fifteen-year-old African-American teenage girl living in Durham, North Carolina in 1940. She has an ordinary life, but things quickly become complicated as her sexual identity comes into question when she meets a White girl, nineteen-year-old Rose who isn't like any girl she's ever met before. Featured on the 2018 In The Margins Book Awards Long List, My Colorblind Rainbow is a story for middle-grade teens that explores adolescent love and nonconformity. As these girls struggle with racial tension in the south. Their bond not only threatens their own lives, but friendships, and the relationships with their families as well.

After a year in county jail, a new life on the outside awaits! Nineteen-year-old Amari Davis is a rebellious transgender teen from Georgia with a desperate desire for a fresh start-but being packed off to Brazil to work with her father, a military vet now in the Peace Corps, isn't exactly what she has in mind. Amari struggles to adjust to the new culture and fit in with the locals until she meets Gabriel, a handsome and endearing young man who works with her father. The two are drawn to each other, and as their friendship deepens, Amari's newfound romance tests her resolution to live authentically. If she tells Gabriel the truth about herself, will it push him away forever?From award-winning author Chanel Hardy, 'Fernando' is a modern, unconventional love story set in the 90's that explores what it means to live as your authentic self, giving love a chance when all seems lost, and to be young and resilient in the face of adversity.

This collection of poetry and personal essays explores the politics of the body positivity movement. From fatphobia, fetishization and colorism, to racism and the hijacked natural hair movement. Western beauty standards have held women of color-Black women in particular, hostage for too long. So let's talk about it.

Oleander seeds and leaves are used to make medicine. They help with heart conditions, asthma, and other health issues. They can also be deadly to ingest. 'Sweet Oleander' is the first collection of poetry by Chanel. with ballads, haiku's and sonnets and more about love, sex, death, and all of life's intricate experiences.

From author Chanel Hardy, comes her third collection of poems. A collection of delicate poetry about womanhood, love, femininity, and everything in between.

The content and purpose of dreams are not fully understood, although they have been a topic of scientific, philosophical and religious interest throughout recorded history. This is a collection of poems inspired by those dreams.

"I hope the sun shined for you today. I hope you smiled, and I hope this letter finds you well. -Clementine"November, 1959On her 16th birthday, Clementine wrote a letter. She sealed it in a bottle and sent it floating into the ocean. In hopes that her words of inspiration would bring good luck, according to the Collins family tradition. But what Clementine didn't expect, was that someone would find her letter a year later, and do the unthinkable...Write back.December, 1960After his younger brother's sudden death, a grief-stricken and suicidal young man finds an old bottle washed ashore on abeach—a bottle with a letter inside. Feeling alone with no one to turn to, 17-year-old Daniel finds comfort in Clementine's words. Hoping to find a new friend in this stranger, he writes back.'P.S. I Hope This Finds You' is an epistolary-style historical romance told through letters, as a message in a bottle will take two people on an unsuspecting journey through friendship and love. As they find their way to each other despite time, distance, and all of life's challenges keeping them apart.

Jackson Kinnard, a shifter adopted as an infant after the death of his parents, never truly felt like he fit in with those around him. Now sixteen-years-old, he leaves his life in Chicago behind as he travels in search of his real family. His father was a pure-blood with no known relatives. But his mother, a half-blood, left behind a sister. Jackson goes to Marksville Louisiana in hopes to reunite with his long-lost aunt and finds himself in a world of trouble as he runs into a new pack of shifters. An underground cult, fed up with a life of rules and secrecy has a plan to dismantle the council one region a time. To live and rule as the dominant species they were born to be. But Jackson isn't alone. Descending into the hidden world of witchcraft when he befriends a young woman named Delilah, who is the key to helping him stop the group's evil plan. In this prequel to River's Moonlight, take a trip into the past as the worlds of werewolves and witchcraft collide, and Jackson learns that love and freedom never comes without a sacrifice.