Using interwoven narratives — present-day United States, Trinidad, and the political tumult of Jamaica in the 1980s — Carol Mitchell's debut gives voice to the immigrant woman whose veneer of middle-class stability masks the violent trauma of a prior life."An engaging and life-affirming read." — Booklist"What start bad a mornin', cyan end good a evenin'." — Jamaican proverbAmaya Lin has few memories of the years before she tur...

"What start bad a mornin', cyan end good a evenin'."—Jamaican proverbAmaya Lin has few memories of the years before she turned eighteen. Now in her forties, she has compensated by carefully cultivating a satisfying life as a wife, mother, and business professional. Her husband’s law practice is on the brink of major success; her neurodiverse son hasgrown into an independent adult; and she has come to terms with her aunt’s dementia. This sense of order is disrupted, however, ...

A beautifully written and often speculative story collection infused with Caribbean and African myths and cultures, exploring love, betrayal, motherhood, death, and home.GROUNDED IN CONTEMPORARY LIFE AND INFUSED WITH TRADITIONS of Africa and the Caribbean, A Good Haunting: Stories spins myth, magic, and realism into heartrending tales of characters seeking love and connection. Death is the primary antagonist in each of these stories, sometimes appearing as death of self, other time...

How do people survive losing the one most precious to them? How do they move forward when tormented by grief? These are the questions Julie Taylor must answer after the tragic loss of her husband, Jason.Through the love and devotion of her sister, Rebecca, and Jasons longtime friend, Dylan, Julie manages to survive the initial shock of her husbands death. Still she suffers in her longing for one more day with Jason to say all that she feels was left unsaid between them.As R...

His whole life, Daryle Dirty Ryse crafted his music to be a star. Yet, one issue of indiscretion, lingers in his past to destroy the mega empire he and friend Richard Clean worked hard to build. The robbery that took place on an AC Transit bus in Oakland, California during the summer of 2007, would come back to haunt Dirty Ryse exactly the day he and Clean signed a 300 million dollar record deal. The son of the victim, an agoraphobic mad man, stopped at nothing to settle a score with Dirty...

Letters to Carol is a sensational one-of-a-kind self-help guide. Carol allows her inner-most personalities to conjoin to tell her story of confronting past abuse. This new, incredible philosophy allows the reader to hypothseize about perhaps taking on this unique journey for themselves. According to Indie Reviewer Glenda Bixler, there is not another book out there like this one. Author, Carol Denise Mitchell takes us deep into the crevices of a multi-demensional mind. Wouldn't you know? We...

It's a love story. Maxine Ball is a successful TIKTOK creator for her Lips-to-Max cosmetics. One day she meets an up-and-coming doctor, Richard Logan, who asks her to pose as his girlfriend to get rid of another girl who refuses to leave his apartment. In exchange for this favor, Logan convinces his rich uncle to carry Maxine's cosmetic line, and she becomes a multi-millionaire. The touching friendship between Maxine and the eventual neurologist lasts for decades. When Dr. Logan introduces...

There is an unspoken crisis plaguing the workplace today: male leadership. Male leadership has become synonymous with reinforcing male stereotypes of dominance, aggression, independence, and resoluteness. These leadership behaviors promote a toxic workplace culture and negative outcomes. Moreover, in today’s economy, collaboration is key. We are in a technology and services age that depends on optimized teamwork and innovation. Today’s leaders require non-stereotypical male traits, such as...

When a man strongly asserts his point of view and autonomy, he is hailed as a strong, competent leader. When a woman exhibits the same executive qualities, she is labeled a brusque, overbearing bitch. This is not really news anymore, is it? Yet these unfair perceptions are a key reason why only five percent of Fortune 500 company CEOs are women.How can women leaders break through that brick wall of “bitch?” How can they manage gender expectations and still successfully climb the co...

John Silk and Ned Pitmature were young teens having a burger at Burger King when they created the most important seven pages in tech US history. When Ned seizes hold of his friend John’s high-tech formula, he makes a fortune while his co-creator diminishes within the walls of TEK & SEK’s corporate offices. Unable to deal with the pressures within the highly technical arena, John Silk attends a conference. Next, in a spiteful move, John Silk gives his company's first and most important page...

An engrossing memoir in which a photojournalist records both the precursors to today’s conflicts in the Middle East and her own deeply felt conviction that news coverage of the region actually increases the conflicts there."You're going where?" Carol Spencer Mitchell's father demanded as she set off in 1984 to cover the Middle East as a photojournalist for Newsweek and other publications. In this intensely thoughtful memoir, Spencer Mitchell probes the mot...

A collection of poetry from an incurable romantic determined to find that one love. However, many times she thinks she has finally found Prince Charming, but he always turns out being the frog. The search continues.