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    N. D. Jones, Ed.D. je autorkou bestsellerů podle USA Today, která se ve své tvorbě zaměřuje na vytváření pozitivních, sexy a komplexních postav afrického původu. Svou spisovatelskou dráhu zahájila s touhou po vidění románů, které by obsahovaly takové postavy, a pustila se do toho sama. Její díla zahrnují řadu fantasy románů, současných romancí a paranormálních romancí, čímž čtenářům nabízí bohaté a poutavé příběhy.

    You Look Beautiful Tonight
    Wilderness
    The Rules of the Road
    Chasing Rainbows
    The Beauty of Black Mermaids Coloring Book
    Abolitionist Intimacies
    • Abolitionist Intimacies

      • 192 stránek
      • 7 hodin čtení

      In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work. The state also polices intimacy through mechanisms such as prison visits, strip searches and managing community contact with incarcerated people. Despite this, Jones argues, intimacy is integral to the ongoing struggles of prisoners for justice and liberation through the care work of building relationships and organizing with the people inside. Through characteristically fierce and personal prose and poetry, and motivated by a decade of prison justice work, Jones observes that abolition is not only a political movement to end prisons; it is also an intimate one deeply motivated by commitment and love.

      Abolitionist Intimacies
      4,6
    • Relax and enjoy 17 detailed underwater scenes of Black mermaids and mermen and 8 nautical-themed frames with inspirational quotes.

      The Beauty of Black Mermaids Coloring Book
      4,4
    • "Sometimes memories bring promises of what might have been or can reawaken demons best left sleeping." Adam and Felix didn't know each other, but a chance meeting on a plane takes them to days gone by which were filled with love, laughter, sex and tears. It, appeared that they had more in common than they could imagine. When Olivia winked at her past, she set a process in motion and they all remembered when they were always chasing rainbows. "Life can be so sad. We do get ourselves into messes, don't we?"

      Chasing Rainbows
      4,0
    • The Rules of the Road

      • 336 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      Do you ever wonder why it is you sometimes see a single shoe on the side of the road? What happens if you don’t hold your breath when you pass a cemetery? Why should you pay careful attention to that strange speed limit sign, the one that reads 67 MPH?When an amateur journalist encounters a mysterious radio program while driving alone one late night, he is presented with a set of instructions with potentially fatal consequences. After escaping with his life, obsession takes hold and he is determined to find out who is behind the broadcast and who else it has affected. His investigation leads him to speak with travelers and truckers, vagabonds and vacationers, models and rock stars, each with their own sinister encounter with the strange program. His search draws him into a world of deadly discovery from which there is no turning back.So settle down and buckle up. Stay alert for the signs to survive. Do not adjust that dial. Prepare to be a lucky—or unlucky—listener to "The Rules of The Road." What will the static settle on for you?

      The Rules of the Road
      3,6
    • Wilderness

      • 320 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      Two weeks, 1,500 miles and three opportunities for her husband to save his own life . . . A twisted and addictive thriller about a dream holiday turned dark nightmare.

      Wilderness
      3,6
    • You Look Beautiful Tonight

      • 351 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení

      A secret admirer’s devotion turns deadly in a twisting novel of psychological suspense.Mia Anderson is an invisible woman. An unremarkable thirty-two-year-old Tennessee librarian, she’s accustomed to disappearing in a crowd, unseen and unheard. Then she receives an anonymous note: You look beautiful today.It doesn’t stop there. The attentive stranger—a secret admirer named Adam—has plans for Mia. With each new text comes a suggestion for her hair, clothes, or attitude, and for the first time in memory, Mia feels noticed. Slowly, she develops a confidence in herself she’s never had. But Adam has a surprise coming…and Mia finally sees him for who he is and what he’s prepared to do for her. Even kill.Fearing she could be implicated in the murder, Mia’s forced to turn to the stranger in the shadows watching her every move. Adam’s game of cat and mouse begins with Mia as the prey. In order to survive, she must also become the predator.

      You Look Beautiful Tonight
      3,5
    • A character-driven science fiction/horror blend, KC Jones' Black Tide is Stephen King's Cujo meets A Quiet Place. It was just another day at the beach. Then the world ended. Mike and Beth were strangers before the night of the meteor shower. Chance made them neighbors, a bottle of champagne brought them together, and a shared need for human connection sparked something more. Following their drunken and desperate one-night stand, the two discover the astronomical event has left widespread destruction in its wake. But the cosmic lightshow was only part of something much bigger, and far more terrifying. When a lost car key leaves them stranded on an empty stretch of Oregon coast and inhuman screams echo from the dunes, when the rising tide reaches for their car and unspeakable horrors close in around them, these two self-destructive souls must fight to survive a nightmare of apocalyptic scale. "This is gasp-for-your-breath, peek-through-your-fingers horror, and I loved every page of it." —Jonathan Janz, author of The Siren and the Specter

      Black Tide
      3,6
    • The Wedding Party

      • 331 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      For a bride-to-be and her fiancé, secrets and lies make this a killer celebration in this psychological suspense. Carrie and Oliver. A couple completely in love and the hosts of a wedding to remember at Colorado's legendary Stanley Hotel. This is Carrie's fairy tale come true. Her fiancé, Oliver, is Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome; successful; and utterly devoted to her. Now family and friends have gathered to celebrate. It's sure to be a wild night as the drinks flow freely and the fun begins. But the morning after is murder. FBI agent Andi Castle was just supposed to be a plus-one. This should have been a calming weekend getaway from what she does best: catch killers. Instead, Andi's on the hunt again. The hotel is on lockdown. Secrets are being unearthed. And no one is above Andi's suspicions. But which secrets are worth killing for? Andi's forced to find the answers fast...before someone else dies.

      The Wedding Party
      3,4
    • The Fortress

      • 288 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení

      "Jonathon Bridge has a corner office in a top-tier software firm, tailored suits, and an impeccable pedigree. He has a fascinating wife, Adalia; a child on the way; and a string of pretty young interns as lovers on the side. He's a man who's going places. His world is our world: the same chaos and sprawl, haves and have-nots, men and women, skyscrapers and billboards. But it also exists alongside a vast, self-sustaining city-state called The Fortress where the indigenous inhabitants—the Vaik, a society run and populated exclusively by women—live in isolation. When Adalia discovers his indiscretions and the ugly sexual violence pervading his firm, she arees to continue their fractured marriage only on the condition that Jonathan voluntarily offers himself to The Fortress as a supplicant and stay there for a year. Jonathon's arrival at The Fortress begins with a recitation of the conditions of his stay: He is forbidden to ask questions, to raise his hand in anger, and to refuse sex. Jonathon is utterly unprepared for what will happen to him over the course of the year—not only to his body, but to his mind and his heart. This absorbin, confrontin, and movin novel asks questions about consent, power, love, and fulfillment. It asks what it takes for a man to change, and whether change is possible without a radical reversal of the conditions that seem normal."--Page 4 of cover

      The Fortress
      3,2
    • Mind Set

      • 184 stránek
      • 7 hodin čtení

      Lexa Price is a twenty-something, transgender, drama student, who is about to have the worst day of her life. After killing a mugger in self-defence, her world crumbles and she begins to see another version of herself, called Charlie

      Mind Set
      1,7