The Partner PlotTo Violet Greene, fashion is everything. As a successful celebrity stylist, she travels all over the world, living out her dreams. Professionally, she's thriving, but her personal life is in shambles. After surviving a very public breakup with her ex fianc six months ago, Violet is now determined to focus on her career. But life hands her something or rather, someone that might derail everything Xavier Wright did not expect to run into his high school

and a magical rag doll

Enslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans

Some not-so-nice kids picking on others

but it's hard not to withdraw

this collection should be snapped up

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Yaa Gyasi's extraordinary novel illuminates slavery's troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed--and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation

And Ikenna is torn between her loyalties

she hopes to help women shape their destinies

so no one is more surprised than Mavis when she caves to Trisha Holbrook

"[A] powerful tribute to the African-American experience