Suzzanne Douglass
Author
Language
English
Description
From the #1 Essence bestselling and award-winning author Victoria Christopher Murray comes Stand Your Ground, a novel about two women who are faced with the same tragedy. A black teenage boy is dead. A white man shot him. Was he standing his ground or was it murder? Janice Johnson is living every black mother?s nightmare. Her seventeen-year-old son was murdered and the shooter has not been arrested. Can the D.A. and the police be trusted to investigate...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Three Los Angeles women who've helped each other overcome heartbreak are reunited eight years later when their troublesome exes come back into the picture in this follow up to Victoria Christopher Murray's ... novel The Ex Files. Sheridan, Kendall, and Asia first bonded when they met seven years ago at a church prayer support group, and now their friendship has blossomed into a strong sisterhood. They've helped each other through the tragedies of...
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When his band votes him out due to his embarrassing musical antics, Dewey has to make the rent somehow. After intercepting a call for his substitute-teacher roomie Ned, Dewey finds himself in front of a class of elite elementary school students. Dewey decides to take on the music program and makes it his goal to teach them the gospel of rock and roll. His ulterior motive is to get them to compete against his former band for a cash prize.
4) Whitney
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The headline-making relationship between iconic singer, actress, producer, model Whitney Houston and singer-songwriter Bobby Brown, from the time they first met to their tumultuous marriage. This biopic is a testament of love, triumph, and the overwhelming rewards and deadly cost of fame and fortune.
5) Sounder
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help (and sometimes hindrance) of various people along the road.
6) The Inkwell
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?], 1994.
Language
English
Description
Inkwell Beach is a place where cool clothes, hot music and good friends turn a dull family trip into the summertime vacation of a lifetime.
7) Tap
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Max Washington is a promising but disillusioned tap dancer who must resolve the conflict between his craft and the fast track life of a high-stakes thief.
8) The inkwell
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A quiet teenager lets himself go at the parties of his friends at Martha's Vineyard.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When his band votes him out due to his embarrasing musical antics, Dewey has to make the rent somehow. After intercepting a call for his substitute-teacher roomie Ned, Dewey finds himself in front of a class of elite elementary school students. Dewey decides to take on the music program and makes it his goal to teach them the gospel of rock and roll. His ulterior motive is to get them to compete against his former band for a cash prize.