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From the Publisher:
n this tell-all, Cole comes clean....
Without shying away from the darkness,
she also focuses on the light."
-Entertainment Weekly

ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER

Grammy Award winner...drug addict...member of one of Hollywood's most famous families.a pimp's "come-on girl"...comeback queen...believer-Natalie Cole has been there and done it all. The daughter of legendary singer Nat King Cole, Natalie fought to establish her own identity and went to the top of the charts-even as her career foundered in unresolved loss and drug addiction. Her search for love would yield two seemingly perfect marriages before collapsing into a nightmare of abuse. And her devotion to her father's legacy would lead to a heartbreaking, very public dispute with her estranged mother, an astonishing, seven-Grammy Award career comeback, and a soul-shaking rediscovery of belief and faith. Unsparing, candid, and always real, ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER is an unforgettable, inspiring portrait of a fabulous talent and a true survivor.

From the Publisher:
Allow me to introduce myself. I am that family member, co-worker, or friend who slowly, over time, began to get lost in a degrading, moral-less world. The person whose family, friends, and employers cried for the person I had been and the unrecognizable person I was becoming-a lonely and desperate woman hell-bent on self-destruction. And I am the family member, co-worker, or friend who at last discovered God's plan for her life and, finally, came home...
-from I SAY A PRAYER FOR ME

Stanice Anderson shares her inspiring story to show others they too can overcome even the most soul-destroying mistakes-and discover the lifelong assurance of peace and joy through a personal relationship with God. Stanice has lived through it all. From a seemingly perfect upper-class home, she fell into a nightmare of endless partying, self-destructive behavior, and abusive relationships. Unresolved pain and guilt drove her to the bottom on a death-spiral nothing seemed able to stop-until the night, while shooting drugs, she heard of God's infinite forgiveness and began turning her life around. She tells how:

• Walking by faith and taking action rescued her when she was fresh out of rehabilitation-and out of money, references, or credit
• Learning that God loved her despite her darkest secrets freed her from her painful past-and helped her forgive as well as find forgiveness
• Putting herself in another person's shoes taught her how to cope with "difficult" people-and discover truths about herself
• Surrendering unresolved guilt and pain to God gave her the strength to lay down a burden that nearly destroyed her life
• Accepting God's gift of an unusual friend helped her make her most cherished dreams come true.

Honest, caring, and inspiring, I SAY A PRAYER FOR ME also features special devotions to help you find your path and grow in God's love throughout your life.

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From the Publisher:
Beautifully evocative and written by a distinctive new voice in fiction, this novel is a unique literary event: a portrait of one of the darkest-and most overlooked-tragedies in American history, told through the voices of three unforgettable children...

LEAVING ATLANTA

It was the end of summer, a summer during a two-year nightmare. African American children around Atlanta were vanishing, and twenty-nine would be murdered by the end of 1981. Like all kids across the city, fifth-grade classmates Tasha Baxter, Rodney Green, and Octavia Harrison were discovering that back-to-school now meant special safety lessons, indoor recess, and being thrown into a world their parents couldn't comprehend, one in which the everyday challenges of growing up were coupled with constant fear-and the news of the murders of one's peers.

Tasha can't understand why she daily falls in and out of favor with her classmates-she isn't weird like Rodney or "too dark" and outspoken like Octavia. Then, through a sudden crush on a boy from the wrong side of town, she finds that words have the power to both heal and wound. (The next thought was that Tasha herself had brought it upon him with her hateful words. "I hope the man snatches you." And she meant it when she said it.)

For her classmate Rodney, almost everything feels wrong. Not tough enough to be loved by his strict father, too different to be accepted at school, he struggles to fit in somewhere. How far will he go to escape his bleak inner landscape? (Nothing you know is in the direction you're heading. Home is the other way.) And Rodney's "almost friend" Octavia, the loner the kids call "the Watusi," who lives near the projects, will discover that she, too, has something left to lose. (I cried because it seemed like everything good in the world was locked in a box. "Mama, let me stay.")

Movingly detailed and quietly heartbreaking, LEAVING ATLANTA shimmers with the piercing, ineffable quality of childhood. It is the hurts and little wins we all went through, the slow and all-too-sudden changes, and the forces that swept us into adulthood and forever shaped our lives.