Rita Michaels

Twelve-year-old Mary Braga prays all the time, much more than other little girls her age. Every Sunday, before she goes to the Sunday-school class taught by her own father, she cries and begs for the bad thing not to happen again. She prays that Daddy will get better, that he'll quit hurting her in the way that makes her feel like she wants to throw up. She especially prays that her mother will figure it out and rescue her.Despite such horrific

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Tonia Enahoro is a regular schoolgirl studying relentlessly to escape from her detested Makoko Island water home in the future. Edward Landis is a rich, biracial newbie who found companionship in Tonia at school. Tonia lives with her aged single mother; Edward also lives with his aged grandmother. They come from two different social statuses but live in the slums.

Over the years, their friendship develops. Edward wants to

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What if you realize that your life has been a lie and everything you hold dear could easily slip from your fingers?
Aurora Scea, having lost an only sister, believes she's seen it all until she returns to school and series of events begins to occur.
Two mysterious boys enroll in her school and vie for her friendship. She's smitten by both, but she soon finds that they aren't strangers; her life is woven around theirs, and she isn't what she

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Precy Bee was only five-years-old, when the civil war that devastated her country and claimed the lives of over two hundred and fifty thousand people ended. The Liberians sighed with relief and began to piece their economy together, but not for long. While Precy and her family humbly live their low standard lifestyle, Ebola slowly creeps into her country and deals them a fatal blow, shaking the very foundation of her family. Once again, her people...

Jessica Hanes' life crumbles down the day her mother dies of a drug overdose. With no knowledge of a close relative, she is, shuffled from one foster home to another. Her life is far from being happy, or stable. She is broken. She yearns for a real family and a lovely home, and warms up to her new adoptive mother's brother, who treats her like his little sister, but she is in for a surprise, when she realizes, he has a plan against her. Refusing...

Sam finds school depressing. Daily, he dreads contact with his schoolmates, who makes it difficult to concentrate on his studies. His determination to finish school is dwindling. Disconsolate from losing the only girl, who loved and supported him, and from the school authority ignoring the heinous acts against him, he prepares to end his life, but not without leaving some history behind.