Maxine Thompson: 9 books

Affirmations and Essays For Melanoid People is a compilation of articles and blogs written by the author, Dr. Maxine Thompson, since 2000. A former social worker of 23 years both in Detroit, then Los Angeles, these articles chronicle her self-employment experiences as a writer, Internet radio...

Family meals have always played a significant role in the lives of the Thompson sisters - Jessica, Georgia and Maxine. So much so that they created a blog, thebookerycook.com, to celebrate their love of food. Instead of photographing their chosen dishes, however, they made contact with artists all...

This collection of short stories explores what it means to be part of the African Diaspora in America. Each character, despite different life experiences, suffers from a profound sense of alienation. Each is searching for that elusive place called "home." We see a middle-class couple at...

Betrayal       Loss         Redemption Love Meet Deni Richards, a Los Angeles attorney, who appears to have everything. She has an expensive Mercedes, a condo in an exclusive neighborhood, and a job at  The Los Angeles Children’s Court. But after a public disgrace at the altar,...

How important is the past? For 40-year-old Nefertiti, known as Titi, who's always felt like an outsider in her own family, it's vital.  Titi has returned home for her father's seventy-fifth birthday celebration, but she's not there with well wishes for the man who sent her away many years...

Capri's Second Chances is the tale of business owner, Caprianna, and her police officer husband, Marquise. To the outside world, they appear to have everything going for them. However, when tragedy strikes, not only is Caprianna's tenuous world shattered, she finds out her husband is harboring secrets...

After freeing her gang-banging brother Mayhem from a hostage situation in Brazil, Zipporah "Z" Saldano returns home with her world turned totally upside down. Romero, the love of her life, was murdered in the shootout that finally freed Mayhem from his kidnappers, and two weeks after his...

Life hasn't always been easy for Zipporah "Z" Saldano, but at 35, she's finally come to grips with some of her demons, and things are looking up. She's moved beyond mourning the loss of her LAPD job, her partner, and her murdered nephew. She has a new love, Detective Romero Gonzalez, and...

In Katrina Blues, sparks fly when Deni Richards, a Los Angeles Attorney, meets Coleman Blue, a gorgeous, displaced New Orleans jazz saxophonist, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. At first glance they re complete opposites, but tragedy brings these two opposites together to find common ground in love. At...