Michelle Leon: 12 books

Babes in Toyland burst onto the Minneapolis music scene in the late 1980s and quickly established itself at the forefront of punk/alternative rock. The all-female trio featured a shy, seventeen-year-old Jewish teen from the suburbs on bass guitar—an instrument she had never played before joining...

After her parents are tragically killed in a car accident, Orchid is sent to live with her father's wife and her half siblings. More than just the circumstances of her birth make Orchid a special child.  A Michelle De Leon Short Story.

A reserved woman who's afraid to live life, Claris is rattled by her handsome border.  Will his special connection with her teenage daughter force her to take a chance on love again? 

Ethan and Napoleon reminisce about the costly mistakes they both made while married to a beautiful girl named Marguerite.

All the Women in My Family Sing is an anthology documenting the experiences of women of color at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It is a vital collection of prose and poetry whose topics range from the pressures of being the vice-president of a Fortune 500 Company, to escaping the killing fields...

Wading through Many Voices brings together the voices of Latino/a, African American, Asian American, Native American, and Euro-American scholars to produce a dialogue of public theology: how faith-communities, divided by race, class, ethnicity, and gender, can find a common ground for life together....

This book contributes substantially to urban affairs and public policy literature by presenting an introduction to the complex politics and public policy issues of Washington, D.C. The uniqueness of the city, as elaborated in this volume, provides background for understanding the non-traditional congressional...

Broken Bands of Gold: Restoring the Covenant uses scriptures and personal experience to reassure spouses who want to fight for their marriages that it's a battle which belongs to an unbeatable God.  All their required to bring to the fight is faith. Broken Bands of Gold discusses why marriage...

Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic impact of one's own mortality is not optimally covered either in this literature on mourning or elsewhere in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The Wound of Mortality brings...

Wade Searcy is no longer attracted to his beautiful plus size bride, Mahalia. A strong woman raised by leaders of the church, Mahalia stands in the gap for her marriage. Not an easy feat when her husband's cousin, Dana lets her know he's willing to respectfully wait for her as God grooms him to be...

Evangelique is a shy, fourteen year old girl who's spent her life going from one foster home to another.  Not really expecting much from the system or her future, she is pleasantly surprised when her new foster family, Gwen and Kendalyn Tripp, encourage her love of writing and get her to join...

The owner of a successful café in Harlem, Shanneen Ross has attained one of her two life objectives.  Now she’s ready for a meaningful relationship, and a change of scenery sounds like the perfect plan.  In Atlanta to help her cousin open a café of her own, Shanneen meets an attractive ex-marine...