Maxine Thompson: 5 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...

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...