Sharon D Smith: 9 books

Sharon Smith reaches deep down and recaptures the torturous times of her childhood growing up in Harlem, New York. From kindergarten through high school, her experiences accelerated her awareness of lifes unyielding challenges. She met the hard and bitter reality of becoming an outcast. Concurrently,...

The black Pentecostal church, once the pillar of the community and the standard bearer of the Christian faith was seen as that sanctified, set-aside church, where people came to receive Salvation. The Pentecostal churches comes in every race, creed and color; however, the black Pentecostal church...

The World Trade Center stood tall and majestic, glistening in the sun, beckoning me to enter into its tall glass revolving doors one summer day in 1979. I worked there for 21 years, until it was tragically destroyed on September 11, 2001. While the book recounts the two devastating disasters of 1993...

The book “Lonely Woman”…A Book of Poetry and Other Writings is about personal experiences, experiences beyond the realm of tangibility beyond the normal character of life the poetry and the art compliment eachother. This is a story in verse from a woman who is mystified by her own life. Her existence...

Happy In a Sad World requires the reader to take time to think and consider each lesson in the book. The chapters are called lessons, and each lesson covers a particular difficult situation in life. It tells of ways to overcome trials and temptations that may occur by using Scriptures and past experiences....

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Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...

Time-travel stories open the entire world and all of time to writers’ imaginations. The fifteen writers in this third original anthology in the Fiction River line explore everything from Chicago gangsters to Japanese tsunamis, and travel from 2013 to the nineteenth century to a vast future. Featuring...

Bodies surface and disappear, seduce and corrupt in these original stories by bestselling, award-winning female crime writers from the Killer Women crime-writing collective. Keep your eyes peeled, your ears cocked and your wits about you as twenty deliciously twisted tales take you to surprising places...   'A...