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Karyn Langhorne

Auteur de A Personal Matter

5 oeuvres 79 utilisateurs 3 critiques

Œuvres de Karyn Langhorne

A Personal Matter (2004) 28 exemplaires
Diary of an Ugly Duckling (2006) 17 exemplaires
Unfinished Business (2007) 17 exemplaires
Street Level: An Urban Fairytale (2005) 16 exemplaires
The Duchess of Rochester (2021) 1 exemplaire

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For Thea Morris, having visions and feeling propelled to act on them is more than just a job-it's a way of life. Sure, she may hang a neon "Psychic" sign outside her door; after all, Thea and her best friend, Chandra Grayer, really do run a business called Gangsta Psychic out of the first floor of the house they live in. With Thea's very real visions about the future, and Chandra's no-nonsense attitude, the two women have built a niche for themselves in a community that's too close to poverty and gangs for comfort.

The only problem with the set-up is Thea's deep-seated desire to act on her visions. If a psychic flash brings thoughts of a beating, of a drug deal gone bad, of a gang of baddies determined to bring death and destruction to a rival group-Thea feels it's in her nature to act upon the God-given vision and do something to help her fellow man. Armed only with Maurice, her gun, for protection, Thea sets out into some of the meanest neighborhoods in town to save those who might still have a chance of survival.

Now Thea has more problems than just taking care of victims, because this time she might become one herself. Jango, a former Crew gang-leader, is out for revenge-especially on the woman he once thought of as his, who turned out to be a traitor to his cause. Now Thea's fighting for her life, fighting to save the youth on the streets, and fighting her attraction to a new man in her life.

STREET LEVEL offers the tag line of "an urban fairytale," and the label is a good one. Good versus evil, drug dealers versus the FBI, psychics versus everyday average people, and the strength of a mother in the face of danger to her child, are all part of this engaging novel. Kudos to Ms. Langhorne for a book that looks into the cultural side of African-Americans and shows that just like with any race, there is always good, and there is always bad. With this action-adventure romantic tale, STREET LEVEL hits home on every level.
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GeniusJen | Oct 14, 2009 |
I really enjoyed this book! It touched on family relationships, interracial dating, and children coping with Alzheimer's diease. Even though this was a romantic chick read it hit on some issues that are very revelant to women of color and women in general.

Alayna Jackson is a young, smart, African-American woman working as a paralegal at a cut throat predominately white law firm. Along with her job stress, Alayna has to issues at home with her teenage sister. Her sister has decided to abandon her future plans and move in an alternative direction. To add fuel to the growing fires Alayna's Boss Man has decided to pair her with Ben Richards, Ice Man, the meanest attorney at the firm.

This story has so many twists at the beginning that I could not put it down. Richards, held on to deep secret to the very end. Alayna mirrors so many young up coming professionals today in the African-American community. This was a fiction novel full of realities. The ending was great!
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pinkcrayon99 | Sep 30, 2009 |
I have always been a sucker for a transformation story, and this romance, between a liberal, African American teacher and anti-war activist from Washington, D.C. and a conservative, Southern white senator and decorated veteran, does not disappoint. Sparks fly when she disrupts his committee hearing on education, and she invites him to visit her inner-city classroom. Not to be outdone, he invites her to visit his Southern state. With all that visiting, sparks are bound to ignite, but wanting to see how they could possibly get over their ideological aversion to each other kept me engaged to the very end.

Recommended by Kaarin, September 2007

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Staff Picks
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FirstFloor | Sep 28, 2007 |

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Œuvres
5
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