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Told with humor through the unbreakable bonds of friendship and family, What Had Happened Was examines what women will do to "have it all"--and gives them permission to leave room for their own happiness.Toi Boxx has always had the work hard, play hard mindset. Sure, she likes a good party and nice things, but she jumps out of bed each morning and takes pride in her project management work too. She's good at it, and that means she's able to treat her two little boys to pizza at their favorite arcade on the weekends and to save for a nice house with her baby daddy, LaMar. LaMar is a great dad and incredible cook with an unmatched sense of humor. But when he loses his job and shows no interest in finding a new one, suddenly it feels like Toi is doing all the work and LaMar is doing all the play.Luckily, Toi has her momma and two best friends Kēssa and Dena to help, and she can tell them anything. See, what had happened was . . .

A powerful debut novel by an award-winning author who "offers the reader a glimpse into the lives of women who are largely ignored by society."- Meera Ekkanath Klein, author of the award-winning My Mother's Kitchen: A Novel with Recipes and Seeing CeremonyA law student at Dhaka University, Afsana's future is bright. Her greatest concern is whether or not her parents will approve of her marriage. When they do, the young bride knows she can face anything the future holds. Then war breaks out.Six years later, she encounters a ghost from her past-her first husband, presumed dead in the fighting. My War, My Child vividly and compassionately tells the story of Bengali birangona, the war heroines, whose lives were brutally torn apart by the 1971 War for Independence. Though the fight resulted in the freedom and independent nation so craved by the Bengali people, hundreds of thousands of women's lives were devastated, leaving them to scrape together the pieces and carry on as best they could-often with children and orphans forced upon them.This is a piece of history you've never heard before, an inside look at the resilience and strength of women around the world.

Hannibal, Missouri. Pulsing with history.And a 150-year-old unsolved disappearance. Kimberly Wantland and her paranormal investigation team travel to Hannibal, Missouri for their Halloween episode to investigate The Old Catholic Church. Owner Jillian Olson is sure she knows who haunts the building and why he''s antagonizing her. But Kimberly hears whispers of far more than the reported ghostly phenomenon. A dark figure implores her to help. But help who?  An empty grave and a disturbing experience inside a cave further confound the case. And as she struggles to piece together the mystery, Kimberly''s psychic abilities fail her. Her psychic senses out of control, Kimberly sees only two possible causes-Sterling''s presence...or a dangerous force unlike any she''s faced before. Kimberly fears this investigation may just be all trick and no treat. A spooky Halloween must-read to add to your treat bucket!