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Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Click on the link above for more info on my newest book, SUGAR! Like in NINTH WARD, SUGAR celebrates a spirited girl who through her courage and resilience, thrives and makes the world a better place.
I haven’t been blogging lately because I’ve been busy writing and traveling. But today, I’m celebrating what is to come—SUGAR, and I’m also reminding myself that a “writer writes.” Which is e...
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Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau
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Douglass' Women
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Voodoo Season
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Yellow Moon: A Novel
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Magic City
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Hurricane: A Novel
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Sugar
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Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons For Black Authors
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Porch Stories: A Grandmother's Guide to Happiness
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AN EXCERPT FROM YELLOW MOON (Literature & Fiction)
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AN EXCERPT FROM <em>YELLOW MOON</em> — Jewell’s latest voodoo novel about Marie Laveau’s twenty-first century descendent, a doctor and <em>voodooienne</em>
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“The world can be a hard place sometimes... You have to have heart. You have to be strong. Parents want their children to grow up to be strong. Not just any strong, mind you, but loving strong.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ninth Ward
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ninth Ward
“Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau
“But you...are my sweetest gift. The life surprise that soothed all my ills and gave me my greatest joys. I feel so blessed you are mine.
—Mama Ya-Ya”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ninth Ward
—Mama Ya-Ya”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ninth Ward
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“Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau
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Feb 07, 2012 06:27pm
Thanks for accepting my friendship. I'm excited about reading your books. I have two of them in my personal library.
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Thank you for accepting my friendship request. I won a copy of "Hurricane" on one of the giveaways and loved it! I am a book reviewer for examiner.com and I just wanted to share my review of the book with you. I only hope I was able to do it justice.http://www.examiner.com/books-in-balt...
