Monica Jones: 6 books

There was someone in the house. Didn’t he hear it? I raised my head to see a figure in the darkness. He was standing over the baby’s crib. Please don’t take my baby my heart pleaded, please. He snatched my baby and ran deeper into the darkness of the hallway. I sat up and was able to make out...

Here is where it ends...is about three young girls from the age of 22-25 trying to find a place in life. Rather if it's for love, happiness, money, or fun. This journey will take you through the walks of life of a single young parent to a daughter, whose mind only strives for love and a family. She...

Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature Since his death in Alabama in 1992, the work of American writer Richard Yates has enjoyed a renaissance, culminating in director Sam Mendes’s adaption of the novel Revolutionary Road (starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet). Dismembering...

Best anthology of Portland literature ever published. Local interest will be through the roof.

Stillbirth, defined as the death of an infant between 20 weeks' gestation and birth, is a tragedy repeated thirty thousand times every year in the United States. That means more than eighty mothers a day feel their babies slip silently from their bodies, the only sound in the delivery room their own...

From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to be rehashing old stereotypes of black women,...