Named Most Anticipated of 2020 by Marie Claire and PopSugar!"The Kindest Lie is a deep dive into how we define family, what it means to be a mother, what secrets we owe to those we love, and what it means to grow up Black. This beautifully crafted debut will keep you asking these questions and more." —Jodi Picoult A masterful, eye-opening novel about the profound racial injustices and class inequalities roiling society in America.A promise could betray you.It's 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He's eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to—and was forced to leave behind—when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she'd never look back, but Ruth...

The Adventures of Cherokee is the second in a three-volume series about horses and Indians in the mid 1850s and tells the story of two young horses who are part of a wild horse herd in Eastern Tennessee. We find out in the story that they have a uno ligo so, a special friendship. Cherokee, the young stallion seeks the answer to a vision given to him in the first book, Grandfather, The Education of Cerokee. He takes his special friend, Sunee along with him on this journey. Along the way they save the life of a child, make new friends, cross the Misissippi River.Follow the young horses as they learn honesty, caring, respect and obedience, as well as other life lessons from Grandfather, their parents and others in the group. Experience their adventures with humans and animals as they travel west through Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Watch for the third and final volume, Cherokee, Skin Walker, in 2006.