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This is a must read to balance out the differences of how love, loyalty, and family can become deceptive and evil.

New York Times bestseller!In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, futurist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, exploring how different threads of liberation?queerness, race, gender plurality, and love?become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape...and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms.Whoever controls our memories controls the future.Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborators have crafted a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts?as a means of self-conception?could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether you were human, AI, or other, your life and sentience were dictated by those who'd convinced themselves they had the right to decide your fate.That was until Jane 57821 decided to remember and break free.Expanding from that mythos, these stories fully explore what it's like to live in such a totalitarian society . . . and what it takes to get out of it. Building off the tradition of speculative fiction writers such as Octavia E. Butler, Ted Chiang, Becky Chambers, and Nnedi Okorafor?and filled with powerful themes and Monáe's emblematic artistic vision?The Memory Librarian serves to readers tales that dissect the human trials of identity expression, technology, and love, reaching through to the worlds of memory and time, and the stakes and power that pulse there.

Baggage. Every woman has it, but Rhonda Jackson is carrying around so much that her back is about to break. Kicked out and abandoned by her mother at sixteen, Rhonda Wilson didn't get the blueprint on how to love. Instead, she's been pulling a freight train of internal turmoil around and dumping pieces of it on the people who love her the most. After coveting Shayla's first and second husband, she finds herself battling to stay out of jail. Fortunate for her, Jameson Brown has had a crush on her since they were children, and he's a partner at Brown and Associates Law Firm. He agrees to take Rhonda's case, but under one condition. She must make true amends for all the hell she's raised. Coming from a world of love, privilege, and religion, Jameson was groomed to go after what he wants. And he wants Rhonda, but not before she learns the true meaning of love. Will she finally face her demons and discover self-love?

A gripping literary work by Kelly Van Nelson.

"In the latest installment of the Stackin' paper series, everybody must show their hand because no one can be trusted. Who will live, who will die because not everyone can make it out alive? --