Elizabeth Ann Atkins – författare

Book 1 in The Veronica Series. Veronica’s mother is black, and her father is white, but she looks entirely white, not biracial. People at school start making a big deal about it, but nobody cared before she got to eighth grade. Why do they think it’s their business? Her world is changed forever. But how does she find herself in everybody else’s confusion? In all the chaos?

Even Veronica’s best friend, Katie, who’s white, acts weird sometimes, like when a black girl from school comes to the house to get her hair cut by Katie’s mom.

“I didn’t know my mom cut black people’s hair,” Katie said.

This same black girl wanted Veronica to join her friends at lunch when she learned Veronica was black. Veronica wonders why this girl had never spoken to her before. Was it just because she’s black that she wanted to be her friend now? And why had she called Katie a white-ass and huffed away when Veronica invited her to sit with them.

Even the black girls in cooking class question Veronica’s knowledge of greens and chitlins.

“Greens is black folk’s food,” they tell her.

Is this her new life: explaining her racial background to everybody, black and white, including this boy who likes her. The first boy to like her.

She doesn’t know what to say when he repeats some racist things his dad told him. Is he a racist, too? Will he feel differently about her when she tells him the truth, which she has to do sooner than later!

Book 2 in The Veronica Series. When Veronica tells her boyfriend she’s black, he laughs, pinches her cheek and says, “But, you’re so white.” Is she too sensitive, like he says?

Another boy starts paying attention to her. He's mixed, too. Should she drop the boy who might have a problem with her for the other guy, who may know what it’s like to live in two worlds?

Book 3 in The Veronica Series. Veronica hates that people assume she's prejudiced just because she looks white, even though her mother is black. Can she get through the day fearing that people will make another racial slur?When school ends, Veronica's excited to spend the summer on Cape Cod with her friend Sally. She learns a terrible secret about Sally's family.

RACE, SEX & SECRETS

SPARK DEADLY DRAMA

Two beautiful sisters spark a scandal of race, sex, politics, and money so big – it could kill them both.

Camille is living the glamorous life in New York City – by passing for white.

Meanwhile, Karen is proudly serving their interracial family and Detroit community.

But their black mother is dying.

Camille can save her.

But that would expose Camille’s Dark Secret to the rich, racist dynasty that she’s worked so hard to join through marriage.

Will Camille let her mother die?

Or will Karen force her sister to save their mother’s life?

From New York to Capitol Hill, from a Virginia plantation to the ghetto and glamour of Detroit, Karen and Camille battle for what they believe in.

Their clash over black and white, love and money, seduction and deception, explodes into a national scandal.

Can the two sisters escape alive?

LET THE FUTURE BEGIN is the autobiography of Dennis W. Archer, born in Detroit, who rose from humble beginnings in the small town of Cassopolis, Michigan, to become a celebrated attorney, a Michigan Supreme Court Justice, a two-term Mayor of Detroit, and the first person of color to serve as President of the 400,000-member American Bar Association. 

Thanks to education, hard work, impeccable integrity, and family values, Dennis Archer has blazed a trail of diversity and inclusion in the legal profession while laying a rock-solid foundation to transform Detroit into the comeback city of the millennium. He achieved this with the support of his wife Trudy, their sons, Dennis Jr. and Vincent, relatives, friends, and colleagues.

This inspiring book shares how he did it, and provides a blueprint for how to emulate his success and commitment to helping others.

Herman Williams was on the verge of living his ultimate dream of becoming an orthopedic surgeon to elite athletes — when his life took a shocking detour.

“Herman!” screamed his beautiful fiancé, Jeannie, as he lay lifeless on a gymnasium floor.

How could a healthy 31-year-old collapse during an afternoon basketball game with his fellow medical residents?

“No pulse!” they shouted. “He’s not breathing.”

When the paramedics arrived, their defibrillator did not work!

By the grace of God, Herman survived.

But this life-changing event killed the dream that he had worked so hard to achieve.

Depressed and disabled, Herman refused to give up.

So, he reinvented himself.

And thanks to the unwavering love and support of his family, his wife, Jeannie, and later their son, Cole, and lifelong friends and dedicated mentors, Herman created a deeply fulfilling life and career that helps more people than he ever could have imagined in his original dream.

Now he’s sharing his inspiring success formula to help you endure life’s crushing blows, so that you find purpose, and cultivate peace and joy every day.

“My message is that you have to embrace your current reality and decide that you’ll make a positive difference for others,” says Herman. “I want my story to inspire you to create your best life possible.”

Dr. Augustus White, Herman’s longtime mentor who is an Orthopedic Surgeon and a Harvard Medical School Professor, adds: “I got engrossed in this story and could not put it down. The writing is excellent, concise, and moves along very nicely. This very impressive narrative about Herman’s resilience is honest and not pretentious. It’s a love story as well. Herman has a great message that will resonate with people and embolden them to get up, try again, and commit to helping others. It’s awesome.”

Baby Rosemary - born to an Italian teen and a married black man in Detroit in 1946 - is adopted from an agency by a black couple in Saginaw, Michigan The adoptive mother's abuse instills in the girl, whom they name Marylin Elnora, ambition to achieve great things on her own. At age 19, Marylin sparks a racial and religious scandal by marrying former Roman Catholic priest Thomas Lee Atkins, who is white and 25 years older. Poor in finances but rich in love, they have two biracial daughters, Elizabeth Ann Atkins and Catherine Marie Atkins Greenspan, who look white. Team work makes the family's dream work as Marylin attends the University of Detroit School of Law at night while she and Tom work full time; he becomes "Mr. Mom"-- taking the high-achieving girls to lessons for swim, piano, and skiing. He journals nightly, inspiring the girls' passion for reading and writing.

All the while, family rifts in the wake of their interracial union begin to heal, fostering harmony and healing. The family's lifestyle includes friendships and associations with people of a cornucopia of race, religion, and culture, as Tom even serves as president of an American Indian association.

Marylin becomes an attorney, putting the girls through the University of Michigan. Sadly, Tom dies before seeing the girls earn graduate degrees in writing from Columbia University and University of San Francisco. And he never saw Marylin's illustrious and highly respected career as a judge, which included 12 years as chief judge of Detroit's 36th District Court.

The Triumph of Rosemary's vivid dialogue, raw revelations, and heartwarming messages will make you laugh, cry, and appreciate the power of one woman to pioneer a place for herself and her family in a sometimes unwelcoming world that ultimately embraced and celebrated her family's legacy of colorblind love.

Compilation of short stories by 21 authors.

“El Duende” by Casandra Hernández Ríos

“The Blind Oasis” by Anthony Johnson

“Blood” by Helia S. Rethmann

“A Practiced Office Dance” by Tarsilla Moura

“Country Club Christmas” by Michelle Cox

“Groundhog Days” by Conner Russell

“Ambition” by Michael Colonnese

“Berserk” by Bob Joncas

“EGG” by Mary Finnegan

“Tripping on a Blue Hole in a Paper Heart” by Begoña Montesinos

“Better Off” by Sarah Gilligan

“The Woman Who Loved a Spy,” “Emerald Eyes,” and “The Fastest Rockslinger in the West” by Leslie Muzingo

“Sticker Shock” by Leah Holbrook Sackett

“Blue Crush” by Sheila Rosart

“What Makes Us Human” by Victoria Sylvander

“Paper-Mache Man” by Steve Carr

“Gloria’s Verdict” by Kate Huffman

“The Zen of Anima” by C. Angelo Caci

“Omael” and “The Drummonds” by Joyce Stein

“To Know Again Why it is You Have Come” by Keren Heenan

“Two Sisters” by J. Peters

Steve D. Bullock spent 38 years with the American Red Cross, culminating with his appointment as Acting President following the departure of Elizabeth Dole. Prior to serving as Acting President of the national organization, he was the Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Cleveland Chapter of the American Red Cross. Under his leadership, the Greater Cleveland Chapter grew to become one of the nation’s largest and most successful Red Cross chapters.

Before leading the Greater Cleveland Chapter, Mr. Bullock served as Executive Director of the St. Paul Minnesota Chapter and worked for the national organization in a variety of capacities.

In addition to his professional work, Mr. Bullock has served on numerous Boards of Trustees, in both the nonprofit and business sectors. He served on the Board of Education of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District (president in 1991), as co-chairman of the Operation Desert Storm Homecoming Committee appointed by Mayor White, the Board of Trustees, New Cleveland Campaign, chaired the Marketing Cleveland-to-Clevelanders Committee, and was Chairman, Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations-Case Western Reserve University Executive Advisory Network.

He also served on the Board of Directors, National City Bank, Board of Trustees, University Hospitals Health System, Board of Trustees, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Board of Trustees, Leadership Cleveland, Board of Trustees, Greater Cleveland Roundtable and chaired the Education Committee. He is currently a trustee of The City Club of Cleveland, AAA East Central, MetroHealth Foundation and Virginia Union University. He is an elected Councilman-At-Large in the City of University Heights, Ohio.

Since 2002, Mr. Bullock has served as an Adjunct Instructor of Nonprofit Leadership at The Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Case Western Reserve University.

Mr. Bullock has been recognized many times for his outstanding leadership and service to the community. He received the Leadership in Nonprofit Management Award from the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations and the American Red Cross Tiffany Award, the highest award bestowed on a Red Cross staff member. He has also received recognition for his commitment to diversity and education.

Mr. Bullock received an MBA from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul Minnesota and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Virginia Union University. He has completed executive management programs at Northwestern University. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Youngstown State University.

The Bullock Group was formed in 2000, bringing together a team of nonprofit management experts representing a variety of nonprofit management disciplines and specialties.

Cedric was an Army Ranger when he stepped on an IED in a bomb-rigged village in Afghanistan. Becoming a double amputee could have been his breaking point. Instead, he turned it into his Making Point, and is now a world-class motivational speaker and endurance athlete. He shows you that if he can achieve the unattainable, then so can you.

She felt lost…

Haunted by a past of abuse… drifting from place to place, relationship to relationship.

Questioning why her time in a convent didn’t work out.

Still hurting from family traumas.  

Feeling sick, overweight, depressed.

Lin Day sought help in many places.

Therapists.  Diets. Spiritual quests.

Nothing worked.

Until she finally found the solution.

In this book, Lin Day takes us along her difficult journey of forgetting her pain and her past, and finally remembering, so she could heal.

Her amazing story will inspire you.