Stephenie born in Connecticut in 1973. Her family was settled in Phoenix by the time she was four. The unusual spelling of her name came from her father, Stephen ( + ie).
Stephenie went to high school in Scottsdale, Arizona. She was awarded a National Merit Scholarship, and she used it to pay her way to Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. She majored in English.
Stephenie met her husband, Pancho, when she was four, but they only saw each other weekly through church activities. When they finally got around to exchanging words, sixteen years after their first meeting, it only took nine months from the first "hello" to the wedding.
They have been married for ten and a half years now, and have three boys. Gabe is eight, Seth is five, and Eli is three.
Twilight is her very first novel. New Moon is the second book in the series, Eclipse the third. The fourth book Breaking Dawn was released in August 2008.
Always outspoken and passionate, author Omar Tyree has been on fire since this 2000 interview on my cable television program, "Perpetual Moe-tion." Of all the interviews I've conducted as a journalist, this continues to rank among my top five. Listen in as we discuss Tiger Woods, Terry McMillan, the Hip Hop generation, and his writing career.
National Bestseller One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter-a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.
Growing up in the rough streets of South Central los Angeles, Shihe did what he had to, to survive. For surviving was hard to do in a household, where looking too much like my pops, wasn't allowed. From the beatings to the illegal drug sales, Shihe was pushing major weight, through his uncle and other sources. Sources that were relaying information of a double cross and hatred. This is a world of backstabbers and con artist, so strap up and take a journey with the best. Watch out for the bodies that begin to add up, once a failed hit is discovered by Shihe and his Little Momma. The streets wont restand neither will Shihe's trigger finger, as all hell, has already broken loose.
