Year: 2019

We talk about fiction a lot here on NOVL, because fiction is fun and can be an escape from the real world. But, there’s nothing like a good non-fiction book to really ground yourself and learn more about a topic or a person. Here are five of our favorite non-fiction titles!

Six cherries no cherry juice please is what I heard as he ordered his slush. Nervous by the calm in his voice yet excited to finally be alone with him. Years later I look back at this day and think of how that night ended. Finally being able to feel the softness in his lips,…

HAPPY. WICKED. KING. DAY. Oh the tears you’ve shed. The agony, the waiting, the STRESS. But no longer. My fellow folk, your suffering is over because the sequel you’d die for has arrived. And so, in honor of the Wicked King Cardan and High Seneschal Jude, I have humbly paired our favorite characters from The…

Michael has a lot of student debt — almost $100,000 at this point — and he’s trying to free himself from it the only way he knows how: getting another degree. An excerpt from journalist Reniqua Allen's It Was All a Dream.

'I was nervous about meeting his family for the first time, but as a woman of color with middle-class roots, I also worried how I would fit in with folks who were not just white but upper-class with Harvard Ph.D.s.'

The Great Recession crippled an entire generation, and black millennials were among the hardest hit. Allen interviewed dozens of her peers for an honest and occasionally heartbreaking look at young black twenty — and thirtysomethings trying to succeed in a nation that has often inhibited them from achieving their dreams.

The American dream, the idea that anyone can succeed through hard work, is one of the most enduring myths in this country. And one of its most prominent falsehoods.

The most difficult thing I’ve ever had to do is slowly watch you slip away from the ones who love you. I try to put myself in your shoes, to imagine the hurt and pain you deal with daily, but it’s not enough. I can’t force you to care enough about yourself to take care…

I had no idea what would happen to my heart the day I agreed to get into your car after school. As we rumbled down the street you described how it was gonna be when you married me. Yes it was that kind of love. I was 15, you were 16. Its never left me.…

I will never forget the day you took your life. My world shattered and I didn't think I would ever be okay again. You were the closest thing to a father I have ever had. Not a day goes by that I don't miss you. I wish I had known the pain you were in…

I've told you that I would give up everything to be with you. You want me to find someone that I can start a family with. Well I'd give up my dream of ever having kids if it meant I could have you. Your one of the best things that ever happen to me. And…

You dont realize some things until you're older. Being your Mom has been one of the greatest gifts of my life. When your Dad and I were married I thought I wasn't able to have children. When I learned that I was expecting I was happy & scared ,I didn't want to mess up. I…