Join the newest and hottest book club in t own! Glory Edim is excited to bring her legendary book club to the DC Publ ic Library\, introducing a cohort of diverse writers to future generations .
\nFor the inaugural meeting of the Well-Read Black Girl at DC Public Librar y Book Club\, activist\, entrepreneur and philanthropic innov ator Rachel E. Cargle and award-winning author Tia Williams sit down with Glory to discuss their newest releases - Cargle's memoir and manifesto\, < em>A Renaissance of Our Own \;and Williams' contemporary romance\, "The Perfect Find".
\nBo th titles show that in both the real world and in fiction\, all women hit a point in their lives where they have to find their truest selves. Whethe r it is your evolution as a queer person that changes the way you see the world and the way the world perceives like Cargle you or William's charact er Jenna Jones navigating her career and personal life as the world change s faster than she can keep up\, these titles are a reminder that at every stage it is important for us to check in with ourselves and find clarity.& nbsp\;
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Rachel E. Cargle is an activist\, entrepreneur\, and phil
anthropic innovator. She is the founder of The Loveland Group\, a family o
f companies including Elizabeth&rsquo\;s Bookshop &\; Writing Centre\,
a literary space that celebrates marginalized voices\, and The Great Unlea
rn\, an adult learning platform that centers the teaching of BIPOC thinker
s. In 2018\, she founded The Loveland Foundation\, offering free access to
mental health care for Black women and girls. \;
There are breaking points in all our lives when we r
ealize that the way things have been done before just doesn&rsquo\;t work
for us anymore\, be it how we approach our relationships\, our belief syst
ems\, our work\, our education\, or even our rest. For activist\, philanth
ropist\, and CEO Rachel E. Cargle\, reimagining&mdash\;the act of creating
in our minds that which does not exist but that we believe can and should
&mdash\;has been a lifelong process. Reimagining served as the most powerf
ul catalyst for Cargle&rsquo\;s personal transformation from a small-town
Christian wife to an incisive queer feminist voice of a generation.
A Renaissance of Our Own gives us the coura ge to look at the world and say &ldquo\;I want something different.&rdquo\ ; It serves as a reminder of the power and possibility of reimagining a li fe that feels right\, all the way down to the marrow of your bones.
\n< h4>About Tia Williams\n
Tia
Williams had a fifteen-year career as a beauty editor for magazines inclu
ding Elle\, Glamour\, and Essence. In 2004\, she pioneered the beauty blog
industry with Shake Your Beauty. She wrote the bestselling novel\, The Ac
cidental Diva\, and penned two YA novels: It Chicks\, and Sixteen Candles.
Her award-winning novel\, The Perfect Find\, will be adapted into a Netfl
ix film starring Gabrielle Union. Tia is currently an Editorial Director a
t Esté\;e Lauder Companies and lives with her daughter and husband i
n Brooklyn.
Will a forty-year-old woman with everything on the l
ine &ndash\; her high-stakes career\, ticking biological clock\, bank acco
unt &ndash\; risk it all for a secret romance with the one person who coul
d destroy her comeback\, for good?
Jenna Jones\, a former It-girl fashion editor\, is forty\, broke\, and desperate for a second chance. Whe n she&rsquo\;s dumped by her longtime fiancé\; and fired from Darlin g magazine\, she begs for a job from her arch nemesis\, Darcy Vale. Darcy\ , the beyond-bitchy publisher of StyleZine.com\, agrees to hire her rival &ndash\; only because her fashion site needs a jolt from Jenna&rsquo\;s ol d-school cred. But Jenna soon realizes she&rsquo\;s in over her head. \;
\nJenna&rsquo\;s working with digital-savvy millennials half her age\, has never even &ldquo\;Twittered\,&rdquo\; and pretends to still be a Fashion Somebody while living a style lie (she sold her designer wardrob e to afford her sketched-out studio\, and now quietly wears Walmart&rsquo\ ;s finest). What&rsquo\;s worse is that the twenty-two-year-old videograph er assigned to shoot her web series is driving her crazy. Wildly sexy with a smile Jenna feels in her thighs\, Eric Combs is way off-limits &ndash\; but almost too delicious to resist.
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