{"title":"Christine Pride","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"you-were-always-mine-9781668005507b","title":"You Were Always Mine","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed authors of the “emotional literary roller coaster” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) and \u003ci\u003eGood Morning America\u003c\/i\u003e book club pick \u003ci\u003eWe Are Not Like Them\u003c\/i\u003e return with this moving and provocative novel about a Black woman who finds an abandoned white baby, sending her on a collision course with her past, her family, and a birth mother who doesn’t want to be found.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCinnamon Haynes has fought hard for a life she never thought was possible—a good man by her side, a steady job as a career counselor at a local community college, and a cozy house in a quaint little beach town. It may not look like much, but it’s more than she ever dreamed of or what her difficult childhood promised. 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