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Book Synopsis Bayou Bloodline by : Suzanna Myatt Harvill
Download or read book Bayou Bloodline written by Suzanna Myatt Harvill and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-12-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachelle Toussaint’s world is turned upside down when her twin brother, Michie, dies from a fall from a balcony, forcing her to return home to New Orleans and take control of the family’s cruise line. Rachelle does not believe her brother’s death was an accident or a suicide. She believes he was murdered...and the prime suspects reside under the roof of the family’s opulent, historic mansion...Rachelle’s vicious stepmother and two stepsisters. The spice in the gumbo is the pregnant stepsister Amanda’s engagement to Charles-Michel Toussaint. However, in accordance with the family will, the child she carries cannot inherit the family fortune. The fortune can be inherited only through the legitimate bloodline...in this case, Rachelle. Michie had physical and mental problems resulting from the time he spent in the Army as a captive in the Middle East, and Rachelle wonders if Amanda’s child actually belonged to Michie. Handsome and charming Lieutenant Marcus Laborde is in charge of the investigation and is captivated by the beautiful Rachelle. His efforts to discover how Michie died are sidetracked by a series of slaughters of young prostitutes, victims of a slaver network. Headstrong Rachelle finds the police procedures too slow. Forensics proves Michie was under the influence of exotic drugs when he died. Rachelle learns the drugs may have come from the Shadow Bayou Voodoo traiteur Mirabelle Lebeau. Rachelle forms an unlikely alliance with Mirabelle to solve the mystery of her brother’s death and suspects her cruise line is being as a pipeline for the slavers to move women about the country. Rachelle fears family members may be involved with the slavers, and her snooping puts her own life in danger. As Rachelle wades deeper into the family swamp, long dead secrets emerge, and she discovers the people she trusted are capable of heinous crimes.
Download or read book Bloodline written by Ernest J. Gaines and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these five stories, Ernest Gaines returns to the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana, the terrain of his great novels A Gathering of Old Men and A Lesson Before Dying. As rendered by Gaines, this country becomes as familiar, and as haunted by cruelty, suffering, and courage, as Ralph Ellison's Harlem or Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Gaines introduces us to this world through the eyes of guileless children and wizened jailbirds, black tenants and white planters. He shows his characters eking out a living and making love, breaking apart aand coming together. And on every page he captures the soul of black community whose circumstances make even the slightest assertion of self-respect an act of majestic—and sometimes suicidal—heroism. Bloodline is a miracle of storytelling. STORIES INCLUDE: A Long Day in November The Sky Is Gray Three Men Bloodline Just Like a Tree
Book Synopsis Alligator Bayou by : Donna Jo Napoli
Download or read book Alligator Bayou written by Donna Jo Napoli and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable novel, based on a true story, about racism against Italian Americans in the South in 1899. Fourteen-year-old Calogero, his uncles, and his cousins are six Sicilians living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana, miles from any of their countrymen. They grow vegetables and sell them at their stand and in their grocery store. Some people welcome the immigrants; most do not. Calogero's family is caught in the middle of tensions between the black and white communities. As Calogero struggles to adapt to Tallulah, he is startled and thrilled by the danger of midnight gator hunts in the bayou and by his powerful feelings for Patricia, a sharp-witted, sweet-natured black girl. Meanwhile, every day, and every misunderstanding between the white community and the Sicilians, bring Calogero and his family closer to a terrifying, violent confrontation. In this affecting and unforgettable novel, Donna Jo Napoli's inspired research and spare, beautiful language take the classic immigrant story to new levels of emotion and searing truth. Alligator Bayou tells a story that all Americans should know.
Book Synopsis Dangerous Mercy (Secrets of Roux River Bayou Book #2) by : Kathy Herman
Download or read book Dangerous Mercy (Secrets of Roux River Bayou Book #2) written by Kathy Herman and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intense psychological thriller is the second book in the Secrets of Roux River Bayou series from best-selling author Kathy Herman. When elderly Adele Woodmore moves to Les Barbes to be near the Broussards, she wants nothing more than a comfortable, quiet life. Employing men from Father Vince's halfway house for the homeless to do odd jobs, she takes an interest in their lives and is delighted to be helping them get back on their feet. Now a series of murders has cast a pall over the town and one of Adele's handymen becomes a person of interest to the police. But Adele continues to show the young men kindness and care, in spite of her friends' concern. This time that kindness could kill her.
Book Synopsis Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic by :
Download or read book Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic written by and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolves lope across Gothic imagination. Signs of a pure animality opposed to humanity, in the figure of the werewolf they become liminal creatures that move between the human and the animal. Werewolves function as a site for exploring complex anxieties of difference – of gender, class, race, space, nation or sexuality – but the imaginative and ideological uses of wolves also reflect back on the lives of material animals, long persecuted in their declining habitats across the world. Werewolves therefore raise unsettling questions about the intersection of the real and the imaginary, the instability of human identities and the worldliness and political weight of the Gothic. This is the first volume concerned with the appearance of werewolves and wolves in literary and cultural texts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on representations of werewolves and wolves in literature, film, television and visual culture, the essays investigate the key texts of the lycanthropic canon alongside lesser-known works from the 1890s to the present. The result is an innovative study that is both theoretically aware and historically nuanced, featuring an international list of established and emerging scholars based in Britain, Europe, North America and Australia.
Download or read book Hook & Bloodline written by Chip Dameron and published by Wings Press (TX). This book was released on 2000 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Romance of Authenticity by : Jeff Karem
Download or read book The Romance of Authenticity written by Jeff Karem and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent has the demand for a vicarious experience of other cultures fuelled the expectation that the most important task for writers is to capture and convey authentic cultural material? This text argues that authenticity is in fact a restrictive category of literary judgment.
Book Synopsis Mint Julep: The Reunion by : Nita Clarke
Download or read book Mint Julep: The Reunion written by Nita Clarke and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immerse yourself in the vibrant tapestry of the LaPierre-Menard family's saga in Mint Julep: The Reunion, As Told to Gracie Buckhalter. Journey from the rustic bayous of Louisiana to the heart of New Orleans, tracing a narrative that leaps from humble shacks to high-society soirees, from rags to riches, and from quiet plantations to the vivacious rhythm of Zydeco music. Your charismatic narrator, Alexandra LaPierre-Menard, unfolds the family's adventurous reunion to the keen pen of Gracie Buckhalter with a Southern charm that's as enticing as a sweet summer breeze. As the tale unwinds, you'll dance to the beat of the South, if only momentarily, amidst laughter, camaraderie, and a sprinkle of good ol' mischief. Meet the tale-weavers of the LaPierre-Menard lineage as they reminisce about the indomitable Dolice Marie and Jean Pierre LaPierre, the tender matriarch Mama Mozelle, the infamous Madam Frou-Frous, the mystical allure of voodoo priestess MamaDel, and a life-altering encounter with a tall, red-headed Canadian named Menard./span
Download or read book Bayou Magic written by Elizabeth Turner and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1999-10-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing the French revolution, Countess Christiane Bouchard had no choice but to agree to a proxy marriage to Etienne Delacroix, a wealthy French planter on Saint Domingue. As Christiane's ship set sail, she wondered if she'd made a bargain with the devil himself. For what kind of man would not let his bride bring her grandfather, her only living kin, with her? Upon arrival, Christiane's suspicions are confirmed when she witnesses Etienne brutally beating one of his slaves. And while she shudders at the thought of her husband touching her, she finds herself overwhelmingly attracted to Reid Alexander, the plantation's intriguing overseer... Falsely accused of murdering the owner of a Louisiana plantation, Reid Alexander was on his way to the penal colony he'd been sentenced to when his ship sank, leaving no survivors but himself. Working for Etienne Delacroix was just a temporary means to support himself until he could clear his name. And although he could not deny Christiane's exquisite beauty, he swore he would let nothing get in the way of his mission. But when a bloody revolt kills Etienne, Reid knows he cannot leave Christiane behind. Embarking on a ship bound for Louisiana, Christiane and Reid pretend to be married to make their escape. And once in New Orleans, it isn't long before their makeshift union makes them surrender to the heat of desire.
Book Synopsis The Black Girl Survives in This One by : Desiree S. Evans
Download or read book The Black Girl Survives in This One written by Desiree S. Evans and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A YA anthology of horror stories centering Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, and who survive to the end Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one. Celebrating a new generation of bestselling and acclaimed Black writers, The Black Girl Survives in This One makes space for Black girls in horror. Fifteen chilling and thought-provoking stories place Black girls front and center as heroes and survivors who slay monsters, battle spirits, and face down death. Prepare to be terrified and left breathless by the pieces in this anthology. The bestselling and acclaimed authors include Erin E. Adams, Monica Brashears, Charlotte Nicole Davis, Desiree S. Evans, Saraciea J. Fennell, Zakiya Dalila Harris, Daka Hermon, Justina Ireland, L.L. McKinney, Brittney Morris, Maika & Maritza Moulite, Eden Royce, and Vincent Tirado. The foreword is by Tananarive Due.
Book Synopsis America and the Black Body by : Carol E. Henderson
Download or read book America and the Black Body written by Carol E. Henderson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "America and the Black Body is a timely exploration into the creative, literary, and visual uses of the black body in American print and visual culture. More specifically, this volume contemplates the social development of American identity and the multifarious ways this identity coalesces in the small gestures of preclusion that establish discemable markers of national belonging. Such investigations underscore issues of power and disenfranchisement, of race, class, and gender that mediate the representations of the black male and the black female body in real and imagined ways, as it also reveals the invisible social and political ties that connect white men and women's identities to these racial imaginings." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Mint Julep written by Nita Clarke and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fasten your seat belts and hop aboard a roller-coaster ride through the shenanigans of the fictitious LaPierre-Menard family as they celebrate their three-day family reunion in the shade of a big magnolia tree and the traditional telling of the family stories. You'll meet the old storytellers as they share their family tales of Dolice Marie and Jean Pierre LaPierre; their beloved Mama Mozelle; the notorious mistress of the LaPierre Plantation, madam Frou-Frous; the powerful juju of the voodoo priestess, Mama Del; the charm of Savannah, MISS BB Carson Declouette; and the tall redheaded Canadian that changed their lives forever, named Menard. Mint Julep: The Reunion takes the reader from plantation life on the bayous of Louisiana to life in the great city of New Orleans, from poverty to society, rags to riches, shacks to bordellos, with fine clothes and the joys of zydeco music, all with laughter and just plain old good fun! Relax and enjoy your narrator, Alexandra LaPierre-Menard, as she describes the LaPierre-Menard family reunion to Ms. Gracie Buckhalter, fine writer that she is, in long, drawn-out sentences that represent the very essence of true Southern finesse while supporting the very idea that everyone who reads Mint Julep: The Reunion is a true Southerner, if not just for the moment.
Book Synopsis Prairie Nights to Neon Lights by : Joe Carr
Download or read book Prairie Nights to Neon Lights written by Joe Carr and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the regional bands of the 1930s and 1940s to the impact of Elvis Presley on the musicians and singers of the 1950s, Prairie Nights to Neon Lights takes us inside the heart of West Texas music.
Book Synopsis The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film by : Drewey Wayne Gunn
Download or read book The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film written by Drewey Wayne Gunn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in this sub-genre have been produced, and Gunn has unearthed many additional representations previously unrecorded. In this new edition, Gunn provides an overview of milestones in the development of gay detectives over the last several decades. Also included in this volume is an annotated list of novels, short stories, plays, graphic novels, comic strips, films, and television series with gay detectives, gay sleuths of secondary importance, and non-sleuthing gay policemen. The most complete listing available--including the only listing of early gay pulp novels, present-day male-to-male romances, and erotic films--this new edition brings the work up to date with publications missed in the first edition, particularly cross-genre mysteries, early pulps, and some hard-to-find volumes. The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography lists all printed works in English (including translations) presently known to include gay detectives (such as amateur sleuths, police detectives, private investigators, and investigative reporters), from the 1929 play Rope until the present day. It includes all films in English, subtitled or dubbed, from the screen version of Rope in 1948 and the launch of the independent film Spy on the Fly in 1966 through the end of 2011. Complete with two appendices--a bibliography of sources and a list of Lambda Literary Awards--and indexes of titles, detectives, and actors, this extensively revised and updated reference will prove invaluable to mystery collectors, researchers, aficionados of the subgenre, and those devoted to GLBTQ studies.
Book Synopsis Deepwood Witches Mysteries Books 1 - 6 by : Shéa MacLeod
Download or read book Deepwood Witches Mysteries Books 1 - 6 written by Shéa MacLeod and published by Shéa MacLeod. This book was released on 2022-11-12 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deepwood Witches Mysteries – Complete Collection - Books 1-6 NOTE: This Collection contains the COMPLETE series! Welcome to Deepwood, Oregon, a town of witches, magic, and murder… 1 - Potions, Poisons, and Peril When a stranger drops dead in her herb shop, Emory enlists the help of her coven—and the handsome but mysterious new man in town—to investigate. They soon discover that someone is using magic to poison people. With the lives of her friends and her new love in danger, can Emory stop the killer? 2 - Wisteria, Witchery, and Woe Lene Davenport is unique in the magical community. She can sense when Death approaches and communicate with those who have passed beyond the veil. It’s not fun having ghosts show up in your bedroom, so Lene does her best to avoid her gift. Unfortunately, Fate has other ideas. A killer is stalking the paranormal community, and she is must either use her powers in order to find and stop them, or risk losing those she loves. 3 - Magic, Moonlight, and Murder Veri Leveau lived a long, magical life before settling in the friendly town of Deepwood. Now she spends her days helping women find their inner goddesses, indulging in the most divine donuts on the planet, and practicing the Craft with her witch sisters. Everything seems downright perfect until her mind is invaded with visions of murder. A supernatural serial killer is hunting witches, and she’s next. 4 - Dreams, Divination, and Danger Mia Chance has a special kind of magic. One she could happily do without. Every night while she sleeps, she dreams of death. An evil witch is preying on the minds of innocents and Mia might be the only one who can stop her. If she doesn't get distracted by a certain handsome immortal sent by the Witch Council to solve the murders plaguing Deepwood. She’s never met anyone like Tyr Oden. And while she doesn’t need his help solving the case, she doesn’t mind having him around. Until his past rears its ugly head, threatening not just her life, but that of everyone she knows. 5 - Alchemy, Arsenic, and Alibis Deepwood is a cozy town, but every town has its secrets. As a witch, Edwina Gale has been tasked with keeping those secrets. Purloined donuts, coven meetings, and ancient Egyptian gods run amok are all in a day’s work as far as she’s concerned. But all her carefully laid plans unravel when the chief of police blackmails her into helping him solve a mystery, and she finds herself on the wrong end of magic gone awry. 6 - Crystals, Cauldrons, and Crimes Edwina Gale started every morning for twenty years with a maple bacon donut. Until the day the donut maker disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving Edwina sans donut and with a mystery on her hands. Supernatural citizens are disappearing from Deepwood during the full moon and it’s her job to find out why. Add in an abandoned manor, a string of burglaries, and a delightfully delicious detective, and it may be a while before Edwina gets her donut. Read the complete paranormal cozy mystery series now! Read what others are saying about USA Today Best-Selling author Shéa MacLeod's Deepwood Witches Mysteries series: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A cadre of witchy goodness that made me eager to open the book and eavesdrop." – author AE Drury ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Exquisitely witchy." – DM Topics: Shéa, Shéa MacLeod, midlife, middle aged, witch, witches, ghost, wolf shifter, fairies, fae, sidhe, vampires, paranormal cozy mystery, paranormal cozy mysteries, murder mystery, whodunnit, tarot, supernatural, paranormal mystery, ghost stories, science fiction and fantasy, starting over, humor, single woman, contemporary woman, later in life romance, funny mystery, humor, beach town, small town mystery, action and adventure, mythology, goddess, magic, grimoire, spells, spell craft, spell work, coven, magick, majick, magical, friendship, romantic subplot, small town romance, witchy romance, witch mystery, magical mystery, fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, strong female characters, demons Other readers of this book enjoyed books by: Renee George, Yasmine Galenorn, Patti Larsen, K.J. Emerick, S.J. Wells, Sam Cheever, Christine Pope, Kate Krake, Dakota Cassidy, Debra Dunbar, Christie Marquess, J.J. Justice, Lucy May, Morgana Best, Cate Martin, Cate Lawley, Kirsten Weiss, Elise Sax, Emery Belle, Rhonda Hopkins, Dionne Lister, Colleen Cross, Michelle M. Pillow, London Lovett, Jessica Arden, Carly Winter, Heather Silvio, Melissa Erin Jackson, Stephanie Damore, Nyx Halliwell, Jordaina Sydney Robinson, Andris Bear, Mandy M. Roth, Molly Fitz, T. Thorn Coyle, Kristen Painter, Angela M. Sanders
Book Synopsis From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World by : Sylvia R. Frey
Download or read book From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World written by Sylvia R. Frey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the effects of slavery and emancipation on race, class and gender in societies of the American South, the Caribbean, Latin America and West Africa. The contributors discuss what slavery has to teach us about patterns of adjustment and change, black identity and the extent to which enslaved peoples succeeded in creating a dynamic world of interaction between the Americas. They examine how emancipation was defined, how it affected attitudes towards slavery, patterns of labour usage and relationships between workers as well as between workers and their former owners.
Download or read book Evolve written by LaErtes Muldrow and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Im William Wineman, known as Wine-no Willie The Kang of the Tenderloin! LaErtes asked me to say something bout the four tales in this book. The boy pays well so I say ok. COMPLEX about a man named Pyriel who is hiding out from the government cause they want him and any like him for their Special Workshop; a tap into the powers of the mind thang. Pyriel chooses an apartment complex that is run amuck by bad ass kids. Once Pyriel realizes what hes gotten himself into he tries to help these brats and thats when hell breaks loose. THERMAL this one messed with me. Its about a haunting, possession, voodoo, death, and conjured up demons. I killed a fifth of jack while reading this one. HARVESTER which is the story I personally narrate is about an Indian legend parents told their bad ass kids to make em mind, and what happened when that legend came to life. NEED - this tale reaches past the Exotic-Erotic of the entertainment industry, and clear to blown away. Once youve read it youll take my meaning. I told LaErtes he should apologize to the readers for using vaguer language, the destruction of innocence, and the explicit sex and violence throughout the pages of this book. The boy told me, Shut up - keep drinking my Jack Daniels. This book is about the salvation of the soul. The boy got a point there!
