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Download or read book Demon's Plaything written by Kaye Blue and published by Kaye Blue. This book was released on with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The things she’ll do for love… Dr. Shayla Rodgers has dedicated her life to helping people, which is why she never expected to find herself skirting the edges of the law. But her sense of right and wrong is only eclipsed by her love for her family, so when her brother once again finds trouble, she’ll do whatever it takes to rescue him. Demon is all for having a good time, and the money and excitement that came with the underground-fight scene used to be just that. But things are changing, and he’s willing to admit that the once-good times have gotten pretty stale. Yet when the lovely Dr. Rodgers arrives, his interest is sparked and he finds that the scene might not be quite so boring after all. Though Shayla struggles to keep her distance, she’s pulled deeper into the darkness—and her desire for Demon—and as she tries to protect her brother, she finds that all she holds dear: her career, her family, and her heart, are at risk…
Book Synopsis Oh, This Is Some Bullsh*t! by : Twiggy D Author
Download or read book Oh, This Is Some Bullsh*t! written by Twiggy D Author and published by Opulence Publishing House LLC . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oh, This Is Some Bullsh*t.. Is a collection of essays detailing the life of young Twiggy and her life growing up in a highly toxic household. The author expresses memories and feelings towards her narcissistic alcoholic mother, her narcissistic family, and medical professionals who all had a part in making her life a living hell. She dealt with all types of abuse, and neglect, and feeling unloved and unwanted. All this including carrying the weight of living with a chronic illness was almost too much to bear. She chronicles all the most pivotal moments that made her ultimately want to end it all, but suicide attempts proved to be an unwanted end to the problems and she learned to face them head on! No more secrets and hiding, Twiggy has released herself from the prison of depression, fear, and the trauma of her past that held her captive for so many years, to bring you this true life collection of stories that seems almost like a movie than real life. With every word written, and each sentence you read- another wall is taken down. Freeing her from the demons of her past.
Book Synopsis Ain’T No Place Safe by : Carlton "Carlito" Ewell
Download or read book Ain’T No Place Safe written by Carlton "Carlito" Ewell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here we have in Aint No Place Safe, a complicated coming-of-age story about the struggles of a young man by the name of Raheem Porter as he grows up in the Badlands section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. How does a young black male navigate his way safely into adulthood with so much violence and drug use sitting right outside his front door? Even with extreme God-given talent both athletically as well as academically, the chance and opportunity to excel in life can be seen as simply just a dream. Our protagonist, Raheem, is an extremely talented basketball player (who is well sought after by most division 1 schools) just as his twin-like sixteen-year-old cousin, Kareem, was. In the opening scene, Kareem is tragically shot and killed for a pair of expensive basketball sneakers while a helpless Raheem looks on. Although this traumatic event is life altering, somehow with the help of a loving grandmother (Mother Porter a.k.a. Nana) and the support of a few caring teachers, a strong-willed Raheem perseveres. Raheems basketball talents very quickly blossom along with his size and height. He becomes something to marvel at. Instead of this creating a narcissist, it somehow humbles the young man. He subconsciously understands that his talents are a blessing and is to be used for the betterment of his familys future.
Book Synopsis GRANDMA & GRANDPA by : C. M. Dowdell
Download or read book GRANDMA & GRANDPA written by C. M. Dowdell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-10-08 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’ve been told a lie, what you know about grandparents is wrong, problematic at its best. Under the duress of traumatic stress, I tried to kill a black cat-crazy-evil on purpose. Yet, it tried to kill me first! Babysitting gigs went everywhere other than smooth. Each day was a “War Zone.” Dracula just showed up on the regular without even a knock on the door before I could invite him in. Neighbors walked around looking like “Zombies” of an unknown planet. Dogs and chickens are humongously gigantic, they tried to eat me/my whole family. My prayers to God is the only thing that saved my life.
Book Synopsis Bress 'n' Nyam: Gullah Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-Generation Farmer by : Matthew Raiford
Download or read book Bress 'n' Nyam: Gullah Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-Generation Farmer written by Matthew Raiford and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 100 heirloom recipes from a dynamic chef and farmer working the lands of his great-great-great grandfather. From Hot Buttermilk Biscuits and Sweet Potato Pie to Salmon Cakes on Pepper Rice and Gullah Fish Stew, Gullah Geechee food is an essential cuisine of American history. It is the culinary representation of the ocean, rivers, and rich fertile loam in and around the coastal South. From the Carolinas to Georgia and Florida, this is where descendants of enslaved Africans came together to make extraordinary food, speaking the African Creole language called Gullah Geechee. In this groundbreaking and beautiful cookbook, Matthew Raiford pays homage to this cuisine that nurtured his family for seven generations. In 2010, Raiford’s Nana handed over the deed to the family farm to him and his sister, and Raiford rose to the occasion, nurturing the farm that his great-great-great grandfather, a freed slave, purchased in 1874. In this collection of heritage and updated recipes, he traces a history of community and family brought together by food.
Book Synopsis Clear Word and Third Sight by : Catherine A. John Camara
Download or read book Clear Word and Third Sight written by Catherine A. John Camara and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition. This consciousness has served diasporic communities by creating an alternate philosophical “worldsense” linking those of African descent across space and time. Contesting popular discourses about what constitutes culture and maintaining that neglected strains in negritude discourse provide a crucial philosophical perspective on the connections between folk practices, cultural memory, and collective consciousness, John examines the diasporic principles in the work of the negritude writers Léon Damas, Aimé Césaire, and Léopold Senghor. She traces the manifestations and reworkings of their ideas in Afro-Caribbean writing from the eastern and French Caribbean, as well as the Caribbean diaspora in the United States. The authors she discusses include Jamaica Kincaid, Earl Lovelace, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, and Edouard Glissant, among others. John argues that by incorporating what she calls folk groundings—such as poems, folktales, proverbs, and songs—into their work, Afro-Caribbean writers invoke a psychospiritual consciousness which combines old and new strategies for addressing the ongoing postcolonial struggle.
Book Synopsis Baggage Claim: A Life Story by : M.M. Dolcé
Download or read book Baggage Claim: A Life Story written by M.M. Dolcé and published by M.M.Dolce. This book was released on 2019-08-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quarter life crisis? Angela Sharpe has been there and done that! In Baggage Claim: A Life Story, we learn that love means accepting one core truth: we are a sum of all of our traumas (baggage) and our efforts to heal from them OR lack thereof! But will some things be too much to "carry on"? As Angela explores a new love and is revisited by an old flame, she is challenged with facing her biggest roadblock in life--her own baggage. Will sexual chemistry and history be enough to sustain a healthy relationship? Can friendships survive even the most vile offenses? Baggage Claim will provoke you to look inwardly and ask a very important question-- have you dealt with your sh*t?
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Download or read book Mirror Girls written by Kelly McWilliams and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling gothic horror novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of Lovecraft Country and The Vanishing Half As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem, while white-passing Magnolia is the heiress to a cotton plantation in rural Georgia. Magnolia knows nothing of her racial heritage, but secrets are hard to keep in a town haunted by the ghosts of its slave-holding past. When Magnolia finally learns the truth, her reflection mysteriously disappears from mirrors—the sign of a terrible curse. Meanwhile, in Harlem, Charlie's beloved grandmother falls ill. Her final wish is to be buried back home in Georgia—and, unbeknownst to Charlie, to see her long-lost granddaughter, Magnolia Heathwood, one last time. So Charlie travels into the Deep South, confronting the land of her worst nightmares—and Jim Crow segregation. The sisters reunite as teenagers in the deeply haunted town of Eureka, Georgia, where ghosts linger centuries after their time and dangers lurk behind every mirror. They couldn’t be more different, but they will need each other to put the hauntings of the past to rest, to break the mirrors’ deadly curse—and to discover the meaning of sisterhood in a racially divided land.
Book Synopsis Wicked Ever After by : Delilah S. Dawson
Download or read book Wicked Ever After written by Delilah S. Dawson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delilah S. Dawson’s award-winning Blud series comes full circle as Tish and Criminy, stars of Wicked as They Come, embark on a sexy and harrowing final adventure in a world RT Book Reviews calls “delightfully edgy with hidden charms.” Ever since landing in the magical world of Sang and falling in love with dashing ringmaster Criminy Stain, Tish has been waiting for the axe to fall. Until her dying grandmother’s last breath on Earth, Tish can’t bring herself to give up her all-too human frailty and commit to life on Sang as a youthful, long-lived Bludman like her handsome husband. But when a peculiar twist of fate delivers Tish’s grandmother to Sang, an unexpected chain of events forces Tish and Criminy to embark on one last wild adventure. From old friends to new and into the lair of terrifying enemies, the couple’s love and longevity will be pushed to the brink by each harrowing encounter. Is blud thicker than blood, and can Tish and Crim find their wicked ever after?
Book Synopsis The River Where Blood Is Born by : Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Download or read book The River Where Blood Is Born written by Sandra Jackson-Opoku and published by One World. This book was released on 2009-07-08 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This astonishing novel takes us on a journey along the river of one family's history, carving a course across two centuries and three continents, from ancient Africa into today's America. Here, through the lives of Mother Africa's many daughters, we come to understand the real meaning of roots: the captive Proud Mary, who has been savagely punished for refusing to relinquish her child to slavery; Earlene, who witnesses her father's murder at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan; Big Momma, a modern-day matriarch who can make a woman of a girl; proud and sassy Cinnamon Brown, whose wild abandon hides a bitter loss; and smart, ambitious Alma, who is torn between the love of a man and the song of her soul. In The River Where Blood Is Born, the seen and unseen worlds are seamlessly joined--the spirit realms where the great river goddess and ancestor mothers watch over the lives of their descendants, both the living and those not yet born. Stringing beads of destiny, they work to lead one daughter back to her source. But what must Alma sacrifice to honor the River Mother's call?
Book Synopsis Doctoring the Devil by : Jake Richards
Download or read book Doctoring the Devil written by Jake Richards and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “great starting point for those hoping to practice Appalachian folk magic” (Publishers Weekly), conjure man Jake Richards shares the root work practices and traditional magic he learned from his family as he grew up in the hills and hollers of Appalachia. Who were the old conjurors and witches of Appalachia? What were their practices and beliefs? How can you learn the ways of conjuring for yourself? Appalachian folk magic and conjure are little known today, but forty or fifty years ago just about every person you might ask in Appalachia either knew something about it themselves or knew someone who did it. These practices and “superstitions” are at the core of Appalachian culture. In Doctoring the Devil, Jake Richards speaks to those questions and more, offering the various ways of rooting out the “devil”—any unfriendly spirit bringing bad luck, poor health, and calamities of all sorts. Like the blue smoky mists that glide up the Appalachians, Jake leads his readers up the hillsides too, introducing us to folks along the way—hunters, farmers, blacksmiths, faith healers, preachers, and root-diggers. We’ll also meet the local spirits and learn root ways. Further up the hill, we delve into Jake’s notebooks—a personal collection of tried-and-true Appalachian recipes and roots for conjuring love, money, justice, and success.
Book Synopsis Feminist Collections by : University of Wisconsin System. Women's Studies Librarian
Download or read book Feminist Collections written by University of Wisconsin System. Women's Studies Librarian and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Livin’ the Dream by : Michael J. Bruijn
Download or read book Livin’ the Dream written by Michael J. Bruijn and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is for music lovers and the young at heart. First-time author Michael Bruijn spins a tale of intrigue and adventure in Livin the Dream. From England to America and on to Austria, Jack and Lil must complete a mystical quest to prove themselves and to help change the lives of those around them. But what if the crypt, which has already claimed the lives of many who were not appropriately forewarned or forearmed, is impenetrable or, worse, empty? Along the journey, you will find the titles of everlasting tunes cleverly woven into the story.
Book Synopsis Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics by : Kameelah L. Martin
Download or read book Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics written by Kameelah L. Martin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, American popular culture increasingly makes visible the performance of African spirituality by black women. Disney’s Princess and the Frog and Pirates of the Caribbean franchise are two notable examples. The reliance on the black priestess of African-derived religion as an archetype, however, has a much longer history steeped in the colonial othering of Haitian Vodou and American imperialist fantasies about so-called ‘black magic’. Within this cinematic study, Martin unravels how religious autonomy impacts the identity, function, and perception of Africana women in the American popular imagination. Martin interrogates seventy-five years of American film representations of black women engaged in conjure, hoodoo, obeah, or Voodoo to discern what happens when race, gender, and African spirituality collide. She develops the framework of Voodoo aesthetics, or the inscription of African cosmologies on the black female body, as the theoretical lens through which to scrutinize black female religious performance in film. Martin places the genre of film in conversation with black feminist/womanist criticism, offering an interdisciplinary approach to film analysis. Positioning the black priestess as another iteration of Patricia Hill Collins’ notion of controlling images, Martin theorizes whether film functions as a safe space for a racial and gendered embodiment in the performance of African diasporic religion. Approaching the close reading of eight signature films from a black female spectatorship, Martin works chronologically to express the trajectory of the black priestess as cinematic motif over the last century of filmmaking. Conceptually, Martin recalibrates the scholarship on black women and representation by distinctly centering black women as ritual specialists and Black Atlantic spirituality on the silver screen.
Book Synopsis Every Sentence Must Come to an End by : O. G. Wiseman
Download or read book Every Sentence Must Come to an End written by O. G. Wiseman and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenny Ratchet Walker is born into a cold world. After his mother passes away during his delivery, Ratchet is adopted and raised by his grandmother. But as he grows up in New Jersey, his life is catapulted into chaos one day after school when fourteen-year-old Ratchet commits an unthinkable act. As Ratchet is left dealing with the consequences of his actions, he must come to accept that his life is not turning out the way he imagined. With a family that hates him and the streets just waiting to swallow him, he eventually becomes much more than a nightmare to his adversaries. Even as he is presented with an opportunity to take the right path, Ratchet continues on a dark journey fueled by revenge and unresolved feelings as his mind plays tricks on him and his gun takes the lead. Now only time will tell if Ratchet can escape his pain and find peace before his soul is trapped in hell for all eternity. In this contemporary urban thriller, a young man forced to face his painful reality discovers the true cost of bad choices as he struggles to find his place in a cruel world.
Book Synopsis Hope Ain't a Hustle by : Irwyn L. Ince Jr.
Download or read book Hope Ain't a Hustle written by Irwyn L. Ince Jr. and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes hope can feel like a scam—a swindle, a hustle. But as Christians, our hope cannot disappoint us because it is validated by God himself. In this accessible exploration of the epistle to the Hebrews, Irwyn Ince shows us how placing our confidence in our great high priest, Jesus Christ, changes the way we live in the here and now.
