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Book Synopsis Big Mama Was Wrong by : Marisha Mathis
Download or read book Big Mama Was Wrong written by Marisha Mathis and published by Marisha Mathis. This book was released on with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big mamas have been the nuclei of Black families for centuries. They have always represented strength and wisdom. Despite the strength and wisdom that radiates from big mamas and the Black community, time has revealed that something has fallen between the cracks: mental health. This book challenges the stigma of Mental Health in the Black community. It also provides insight for parents and caregivers of Black teens who seek assistance, insight, and encouragement to pursue services that they believe their teen(s) may need. An A-Z guide, this book is sure to help parents and caregivers better understand mental health disorders and the treatment surrounding them.
Book Synopsis Big Mama Thornton by : Michael Spörke
Download or read book Big Mama Thornton written by Michael Spörke and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You ain't nothing but a "Hound Dog" ... with these words shouted into the microphone she will always be remembered: Big Mama Thornton. Who is this woman who sang the megahit "Hound Dog" before Elvis Presley and who wrote "Ball & Chain," the song that catapulted Janis Joplin to sudden fame? The story begins with her first musical attempts in the Hot Harlem Revue as a girl of 14. Then the book follows her journey into the Mecca of Texas Blues, Houston, where Big Mama Thornton met Johnny Otis, with whom she recorded her greatest success--"Hound Dog." With the slowdown of the blues in the early sixties this book follows Big Mama Thornton's way to California, discusses her struggle to survive and celebrates her impressive musical comeback in the course of the blues revival and the hippie movement. With the end of the sixties, facing a declining interest in the old school blues, the book shows how Big Mama Thornton found her niche in clubs and festivals in the U.S. and Europe. The book then follows Big Mama Thornton through the seventies and eighties until her untimely death.
Book Synopsis Church of the Small Things by : Melanie Shankle
Download or read book Church of the Small Things written by Melanie Shankle and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is my ordinary, everyday life actually significant? Is it okay to be fulfilled by the simple acts of raising kids, working in an office, and cooking chicken for dinner? It’s been said, “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.” The pressure of that can be staggering as we spend our days looking for that big thing that promises to take our breath away. Meanwhile, we lose sight of the small significance of fully living with every breath we take. Melanie Shankle, New York Times bestselling author and writer at The Big Mama Blog tackles these questions head on in her fourth book, Church of the Small Things. Easygoing and relatable, she speaks directly to the heart of women of all ages who are longing to find significance and meaning in the normal, sometimes mundane world of driving carpool to soccer practice, attending class on their college campus, cooking meals for their family, or taking care of a sick loved one. The million little pieces that make a life aren’t necessarily glamorous or far-reaching. But God uses some of the smallest, most ordinary acts of faithfulness—and sometimes they look a whole lot like packing lunch. Through humorous stories told in her signature style, full of Frito pie, best friends, the love of her Me-Ma and Pa-Pa, the unexpected grace that comes when we quit trying to measure up, and a little of the best TV has to offer, Melanie helps women embrace what it means to live a simple, yet incredibly meaningful life and how to find all the beauty and laughter that lies right beneath the surface of every moment.
Book Synopsis Big Mama Was Wrong by : Marisha Mathis
Download or read book Big Mama Was Wrong written by Marisha Mathis and published by . This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Mamas have always been pillars of Black families. Despite the strength and wisdom that radiates from big mamas and the Black community, we have gotten some things wrong. This book challenges the stigma of Mental Health in the Black community that is often inherited. Marisha fuses her passion for Mental Health and the community into written content that promotes understanding and encourages readers to push beyond the stigma and embrace change for betterment. Cultural history and wit are used to highlight some of the negative impacts caused by avoidance and silence. The insight is ideal for anyone interested in the conflict of tradition and progression.
Download or read book Savage'd written by Courtney Harvey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-07-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cream, a young, independent, top fashion designer entrepreneur has blocked her heart from "LOVE" after a cold hearted, heart stopping break up. From that day forward self love, glow, and growth became the only intimacy Cream has known. All men were judged to be play toys, distractions, and simply a "pure waste of time." When a handsome gentleman by the name Surpreme walks into Cream's boutique her beauty and unique personality steals his attention immediately. Over the course of time his attractive charm raises a rock bottom battle of tuggle war between Cream and her internal struggle with the emotions that pained her in the worst way. "Love & Trust" unapologetically!!!!!!!!!!! Can Surpreme turn Cream's dark world for love back to light? Or once a good girl gone SAVAGE there's no turning back?
Book Synopsis The Big Mama Collection: Sparkly Green Earrings / The Antelope in the Living Room / Nobody's Cuter than You by : Melanie Shankle
Download or read book The Big Mama Collection: Sparkly Green Earrings / The Antelope in the Living Room / Nobody's Cuter than You written by Melanie Shankle and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection bundles all 3 of popular author Melanie Shankle’s previous books together in one e-book, for a great value! Sparkly Green Earrings “There is really no better indicator you’re a mother than acquiring the ability to catch throw-up in a plastic bag, disinfect your hands, and immediately ask your friend to pass the beef jerky as you put on another Taylor Swift song and act as if nothing has happened.” This is the type of insight Melanie Shankle offers in this quirky memoir of motherhood. Written in the familiar, stream-of-consciousness style of her blog, Big Mama, Sparkly Green Earrings is a heartwarming and hilarious look at motherhood from someone who is still trying to figure it all out. Filled with personal stories—from the decision to become a mother to the heartbreak of miscarriage and ultimately, to the joy of raising a baby and living to tell about it—Sparkly Green Earrings will make you feel like you’re sitting across the table from your best friend. A must-read for anyone who’s ever had a child or even thought about it. The Antelope in the Living Room Welcome to the story of a real marriage. Marriage is simultaneously the biggest blessing and the greatest challenge two people can ever take on. It is the joy of knowing there is someone to share in your joys and sorrows, and the challenge of living with someone who thinks it’s a good idea to hang a giant antelope head on your living room wall. In The Antelope in the Living Room, New York Times best-selling author and blogger Melanie Shankle does for marriage what Sparkly Green Earrings did for motherhood—makes us laugh out loud and smile through tears as she shares the holy and the hilarity of that magical and mysterious union called marriage. Nobody’s Cuter than You There is nothing as precious in life as a friend who knows you and loves you in spite of yourself. Yet over the last couple of decades, we’ve substituted the joy of real friendship with cheap imitations. We settle for “community” on Facebook and Twitter and a series of text messages that allow us to communicate with someone without the commitment. We like each other’s beautifully filtered photos on Instagram and delude ourselves into believing we have a community. But real friendship requires effort. It’s showing up, laughing loud, and crying hard. It’s forgiving and loving and giving the benefit of the doubt. It’s making a casserole, doing a carpool pickup, and making sure she knows those cute shoes are 50 percent off. Written in the same comedic style as the New York Times bestsellers Sparkly Green Earrings and The Antelope in the Living Room, Nobody’s Cuter than You is a laugh-out-loud look at the special bond that exists between friends and a poignant celebration of all the extraordinary people God had the good sense to bring into our lives at exactly the right moments. From the friendships we develop over a lifetime to the ones that wounded us and the ones that taught us to love better, Melanie Shankle reveals the influence our friends have on who we were, who we are, and who we will become. And on a day when our jeans feel too tight, our chins have decided to embrace hormone-related acne reminiscent of our teen years, and our kids have tested the limits of our sanity, they are the ones who will look at us and say, “Nobody’s cuter than you!”
Download or read book The Coin written by Glendon Chancey III and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You have to the count of three to get your ass on the ground with your face down and your palms up before we open fire. We will shoot to kill!” They fired into his back as he went around the back of the church. The officers cautiously ran after him and saw no body, nor a drop of blood! They searched the immediate area for some clue as to where the red-eyed driver could have gone. They assumed that he staggered off to die. Helpless in their efforts to find the strange-looking being, they turned to Big Mama, who was still screaming at the sky. The officers handcuffed her, and Big Mama was taken to the Troy Memorial Hospital, sedated, treated for shock, and evaluated by the emergency room psychiatrist. She was admitted to psychiatric unit thirty five for “bizarre behavior”. Big Mama was discharged ninety days later, and missed her husband’s funeral.
Book Synopsis “Mama, ‘Babe’ and Me” by : Eddie Marie Jones Durham
Download or read book “Mama, ‘Babe’ and Me” written by Eddie Marie Jones Durham and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the life experiences of a very loving mother and how her life affected those she loved. It also gives linages of the families involved. It tells how the life of a mother affect the daughter and may others It can also encourage persons who are born in very limited resources to know they can move on, improve themselves as long as they realize that faith in all-powerful God can lift them to the heights
Book Synopsis The Wrong Side of The Street – The Intimate Story Of An African American Family’s History; Reaching Out To Heal And Bridge The Gaps From The Past For The Hopes Of The Future by : Jewel Creswell-Rollins
Download or read book The Wrong Side of The Street – The Intimate Story Of An African American Family’s History; Reaching Out To Heal And Bridge The Gaps From The Past For The Hopes Of The Future written by Jewel Creswell-Rollins and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wrong Side of the Street - written to Awaken A Silent Tradition Exemplifies the walk of each Black family through their accomplishments, pains, and wonders. The black family has experienced much since slavery; Here we see the struggles we overcame, the details of our survival, the warmth, the secrets, betrayals, business sense, fears, prayer life, discrimination, Miracles, and Yes, The Love. This book shows you different characters and how they dealt. Stories so Familiar it will feel like a soul’s reunion. What if we forgot from which we came? Would we fall back even further? Perhaps the higher forces have something better in mind. Here we will give you a foundation from the past, to help you become the new you. This adventurous true story is a mustread for any and every black family. As the timing of this book is perfect for such a time as this.
Book Synopsis My Cousin, Lenore by : Teresa D. Patterson
Download or read book My Cousin, Lenore written by Teresa D. Patterson and published by Teresa D Patterson. This book was released on 2012-08-18 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Jaileesa Johnson is not thrilled about having to share her room with her cousin, Lenore. She knows nothing about her cousin from Detroit and wants to keep it that way. However, Big Mama tells her she has to be nice to Lenore, so she’s trying her best to obey. Lenore doesn’t make it easy because she’s sullen, moody and withdrawn...and she keeps locking Jaileesa out of her own room. Is there any way at all Jaileesa can end up liking her cousin, Lenore?
Book Synopsis Sins of a Mother by : Joshua D. Blocker
Download or read book Sins of a Mother written by Joshua D. Blocker and published by DAWAY ENTERTAINMENT. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violated, disgusted, & ashamed, Tarrylyn Brown has no other choice but to move into her grandmother's house after fighting her way out of a sexual assault brought on by her mother's drug dealing boyfriend. Big Mama, as she endearingly calls her, tries her best to instill solid values and principles into her grand-child that promote a healthy & successful course of life. But a hurt and angry Tarrylyn learns and masters the art of hiding her truth by remaining silent concerning the things that have affected her. To promote cathartic release, Big Mama buys Tarrylyn a diary that she promises she won't ever peek into no matter how curious she may get. After testing the waters Tarrylyn finds solace in burying her truest and deepest feelings in this diary. Succumbing to the lust of her high school crush, Tarrylyn finds herself pregnant & fearful of becoming another "teenage statistic", so her & her best friend, Cara, develop a fool proof plan that is sure to resolve her worry. Finally, relieved of her stress, Tarrylyn's life, takes a refreshing turn for better when she meets the love of her life and proceeds to live the life of her dreams, Until that falls to shits. Subsequently, after eighteen years, a now divorced and single mother, finds herself retracing her steps after the secrets from her past come back to haunt her, ultimately changing her life FOREVER! I guess Big Mama wasn't so crazy after all, "What Don't Come Out in The Wash, Always Comes Out in The Rinse".
Download or read book Who Can I Run To? written by AnDERECCO and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Who Can I Run To? college roommates Jacob & Ellis became instant friends and lovers. They are truly in love with each other and they are raising a precious little girl together. But problems arise. Jacob has a past that will not leave him alone and is willing to go the lengths. In the midst of confusion, Jacob finds himself running to the wrong person. In the end, someone may pay the ultimate price. Immerse in this gripping novel of love, betrayal, and danger to find out what happens next.
Book Synopsis Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by : Tennessee Williams
Download or read book Cat on a Hot Tin Roof written by Tennessee Williams and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1975 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. Williams, as he so often did with his plays, rewrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for many years—the present version was originally produced at the American Shakespeare Festival in 1974 with all the changes that made Williams finally declare the text to be definitive, and was most recently produced on Broadway in the 2003-04 season. This definitive edition also includes Williams' essay "Person-to-Person," Williams' notes on the various endings, and a short chronology of the author's life. One of America's greatest living playwrights, as well as a friend and colleague of Williams, Edward Albee has written a concise introduction to the play from a playwright's perspective, examining the candor, sensuality, power, and impact of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof then and now.
Download or read book Free Fridays written by Pat Tucker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative contemporary romance that poses complex questions about modern marriage: How much time should a couple remain together before they can call their marriage a success? Why does divorce automatically mean failure? And can the institution of marriage evolve with our changing times? For Leela and Riley Franklin, the seven-year itch is an all too real phenomenon. After they celebrate their eighth wedding anniversary, and witness some of their closest friends calling it quits, the two agree to try something unorthodox to avoid going down the same predictable path. That’s when Free Fridays is born. The last Friday of every month is free: Leela and Riley get an unconditional free pass. They can do whatever they want, with whomever, wherever, with no questions asked, the one rule being that there are no strings attached. At first, it seems like the perfect arrangement. Both Leela and Riley are enjoying their cake as they get to eat it, too. But it doesn’t take long before trouble rears its ugly head. Soon, they realize that you can’t always get what you want but sometimes—that’s okay.
Book Synopsis The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Concise Edition by : Craig S. Walker
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Concise Edition written by Craig S. Walker and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2005-03-23 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Plays from the Western Theatre, concise edition is an overview of Western drama that offers chronological range and artistic variety in a compact, single-volume format. Context for each play is provided with a thorough account of its literary and dramatic background, along with clear and comprehensive annotation. In addition, the editors have provided an introduction that discusses the unique challenges and rewards of reading drama and a glossary of terms to equip readers with a vocabulary for discussing the world of the stage.
Book Synopsis Girl & Boy: Volume 1 by : James Hill Jr.
Download or read book Girl & Boy: Volume 1 written by James Hill Jr. and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fictional story of "Girl & Boy" takes place in a Midwest city in July of 1973. A heroin addict mother and a hot headed father leaves Junior without parents. He moves in with his father's mother. At the age of 17, he learns a lifelong lesson in a few years. With determination to succeed, he does it! With help and support of his girl and a strong willed uncle, he's wealthy before he's thirty years old. However, he has been through hell and back and recognizes love
Book Synopsis JOURNEY TO THE CREST (OF THE CRESCENT CITY) by : BARRY DAVIS
Download or read book JOURNEY TO THE CREST (OF THE CRESCENT CITY) written by BARRY DAVIS and published by BD ENTERTAINMENT. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating story of a young, black male growing up in New Orleans, LA in the 80s and 90s. The author provides a vivid description of how he navigated the obstacles of being raised in a poor, single-parent household. In addition, he narrates how his mom found refuge within the Jehovah’s Witness religion and how he had a sexual relationship with one of the Elders in his congregation when he was a minor. More light is shed on how this religion (and many organized religions) decided to discipline this leader. He paints a very vivid story of how low his life was during and after this period because of his struggle with accepting the fact that he is gay and the fact that his mother and no one close to him will accept this truth. After relocating from his hometown, he is faced with the horrible news of his mother’s terminal illness and is challenged with caring for her with virtually no help from his family members. This story will have you take a deeper look at what faith and family means. It’s a heartbreaking story that will leave you speechless at points, crying at others, and laughing in-between. It’s also a beautiful story of how a young man with all of the odds stacked against him learned how to reconcile his faith/spirituality with who he is and how he learned to appreciate how blessed he is.
