Not Until Christmas Morning

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ISBN 13 : 9781673814941
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (149 download)

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Book Synopsis Not Until Christmas Morning by : Valerie M. Bodden

Download or read book Not Until Christmas Morning written by Valerie M. Bodden and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This was a fabulous, fantastic, best ever Christmas book. WOW!" -Advance reader She's a fixer... He's about as broken as they come... Can they learn to turn to God for healing and hope this Christmas? Leah has always been a fixer. That's why she decided to foster a troubled teen. And it's why she's determined to give him the perfect Christmas. It might also be why she feels compelled to reach out to her grinchy, reclusive neighbor Austin. But she'll have to be careful that reaching out doesn't turn into something more--she's been hurt by crossing the line from friendship to romance once, and she's not willing to let it happen again. After losing his leg, his friend, and his faith in Afghanistan, Austin figures he's about as broken as they come. For Austin, Hope Springs is simply a stopping point--a place to rehabilitate his leg, get over the burden of his PTSD, and get back into shape to redeploy. He has no desire to get to know anyone while he's here, least of all the meddlesome--if sweet--woman next door. But when she calls on him to help her make Christmas special for her foster son, something compels him to relent. Soon, his heart belongs to both of them. But what if Austin is too broken for even Leah to fix? Can the two of them learn to turn to God for hope and healing--and maybe even a chance at love--this Christmas? Not Until Christmas Morning is a heartwarming Christian romance filled with faith, love, and the reminder to trust God "even if." *** "Not Until Christmas Morning is such an inspiring and uplifting book that you won't want to wait until Christmas to read it! I loved this story of how God can make something beautiful out of broken people and their painful circumstances. If you've ever been angry with God about the suffering in your life or the lives of loved ones, then this book will give you hope. Highest recommendation!" -Advance reader *** While the books in the Hope Springs series are linked, each features a complete romance about a different couple and can be read in any order.

Not Until Someday

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Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book Not Until Someday written by Valerie M. Bodden and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most beautiful love stories I have ever read! I chuckled, cried, smiled, oohed, aahed and had tummy dips - a delicious rollercoaster ride! ... Definitely in my top 5 books for 2020!!!" -Goodreads Review She's waiting for her someday. He thinks his has already come and gone. After spending the past five years caring for her ill grandfather, Grace Calvano is eager to honor his memory by turning his stately old house in Hope Springs into a bed-and-breakfast. All she has to do is fend off her mama, who keeps pressuring her to come home to Tennessee, marry the new youth pastor, and start raising a passel of children. Sure, Grace wants to settle down and marry someday. But only when God sees fit to send Mr. Right her way. Until then, she's content to wait. After a career- and relationship-ending injury, former NFL quarterback Levi Donovan is sure his someday has already come and gone. Returning to Hope Springs for the summer to help out at his dad's construction company is not his idea of a bright future. But maybe it will be a chance to make up for lost time with his brother--and to make his dad proud at last. The day Levi shows up to help renovate her bed-and-breakfast, Grace is sure of one thing--she and God must have gotten their wires crossed when she asked him to send Mr. Right to her doorstep. Because the motorcycle-riding, football-playing bad boy is the very definition of Mr. Wrong. But as they get to know one another, Grace is challenged to rethink everything she thought she wanted. Can she and Levi move past their own plans to let God give them the someday neither has dared to hope for? Filled with faith, humor, and deep emotion, Not Until Someday will make you laugh, tug on your heart, and carry you away in a story you won't want to end. *** "The characters were so real and believable that I kept thinking about them when I wasn't reading the book!... Filled with so much humor, playfulness, demonstrations of God's love and grace interwoven into a really engrossing and emotional story." -Advance Reader *** While the books in the Hope Springs series are linked, each features a complete romance about a different couple and can be read in any order.

Property

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030742734X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Property by : Valerie Martin

Download or read book Property written by Valerie Martin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE • Set in 1828 on a Louisiana sugar plantation, this novel from the bestselling author of Mary Reilly presents a “fresh, unsentimental look at what slave-owning does to (and for) one's interior life.... The writing—so prised and clean limbed—is a marvel" (Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved). Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah, who is both his victim and his mistress. Exploring the permutations of Manon’s own obsession with Sarah against the backdrop of an impending slave rebellion, Property unfolds with the speed and menace of heat lightning, casting a startling light from the past upon the assumptions we still make about the powerful and powerful.

Not Until This Moment

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ISBN 13 : 9781091657137
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Not Until This Moment written by Valerie M. Bodden and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I couldn't put it down. Peyton and Jared's love story gives you hope that second chances really can happen!" -Rachel She's looking for "the one." He knows it can never be him. Unless God has other plans for them... Peyton has been looking for "the one" forever. She thought she'd finally met him when she started dating Jared. But when he told her he never planned to get married, she had to face the facts: maybe he wasn't the one God intended for her after all. Now, she's just trying to survive the annual ski trip with her bones--and her heart--intact. Jared wishes he could give Peyton everything she desires. But marriage is the one thing he can never offer her. Not that it makes it easy to let her go. Especially when everywhere he turns on this ski trip, he sees her with another man--a man Jared knows can't be trusted. Jared may not have any business worrying about Peyton anymore. But he promised himself long ago that he'd never again stand by and watch a woman get hurt. And he's not about to let anything happen to the woman he still loves. Even if that means losing her forever. When a crisis rocks the trip, both have to reexamine what they want. But are their hopes for the future still too different, or can they trust that God has a plan for them? If you love fast-paced, emotional stories filled with faith and second chances, you'll melt for Not Until This Moment. Grab your copy and cozy up with this heartwarming, faith-filled story today. *** The books in the Hope Springs series each feature a complete romance about a different couple and can be read in any order Hope Springs Series Not Until Forever Not Until This Moment Not Until You

Blood is the New Black

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Publisher : Broadway Books
ISBN 13 : 0307352137
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Blood is the New Black by : Valerie Stivers

Download or read book Blood is the New Black written by Valerie Stivers and published by Broadway Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate McAlliston is spending her last summer before medical school working at "Tasty," a glossy fashion magazine. When she begins to notice strange happenings around the office, Kate uncovers a shocking discovery--the reigning tastemakers have a real taste for blood.

Secrets Between Us

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ISBN 13 : 9781786816320
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (163 download)

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Book Synopsis Secrets Between Us by : Valerie Keogh

Download or read book Secrets Between Us written by Valerie Keogh and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One letter a week for fifteen years. 780 identical white envelopes brimming with my sister's darkest secrets. All the intimate details of a life as different to mine as could possibly be. I read each letter slowly to make sure I understand it perfectly, one day very soon it will be a matter of life and death... At the end of each letter, after signing her name, there is always one final sentence: Don't forget to burn this letter. I'll let you decide if I do... A jaw-dropping psychological thriller that you will read in one sitting. If you loved dark, twisty thrillers like The Girl on The Train, The Couple Next Door and Friend Request, this unputdownable novel will have your heart racing long after you've finished reading. What readers are saying about Secrets Between Us: 'FABULOUS! TEN STARS! The writing is wonderful, the story mesmerizing, and the characters realistic and believable. I had to rush through the final few pages at the end because I couldn't stand the suspense and just had to know the ending... I loved everything about this book and highly recommend it!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'This was one heck of a ride from midnight to 3am. I couldn't seem to stop reading, I tried really hard to shut down my kindle, but I had to get to the ending... An addicting ride... I literally felt like a fly stuck in a spider's web who had to keep reading to escape. The scenes caused a tidal wave of emotions to arise, it had me going OMG constantly... can be called nothing but addictive, unputdownable, and a joyride!!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'An intense, crazy awesome psychological thriller! I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it had me up most of the night reading! My husband slept soundly beside me and at times I wished he was up, the book so SO CREEPY. It's that uneasy feeling!... I genuinely enjoyed reading Secrets Between Us!' Cloud of Thoughts, 5 stars 'I would give this book more stars if I could!!!! Holy cow was this a thrilling book! ... I really loved this book and recommend reading if you love a great thriller!' Dawn Mequio, 5 stars 'The ending is superb, brilliant even and left me with the book-hangover from hell... I still can't get that ending out of my head.' Jenny O'Brien Writer, 5 stars

Until Valerie

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ISBN 13 : 9780999785966
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Until Valerie written by Jessica Marin and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rowan joins his fellow SEALs in Nashville to help start up a motorcycle repair shop. But then Valerie Dawson walks into the shop, and Rowan knows he's in dangerous territory. She makes him feel things he never thought he could feel, and he is determined to make her his.

The Age of Infidelity and Other Stories

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Publisher : Slant
ISBN 13 : 1725253739
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Book Synopsis The Age of Infidelity and Other Stories by : Valerie Sayers

Download or read book The Age of Infidelity and Other Stories written by Valerie Sayers and published by Slant. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Muriel Spark and Walker Percy, The Age of Infidelity's eleven stories embrace the comic, the absurd, and the dead serious. Faithless parents betray their children, the young betray the old, and lovers betray each other--but somehow these characters cling to hope. Aging white cheerleaders shout through an online megaphone, remembering a time when racial equality seemed almost possible; a teenager endures her father's abandonment as her mother's psychotic episodes pick up pace; an old couple on the lam from the Constitutional Guard of the future hides out in a garage reminiscent of our consumerist past. In an age many call post-religious, these characters want to believe in something, but they're not always sure what that something is. Set in landscapes from the small-town South to New York City, from a parched Midwest to a deserted Dublin, these stories time-travel from our Jim Crow past to an imagined future of warehouses for the aged where robots do the nursing. With what the Washington Post describes as her ""distinctive brutal elegance,"" Valerie Sayers writes playfully, powerfully, and musically. These stories form an album riffing on our age, the Age of Infidelity.

Until the Brighter Tomorrow

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ISBN 13 : 9780990519300
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (193 download)

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Book Synopsis Until the Brighter Tomorrow by : Valerie Irick Rainford

Download or read book Until the Brighter Tomorrow written by Valerie Irick Rainford and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-13 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true-life, sometimes gritty yet ultimately triumphant story, Until the Brighter Tomorrow is told straight from Valerie Rainford's heart. The daughter of southern sharecroppers, she takes the reader through her challenging young life in the projects, where her mother's steadfast work ethic and undying support motivates Valerie to choose a different path than that of her high school friends. After the devastating deaths of both her brother and mother, Valerie--determined to beat the odds--embraces her generational current of strength and goes on to graduate from Fordham University, accomplish impressive career firsts, and rise to her present position as a successful corporate executive. With the pulse of a finely written novel, this inspiring memoir radiates with the author's belief that anything is possible if one has enough faith, tenacity, and belief in self.

Losing It

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416569685
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Losing It by : Valerie Bertinelli

Download or read book Losing It written by Valerie Bertinelli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular actress, Jenny Craig spokeswoman, and America's sweetheart Bertinelli reveals in this courageous and candid memoir her complicated past and how she has taken control of her own life to gain self-esteem and happiness. 8 pages of b&w photographs.

Enough Already

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0358567327
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (585 download)

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Download or read book Enough Already written by Valerie Bertinelli and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved actress, Food Network personality, and New York Times bestselling author Valerie Bertinelli reflects on life at sixty and beyond. Behind the curtain of her happy on-screen persona, Valerie Bertinelli’s life has been no easy ride, especially when it comes to her own self-image and self-worth. She waged a war against herself for years, learning to equate her value to her appearance as a child star on One Day at a Time and punishing herself in order to fit into the unachievable Hollywood mold. She struggled to make her marriage to Eddie Van Halen — the true love of her life — work, despite all the rifts the rock-star lifestyle created between them. She then watched her son follow in his father’s footsteps, right up onto the stage of Van Halen concerts, and begin his own music career. And like so many women, she cared for her parents as their health declined and saw the roles of parent and child reverse. Through mourning the loss of her parents, discovering more about her family’s past, and realizing how short life really is when she and her son lost Eddie, Valerie finally said, “Enough already!” to a lifelong battle with the scale and found a new path forward to joy and connection. Despite hardships and the pressures of the media industry to be something she’s not, Valerie is, at last, accepting herself: she knows who she is, has discovered her self-worth, and has learned how to prioritize her health and happiness over her weight. With an intimate look into her insecurities, heartbreaks, losses, triumphs, and revelations, Enough Already is the story of Valerie’s sometimes humorous, sometimes raw, but always honest journey to love herself and find joy in the everyday, in family, and in the food and memories we share. “This thoughtful, bighearted book is sure to be a hit with Bertinelli fans and those with an appetite for stories of hard-won self-acceptance. A warmly intimate memoir.” – Kirkus Reviews “In a series of brutally frank essays, Bertinelli looks back on the emotional struggles and triumphs of her life. By turns raw and inspiring, this contains a little bit of wisdom for everyone.” – Publishers Weekly

Crooked River

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062326619
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Book Synopsis Crooked River by : Valerie Geary

Download or read book Crooked River written by Valerie Geary and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of emotion and suspense, Crooked River is an inventive and atmospheric story about family and friendship, good and evil, secrets and lies, grief and forgiveness Where should I start? With Mom's funeral? Or a week earlier on the Fourth of July, the day she died? Or should I skip all that stuff and get straight to the part where Ollie and I just wanted to go swimming and pretend our lives were ordinary again, but when we got down to the river we found another dead woman instead? Still grieving over the sudden death of their mother, fifteen-year-old Sam McAlister and her ten-year-old sister, Ollie, move from the comforts of Eugene to rural Oregon to live in a meadow in a teepee under the stars with Bear, their reclusive beekeeper father. But soon after they arrive in Terrebone, a young woman is found dead floating in Crooked River and the police arrest their eccentric father for the murder. He is not evil. I am not good. We are the same: broken and put back together again. Sam knows that Bear is not a killer, even though the evidence points to his guilt—including information that she and Ollie have uncovered. Filled with remorse and refusing to accept that her father could have hurt anyone, Sam embarks on a desperate hunt to save him and keep her damaged family together. They had mysteriously lost Bear once before and Sam is terrified they will lose him again. Only this time they won't ever get him back. She needs Ollie to help her, but Ollie has not spoken a word since their mother's death. I see things no one else does. I see them there and wish I didn't. I want to tell and I can't. Ollie, too, knows that Bear is innocent. The Shimmering have told her so. One followed her home from her mom's funeral and continues to hover, a spectrum of colors—pink and rose red, sky blue and honey gold. Now another, coiled and hissing, is following Sam. Both spirits warn Ollie: the real killer is out there, waiting. Somehow, she must warn her sister. But Ollie worries that if she tries to speak—even to write—the Shimmering will slip inside her, take control, and never leave. Sam and Ollie must find the truth quickly—a search that will lead them to unexpected secrets and terrible lies—because the danger is closer to them than either girl knows. Told in Sam's and Ollie's vibrant voices, Crooked River is a family story, a coming-of-age story, a ghost story, and a psychological mystery as haunting as the best Southern gothic fiction that will touch your heart and grip you until the final page.

Chilling Effect

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062877240
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Chilling Effect written by Valerie Valdes and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jam-packed with weird aliens, mysterious artifacts, and lovable characters... a tremendous good time and an impressive debut.” -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure. Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom. But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship’s hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead after she rejects his advances, and her sweet engineer is giving her a pesky case of feelings. The worse things get, the more she lies, raising suspicions and testing her loyalty to her found family. To free her sister, Eva will risk everything: her crew, her ship, and the life she’s built on the ashes of her past misdeeds. But when the dominoes start to fall and she finds the real threat is greater than she imagined, she must decide whether to play it cool or burn it all down.

Until Us: Valerie

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ISBN 13 : 9783903413504
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Until Us: Valerie written by Jessica Marin and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

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Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Valerie and Her Week of Wonders by : Vítězslav Nezval

Download or read book Valerie and Her Week of Wonders written by Vítězslav Nezval and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until 1945, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a bizarre erotic fantasy of a young girl's maturation into womanhood. Drawing on Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Sade's Justine, K. H. Macha's May, and Murnau's Nosferatu as well as the form and language of the pulp serial novel, Nezval has constructed a lyrical, menacing dream of sexual awakening involving a vampire with a taste for chicken blood, changelings, a lecherous priest, a malicious grandmother desiring her lost youth, and an androgynous merging of brother with sister. Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror, the novel is a meditation on youth and age, sexuality and death - an exploration of the grotesque that juxtaposes high and low genres with shifting registers of language and moods, thus placing it squarely in the tradition of the Czech avant-garde."--BOOK JACKET.

Borrowed Body

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ISBN 13 : 9781927335369
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Body written by Valerie Mason-John and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I could have been born and raised in Africa. But my Spirit was in too much of a rush to be reincarnated...At six weeks I was chucked out into the new year of 1965 which wasn't prepared to welcome on African baby, abandoned on a harsh English winter's day." So begins Pauline's spirited and moving story of her childhood and teenage years in and out of foster homes and back and forth to Dr. Barnardo's Village in Essex. Her Barnardo's family was ruled by an unlikely trio--Aunty Claire, a fervent Christian; her laconic husband, the German Jewish Uncle Boris; and Aunty Morag, the cook. And, of course, other kids orphaned or abandoned like Pauline. Woven into this account are Pauline's angel and spirit companions--Sparky, Annabel and Snake-- who by turns help and hinder her to survive in the "real world." The Barnardo's good times are shattered by the sudden visits of her mother, whom she calls Wunmi and with whom she goes to live in a London high-rise. Wunmi's method of refashioning Pauline into a dutiful African child is literally to knock the English out of her. Pauline tries other ways to survive--sniffing glue and shoplifting--until the harsh realities of detention centres and juvenile courts make Pauline think again...

You & Me Forever

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ISBN 13 : 9780900575075
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book You & Me Forever written by Valerie Hsiung and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Asian American Studies. With her second volume, Valerie Hsiung proves herself to be a poet of lyric's volatile possibility, detonating poetry's uncertain truce between reader and speaker, the deadly and the inconsequential, the profound and the profane. YOU & ME FOREVER performs a multitude of teetering voices through a multitude of tangency points--between the violence enacted against girl bodies and the violence enacted against earth, between inherited language or mother tongue and made/found language or acquired tongue, between the speaking machine and the transhuman, between the woman as artist and the woman as monster, between the horizontality of plain speech and the verticality of lyric fragments. In response, the reader's role fluctuates from direct addressee to participant, from chorus member to puppet master--all while the dark angel of the circus hovers above like a shadow on the page. "A storied, oscillating breath-scape, a wondrous tertium quid, Valerie Hsiung's YOU & ME FOREVER maps a world that moves as simultaneously paradoxical, relational, and permutational. Edged with the epic, speech-based and strange, the writings enact the promise of dreams as they address matters of hauntings and bodies, displacement, and the nature of capital, exile, and art. Here the narrative ripples, achieves both temporal and spatial possibilities, works both boundariness and dissolve. A destabilizing marvel."--Hoa Nguyen "The first time I read Valerie Hsiung's YOU & ME FOREVER, I had a vision of a bonfire in which countless volumes of love-twisted and love-twisting works of literature, including sculptures and films, were reduced to ash, and from the ashes were intuitively yet precisely drawn filaments on which were inscribed prophetic dialogues that voiced the poet's relationship with the forces that would come to make, and perpetually threaten to unmake, her world. The second time I read YOU & ME FOREVER, there was neither filament nor fire, but an animated frieze, or maybe rainfall or serrated light, of intimate retribution, that is retributive intimacy. I say read, but that is not the word that accurately describes what actually happened."--Brandon Shimoda