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Book Synopsis The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave by : Venetria K. Patton
Download or read book The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave written by Venetria K. Patton and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores black women writers treatment of the ancestor figure. The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave investigates the treatment of the ancestor figure in Toni Cade Bambaras The Salt Eaters, Paule Marshalls Praisesong for the Widow, Phyllis Alesia Perrys Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Toni Morrisons Beloved,Tananarive Dues The Between, and Julie Dashs film, Daughters of the Dust in order to understand how they draw on African cosmology and the interrelationship of ancestors, elders, and children to promote healing within the African American community. Venetria K. Patton suggests that the experience of slavery with its concomitant view of black women as natally dead has impacted African American women writers emphasis on elders and ancestors as they seek means to counteract notions of black women as somehow disconnected from the progeny of their wombs. This misperception is in part addressed via a rich kinship system, which includes the living and the dead. Patton notes an uncanny connection between depictions of elder, ancestor, and child figures in these texts and Kongo cosmology. These references suggest that these works are examples of Africanisms or African retentions, which continue to impact African American culture.
Book Synopsis Lieberman's Day by : Stuart M. Kaminsky
Download or read book Lieberman's Day written by Stuart M. Kaminsky and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chicago cop is out to avenge his nephew’s murder in this “masterly creation” that puts the Edgar Award–winning author in “the Parker/Paretsky league” (Chicago Tribune). When you’re a sixty-two-year-old cop with bad knees, most days feel pretty long. But the longest day of Abe Lieberman’s life begins just after midnight when he learns his nephew David has been shot dead and David’s pregnant wife has been gravely injured by two gunmen trying to rob the couple. Now Carol is barely clinging to life, and it’s up to Lieberman to track down the killers. With the help of his partner, the troubled alcoholic Bill Hanrahan, Lieberman will turn the city upside down to find the men who stole his nephew’s bright future. But as they step out into the howling Chicago wind, it’s clear both partners will need to fight to survive the day that started out terrible and is about to get a lot worse. This day in the life of two veteran Chicago cops is “beautifully rendered . . . Kaminsky is extraordinarily attuned to the domestic minutiae of his detectives’ lives” (The New York Times Book Review).
Book Synopsis Women Behaving Badly by : John Stark Bellamy, II
Download or read book Women Behaving Badly written by John Stark Bellamy, II and published by Gray & Company, Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women who murder . . . why are they so much more fascinating than their male counterparts? For evidence, dip into any of the sixteen strange-but-true tales collected in this anthology by Cleveland’s leading historical crime writer. You’ll meet: • Ill-fated Catherine Manz, the “Bad Cinderella” who poisoned her step-sister in revenge for years of mistreatment, then made her getaway wearing her victim’s most fetching outfit, a red dress and an enormous feathered hat . . . • Velma West, the big-city girl who scandalized rural Lake County in the 1920s with her “unnatural passions”—and ended her marriage-made-in-hell with a swift hammer’s blow to the skull of her dull husband, Eddie . . . • Eva Kaber, “Lakewood’s Lady Borgia,” who, along with her mother and daughter, conspired to dispose of an inconvenient husband with arsenic and knife-wielding hired killers . . . • Martha Wise, Medina’s not-so-merry widow, who poisoned a dozen relatives—including her husband, mother, and brother—because she enjoyed going to funerals . . . And a cast of other, equally fascinating women who behaved very, very badly. This is wickedly entertaining reading!
Book Synopsis Investigating Women by : David Skene-Melvin
Download or read book Investigating Women written by David Skene-Melvin and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet some fascinating females: Jennie Baxer, 1890s journalist and world traveller Nelvana of the Northern Lights, created for comic book-starved Canadians during the Second World War the 60s’ Eve Adam, the "Rock Hit of Prague," whose methods violate all the "rules" for detective books and, very much of the 1990s, vampire detective Vicki Nelson, whose beat is Toronto’s Queen Street West As well as the fifteen investigating women in the book, Skene-Melvin’s introduction describes hundreds of female sleuths and their creators in an in-depth analysis of women detective fiction by Canadians. You will recognize many of the writers included in Investigating Women: Grant Allen, Robert Barr, Marisa De Franceschi, Adrian Dingle, Katherine V. Forrest, Hulbert Footner, Maurice Gagnon, Margaret Haffner, Joan Hall Hovey, Tanya Huff, Medora Sale, Josef Skvorecky, and Betsy Struthers. For each of the selections a brief note sets the story; bibliographies help readers find other books by the authors featured in Investigating Women.
Book Synopsis Dead in the Driver's Seat by : Connie Feddersen
Download or read book Dead in the Driver's Seat written by Connie Feddersen and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the career of her fiance+a7, Police Chief Nick Thorn, on the line, public accountant and amateur sleuth Amanda Hazard trails a ring of car thieves and discovers some very shady deals going down at her town's only car dealership. Original.
Book Synopsis The Salt Eaters by : Toni Cade Bambara
Download or read book The Salt Eaters written by Toni Cade Bambara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this "hard-nosed, wise, funny" novel (Los Angeles Times). One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also "inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion” (The New York Times Book Review). Though they all united in their search for the healing properties of salt, some of them are centered, some are off-balance; some are frightened, and some are daring. From the men who live off welfare women to the mud mothers who carry their children in their hides, the novel brilliantly explores the narcissistic aspect of despair and the tremendous responsibility that comes with physical, spiritual, and mental well-being.
Download or read book Death Sentence written by Jerry Bledsoe and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-05-18 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “true story that reads like a novel,” the #1 New York Times–bestselling author reveals the facts behind a notorious Southern murder case (Library Journal). When North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor died after a sudden illness, his forty-six-year-old fiancée, Velma Barfield, was overcome with grief. Taylor’s family grieved with her—until the autopsy revealed traces of arsenic poisoning. Turned over to the authorities by her own son, Velma stunned her family with more revelations. This wasn’t the first time she had committed cold-blooded murder, and she would eventually be tried by the “world’s deadliest prosecutor” and sentenced to death. This book probes Velma’s stark descent into madness, her prescription drug addiction, and her effort to turn her life around through Christianity. From her harrowing childhood to the crimes that incited a national debate over the death penalty, to the final moments of her execution, Velma Barfield’s life of crime and punishment, revenge and redemption, this is crime reporting at its most gripping and profound. “A painfully intimate, moving story about the life and death of the only woman executed in the U.S. between 1962–1998 . . . With graceful writing and thorough reporting, it makes the reader look hard at something dark and sad in the human soul . . . Breathes new life into the true crime genre.” —The News & Observer “Undertakes to answer the questions about the justice system and the motives that drive women to kill.” —The Washington Post Book World “An extraordinary piece of writing . . . The most chilling description of a legal execution that we are ever likely to get.” —Citizen-Times “Taut and engrossing on the nature of justice and the death penalty as well as on guilt and responsibility.” —Booklist
Book Synopsis The Dark Deception (Daphne and Velma #2) by : Morgan Baden
Download or read book The Dark Deception (Daphne and Velma #2) written by Morgan Baden and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the classic girl detectives like you've never seen them before! Daphne Blake and Velma Dinkley have a terrifying new mystery to solve — and this time, the culprit is far more frightening than any man in a mask... Daphne Blake and Velma Dinkley have a reputation to uphold. Despite their differences, the two teens worked together to solve the case of the Vanishing Girl. But there are still a lot of mysteries buried in the town of Crystal Cove. Including one the Vanishing Girl herself (aka Daphne's friend Marcy) asked them to look into-what deep dark secret is their old friend Shaggy Rogers trying to protect?The two teen detectives have barely started investigating that case when another mystery strikes. Hundreds of valuable gems begin washing ashore, and soon everyone is convinced it's a sign from the Lady Vampire of the Bay, a ghostly creature who's said to have haunted the town a hundred years earlier.Daphne and Velma are convinced there's a logical reason the jewels have appeared, and they're determined to find out what it is. But asking questions about Crystal Cove's legends can be dangerous. It seems like everyone in town has something to hide . . . especially the families who've profited off the town's mysterious past. Can the girls discover what's lurking behind all this dark deception?
Book Synopsis Policing the State, Second Edition by : Louis A. Ruprecht
Download or read book Policing the State, Second Edition written by Louis A. Ruprecht and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manner in which Kathryn Johnston died so tragically at the hands of Atlanta narcotics police on the evening of November 21, 2006, anticipates and informs a number of very contemporary--and extremely volatile--issues that have become closely associated with the name of Ferguson, Missouri. As the "Black Lives Matter" movement makes clear, the issues center primarily around the relationship between racial identity and lethal police violence in the United States today. In this Second Edition of Policing the State, Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. attempts to situate both "Ferguson" and "Black Lives Matter" within a relatively narrow historical frame of the two years since Policing the State was first published, as well as a longer history of the emergence of a more violent policing regime and an ever-more intensely carceral society that came on the scene quite suddenly in the United States in the mid-to-late 1980s.
Book Synopsis The Thanksgiving Mystery by : Gail Herman
Download or read book The Thanksgiving Mystery written by Gail Herman and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gang heads to a farm to pick vegetables for Thanksgiving dinner, but Daphne, Velma, and Fred seem to have turned into pumpkinhead monsters!
Book Synopsis Your̕e the Doctor! by : Katharine Kavanaugh
Download or read book Your̕e the Doctor! written by Katharine Kavanaugh and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Die Buying written by Laura DiSilverio and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma-Joy Ferris likes mall cop work, even though it's a bit more humdrum than the military policing she did in the army. But there's no time to be bored when someone 'liberates' a 15-foot python from the Herpetology Hut, and a mannequin turns out to be a very real corpse.
Book Synopsis Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch by : Haywood Smith
Download or read book Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch written by Haywood Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10-19 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her husband of nearly 30 years runs off with a stripper, Georgia housewife Linwood Scott returns to her eccentric family where she learns that love can inhabit even the most dysfunctional of relationships. Martin's Press.
Book Synopsis Velma Still Cooks in Leeway by : Vinita Hampton Wright
Download or read book Velma Still Cooks in Leeway written by Vinita Hampton Wright and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Velma Brendle, "the town's chief cook and part-time janitor for Jerusalem Baptist Church ... finds herself dealing with nearly all of the town's problems." Includes several recipes.
Book Synopsis The Jailing of Cecelia Capture by : Janet Campbell Hale
Download or read book The Jailing of Cecelia Capture written by Janet Campbell Hale and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1987-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of urban Indian life.
Download or read book Velma Gone Awry written by Matt Cost and published by Encircle Mysteries. This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Matt Cost brings us back to Brooklyn in the Roaring '20s and introduces us to Hungarian PI, 8 Ballo, who is hired to find the daughter of a wealthy businessman. The search will lead him to cross paths with Dorothy Parker, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Bugsy Siegel, Babe Ruth, and many more as he tries to uncover why Velma went awry. 8 Ballo's mother was certain he was going to be born a girl, but when he comes out a boy, she writes down simply the number 8, as he has seven older siblings. She meant to change it to a real name at some point but never got around to it. Now, in his mid-thirties, 8 is a college educated man, a veteran of the Great War, jilted in love, and has his own private investigator business. He enjoys his friends, a good book, jazz music, brown liquor, and a very simple life. When he is hired to find the young flapper daughter of a German businessman, life suddenly becomes much more complicated.
Book Synopsis LOST and FOUND by : Kenneth Clair MacMillan
Download or read book LOST and FOUND written by Kenneth Clair MacMillan and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the nineteenth century was drawing to a close, several significant social shifts were occurring concurrently in Canada. One of the most significant changes that affected the entire country, was the opening of the Western territories to settlement, and the subsequent development of the provinces Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan. At the same time the expansion of the railway system enabled people to move to previously unheard-of locations with an ease that was inconceivable a generation earlier. Thousands of families were drawn from various places in Canada, each seeking a future in the new land. The story I tell is the account of one such family. All of the characters are real people, who by one means or another found their way into a new community and life. The events are all real, but they are not singular. The kinds of things which happen in this story happened again and again, to various people, in various places, at various times. Henry and Velma’s story is the story of countless from countless rural places in Canada, who, for a variety of reasons moved to one city or another looking for an opportunity to build a life. In the process, and in the alienation caused by their dislocation, they came in contact with other people of like mind, who shared a common need: to be loved and accepted as they found their way in the complex society of the twentieth century city.
