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Beating the Graves

Author : Tsitsi Jaji
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496200136
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Beating the Graves written by Tsitsi Jaji and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Tsitsi Ella Jaji’s Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an experience increasingly common among contemporary Zimbabweans. Vivid evocations of the landscape of Zimbabwe filter critiques of contemporary political conditions and ecological challenges, veiled in the multiple meanings of poetic metaphor. Many poems explore the genre of praise poetry, which in Shona culture is a form of social currency for greeting elders and peers with a recitation of the characteristics of one’s clan. Others reflect on how diasporic life shapes family relations. The praise songs in this volume pay particular homage to the powerful women and gender-queer ancestors of the poet’s lineage and thought. Honoring influences ranging from Caribbean literature to classical music and engaging metaphors from rural Zimbabwe to the post-steel economy of Youngstown, Ohio, Jaji articulates her own ars poetica. These words revel in the utter ordinariness of living globally, of writing in the presence of all the languages of the world, at home everywhere, and never at rest.

Sinister Graves

Author : Marcie Rendon
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641295236
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Sinister Graves written by Marcie Rendon and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mother Tongues

Author : Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810141361
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Mother Tongues written by Tsitsi Ella Jaji and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize Tsitsi Ella Jaji’s second full-length collection of poems, Mother Tongues, begins at home, with the first words and loves we learn, and the most intimate vows we swear. How deep does your language go back? Jaji’s artful verse is a three-tiered gourd of sustenance, vessel, and folklore. The tongues speak the beginnings and the present; they capture and claim the losses, the ironies, and a poet’s human evolution. Mother Tongues is a collection of language unto itself that translates directly to the heart.

Africa in Stereo

Author : Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199936374
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Africa in Stereo written by Tsitsi Ella Jaji and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stereomodernism and amplifying the Black Atlantic -- Sight reading: early Black South African transcriptions of freedom -- Négritude musicology: poetry, performance and statecraft in Senegal -- What women want: selling hi-fi in consumer magazines and film -- 'Soul to soul': echo-locating histories of slavery and freedom from Ghana -- Pirate's choice: hacking into (post- )pan-African futures -- Epilogue: Singing songs.

Two Graves

Author : Douglas Preston
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 145551053X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Two Graves written by Douglas Preston and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Agent Pendergast in the heart of the South American jungle as he investigates a string of murders that lead him to his wife's kidnappers -- and spark memories that may haunt him forever. After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly, tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York apartment and shuts out the world. But when a string of bizarre murders erupts across several Manhattan hotels-perpetrated by a boy who seems to have an almost psychic ability to elude capture-NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta asks his friend Pendergast for help. Reluctant at first, Pendergast soon discovers that the killings are a message from his wife's kidnappers. But why a message? And what does it mean? When the kidnappers strike again at those closest to Pendergast, the FBI agent, filled anew with vengeful fury, sets out to track down and destroy those responsible. His journey takes him deep into the trackless forests of South America, where he ultimately finds himself face to face with an old evil that-rather than having been eradicated-is stirring anew... and with potentially world-altering consequences. Confucius once said: "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, first dig two graves." Pendergast is about to learn the hard way just how true those words still ring.

Girl at the Grave

Author : Teri Bailey Black
Publisher : Tor Teen
ISBN 13 : 0765399482
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Girl at the Grave written by Teri Bailey Black and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut author unearths the long-buried secrets of a small New England town in the 1850s in this richly atmospheric Gothic tale of murder, guilt, redemption, and finding love where it's least expected.

Flirting with Disaster

Author : Jane Graves
Publisher : Tule Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1950510212
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Flirting with Disaster written by Jane Graves and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the man she couldn't have...she was the woman he couldn't forget On a humanitarian mission to fly doctors to a remote village in Mexico, pilot Lisa Merrick discovers something sinister lurking behind the organization in charge. Her plane is sabotaged, leaving her trapped in the Mexican wilderness with a price on her head and no way out. Injured and desperate, she contacts the one man she knows will help her: Dave DeMarco, a tough but compassionate Texas cop with whom she was once wildly in love. Dave DeMarco is stunned when a woman from his past calls him late one night with an incredible story of smuggling, sabotage and attempted murder. Soon, though, his mission to rescue Lisa becomes a struggle for survival against an enemy who wants them both dead. When the danger they face clashes with the passion that still burns between them, Dave vows to protect the woman he never stopped loving – and keep her in his life forever.

The Ballad of Perilous Graves

Author : Alex Jennings
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0759557217
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book The Ballad of Perilous Graves written by Alex Jennings and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Funny, wild, witty, and profound.”―Victor LaValle "A wild and wonderful debut, teeming with music, family and art."—New York Times "Magical, lyrical, gritty, otherworldly…hype like Bayou Classic in the 90s."—P. Djèlí Clark One of the Best Fantasy Books of 2022: New York Times; Oprah Daily; Vulture; Gizmodo; Boston Public Library A fun and fantastical love letter to New Orleans unfolds when a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song in this wildly imaginative debut. Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. To Perilous Graves, it’s simply home. Perry knows Nola’s rhythm as intimately as his own heartbeat. So when the city’s Great Magician starts appearing in odd places and essential songs are forgotten, Perry knows trouble is afoot. Nine songs of power have escaped from the piano that maintains the city’s beat, and without them, Nola will fail. Unwilling to watch his home be destroyed, Perry will sacrifice everything to save it. But a storm is brewing, and the Haint of All Haints is awake. Nola’s time might be coming to an end.

The January Children

Author : Safia Elhillo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803295987
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The January Children written by Safia Elhillo and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. The poems mythologize family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan's history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Several of the poems speak to the late Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafez, who addressed many of his songs to the asmarani--an Arabic term of endearment for a brown-skinned or dark-skinned person. Elhillo explores Arabness and Africanness and the tensions generated by a hyphenated identity in those two worlds.

A Grand Complication

Author : Stacy Perman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439190100
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book A Grand Complication written by Stacy Perman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two wealthy and powerful men engage in a decades-long contest to create and possess the most remarkable watch in history. James Ward Packard of Warren, Ohio, was an entrepreneur and a talented engineer of infinite curiosity, a self-made man who earned millions from his inventions, including the design and manufacture of America’s first luxury car—the elegant and storied Packard. Henry Graves, Jr., was the very essence of blue-blooded refinement in the early 1900s: son of a Wall Street financier, a central figure in New York high society, and a connoisseur of beautiful things—especially fine watches. Then, as now, expensive watches were the ultimate sign of luxury and wealth, but in the early twentieth century the limitless ambition, wealth, and creativity of these two men pushed the boundaries of mathematics, astronomy, craftsmanship, technology, and physics to create ever more ingenious timepieces. In any watch, features beyond the display of hours, minutes, and seconds are known as “complications.” Packard and Graves spurred acclaimed Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe to create the Mona Lisa of timepieces—a fabled watch that incorporated twenty-four complications and took nearly eight years to design and build. For the period, it was the most complicated watch ever created. For years it disappeared, but then it surfaced at a Sotheby’s auction in 1999, touching off a heated bidding war, shattering all known records when it fetched $11 million from an anonymous bidder. New York Times bestselling author Stacy Perman takes us from the clubby world of New York high society into the ateliers of the greatest Swiss watchmakers, and into the high-octane, often secretive subculture of modern-day watch collecting. With meticulous research, vivid historical details, and a wealth of dynamic personalities, A Grand Complication is the fascinating story of the thrilling duel between two of the most intriguing men of the early twentieth century. Above all, it is a sweeping chronicle of innovation, the desire for beauty, and the lengths people will go to possess it.

Sporting Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Sporting Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut

Author : Sarah Graves
Publisher : Kensington Cozies
ISBN 13 : 149671136X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut written by Sarah Graves and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bakeshop owners Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree and her best friend Ellie White expect they’ll be busy baking up a storm when a pirate festival blows into town—not marooned in a new investigation . . . Everything is shipshape at Jake and Ellie’s new waterfront bakery, The Chocolate Moose, especially now that the annual Pirate Festival is dropping anchor in their quaint island village of Eastport, Maine. Jake and Ellie are ready for the bounty of tourists sure to flood their shop. But their plans quickly sink when the body of celebrity foodie, Henry Hadlyme, is discovered in the Moose’s basement. Jake and Ellie are horrified, but their shock turns to dismay when Jake is pegged for the murder. Now, to clear Jake’s name and save the shop, Jake and Ellie must swashbuckle down and figure out who among Henry’s numerous enemies scuttled him in the cellar. Alas, dead men tell no tales, so Jake and Ellie will have to get to the bottom of the case on their own and find the real killer before anyone else is forced to walk the plank . . . Includes a Recipe! "A treat for aficionados of shopkeeper-sleuth cozies." —Kirkus Reviews “Entertaining. . . . Cozy fans are sure to have fun.” —Publishers Weekly

Good-bye to All That

Author : Robert Graves
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141395273
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Good-bye to All That written by Robert Graves and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of the present foreign misery, but as a nation it was nothing." This is the original version of Robert Graves's intense memoir of the First World War, restoring this raw, emotionally truthful, darkly comic work to the way it was first written, by a young man still reeling from the trenches. 'We see the dark heart of the book even more clearly, and hear it beating even more loudly, in this original edition than we do in the comparatively careful and considered terms of the later one' Andrew Motion 'One of the most candid self-portraits, warts and all, ever painted' TLS

The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf, the chace, and every other diversion interesting to the man of pleasure and enterprize

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf, the chace, and every other diversion interesting to the man of pleasure and enterprize written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Early graves, a book for the bereaved

Author : John Ross MacDuff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Early graves, a book for the bereaved written by John Ross MacDuff and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Prophet

Author : Kahlil Gibran
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9390287820
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.

The Facility

Author : Simon Lelic
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0143120689
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Facility written by Simon Lelic and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Who are you? Are you the police? This isn't legal, you know. You can't hold me like this." In a near-future dystopian Britain, democracy has been undermined. Emboldened by new anti-terrorism laws, police start to “disappear” people from the streets for unspecified crimes. But when unassuming dentist Arthur Priestley is snatched and held prisoner at a top-secret facility, his estranged wife, Julia, and a brave but naive journalist named Tom Clarke embark on a harrowing quest for the truth. Following a trail that leads to the very top of government, they soon find themselves fighting for their lives. Well-crafted, fast-paced, and totally compelling, The Facility is a brilliant thriller that resonates eerily with the timbre of our times.