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Mama Rocks the Empty Cradle

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Author : Nora DeLoach
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 030779492X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Mama Rocks the Empty Cradle written by Nora DeLoach and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two things Mama knows: sweet-potato pie...and murder. Old bones and buried secrets... I would have thought a bunion operation might slow Mama down, but I should have known better. We found ourselves knee-deep in somebody else's trouble even before the surgery, when we saw crazy old Miss Birdie at the grocery store with a baby that didn't belong to her. It wasn't twenty-four hours later that the baby's mother, a young woman with a wild reputation, was murdered--and the baby had vanished. And when my Daddy's wandering dog began bringing home old bones of the most shocking kind, no way Mama wasn't going to start snooping--with me doing her legwork. It's a good thing I still had two good feet, because before long, I was running for my life...as babies' cries and women's tears mingled in a crime fueled by motives as ancient as human memory--greed, jealousy, and old-fashioned revenge.

Mama Stalks the Past

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Author : Nora DeLoach
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307794938
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Mama Stalks the Past written by Nora DeLoach and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When my mama receives an angry visit from Nat Mixon, she learns some startling news. Nat's mother and Mama's neighbor, spiteful recluse Hannah Mixon, has just died--and left a large parcel of land to Mama! Nat is convinced Mama stole his inheritance, and to save her reputation, Mama's determined to find out why Hannah named her in her will. And when it turns out Hannah was murdered, Mama needs to find more answers. With the help of three notorious local gossips--and me--Mama uncovers a long, bloody history of greed and family betrayal connected to the land Mama's inherited. And unless she discovers the truth about this plot of land, it may become her burial plot....

Mama Pursues Murderous Shadows

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Author : Nora DeLoach
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307794946
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Mama Pursues Murderous Shadows written by Nora DeLoach and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Mama on the case, murder meets its match.... A tryst with a deadly twist. All I'd wanted to do back home in Otis, South Carolina, was whip up a wonderful thirty-fifth anniversary party for my parents. But we'd hardly picked the baker before Mama found herself volunteering her services for the one thing she did nearly as well as cook. And that is sleuthing. You see, Ruby Spikes was found dead in a motor inn with a gun in her hand, a suicide note, and a certified check receipt to a man no one ever heard of--not even the trio of Otis gossips who are Mama's rock-solid source of information. Neither they nor Mama, despite Ruby's tormented diary, were convinced she went to her reward willingly. But this was a young woman with an outsize bundle of secrets and enemies. And when Mama starts sorting them out, and sudden death makes a return visit, it looks like she'll uncover the truth only by making herself--and me--a killer's next target....

Mama Cracks a Mask of Innocence

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Author : Nora DeLoach
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307794954
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Mama Cracks a Mask of Innocence written by Nora DeLoach and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's not a killer in the world who can hide from Mama.... Dark encounters and deadly lessons I was happy to volunteer a few days back home to help Mama distribute clothing to the needy. But I didn't expect big-city dangers to follow me all the way to Otis, South Carolina. Instead of doing good deeds and cooking up a storm, Mama was digging deep into shady secrets after young Brenda Long was discovered dead in a shallow grave. Someone wanted Brenda silenced bad enough to kill, and the list of suspects is long. But is the killer the drug-dealing teacher that Brenda threatened to expose? Or can it have been the man who was sent to jail after Brenda caught him stealing — now paroled and bent on exacting his revenge? Everyone knows that Mama has had good luck as the town's unofficial sleuth. But as a maze of tangled relationships leads to dead ends and dead bodies, time is slipping away. For our worst enemies can masquerade as friends — and even Mama's luck can run out....

Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised)

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Author : Colleen Barnett
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615950109
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised) written by Colleen Barnett and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.

100 Most Popular African American Authors

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Author : Bernard A. Drew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313090440
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book 100 Most Popular African American Authors written by Bernard A. Drew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a one stop resource, containing 100 profiles of your favorite contemporary African American writers, along with complete lists of their works. Focusing on writers who have made their mark in the past 25 years, this guide stresses African American writers of popular and genre literature-from Rochelle Alers and Octavia Butler, and Samuel Delaney to Walter Mosley, and Omar Tyree, with a few classic literary giants also included. Short profiles provide an overview of the author's life and summarize his or her writing accomplishments. Many are accompanied by black-and-white photos of the author. The biographies are followed by a complete list of the author's published works. Where can you find information about popular, contemporary African American authors? Web sites can be difficult to locate and unreliable, particularly for some of the newer authors, and their contents are inconsistent and often inaccurate. Although there are a number of reference works on African American writers, the emphasis tends to be on historical and literary authors. Here's a single volume containing 100 profiles of your favorite contemporary African American writers, along with lists of their works. Short profiles provide an overview of the author's life and summarize his or her writing accomplishments. Many are accompanied by black-and-white photos of the author. The biographies are followed by a complete list of the author's published works. Focusing on writers who have made their mark in the past 25 years, this guide covers African American writers of popular and genre literature—from Rochelle Alers, Octavia Butler, and Samuel Delaney to Walter Mosley, Omar Tyree, and Zane. A few classic literary giants who are popular with today's readers are also included—e.g., Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Richard Wright. Readers who want to know more about their favorite African American authors or find other books written by those authors, students researching AA authors for reports and papers, and educators seeking background information for classes in African American literature will find this guide invaluable. (High school and up.)

Sequels

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Author : Janet G. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838909671
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Sequels written by Janet G. Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

African American Mystery Writers

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Author : Frankie Y. Bailey
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786452331
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book African American Mystery Writers written by Frankie Y. Bailey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes the movement by African American authors from slave narratives and antebellum newspapers into fiction writing, and the subsequent developments of black genre fiction through the present. It analyzes works by modern African American mystery writers, focusing on sleuths, the social locations of crime, victims and offenders, the notion of "doing justice," and the role of African American cultural vernacular in mystery fiction. A final section focuses on readers and reading, examining African American mystery writers' access to the marketplace and the issue of the "double audience" raised by earlier writers. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Sleuths in Skirts

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Author : Frances A. DellaCava
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815338840
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Sleuths in Skirts written by Frances A. DellaCava and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

Free Within Ourselves

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Author : Jewell Parker Rhodes
Publisher : Main Street Books
ISBN 13 : 0307434141
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Free Within Ourselves written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bird by Bird for the African-American market--A top-notch writer's guide filled with practical guidance, essays, and journal exercises for the African-American writer including advice from E.Lynn Harris, Charles Johnson, and Yolanda Joe. In her introduction, Jewell Parker Rhodes writes: "Never (in four years of college or five years of graduate school) was I assigned an exercise or given a story example that included a person of color...While the educational system and the publishing world have become progressively more welcoming of African-American authors, there is still little attention to educating, supporting, and sustaining the writing process of African-American authors. Free Within Ourselves is a solid first step--it is the book I wished I had when I started out as a writer. It is meant to be a song of encouragement for African-American artisits and visionaries. Free Within Ourselves is a step-by-step introduction to fictional technique, exploring story ideas, and charting one's progress, as well as a resource guide for publishing fiction." For the legions of people who have a novel stuck in their word processors, help is finally on the way! Free Within Ourselves is an excellent guide to all the elements necessary to crafting fiction: character development, point of view, plot, atmosphere, dialogue, diction, sentence variety, and revision. Writing techniques are taught using exercises, journaling, story examples, and analyses of famous writing fragments, as well as several complete stories (including those of James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Edwidge Dandicat, among others). The book is further enhanced by inspirational advice from successful contemporary black writers (such as Bebe Moore Campbell, Rita Dove, Henry Louis Gates, John Edgar Wideman, and others), a bibliography, and a guide to workshops, journals, magazines, contests, and fellowships supportive of black arts.

Library Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1068 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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What Do I Read Next? 00 V2

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Author : Gale Group
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 : 9780787649647
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book What Do I Read Next? 00 V2 written by Gale Group and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Low Road

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Author : Katharine Quarmby
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800182406
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Low Road written by Katharine Quarmby and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1828, two young women were torn apart as they were sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay. Will they ever meet again? Norfolk, 1813. In the quiet Waveney Valley, the body of a woman – Mary Tyrell – is staked through the heart after her death by suicide. She had been under arrest for the suspected murder of her newborn child. Mary leaves behind a young daughter, Hannah, who is later sent away to the Refuge for the Destitute in London, where she will be trained for a life of domestic service. It is at the Refuge that Hannah meets Annie Simpkins, a fellow resident, and together they forge a friendship that deepens into fiery love. But the strength of this bond is put to the test when the girls are caught stealing from the Refuge's laundry, which leads to them being sent to Botany Bay, setting them on separate paths that may never cross again. Based on a true story, The Low Road is a gripping, atmospheric tale that brings to life the hidden working-class voices of the past, it is the untold origin story of Britain's female convicts. But it is also a survival story, and a moving evocation of love that blossomed in the face of prejudice and ill fortune. A bleak, brutal, yet tender tale.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: U-Z

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Author : Hans A. Ostrom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: U-Z written by Hans A. Ostrom and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to meet the needs of high school students, undergraduates, and general readers, this encyclopedia is the most comprehensive reference available on African American literature from its origins to the present. Other works include many brief entries, or offer extended biographical sketches of a limited selection of writers. This encyclopedia surpasses existing references by offering full and current coverage of a vast range of authors and topics. While most of the entries are on individual authors, the encyclopedia gathers together information about the genres and geographical and cultural environments in which these writers have worked, and the social, political, and aesthetic movements in which they have participated. Thus the encyclopedia gives special attention to the historical and cultural forces that have shaped African American writing. - Publisher.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: D-H

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Author : Hans A. Ostrom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: D-H written by Hans A. Ostrom and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to meet the needs of high school students, undergraduates, and general readers, this encyclopedia is the most comprehensive reference available on African American literature from its origins to the present. Other works include many brief entries, or offer extended biographical sketches of a limited selection of writers. This encyclopedia surpasses existing references by offering full and current coverage of a vast range of authors and topics. While most of the entries are on individual authors, the encyclopedia gathers together information about the genres and geographical and cultural environments in which these writers have worked, and the social, political, and aesthetic movements in which they have participated. Thus the encyclopedia gives special attention to the historical and cultural forces that have shaped African American writing. - Publisher.

The Cumulative Book Index

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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News for South Carolina Libraries

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Author : South Carolina State Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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