Author: Chinna Dunigan
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Almost every place of worship in the Mississippi Delta is filled on any given Sunday with practically every black woman in town. They're quoting scriptures from behind beautiful smiles and offering godly counsel for hurting souls. Leia Devine, like so many other black women, sought spiritual healing to overcome generational curses and personal demons. Digging deep in her past uncovers layers of tragedies, that composes this young black woman into the epitome of the Mississippi Blues. She looked to those smiling faces as a segue to religion to lift her broken spirit. What she got instead was familiar faces of worldly perpetrators camouflaged as workers of God. Did the Bible Belt strangle the life out of Leia? Her journey for healing through religion lead to her discovery of God. But was it enough to save her life from being buried in the Mississippi mud.
Buried in the Mississippi Mud
Author: Chinna Dunigan
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Almost every place of worship in the Mississippi Delta is filled on any given Sunday with practically every black woman in town. They're quoting scriptures from behind beautiful smiles and offering godly counsel for hurting souls. Leia Devine, like so many other black women, sought spiritual healing to overcome generational curses and personal demons. Digging deep in her past uncovers layers of tragedies, that composes this young black woman into the epitome of the Mississippi Blues. She looked to those smiling faces as a segue to religion to lift her broken spirit. What she got instead was familiar faces of worldly perpetrators camouflaged as workers of God. Did the Bible Belt strangle the life out of Leia? Her journey for healing through religion lead to her discovery of God. But was it enough to save her life from being buried in the Mississippi mud.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Almost every place of worship in the Mississippi Delta is filled on any given Sunday with practically every black woman in town. They're quoting scriptures from behind beautiful smiles and offering godly counsel for hurting souls. Leia Devine, like so many other black women, sought spiritual healing to overcome generational curses and personal demons. Digging deep in her past uncovers layers of tragedies, that composes this young black woman into the epitome of the Mississippi Blues. She looked to those smiling faces as a segue to religion to lift her broken spirit. What she got instead was familiar faces of worldly perpetrators camouflaged as workers of God. Did the Bible Belt strangle the life out of Leia? Her journey for healing through religion lead to her discovery of God. But was it enough to save her life from being buried in the Mississippi mud.
Mississippi Mud
Author: Edward Humes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476775885
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
NOW UPDATED WITH EXPLOSIVE COURTROOM DETAILS. . . . The riveting true-crime account of the heartbreaking murder that shook a Southern city to its corrupt foundation BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI: After the fatal shooting of one of the city’s most prominent couples—Vincent Sherry was a circuit court judge; his wife, Margaret, was running for mayor—their grief-stricken daughter came home to uncover the truth behind the crime that shocked a community and to follow leads that police seemed unable or unwilling to pursue. What Lynne Sposito soon discovered were bizarre connections to the Dixie Mafia, a predatory band of criminals who ran The Strip, Biloxi’s beachfront hub of sex, drugs, and sleaze. Armed with a savvy private eye—and a .357 Magnum—Lynne bravely entered a teeming underworld of merciless killers, ruthless con men, and venal politicians in order to bring her parents’ assassins to justice.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476775885
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
NOW UPDATED WITH EXPLOSIVE COURTROOM DETAILS. . . . The riveting true-crime account of the heartbreaking murder that shook a Southern city to its corrupt foundation BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI: After the fatal shooting of one of the city’s most prominent couples—Vincent Sherry was a circuit court judge; his wife, Margaret, was running for mayor—their grief-stricken daughter came home to uncover the truth behind the crime that shocked a community and to follow leads that police seemed unable or unwilling to pursue. What Lynne Sposito soon discovered were bizarre connections to the Dixie Mafia, a predatory band of criminals who ran The Strip, Biloxi’s beachfront hub of sex, drugs, and sleaze. Armed with a savvy private eye—and a .357 Magnum—Lynne bravely entered a teeming underworld of merciless killers, ruthless con men, and venal politicians in order to bring her parents’ assassins to justice.
Mississippi Mud
Mississippi Mud
Mississippi Mud
Author: Harry Barris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
She Had Some Horses
Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039333421X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
A collection of poems in which Joy Harjo explores themes of female despair, awakening, power, and love.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039333421X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
A collection of poems in which Joy Harjo explores themes of female despair, awakening, power, and love.
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324036494
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet. Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice” (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks “from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all” (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love. In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving reflections on our contemporary moment. Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo’s inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from Navajo horse songs and jazz, reckons with home and loss, and listens to the natural messengers of the earth. As evidenced in this transcendent collection, Joy Harjo’s “poetry is light and elixir, the very best prescription for us in wounded times” (Sandra Cisneros, Millions).
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324036494
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet. Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice” (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks “from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all” (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love. In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving reflections on our contemporary moment. Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo’s inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from Navajo horse songs and jazz, reckons with home and loss, and listens to the natural messengers of the earth. As evidenced in this transcendent collection, Joy Harjo’s “poetry is light and elixir, the very best prescription for us in wounded times” (Sandra Cisneros, Millions).
Prayers for the People
Author: Rebecca Louise Carter
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022663566X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
“Grieve well and you grow stronger.” Anthropologist Rebecca Louise Carter heard this wisdom over and over while living in post-Katrina New Orleans, where everyday violence disproportionately affects Black communities. What does it mean to grieve well? How does mourning strengthen survivors in the face of ongoing threats to Black life? Inspired by ministers and guided by grieving mothers who hold birthday parties for their deceased sons, Prayers for the People traces the emergence of a powerful new African American religious ideal at the intersection of urban life, death, and social and spiritual change. Carter frames this sensitive ethnography within the complex history of structural violence in America—from the legacies of slavery to free but unequal citizenship, from mass incarceration and overpolicing to social abandonment and the unequal distribution of goods and services. And yet Carter offers a vision of restorative kinship by which communities of faith work against the denial of Black personhood as well as the violent severing of social and familial bonds. A timely directive for human relations during a contentious time in America’s history, Prayers for the People is also a hopeful vision of what an inclusive, nonviolent, and just urban society could be.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022663566X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
“Grieve well and you grow stronger.” Anthropologist Rebecca Louise Carter heard this wisdom over and over while living in post-Katrina New Orleans, where everyday violence disproportionately affects Black communities. What does it mean to grieve well? How does mourning strengthen survivors in the face of ongoing threats to Black life? Inspired by ministers and guided by grieving mothers who hold birthday parties for their deceased sons, Prayers for the People traces the emergence of a powerful new African American religious ideal at the intersection of urban life, death, and social and spiritual change. Carter frames this sensitive ethnography within the complex history of structural violence in America—from the legacies of slavery to free but unequal citizenship, from mass incarceration and overpolicing to social abandonment and the unequal distribution of goods and services. And yet Carter offers a vision of restorative kinship by which communities of faith work against the denial of Black personhood as well as the violent severing of social and familial bonds. A timely directive for human relations during a contentious time in America’s history, Prayers for the People is also a hopeful vision of what an inclusive, nonviolent, and just urban society could be.
Lost Missouri Treasure
Author: Craig Gaines
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439679525
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Lost and Forgotten Gems of Missouri History From the mining industry to the shipping industry to the Civil War, Missouri has lost a lot. Emigrants and traders have lost countless values during their travels. The Civil War caused a loss of not only citizens, but numerous valuable historic items. The host of outlaws who traversed the area have hidden loot that has never been found. Join author Craig Gaines as he details the state treasures lost to time.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439679525
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Lost and Forgotten Gems of Missouri History From the mining industry to the shipping industry to the Civil War, Missouri has lost a lot. Emigrants and traders have lost countless values during their travels. The Civil War caused a loss of not only citizens, but numerous valuable historic items. The host of outlaws who traversed the area have hidden loot that has never been found. Join author Craig Gaines as he details the state treasures lost to time.
Death of All Life on Earth Iv
Author: Don McComber
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1698701020
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Since the Period of Death, survivors wondered if any of the government of the old USA survived. Then, a small group actually traveled to the eastern seaboard and Washington DC to find out. They found that most of the survivors there were hostile and had to fight nearly every step of the way. This final book of the series finishes the story of death for most and survival of a few.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1698701020
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Since the Period of Death, survivors wondered if any of the government of the old USA survived. Then, a small group actually traveled to the eastern seaboard and Washington DC to find out. They found that most of the survivors there were hostile and had to fight nearly every step of the way. This final book of the series finishes the story of death for most and survival of a few.