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Author: Paul Jones Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1490795820 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 79
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Jake rushed in and washed up, but all the scrubs were too small, so he just grabbed the largest size, put them on, and started to the delivery room. However, just as soon as he walked in, they ripped. It was too late to go back in, so he just stayed in there. It wasn’t too long before the doctor was delivering Jake’s baby girl. Jake looked at her like he has never seen a baby before; it was something special, something very special about her.
Author: Paul Jones Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1490795820 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 79
Book Description
Jake rushed in and washed up, but all the scrubs were too small, so he just grabbed the largest size, put them on, and started to the delivery room. However, just as soon as he walked in, they ripped. It was too late to go back in, so he just stayed in there. It wasn’t too long before the doctor was delivering Jake’s baby girl. Jake looked at her like he has never seen a baby before; it was something special, something very special about her.
Author: Sapphire Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0593466756 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers. Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.
Author: Sapphire Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0593314603 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 241
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A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel 'PUSH' by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers. Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.
Author: Sophia Huber Publisher: Herbert Utz Verlag ISBN: 3831646694 Category : American fiction Languages : en Pages : 394
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Knowledge about one’s linguistic background, especially when it is different from mainstream varieties, provides a basis for identity and self. Ancestral values can be upheld, celebrated, and rooted further in the consciousness of its speakers. In the case of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) the matter is not straightforward and, ultimately, the social implications its speakers still face today are unresolved. Through detailed analysis of the four building blocks phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary, Sophia Huber tries to trace the development of AAVE as a literary dialect. By unearthing in what ways AAVE in its written form is different from the spoken variety, long established social stigmata and stereotypes which have been burned into the consciousness of the USA through a (initially) white dominated literary tradition will be exposed. Analysing fourteen novels and one short story featuring AAVE, it is the first linguistic study of this scope.
Author: hierro blanco Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1491893265 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 207
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Diving to the Bottom of Your Eyes is the love story between two young men. It starts in Madrid in the early seventies during the last years of the very strict and conservative Franco regime and involves characters directly linked to the social and political establishment. It has been a short, pure, explosive, and at the same time, dramatic relation that left enduring memories and scars in the surviving partner. It is written forty years later this means in the present time by the surviving partner, in an utterly poetic and moving style. As it is said in the text, durable relations sometimes do not take a long time to consolidate they may well be quickly built in very robust terms and also quickly destroyed often all done by the same actors in absolute voluntary terms human nature is surely volatile or even very treacherous.
Author: P.J. Taylor Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1465337768 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 456
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My life begun hard, and it seemed to just become more and more difficult throughout the years. I once lived a life like J.C. Dougard and Elizabeth Smart, but instead of one sexual predator, I had many. They had families to go home to, where I had none, I was forgotten about years, and years ago and pretty much raised myself with only God's guidance since the age of thirteen. I've been exploited, trafficked, raped, held hostage, kidnapped and more! Then God stepped in, when death was almost beating at my door, He stepped in. Sometimes I feel as if my life wasn't planned by me, but by God. Once you read my story I'm sure you'll understand. You see all of my hopes, dreams, and plans for my life became sidetracked long ago, due to many factors, that took away so many of my plans, my dreams for the future. Through it all I've become an amazing woman. Able to stand tall and strong, finding my inspirations along the way, and praising God for all of His Angels, Saints, and Prophets who've come along and saved me, rescued me, carried me, and blessed my life so profoundly with their kind, gentle, caring ways. Do you view human beings as just people, or are you able to experience such a close relationship with God that you can view people as the little Gods they are? Aren't we all supposed to be reflections of Our Lord and Savior? Then why aren't you able to view those people for the Gifts they are? Or are you able to see yourself and others how God sees you? I hope you enjoy the journey of my life, my story, my testimony as much as I enjoyed writing it. My story is a story of tragedy, but yet it is also one full of inspiration, hope, strength, courage, family, and love. But mainly my story is about Life's Lesson's Learned. Enjoy! P.J. Taylor
Author: Omowale Akintunde Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1490741208 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 232
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Waiting for the Sissy Killer is a fictional memoir that traces the life of Jamal McCoy from 1961, at age five, to 1986. Jamal is a young black gay man who deals with issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, and religion and is struggling with the sociological as well as psychological impact of the aforementioned on his fractured humanity. The story, told from the first person and characterized by sporadic psychotic internal dialogues emanating from the biographical ruminations of Jamal, provides an analysis of American life and culture from a black gay perspective.
Author: David Ritz Publisher: Little, Brown ISBN: 0316196827 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 528
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The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed music writer David Ritz, hailed by Rolling Stone as "a remarkably complex portrait of Aretha Franklin's music and her tumultuous life." Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. It was not until 1967, when a white Jewish producer insisted she return to her gospel-soul roots, that fame and fortune finally came via "Respect" and a rapidfire string of hits. She has evolved ever since, amidst personal tragedy, surprise Grammy performances, and career reinventions. Again and again, Aretha stubbornly finds a way to triumph over troubles, even as they continue to build. Her hold on the crown is tenacious, and in Respect, David Ritz gives us the definitive life of one of the greatest talents in all American culture. "Comprehensive and illuminating." --USA Today
Author: Emily J. Lordi Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813562511 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 304
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Ever since Bessie Smith’s powerful voice conspired with the “race records” industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women’s singing. In Black Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin. Focusing on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s, Black Resonance reveals a musical-literary tradition in which singers and writers, faced with similar challenges and harboring similar aims, developed comparable expressive techniques. Drawing together such seemingly disparate works as Bessie Smith’s blues and Richard Wright’s neglected film of Native Son, Mahalia Jackson’s gospel music and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, each chapter pairs one writer with one singer to crystallize the artistic practice they share: lyricism, sincerity, understatement, haunting, and the creation of a signature voice. In the process, Lordi demonstrates that popular female singers are not passive muses with raw, natural, or ineffable talent. Rather, they are experimental artists who innovate black expressive possibilities right alongside their literary peers. The first study of black music and literature to centralize the music of black women, Black Resonance offers new ways of reading and hearing some of the twentieth century’s most beloved and challenging voices.
Author: Paul Jones
Author: Paul Jones
Author: Sapphire
Author: Sapphire
Author: Sophia Huber
Author: hierro blanco
Author: P.J. Taylor
Author: Omowale Akintunde
Author: David Ritz
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Author: Emily J. Lordi