Author: Anaïs Nin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Honor Moore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393344371
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 413

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“A striking portrait of a woman artist’s struggle for life.” —Arthur Miller Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of a spirited and gifted woman committed at all costs to self-expression.

Author: Hudson Douglas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781331327295
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Excerpt from The White Blackbird "I'd far rather beg in the gutter than marry you, Jasper!" flashed the girl, at last goaded past all patience. Her clouded, indignant eyes expressed both contempt and aversion for the young man leaning over the deck-rail beside her. He was still a young man as years go and in spite of the grey streaks in his dark hair, the crow's-feet above his cheekbones; more than passably good-looking, too, with his regular profile and straight, spare, athletic figure, though his sleepy eyes were a trifle close-set and more than a trifle untrustworthy, though the black moustache he was twirling with a long, thin, almost womanish hand hid a cruel, selfish mouth. In his smart white yachting-suit and panama, lounging over the sun-dried teak taffrail with his knees crossed, he seemed to be neither oppressed by the tropical heat nor impressed at all by anything that his companion could say. "I'd far rather beg in the gutter," she repeated, as if to settle the matter. And the emphasis with which she spoke showed that she meant what she said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Alice Hoffman
Publisher: Alice Hoffman
ISBN: 0345455932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Presents a series of interlinking stories that capture the lives and fortunes of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over the course of two centuries.

Author: Robert Aitken
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: Heather Webber
Publisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 1250198607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER Heather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm. Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee, owner of the Blackbird Café. It was supposed to be a quick trip to close the café and settle her grandmother’s estate, but despite her best intentions to avoid forming ties or even getting to know her father’s side of the family, Anna Kate finds herself inexplicably drawn to the quirky Southern town her mother ran away from so many years ago, and the mysterious blackbird pie everybody can’t stop talking about. As the truth about her past slowly becomes clear, Anna Kate will need to decide if this lone blackbird will finally be able to take her broken wings and fly. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458705501
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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A charming tale narrated by a bird that deems himself unfit amongst his kind. The deep sense of dissatisfaction leads him from one place to another. This is a profoundly philosophical work with layers of meanings that teaches one to understand himself. Complete trust in oneself is the only way to contentment.

Author: Malaik w Azania
Publisher: Blackbird Books
ISBN: 1990977162
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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The post-apartheid dispensation that has seen Black people continue to be hurled at the margins of existence has crystalised mental pathologies that have their roots in our violent and amoral past. Millions of Black people in South Africa are battling with a range of mental health challenges resulting from a complex interplay between biological, psychological, social and environmental factors. In Corridors of Death, the lived experiences of Black students in historically White universities is explored, exposing how structural violence, racism and a culture of alienation are pushing them to the edge of depression and increasingly, suicide. The book contends that urgent structural and institutional interventions need to be made, the centre of which must be transformation that reflects the demographic and socio-political construct of the South African society. Unless and until this happens, Black students will increasingly reach an unendurable level of invisible agony, and die in universities.

Author: Thenjiwe Mswane
Publisher: Blackbird Books
ISBN: 192070387X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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This epic tale is narrated through the eyes of three women. Makhosi, who seems to be angry with the world and unable to find the language to make her mother, and sister understand her ‘anger’. Duduzile, Makhosi’s mother. A working-class mother who feels herself lose touch with her daughter. Nonhle, Makhosi’s younger sister, who watches her sister grow while the gap between her sister and mother widen and them continuously miss each other. This story lets the reader into the very complicated generational conversations within black families on a varying a range of issues, womanhood, parenting, sexuality, sexual abuse and most importantly, mental health, addiction and loss. Is this a heavy read? Yes! But it is also the most enlightening read you will come across this year. on and loss.

Author: Meg Kassel
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
ISBN: 163375815X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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"A pleasingly original contribution to the paranormal-romance genre.” —Kirkus Reviews A simple but forgotten truth: Where harbingers of death appear, the morgues will soon be full. Angie Dovage can tell there’s more to Reece Fernandez than just the tall, brooding athlete who has her classmates swooning, but she can’t imagine his presence signals a tragedy that will devastate her small town. When something supernatural tries to attack her, Angie is thrown into a battle between good and evil she never saw coming. Right in the center of it is Reece—and he’s not human. What's more, she knows something most don't. That the secrets her town holds could kill them all. But that’s only half as dangerous as falling in love with a harbinger of death. Each book in the Black Bird of the Gallows series is STANDALONE: * Cleaner of Bones (Prequel) * Black Bird of the Gallows * Keeper of the Bees