Author: Lexi Buchanan
Publisher: HFCA Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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Rafael is all about vengeance . . . After witnessing the brutal murder of his mother and younger brother, Rafael DeLacroix lives in a world of darkness. With vengeance eating his soul, he moves to Port Michael with his father. There, Rafael discovers a unique connection to the girl next door. Wren is all about butterflies . . . Trapped in a world of her own, under the watchful eye of her father, the Reverend—leader of their small town—Wren is filled with dreams of flying free like a butterfly. Her life takes an unexpected turn when the boy next door befriends her. Not everyone is happy with their growing friendship, and just when Rafael and Wren discover what is really going on in Port Michael, darkness settles over the town. A standalone, romantic suspense/coming of age, novel.
Author: John Shirley
Publisher: Leisure Books
ISBN: 9780843948448
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This collection of gritty and intense short stories compares the horrors of the real world to those of the supernatural. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.
Author: Lawrence T. Brown
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421439883
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 379
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The best-selling look at how American cities can promote racial equity, end redlining, and reverse the damaging health- and wealth-related effects of segregation. Winner of the IPPY Book Award Current Events II by the Independent Publisher The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by Freddie Gray's brutal death in police custody, shut down highways and marched on city streets. In The Black Butterfly—a reference to the fact that Baltimore's majority-Black population spreads out like a butterfly's wings on both sides of the coveted strip of real estate running down the center of the city—Lawrence T. Brown reveals that ongoing historical trauma caused by a combination of policies, practices, systems, and budgets is at the root of uprisings and crises in hypersegregated cities around the country. Putting Baltimore under a microscope, Brown looks closely at the causes of segregation, many of which exist in current legislation and regulatory policy despite the common belief that overtly racist policies are a thing of the past. Drawing on social science research, policy analysis, and archival materials, Brown reveals the long history of racial segregation's impact on health, from toxic pollution to police brutality. Beginning with an analysis of the current political moment, Brown delves into how Baltimore's history influenced actions in sister cities such as St. Louis and Cleveland, as well as Baltimore's adoption of increasingly oppressive techniques from cities such as Chicago. But there is reason to hope. Throughout the book, Brown offers a clear five-step plan for activists, nonprofits, and public officials to achieve racial equity. Not content to simply describe and decry urban problems, Brown offers up a wide range of innovative solutions to help heal and restore redlined Black neighborhoods, including municipal reparations. Persuasively arguing that, since urban apartheid was intentionally erected, it can be intentionally dismantled, The Black Butterfly demonstrates that America cannot reflect that Black lives matter until we see how Black neighborhoods matter.
Author: Rudolf Steiner
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
ISBN: 1855843757
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Truly poetic and deeply esoteric, these lectures by Rudolf Steiner have been gathered here in a single volume for the first time, with an in-depth introduction that traces and explains the stages of butterfly metamorphosis. The emergence of the butterfly from its pupa is one of the most moving phenomena we can encounter in nature. We can experience a revelation of spirit in this creature's visible transformations. The butterfly, says Rudolf Steiner, is "a flower blossom lifted into the air by light and cosmic forces." It is a being that develops from and through light, via a process of incorporation and internalization. By gazing into the world of these special and rarefied creatures, we can intuit that they, "ray out something even better than sunlight; they shine spirit light out into the cosmos."
Author: Mutlu Percin
Publisher: Mutlu Percin
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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This book begins by highlighting the notion that even the most routine natural occurrences can have unforeseen results. It urges one to contemplate how enormous consequences a single individual may have given that even the fall of a leaf can affect the direction of the wind. He emphasizes on how a person's choices can have an unimaginable impact on the course of events amid the intricacy of the universe, in the shadow of interplanetary battles and galaxy conflicts. The protagonist of the book, who struggles inside, interacts with the outside world and makes decisions that have an impact not just on his or her personal life but also on the environment as a whole. It makes us to reflect on the complexity of existence and how people can affect the course of the universe. As they read the book, readers will start to realize how significant an impact their own judgments and choices may have. The book gives readers the chance to embark on an inner trip and provides a viewpoint on comprehending how all universe-wide entities are interconnected. The aim of this book is to empower readers to find their own personal strength and to comprehend the impact one person can have on another person's life halfway around the world. As a result, readers can start to comprehend more fully the possibilities of their actions in their own lives. It prompts us to consider how human decisions can impact the cosmos in a broad sense.
Author: Navah The Buddaphliii
Publisher: Navah the Buddaphliii
ISBN: 9781734610659
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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I would like to acknowledge those who inspired me to pick up a pen and create sound, a voice. Prince Rogers Nelson, who truly needs no introduction, was a genius in the eyes of millions. Consider "Purple Rain," what an abstract concept of reality. Let's just look at the title of the band, "The Revolution", What a powerful message. -I wanted to be just like him. Prince's "Controversy" album cover had the name Joni Mitchell on it. In the late 80's, we did not have Google. I had to know who she was. No one close to me knew. After a few years went by, I came to know she was a white singer, songwriter, and AMAZING. I went and bought all the albums I could find. My favorite album of hers is called "Court in Sparks'. She taught me I didn't have to be a painter to color the world, I could color with my words, vibrant hues, wild, and free. I've always been otherworldly, a bit of a transcendentalist, even as a child. The other children would make fun of me and most of them would call me a witch. Now that I'm all grown up, I see they were right. I am truly magical, especially with a pen in my hand. Poetry is the process of transformation for the one writing it. As I write, I encourage myself to look at everything in life as a constant change. I've enjoyed the ride on my own brain waves that inspire thought provoking concepts as I fall freely into the universe of imagination. After twenty years as a writer, I finally feel my time and effort is going to pay off. I am stepping out, taking a leap of faith in the title "Black Cocaine and Colorless Butterflies". Please understand, I am not promoting the use of cocaine. I am speaking figuratively about the black struggle I witnessed growing up in a poor, black, crack-cocaine drug infested community. Cocaine did not originate where I lived. The people outside of my community had to bring it there. We all have our demons and our struggles individually and collectively. The community needed a major transformation. I wanted to be a part of the transformation. I needed to see the drugs removed once and for all. I longed for the community to shed the weight of the black struggles and generational curses that plagued us. I was ready for us to morph into the butterflies we were meant to be as a collective, void of color. Poetry is my offering; it is my contribution to society.
Author: Robert M. Drake
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449485359
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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This book is a collection of memories and experiences Drake lived after the death of one of his brothers. He promised he would write him a few words after he failed to complete the task while his brother was alive. This book is everything… this book is for all who are breathing and for all who are no longer here. This book is for you.
Author: Carla A. Vincent
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1665704551
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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In 2005, author Carla A. Vincent returned home from the war in Afghanistan after being sent to the Operation Enduring Freedom war as a squad leader. For the next decade, she lived in denial of untreated depression, anxiety, and cervical pains. She was sleepwalking through life. Vincent still trusted God for everything and remained faithful to him, but she knew there was more to life. In Black Butterfly, she shares her testimonies and manifestation methods for receiving her blessings and heart’s desires. After being dormant for years in a cocoon of invisible war wounds of depression, anxiety, insomnia, a broken neck, broken heart, and grief, she was transformed into a beautiful butterfly inside and outside flourishing and flying in love, abundance, and achievements. Vincent chronicles how her metamorphosis from being in an isolated cocoon to a highly visible butterfly was a miracle. God delivered her from a life of pain and blessed her with a life with purpose. She is a superstar in the making as she journeys from being unknown to becoming unforgettable. Black Butterfly gives you inspiration and courage to have the audacity to think and dream as big as the God you serve. Don’t put limitations on God; he has all the power in his hands. No matter how dark and grim the situation may be, God makes the impossible possible when you follow his instructions.
Author: Rachel Eve Moulton
Publisher: MCD x FSG Originals
ISBN: 0374720037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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"A brutal, incredibly bizarre exploration of insanity, guilt, love, and the darkness inside all of us . . . This novel is a hybrid monster that's part Lovecraftian nightmare and part literary exploration of evil." —Gabino Iglesias, NPR Emma is hitchhiking across the United States, trying to outrun a violent, tragic past, when she meets Lowell, the hot-but-dumb driver she hopes will take her as far as the Badlands. But Lowell is not as harmless as he seems, and a vicious scuffle leaves Emma bloody and stranded in an abandoned town in the Black Hills with an out-of-gas van, a loaded gun, and a snowstorm on the way. The town is eerily quiet and Emma takes shelter in a diner, where she stumbles across Earl, a strange little boy in a tinfoil mask who steals her gun before begging her to help him get rid of “George.” As she is pulled deeper into Earl’s bizarre, menacing world, the horrors of Emma’s past creep closer, and she realizes she can’t run forever. Tinfoil Butterfly is a seductively scary, chilling exploration of evil—how it sneaks in under your skin, flaring up when you least expect it, how it throttles you and won't let go. The beauty of Rachel Eve Moulton's ferocious, harrowing, and surprisingly moving debut is that it teaches us that love can do that, too.
Author: Mark James Barrett
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785890549
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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“Oh my Lord,” whispered Lizzie, looking over Alice’s shoulder. “Would you look at that?” Alice, startled by the change in Lizzie’s voice, turned to see what had caused it. Sitting not 10 feet from them was the biggest, blackest butterfly she had ever seen. It was resting on the pacay tree at the very end of the garden, balancing on the tip of a giant palm at head height. The butterfly opened and closed its wings slowly and they flashed with a rich darkness. Moises Quispé has heard the whispered rumours about the Black Butterfly – its hypnotic, velvet wings, two feet across and as dark and mystical as the Peruvian jungle night; a jungle receding to a soundtrack of chainsaws and hate; a jungle that gave him life and embraces the spirit of his murdered family. So he searches. Not because of the one million nuevo sol offered for its capture by the maniacal Mr Dollie, or because his mentor – who believes the rumours – has disappeared so completely, but because he must. Perhaps the Black Butterfly has been searching for him too, desperate to reveal the tight, elegant writing embedded in its wings. Its stories: tall, dark and cautionary tales of a doomed humanity that he alone can read. And when the butterfly finally submits, the danger that Moises finds himself in pales into insignificance against the fate of humanity itself. The Black Butterfly has chosen him to deliver its message and the future of mankind is in his hands. Man’s imagination will be nature’s revenge... This gripping and suspensive thriller will appeal to readers who enjoy being kept guessing. “Mark James Barrett is a name to look out for in the future. He is a writer of considerable talent and relevance to our confusing modern times. A truly original read by a rising literary talent.” Hayley Sherman, author, editor and ghost writer, Whoosh Editing
