Author: Bishop Cynthia King Bolden-Gardner, J.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493121901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
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CrumbSnatchers (Matthew 15, Mark 7) captures the plight of the modern single mother/parent, underemployed, unemployed, migrant worker, female professional, minorities, inner city youth... as they struggle to acquire the basic necessities of life in a system that appears designed to keep them out. CrumbSnatchers takes the Biblical crisis of the Syro-Phoenician woman and translates it to modern day experiences and solutions. She is an idol worshipper, an outcast, from the wrong side of town and a woman. She presses through all of the obstacles and human impediments to get more than she bargained for. For those willing to fight the good fight of faith, there is a miracle waiting for you. God has a RIGHT NOW BLESSING and a space for you to be grafted into the Tree of Life, the New Jerusalem. Just keep the faith and refuse to be shut up. Refuse to be denied. Defy convention
Author: Brandi Worley
Publisher: Publishing Shack, LLC.
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
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Twelve-year-old Miley is odd and zany, but only to other people, people in the South. Inside, she feels right, but she can't ever seem to fit in. Miley's not a bad kid, but unusual mishaps happen in her life. Despite her good intentions, on the first day of school, she's involved in a robbery with some older girls. Follow the surprising story of her struggles of trying to gain acceptance, clear her name and do the right thing. Will she do great things or get caught up in a band of thieves? Crumb Snatchers will make you cry, laugh, cheer, and think. Most of all, it will inspire you. It's a story for the underdogs!
Author: James Alan McPherson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684847965
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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With the same grace and lyrical precision that distinguishes his vibrant short stories, McPherson surveys confrontation with the past and his struggle to make sense of it and to bind it, peacefully, to the present.
Author: Cathy Nolan Vincevic
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438917503
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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"The Tiki Room," plunges the reader into a vision both elegiac, and horrifying, chronicling the struggles of my family. The landscapes are stoic, small town New Hampshire, during the 1950's, where I lived with my beloved grandparents, contrasted against the cruelty of life with my mother in Phoenix, Arizona, during the1960's and my husband's story in Bosnia and in the diaspora. The coalescence of these environments, and some of the tragic consequences, have been passages filled with destruction, loss, and renewal. I have often found myself listening to people tell their stories. People who had never talked about their past would suddenly stop what they were doing and tell me extraordinary things, painful things, that brought soundlessness to my mind. Hearing these narratives I felt a voice inside of me that wanted to respond with my own story. I never allowed myself, until now, because it felt selfish to mention that I had suffered too. The silence created barriers of anger and sadness within me that were hard to breach. That I broke through that barricade by writing has been one of the great surprises of my life. I started out as a visual artist, the painting on the cover is my work, and in other media such as fireworks, and performance art. My work has been seen throughout New England and internationally through artist exchanges in Macedonia and Croatia. Currently, I am the Director of the Allenstown Public Library in Allenstown, New Hampshire. This book began during my undergraduate work at Vermont College and finished during my graduate studies at Goddard College. The award winning poet/writer Nehassaiu DeGannes wrote this about my work: "Your memoir is achingly beautiful, exquisitely written, and handled with such deftness and depth, it most certainly demonstrates patient self-reflection, mastery of craft and form as well as a literary tenderness. At times the level of remembered detail, the sensory, the natural world---and your ability to find a language capable of containing your internal landscape, in sentences which flow as naturally as breath, is quite stunning. I am in admiration of your work. I am in admiration of your life." Thank you my brothers and sisters for being there.
Author: Maciej Widawski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107074177
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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A pioneering exploration of form, meaning, theme and function in African American slang, illustrated with thousands of contextual examples.
Author: Alex Marshall
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316277991
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 647
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"It was all going so nicely, right up until the massacre." Twenty years ago, feared general Cobalt Zosia led her five villainous captains and mercenary army into battle, wrestling monsters and toppling an empire. When there were no more titles to win and no more worlds to conquer, she retired and gave up her legend to history. Now the peace she carved for herself has been shattered by the unprovoked slaughter of her village. Seeking bloody vengeance, Zosia heads for battle once more, but to find justice she must confront grudge-bearing enemies, once-loyal allies, and an unknown army that marches under a familiar banner. Five villans. One Legendary General. A final quest for vengence.
Author: Oliver Wang
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1550225618
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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With over forty unique reviews covering sixty landmark hip-hop albums spanning twenty years, Classic Material proves that there is no lack of intelligent commentary and criticism on rap music.
Author: John Crowe Ransom
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Editor: winter 1939-autumn 1941 J. C. Ransom.
Author: Melvin LeRoy Green Macklin
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1681622165
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 533
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(From the Preface) Traces in the Dust focuses upon the African American families and residents of Carbondale since the founding of the Carbondale Township (1852). It is meant to provide a glimpse of the growth, progress, and development of the Black American community in the city through the exploration of recorded data and oral history.
Author: Sue Stauffacher
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307530639
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Harry Sue Clotkin is tough. Her mom's in the slammer and she wants to get there too, as fast as possible, so they can be together. But it's not so easy to become a juvenile delinquent when you've got a tender heart. Harry Sue's got her hands full caring for the crumb-snatchers who take up her afternoons at the day care center, and spending time with her best friend Homer, a quadriplegic who sees life from a skylight in the roof of his tree house. When Harry Sue finds an unlikely confidante in her new art teacher, her ambitions toward a life of crime are sidelined as she comes to a deeper understanding about her past--and future. Sue Stauffacher has once again crafted a fast-paced middle-grade novel filled with quirky but lovable characters, a narrator impossible to ignore, a completely original plot, and a whole lot of redemption.
