Author: Lyndon Baptiste
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440149895
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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This is a true story about one Caribbean man's journey through the healthcare industry and the scare that he may have to lose one of his testicles. Does he? That man is me. Without warning, a searing pain struck. My goodness, what was it? It was neither my stomach nor appendix, but my testicles. No it was only a testicle, my right ball to be precise. I became stunned and only through divine intervention regained my balance, but not my composure, and with wild gesticulations, six feet above ground level, I grasped the ladder. I still do not believe that being either shot or knifed is as painful as the pangs which, like little red devils armed with electric pitchforks, stabbed the areas around and through my groin. Given man's proclivity to intently guard his genitals, I hastened to cup my source of dismay, movements which catapulted the tin of paint off the ladder's platform.

Author: Funwi F. Ayuninjam
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956578207
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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The cricket roaster -- Abanda, the village menace I (or how the bush fowl came to have red marks) -- The songbird and the hunter (or how a bird and a dog enriched a family) -- The tadpole fisher (or the woman who preferred tadpoles to her daughter) -- Abanda, the village menace II -- The egg polisher (or how a water buffalo lost her eggs and a chief his life) -- A wife's man -- The farmer and the apes -- Dibong, the jealous friend -- Revenge of the coaster (or how a witch took advantage of a helpless woman) -- The farmer and the cannibal -- The search for Mr. Handsome -- The tortoise and the chief (or how the tortoise gained respect as the most intelligent of animals) -- The uncooperative sons -- The farmer and the goat herder -- The cocoyam farmer who accepted payment in flesh.

Author: Janice Irene Meissner
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN: 9780533152728
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Oh, Rachel: An Esoteric Love Story is an emotionally involving romance between a thirty-eight year old woman and the lawyer she seeks legal aid from. Each has strict ethical principles and moral principles; both face quandaries in their daily lives, and the complex interplay of love effects not only on two people, but also on each one's network of family and friends, plays out with realism so strong the reader feels it in the gut. Sometimes torrid, sometimes practical, always resonant, Oh, Rachel is a love affair to remember--Publisher.

Author: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Publisher: African Sun Media
ISBN: 1991201591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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How wounds from a previous generation may weigh on children and grandchildren contain much of interest. Yet if we unpack the ghostly, the eerie, and the spectral in transgenerational hauntings, if we allow for the suffering or the disturbed to forge social links, such contacts may enable breaking into reconnections and afterlives. … One only needs to think of the near epidemic of rape in South Africa to sense violent hypermasculinity erupting as madness, mediated by a history of brutal, racialised reduction. But it is also important to move beyond the brutalities and madness, to consider the individual and collective refigurations surfacing out of layers of catastrophe. Nancy Rose Hunt: Conference Keynote Address, “Beyond Trauma? Notes on a Word, a Frame, and a Diagnostic Category.” Historical Trauma and Memory: Living with the Haunting Power of the Past is based on essays presented at a conference with the same name which was held in Kigali, Rwanda in April 2019. The book gives readers front row seats as an interdisciplinary group of scholars from law, psychology, history, the arts, anthropology, theology, and philosophy address the complex matrix of the emotional legacies of historical trauma, cultural legacies, people interacting with their social and political environment, and the interplay of these factors in different post-conflict societies.

Author: Alan Smithie
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438981589
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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I remember a report some time ago extolling the health benefits of the vitamins found in sperm, with the advice that in preparation for having a healthy and intelligent baby, for some months before becoming pregnant a woman should swallow her partner's sperm. You can rest assured this report was compiled by a team of men. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact I set out to write a book entitled "49," a humorously light-hearted fly-on-the-wall look at my life from the day before my forty-ninth birthday to the day I hit fifty. A story of how I was coping with being too old for a mid-life crisis, counting the days tick down until the inevitable half-century. Should I be wearing socks with sandals; when would I start to enjoy pastimes that involved either binoculars, a fishing rod, making boats out of used matchsticks, a tandem bicycle or Morris dancing? Was I developing man-breasts, and more importantly, would the next woman I meet have bingo-wings? What pre-fifty pastimes would I be consigning to the dusty bin of life - wearing Ramones T-shirts and ogling young girls; my T-shirt definitely had to go. Maybe I wouldn't even make it to the end of the book; instead I'd meet my end running the Snowdonia Marathon. As it was I did make it to the end. Having spent a year writing "49" and many months trying to get a publishing deal without success, I started to write a blog. I pretty soon realised the missing ingredient - sex: sex sells. Post a good title and you have a success; mention anal sex and you have a best-seller. Without a second thought I changed the book title to "Sperm, Wonderful Sperm!" and quickly contacted an online print-on-demand publisher. This is the result...

Author: Lyndon Baptiste
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789769523630
Category : Generative organs, Male
Languages : en
Pages : 85

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Author: Stephen White
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101209194
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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The past resurfaces in ways that are as intimate as they are frightening when Dr. Alan Gregory and Dr. Sawyer Sackett-a woman he once loved-are plunged into the private nightmare of a killer who knows about the terrifying power of mind games.

Author: Lyndon Baptiste
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789769523647
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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This collection, unique to contemporary Trinidad and Tobago, shows Baptiste equally adept at the short story as with the novel.Stories range from the love song of Samo and his dulahins, to a ghetto youth in Simon and The Babylon, to the acid vision of arranged marriages reflected in Her Bitter Life.Reviews: "Baptiste has produced an amazing array of stories that cuts into the beliefs and social fabric of Trinidadian society."- Michael Cozier, author of Bend Foot Bailey and Forward Ever! Backward Never!"Witty and comical, yet bearing profound messages... that's BoyDays!"- Dexter Emrit, author of Awakening the Spirit... You Can!"Boy Days is quite interesting. The dialogue is rapid fire and humorous. Lyndon Baptiste is a delightful storyteller."- Keith Anderson, Trinidad Guardian"These stories make us laugh, but also beg us to look at how we see Trinidad life and values as they relate to our day-to-day beliefs."- Nellon Hunte, WINTV News Anchor"These are excellent stories. They all genuinely represent our lives, our rich subcultures, with elements of hope and reality mixed together. Relief is a steady story with a consistent message of hope, and it's seen in the form of reward for faith within adversity."- Michelle Byam, Total Development Company Ltd."This collection of short stories is a potent indication of the fertile mind that drives the writing output of Lyndon Baptiste. These stories whilst potent pieces of writing in themselves evoke in the mind of the reader the need for the story lines to be expanded to full novel size as the complexities and motivations of their central characters surpass the size limits of a short story."- Daurius Figueira, Social Researcher and Author"A very lively bunch of stories with variations in structure, style and language to satisfy readers in both reflective and upbeat moods."- Polly Pattullo, Papillote Press"Baptiste's style is natural and entertaining. His stories are grounded in everyday life with moral messages that are unmistakable."- Yvette Francis, Teacher"The West Indian short story is an eclectic mixture of vernacular rhythm, colour, tone and style - an art form that should be preserved. And there is no better exponent than Lyndon Baptiste. His pace is unrelenting, gripping the reader to every word, fusing levity with the gravity of life's experiences. Obeah thrills, eliciting hearty laughs tempered only by the provocative reality of a practice still etched in the cultural DNA of a people. His wrenching commentary on the stench of wasted youth to ill gotten gains and violenceis overwhelmingly haunting in Simon and The Babylon."- Dr. Glenville Ashby, author of The Believers: Spiritual Codes

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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: RH Childrens Books
ISBN: 0385379323
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29

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Join Bartholomew Cubbins in Dr. Seuss’s Caldecott Honor–winning picture book about a king’s magical mishap! Bored with rain, sunshine, fog, and snow, King Derwin of Didd summons his royal magicians to create something new and exciting to fall from the sky. What he gets is a storm of sticky green goo called Oobleck—which soon wreaks havock all over his kingdom! But with the assistance of the wise page boy Bartholomew, the king (along with young readers) learns that the simplest words can sometimes solve the stickiest problems.