Author: Lee Bee
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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The Poemographies of Lee takes you on a journey of suffering and healing. Lee brings in the course reality of what it can be like living without money and shows what it can be like to live for free. After High School and When Jesus Took Me to Roosevelt are auto-biographies written in poetry on the back of a yoga book their high ass printed off at the library with their last $100. This story begins after Lee graduated high school in 2016, then went to college where they were overwhelmed with money and began to do sex work to compensate. After that, they worked at several special needs schools and as a caregiver- they roamed. In Utah they began living in their car, working at Jordan Valley School, and then they moved to California where they worked at the Creative Learning Center in the Los Alto’s hills. When school was out for the summer they rode down the coast of California on a bicycle. Finally, living on the sands of Roosevelt, they integrated into town where they started a yoga class, met a lover, worked for the Ute’s Art’s Kid’s, and Con Amore, went to church, and ultimately found liberation.
Author: Cecile Sandten
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004328769
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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The notion of the postcolonial metropolis has gained prominence in the last two decades both within and beyond postcolonial studies. Disciplines such as sociology and urban studies, however, have tended to focus on the economic inequalities, class disparities, and other structural and formative aspects of the postcolonial metropolises that are specific to Western conceptions of the city at large. It is only recently that the depiction of postcolonial metropolises has been addressed in the writings of Suketu Mehta, Chris Abani, Amit Chaudhuri, Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Helon Habila, Sefi Atta, and Zakes Mda, among others. Most of these works probe the urban specifics and physical and cultural topographies of postcolonial cities while highlighting their agential capacity to defy, appropriate, and abrogate the superimposition of theories of Western modernity and urbanism. These ASNEL Papers are all concerned with the idea of the postcolonial (in the) metropolis from various disciplinary viewpoints, as drawn from a great range of cityscapes (spread out over five continents). The essays explore, on the one hand, ideas of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation, and, on the other, the possibility of transforming, reinventing and reconfigurating the ‘postcolonial condition’ in and through literary texts and visual narratives. In this context, the volume covers a broad spectrum of theoretical and thematic approaches to postcolonial and metropolitan topographies and their depictions in writings from Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, South Asia, and greater Asia, as well as the UK, addressing issues such as modernity and market economies but also caste, class, and social and linguistic aspects. At the same time, they reflect on the postcolonial metropolis and postcolonialism in the metropolis by concentrating on an urban imaginary which turns on notions of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation – as the continuing ‘postcolonial’ condition.
Author: Vernell Wilson
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1647025370
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
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The Poemography of Hellen Hagler, Her Story in Poetic Form: Highlights of Celebrations on Christmas Eve - A Family Tradition By: Vernell Wilson Author, Vernell Wilson, writes poetically about the journey of Hellen Hagler, who shared her story about how she and her husband relocated from Pennsylvania to Detroit and started a tradition of celebrations on Christmas Eve, along with their five children, other family members, and friends. Vernell describes challenges and victories that the Hagler family encountered, while they continued the tradition, which remains to this day. Vernell hopes that the readers learn how they may start or continue their own family traditions of celebrations that will last for many years.
Author: Nancy Foltz Beck
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982265345
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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She didn’t have to say, “What about me” – but she did. Alone on foreign soil in pre-war China, Madelaine was pregnant, injured, and afraid. Her low-ranking husband promised a honeymoon “never to be forgotten,” but this was not what he had in mind. Circumstances became more critical when the Admiral declared the fleet was shipping out. Harold couldn’t sail away and leave her, but he was a sailor in the United States Navy, sworn to follow orders. The newly-weds were forced to face a frightening reality; they were unprepared. Her one-way ticket from San Francisco to Shanghai held no contingencies for safe passage home in cases of political unrest, or worse. Over-loaded modes of transportation were quickly filled with anxious, frightened refugees scrambling to find any means of passage out of the country, but not Madelaine. She had insufficient funds, and far from home, had no viable means of safety. No one could have predicted the storm clouds of war would become so personal, but they did. Forlorn, terrified, and nearly penniless, the couple turned to the only source of eternal truth for answers, God. It would take more than first-rate dragon luck to save her life – and mine, for you see, I was that unborn child. This book is semi-autobiographical. The quest is to introduce the FOLTZ FAMILY, military people who lived a somewhat nomadic life, often required by defenders of freedom. Believing succeeding generations are influenced by their ancestors, today’s generations will benefit from knowing their histories – for they are the Builders of Tomorrow.
Author: Julie Annette Bennett
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982268727
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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Life happens. For author Julie Annette Bennett and her husband, Scott, their love for each other became the basis for an extraordinary journey that would change their lives forever in unimaginable ways. When Scott collapsed in the Target parking lot on March 4, 2007, his wife of fifteen years believed he had died. As Julie called 911, she thought, Oh my God! I’m not ready. Please don’t take him yet. Please God, don’t let him die! That moment in time began a medical journey for the couple that no one should ever have to live through. Together they faced uncertainties that would test Scott’s strength of spirit and fill Julie with a courage that would guide her as she became a caregiver for the man she loved. Now Julie shares their story in a loving tribute to Scott and to their beautiful life together; she also offers a helpful guide for all caregivers encountering their own challenges. This personal narrative shares the story of two lives that embarked on a sixteen-year journey through chronic illnesses that included Alzheimer’s and eventual grief, offering advice for caregivers along the way.
Author: Lee Bee
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Poemographies of Lee takes you on a journey of suffering and healing. Lee brings in the course reality of what it can be like living without money and shows what it can be like to live for free. After High School and When Jesus Took Me to Roosevelt are auto-biographies written in poetry on the back of a yoga book their high ass printed off at the library with their last $100. This story begins after Lee graduated high school in 2016, then went to college where they were overwhelmed with money and began to do sex work to compensate. After that, they worked at several special needs schools and as a caregiver- they roamed. In Utah they began living in their car, working at Jordan Valley School, and then they moved to California where they worked at the Creative Learning Center in the Los Alto's hills. When school was out for the summer they rode down the coast of California on a bicycle. Finally, living on the sands of Roosevelt, they integrated into town where they started a yoga class, met a lover, worked for the Ute's Art's Kid's, and Con Amore, went to church, and ultimately found liberation.
Author: Nell Choi
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982262850
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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My Hospital Story shares a nine-year-old girl’s candid perspective of her life when it is turned upside down by a mysterious illness. After years of playing lacrosse and skiing, she is suddenly in the hospital ICU battling a rare disease. She details her raw emotions in journal entries with insight and humor. Despite the struggles and darkness in her journey, she encounters people or “angels” that help light her path to recovery. Through this experience she discovers that compassion from others can be the source of true healing.
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Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684818450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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One of the most extraordinary works of the human imagination and the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, Popul Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life was first made accessible to the public 10 years ago. This new edition retains the quality of the original translation, has been enriched, and includes 20 new illustrations, maps, drawings, and photos.
Author: Roya Oveisi
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982266600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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One day I noticed someone from inside my head was talking to me. When did this person get into my head? How did he get there? Who is that? And why is he telling me things that are making me feel scared? Is there another person living in my head? Or am I imagining things?
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ISBN:
Category : African American arts
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association of America, African American review promotes an exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives of African American literature and culture.
