Author: Tasha Hart
Publisher: BWWM Romance with Heart
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
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She wrecked his car. Then he got her number. Sure, it’s not the most conventional way to meet your knight in shining armor, but Patrice was never a conventional sort of girl. She was just bar tending at Sistaz till she got her creative writing degree and then she’d be out. Then Chase walked in. From the start, she knew there was something about him. He just HAD it. Whatever it was. It definitely worked for her. She was putty in his hands. But so was every other girl. The guy worked in freakin’ PR. That’s what those PR executives are supposed to do—seduce. He might say he loved her... But was the love real? Or would it just disappear when he left New York City for work? Was she just a squeeze for the moment? Or was there something real that she could start to build her life on? Discover what happens in this thrilling contemporary romance! **Previously titled: Patrice's Passion.**
Author: Tasha Hart
Publisher: BWWM Romance with Heart
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 683
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Welcome to the Sistaz Club series—eight books featuring Black Queens that rule New York’s nightclub scene and the deliciously seductive white boys who love them. Enjoy all eight books in this limited edition boxed set. It’s sure to sate all of your contemporary interracial romance cravings in one collection. Titles included are… Her Choice Her Passion Her Revelation Her Journey Her Allure Her Dilemma Her Trouble Her Seduction Looking for your next contemporary read? Look no further! One-click this interracial romance boxed set now!
Author: Tasha Hart
Publisher: BWWM Romance with Heart
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95
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He gave her a tip. She wanted it all. Charlene just graduated from college and was ready to put an end to her time in a waitress uniform—more than ready to move up in the world at Sistaz. Then her whole night changed. First, she had to handle a table of rowdy drunks. Then, the one dude she thought was a gentleman, left her a huge tip… and his phone number. Seriously? Was he trying to pick her up while his friends were being obnoxious? Please. There was no way Charlene was going to entertain the affections of some stuck-up lawyer. Except he kept coming back. And you know what? She’s starting to like him. Sure, his friends are garbage, but this dude has a certain charm. He’s handsome as sin and he knows how to make her laugh. She feels like he could be the one… Will Logan the lawyer convince her he’s legit? Will Charlene close off her heart and say no? Will they find love together or are they doomed to remain single? Discover what happens in this thrilling contemporary romance! **Previously titled: Charlene's Choice.**
Author: Tasha Hart
Publisher: BWWM Romance with Heart
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
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This white boy legit has her future in his hands. Of course Jessica is going to be hella suspicious. He’s too good to be true, handsome, considerate, and gets along with her little boy. Really, he simply makes her life as a single Black mom in the city even easier. But he can’t be that perfect… right? Jessica has been hurt—her heart beaten—too many times to count. She’s put her career, her life, and the happiness of her little boy on the belief that Mike is a good man. But is he gonna come through? Is he going to break her heart and walk away like others? Or is he going to treat Jessica like the powerful Black queen she is, do right by her, and make her his forever? Discover what happens in this sensual interracial romance! Part of the Sistaz Club series! **Previously titled: Jessica's Journey.**
Author: Hattie Black
Publisher: Hattie Black
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67
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10:00 am, one Monday in the middle of August, 23 year old Renee Wainwright sits in the modern and chic waiting area of the widely popular and rapidly growing BYWINSTON branding, marketing and event planning firm. She had just completed her third interview, and was told to wait in the lobby while the three person panel deliberated. Renee was positively hopeful. It was her 3rd call back after all. She looks around the sitting area, and notices one young man with spiked hair wearing a thin black tie with a black and white checkered shirt, and another woman with black rimmed glasses, blonde bangs, and tresses, and a burgundy sweater. "I guess this is the competition." Renee whispers to herself under her breath. She glances down at her own apparel. Renee is dressed in black washed out slacks, a black blouse with ruffles down the center, and her thick curly hair worn up in a top-knot bun. Of course she is wearing her trusty black ballet flats - that Renee almost never leaves home without. Eventually the conference room door opens, and one by one each candidate is called back into the large room with an oval glass table, surrounded by silver high-back chairs. When Renee is summoned, she immediately springs up and speeds walk toward the room. Whether good or bad news, Renee is anxious to learn the final outcome.
Author: Mark A. Reid
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 074256861X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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Black Lenses, Black Voices is a provocative look at films directed and written_and sometimes produced_by African Americans, as well as black-oriented films whose directors or screenwriters are not black. Mark Reid shows how certain films dramatize the contemporary African American community as a politically and economically diverse group, vastly different from film representations of the 1960s. Taking us through the development of African American independent filmmaking before and after World War II, he then illustrates the unique nature of African American family, action, horror, female-centered, and independent films, such as Eve's Bayou, Jungle Fever, Shaft, Souls of Sin, Bones, Waiting to Exhale, Monster's Ball, Sankofa, and many more.
Author: Freya Sierhuis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317083474
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Bringing together scholars from literature and the history of ideas, Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between cognitive and bodily models of emotion, and between different versions of the will as active or passive. In the process, it juxtaposes the historical formation of such ideas with contemporary philosophical debates. It frames a dialogue between rhetoric and medicine, politics and religion, in order to examine the relationship between mind and body and between experience and the senses. Some chapters discuss literature, in studies of Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton; other essays concentrate on philosophical arguments, both Aristotelian and Galenic models from antiquity, and new mechanistic formations in Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza. A powerful sense of paradox emerges in treatments of the passions in the early modern period, also reflected in new literary and philosophical forms in which inwardness was displayed, analysed and studied”the autobiography, the essay, the soliloquy”genres which rewrite the formation of subjectivity. At the same time, the frame of reference moves outwards, from the world of interior states to encounter the passions on a public stage, thus reconnecting literary study with the history of political thought. In between the abstract theory of political ideas and the inward selves of literary history, lies a field of intersections waiting to be explored. The passions, like human nature itself, are infinitely variable, and provoke both literary experimentation and philosophical imagination. Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture thus makes new connections between embodiment, selfhood and the emotions in order to suggest both new models of the self and new models for interdisciplinary history.
Author: Suzanne W. Jones
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801883934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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In the southern United States, there remains a deep need among both black and white writers to examine the topic of race relations, whether they grew up during segregation or belong to the younger generation that graduated from integrated schools. In Race Mixing, Suzanne Jones offers insightful and provocative readings of contemporary novels, the work of a wide range of writers—black and white, established and emerging. Their stories explore the possibilities of cross-racial friendships, examine the repressed history of interracial love, reimagine the Civil Rights era through children's eyes, herald the reemergence of the racially mixed character, investigate acts of racial violence, and interrogate both rural and urban racial dynamics. Employing a dynamic model of the relationship between text and context, Jones shows how more than thirty relevant writers—including Madison Smartt Bell, Larry Brown, Bebe Moore Campbell, Thulani Davis, Ellen Douglas, Ernest Gaines, Josephine Humphreys, Randall Kenan, Reynolds Price, Alice Walker, and Tom Wolfe—illuminate the complexities of the color line and the problems in defining racial identity today. While an earlier generation of black and white southern writers challenged the mythic unity of southern communities in order to lay bare racial divisions, Jones finds in the novels of contemporary writers a challenge to the mythic sameness within racial communities—and a broader definition of community and identity. Closely reading these stories about race in America, Race Mixing ultimately points to new ways of thinking about race relations. "We need these fictions," Jones writes, "to help us imagine our way out of the social structures and mind-sets that mythologize the past, fragment individuals, prejudge people, and divide communities."
Author: David J. Leonard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313018014
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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The triple crown of Oscars awarded to Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Sidney Poitier on a single evening in 2002 seemed to mark a turning point for African Americans in cinema. Certainly it was hyped as such by the media, eager to overlook the nuances of this sudden embrace. In this new study, author David Leonard uses this event as a jumping-off point from which to discuss the current state of African-American cinema and the various genres that currently compose it. Looking at such recent films as Love and Basketball, Antwone Fisher, Training Day, and the two Barbershop films—all of which were directed by black artists, and most of which starred and were written by blacks as well—Leonard examines the issues of representation and opportunity in contemporary cinema. In many cases, these films-which walk a line between confronting racial stereotypes and trafficking in them-made a great deal of money while hardly playing to white audiences at all. By examining the ways in which they address the American Dream, racial progress, racial difference, blackness, whiteness, class, capitalism and a host of other issues, Leonard shows that while certainly there are differences between the grotesque images of years past and those that define today's era, the consistency of images across genre and time reflects the lasting power of racism, as well as the black community's response to it.
Author: Yuwanda Black
Publisher: Inkwell Editorial Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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PREVIEW Ditched by a fiance. Betrayed by a friend. A desire for revenge. One life-changing weekend. *** He’d broken her heart once. Would she give him a chance to break it again? “What do you want Aaron?” Farrah asked. “Why are you really here?” “What if I said I made a mistake letting you go?” “Wh—what do you mean?” Farrah stammered, not believing her ears. He did not just say that? Did he? Her heart rate picked up speed. “What if I said I realize what a big mistake it was to let you go?” her ex-fiance, who was scheduled to be married in two days, said. Aaron walked over to the bed and sat beside Farrah. He took one of her hands in his. “This doesn’t make any sense,” Farrah said, almost to herself. His declaration totally threw her off balance. It was the last thing she expected. The very last. She looked at her hand in his. His touch. She’d dreamed about this for months. And her dream was miraculously coming true, but … Was her stand-in lover determined to become a more permanent fixture? The Irishman Their mating had been vicious, savage, barbaric … and beautiful. And Farrah wanted more of him. So much more. She hadn’t been consumed by this kind of desire since – since forever. Even Aaron, the man she’d loved for almost a decade, had never come close to making her do some of the things she’d done last night with this perfect stranger. He was wickedly beautiful. Sinfully sexy. Rakishly seductive. Soulfully encompassing. And all of this made him the perfect stand-in lover; the perfect man to show up with to her ex-fiance’s wedding. Aaron would be able to smell another man’s scent on her. She knew he would because the kind of mind-blowing coupling she’d experienced last night didn’t stay confined to the bedroom. It seeped out of your pores and brought a stupid grin to your face for the world to see, smell, crave, and wonder about. *** Her living room wall served as a bed. He pushed her up against it, lifted her off her feet and slammed himself home one last time – all without breaking the kiss that had ignited it all. Farrah release was so hard that her legs, which were wrapped tightly around his waist, fell limp against him. Finn grabbed a fistful of her hair and pulled her head to the side. He whispered in her ear, “He was a fool to let you go.” He zipped his jeans, planted a hard kiss on her lips and left her standing there, practically naked as he closed the door softly behind him. Farrah dropped to her knees and sobbed. The handsome Irishman left her body satiated, and her soul ripped to shreds. *** How could a perfect stranger recognize her value, and Aaron, the man she’d given everything to for years, discard her without even so much as a goodbye? God she hated him. And he would pay. Or, was the all-knowing Irishman right when he said she wanted her ex back? “There’s a thin line between love and hate, Farrah Jane,” he said, moving his hand up to encircle her waist. It didn’t help that he was helping her blur that line so wickedly.
