Author: Valerie E. Yarberough-McLean
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615310184
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Self Improvement book that addresses the personal and emotional issues that many single mothers find themselves dealing with while trying to find their way in this world. It is a safety net for the single mother out there looking for answers; an aid in helping them deal with their own issues that may be preventing them from reaching their fullest potential and from being the best parent to their children.
Author: Neal A. Lester
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137330864
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel PUSH that has since become the Academy-award-winning film Precious.
Author: Hilda Gurley Highgate
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307419215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The debut of a major new talent, SAPPHIRE'S GRAVE tells the stories of several generations of African-American women, bringing their spirit and their sorrow to life with a power, sensitivity, and immediacy. In 1749 in Sierra Leone, a woman of fierce dignity is captured and forced onto a slave ship. On the harrowing voyage to the Americas, she is beaten for her unrelenting will and staunch pride. When she arrives, she gives birth to a daughter who is called Sapphire because of the "black-blue-black" complexion she shares with her mother. Sapphire has also inherited her mother's strength and defiant spirit, and despite a life of poverty and opression, she grows up to mother several daughters of her own. Even when tragedy strikes and part of Sapphire dies, her strength gives rise to a legend that will sustain the women who follow her, "each carrying something of her mother, her grandmother, her aunts; each passing on to her own daughters blessing and cursing, the consequences of her own choosing. Through the lives of Sapphire and her descendants, Hilda Gurley-Highgate not only creates a poignant and engrossing saga of black women in America, she brilliantly illuminates the meaning of roots and the links between women and their female ancestors, a tie that often appears tenuous, undefined, and distant, but is strong, palpable, and much closer than we imagine. Written in luminous prose, SAPPHIRE'S GRAVE is an astonishing work by an author poised to take the literary world by storm.
Author: Beverley Brenna
Publisher: Pajama Press Inc.
ISBN: 1772780693
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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It’s not every day you encounter a hamster experiencing an existential crisis, but Sapphire has spent her short pet-store life convinced that she’s waiting for…something. At first she thinks it’s to be FREE, but it may be possible that life has a greater purpose in store—a purpose Sapphire will discover thanks to a nine-year-old girl whose family is changing in ways she doesn’t quite understand. Jeannie’s dad has moved out, her mom is always tired and snappish, and her older brother just wants to play video games in his room all day. Jeannie doesn’t understand what’s going on, but she knows one thing: she really, REALLY wants a hamster. Her mom promised she could buy one with her Christmas money, but it’s been WEEKS since the holidays and Jeannie’s beginning to worry she’ll never get her pet. But maybe if she does, her dad will come to visit. Maybe a hamster will make everything better. Narrated by Jeannie and Sapphire in alternating chapters, Sapphire the Great and the Meaning of Life is a touching middle-grade novel by award-winning author Beverley Brenna that explores themes of family, friendship, togetherness, and self-identity. With a cast that includes a transgender neighbor, a father finally accepting his homosexuality, and a realistic protagonist who will appeal to fans of Ramona Quimby, Brenna’s latest offering is an age-appropriate introduction to some difficult subjects that also abounds with humor and poignancy.
Author: James Hicks
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1682138828
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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: A little magic. A little love, sex. A little religion, philosophy, mysticism. And if I can remember, only one explicit word though. So scratch the third thing I said—a lot of love and sex. And the thing about the explicit, the sex is kind of explicit, kind of implied, but oftentimes very explicit all without the use of an explicit word such as . . . (well, they probably wouldn’t want me to write an explicit word on the cover). It’s poetry. Erotic poetry, I suppose. But that’s my favorite genre of poetry, when you read something after or during a bath and start to massage your nape and dream and still feel clean afterward. Two comedic poems, if you can call them funny or maybe you might find different ones funny, so . . . This is a lovely world we live in. You just have to see it that way. The first few poems are in Spanish, so don’t feel bad to turn the page. There is plenty in store for everyone. Having dreamt often in the past of writing narratively but never being able to get myself to do so in a non-poetic style, there are also plenty of plots for your indulgences and my triumph over narratives. We have to learn to treat sex and other venues of life like they are new, like they have just come into the world, that virgin wonder and fantasy, as opposed to old and calculable. Breathe and take it slow and breathe in every vapor of love. That is why I go under the alias of The Virgin Poet.
Author: Mia Thompson
Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 1626810052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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“Packed with thrills and chills, carnage and couture. Serial killer hunter Sapphire Dubois is like a ‘Dexter’ of the debutante set” (Francine LaSala, author of A Comfortable Madness). While the young and obscenely wealthy of Beverly Hills spend their nights surrounded by trendy celebs and drugs at the hottest clubs, twenty-two-year-old Sapphire Dubois has a different hobby: She hunts serial killers. Luring, trapping, and anonymously handing over So-Cal’s most wanted to the police is a better high than any drug. But Sapphire’s secret may not be so safe, as one of the very people she hunts is watching her every move. Aware of her true identity and her unconventional activities, he’s determined to put an end to Sapphire once and for all. Paired up with her involuntary crush Det. Aston Ridder for her own protection, Sapphire now has to rethink her strategy not only to keep Aston in the dark, but to figure out how to capture a killer who already knows she’s coming. “[Sapphire Dubois] kicks butt and takes names. You wouldn’t expect that from a spoiled, rich girl. . . . I loved this book.” —Ionia Martin, author of Plundering the Romance Novel
Author: Mia Thompson
Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 1626810672
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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First comes serial-killer hunting, then comes marriage in the sequel to the bestselling Stalking Sapphire starring the “‘Dexter’ of the debutante set” (Francine LaSala, author ofA Comfortable Madness). As a new serial killer dubbed the “Stripper Slayer” plagues Los Angeles, Sapphire once again sheds her socialite persona, this time to go undercover as a penniless stripper. Struggling to find the brutal man before he slays again, Sapphire finds that the thin wall separating her double life is cracking. Her family and friends expect her to walk down the aisle with the most eligible bachelor among the Beverly Hills elite; a man she doesn’t want. Meanwhile, the man she does want, handsome Det. Aston Ridder, is making her life hell as he closes in on her trail. Sapphire scrambles to keep the chaos at bay, unaware that someone else is tracking her as well. A serial killer from her past is back and will stop at nothing to get his vengeance. “[Sapphire Dubois] kicks butt and takes names. You wouldn’t expect that from a spoiled, rich girl.” —Ionia Martin, author of Plundering the Romance Novel
Author: Douglas E. Christie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199812322
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 483
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In The Blue Sapphire of the Mind, Douglas E.
Author: Shana Galen
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN: 9781402269790
Category : Courtesans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Secret agent Lily Dawson poses as a courtesan to try to uncover a traitor to the Crown, and soon enlists the help of Andrew Booth-Payne, the Earl of Darlington.
Author: Heather Black
Publisher: Heather Black
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Life can change in an instant. For 18-year-old Sapphire, several of those instances seemed to happen at once. One minute she is going to town with her mother to pick up last minute items for her coming-of-age ceremony in the Faith of the Attuned. The next she is freed as her mother dies unexpectedly giving her the opportunity to escape the cult and its twisted leader. When the soaking wet young woman wanders into his restaurant to escape the storm Jake's protective instincts are alerted. He can't let the woman be forced back out into the storm. What starts as a simple gesture of generosity turns into so much more.
