Author: God Pickney
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664191798
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
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The Journey of a Caribbean Girl Called “God Pickney”
Author: God Pickney
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664191798
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
No information available at this time. Author will provide once available.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664191798
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
No information available at this time. Author will provide once available.
Righting Her-story
Author: Patricia Sheerattan-Bisnauth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782970068709
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782970068709
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Book of Night Women
Author: Marlon James
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101011319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
From the author of the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings "An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they- and she-will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings, desires, and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link. But the real revelation of the book-the secret to the stirring imagery and insistent prose-is Marlon James himself, a young writer at once breathtakingly daring and wholly in command of his craft.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101011319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
From the author of the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings "An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they- and she-will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings, desires, and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link. But the real revelation of the book-the secret to the stirring imagery and insistent prose-is Marlon James himself, a young writer at once breathtakingly daring and wholly in command of his craft.
Sadhu Sundar Singh, Called of God
Author: Rebecca Jane Parker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Converts
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
On the life of Sundar Singh, 1889-1929, an Indian Christian mystic.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Converts
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
On the life of Sundar Singh, 1889-1929, an Indian Christian mystic.
Isabelle's Bat
Author: Martin J Bush
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780228868637
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Isabelle has bought a bat in the market and she is trying to remember how her mother used to cook them. This poses a problem for the author, who is working in Madagascar to protect the same animals that Isabelle likes to eat. The adventures of thirty years of living and working in Africa and the Caribbean are recounted in this amusing and highly original series of true stories by Martin Bush, who tells of his adventures with lemurs, bats, centipedes, and butterflies in Madagascar. We meet Isabelle, who eats bats and prefers lemurs in a pot; Mickey the Bamboo lemur, who likes to sit on your head; the magical but slightly alarming Aye-Aye, with its witch's finger; and last, but certainly not least, we learn of the medicinal properties of certain bodily fluids. Not all the tales are amusing; several are dramatic. The author was wounded by a terrorist attack in Khartoum, survived a home invasion in GuineaConakry, and describes what he witnessed in Haiti during the 2010 earthquake. The author also recounts his years as a teenager at school in England, where he was responsible for a famous graffiti on the wall of his school-still remembered to this day-and his first teaching positions in Canada, the USA, and Trinidad, the most memorable of which was working with Dr. Erich Farber, a brilliant professor of solar energy at the University of Florida. Martin Bush has led development projects in Djibouti, Sudan, Guinea, Egypt, Madagascar, and Haiti since 1988. His technical background in natural resources management, conservation, and climate change, coupled with a compelling and amusing writing style, make this book a one-of-a kind account by someone who not only wanted to explore the world, but sought ways to help solve its environmental problems as well. All the events described in this book are true. A few names of friends and family who did not want to be identified have been changed.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780228868637
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Isabelle has bought a bat in the market and she is trying to remember how her mother used to cook them. This poses a problem for the author, who is working in Madagascar to protect the same animals that Isabelle likes to eat. The adventures of thirty years of living and working in Africa and the Caribbean are recounted in this amusing and highly original series of true stories by Martin Bush, who tells of his adventures with lemurs, bats, centipedes, and butterflies in Madagascar. We meet Isabelle, who eats bats and prefers lemurs in a pot; Mickey the Bamboo lemur, who likes to sit on your head; the magical but slightly alarming Aye-Aye, with its witch's finger; and last, but certainly not least, we learn of the medicinal properties of certain bodily fluids. Not all the tales are amusing; several are dramatic. The author was wounded by a terrorist attack in Khartoum, survived a home invasion in GuineaConakry, and describes what he witnessed in Haiti during the 2010 earthquake. The author also recounts his years as a teenager at school in England, where he was responsible for a famous graffiti on the wall of his school-still remembered to this day-and his first teaching positions in Canada, the USA, and Trinidad, the most memorable of which was working with Dr. Erich Farber, a brilliant professor of solar energy at the University of Florida. Martin Bush has led development projects in Djibouti, Sudan, Guinea, Egypt, Madagascar, and Haiti since 1988. His technical background in natural resources management, conservation, and climate change, coupled with a compelling and amusing writing style, make this book a one-of-a kind account by someone who not only wanted to explore the world, but sought ways to help solve its environmental problems as well. All the events described in this book are true. A few names of friends and family who did not want to be identified have been changed.
How to Love a Jamaican
Author: Alexia Arthurs
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 1524799211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
“In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.”—Zadie Smith An O: The Oprah Magazine “Top 15 Best of the Year” • A Well-Read Black Girl Pick Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret—Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home. Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life. In “Light-Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands,” an NYU student befriends a fellow Jamaican whose privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In “Mash Up Love,” a twin’s chance sighting of his estranged brother—the prodigal son of the family—stirs up unresolved feelings of resentment. In “Bad Behavior,” a couple leave their wild teenage daughter with her grandmother in Jamaica, hoping the old ways will straighten her out. In “Mermaid River,” a Jamaican teenage boy is reunited with his mother in New York after eight years apart. In “The Ghost of Jia Yi,” a recently murdered student haunts a despairing Jamaican athlete recruited to an Iowa college. And in “Shirley from a Small Place,” a world-famous pop star retreats to her mother’s big new house in Jamaica, which still holds the power to restore something vital. Alexia Arthurs emerges in this vibrant, lyrical, intimate collection as one of fiction’s most dynamic and essential authors. Praise for How to Love a Jamaican “A sublime short-story collection from newcomer Alexia Arthurs that explores, through various characters, a specific strand of the immigrant experience.”—Entertainment Weekly “With its singular mix of psychological precision and sun-kissed lyricism, this dazzling debut marks the emergence of a knockout new voice.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Gorgeous, tender, heartbreaking stories . . . Arthurs is a witty, perceptive, and generous writer, and this is a book that will last.”—Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties “Vivid and exciting . . . every story rings beautifully true.”—Marie Claire
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 1524799211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
“In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.”—Zadie Smith An O: The Oprah Magazine “Top 15 Best of the Year” • A Well-Read Black Girl Pick Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret—Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home. Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life. In “Light-Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands,” an NYU student befriends a fellow Jamaican whose privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In “Mash Up Love,” a twin’s chance sighting of his estranged brother—the prodigal son of the family—stirs up unresolved feelings of resentment. In “Bad Behavior,” a couple leave their wild teenage daughter with her grandmother in Jamaica, hoping the old ways will straighten her out. In “Mermaid River,” a Jamaican teenage boy is reunited with his mother in New York after eight years apart. In “The Ghost of Jia Yi,” a recently murdered student haunts a despairing Jamaican athlete recruited to an Iowa college. And in “Shirley from a Small Place,” a world-famous pop star retreats to her mother’s big new house in Jamaica, which still holds the power to restore something vital. Alexia Arthurs emerges in this vibrant, lyrical, intimate collection as one of fiction’s most dynamic and essential authors. Praise for How to Love a Jamaican “A sublime short-story collection from newcomer Alexia Arthurs that explores, through various characters, a specific strand of the immigrant experience.”—Entertainment Weekly “With its singular mix of psychological precision and sun-kissed lyricism, this dazzling debut marks the emergence of a knockout new voice.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Gorgeous, tender, heartbreaking stories . . . Arthurs is a witty, perceptive, and generous writer, and this is a book that will last.”—Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties “Vivid and exciting . . . every story rings beautifully true.”—Marie Claire
Torn
Author: Keisha Ervin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615401102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
"Torn between infatuation, lust, denial, and playin' wifey, the only thing Mo knows for sure is that she's been through hell, survived nine years, three miscarriages, numerous flings, heated arguments, and a few knock-down drag-out fights only to realize that she is further deep in love and more confused than ever"--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615401102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
"Torn between infatuation, lust, denial, and playin' wifey, the only thing Mo knows for sure is that she's been through hell, survived nine years, three miscarriages, numerous flings, heated arguments, and a few knock-down drag-out fights only to realize that she is further deep in love and more confused than ever"--P. [4] of cover.
Journeys with Elijah
Author:
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Eight stories celebrate the legends of Elijah in different parts of the world, spanning 17 centuries. Full color.
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Eight stories celebrate the legends of Elijah in different parts of the world, spanning 17 centuries. Full color.
1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
Author: Julia Eccleshare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844036714
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up is the perfect introduction to the very best books of childhood: those books that have a special place in the heart of every reader. It introduces a wonderfully rich world of literature to parents and their children, offering both new titles and much-loved classics that many generations have read and enjoyed. From wordless picture books and books introducing the first words and sounds of the alphabet through to hard-hitting and edgy teenage fiction, the titles featured in this book reflect the wealth of reading opportunities for children.Browsing the titles in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up will take you on a journey of discovery into fantasy, adventure, history, contermporary life, and much more. These books will enable you to travel to some of the most famous imaginary worlds such as Narnia, Middle Earth, and Hogwart's School. And the route taken may be pretty strange, too. You may fall down a rabbit hole, as Alice does on her way to Wonderland, or go through the back of a wardrobe to reach the snowy wastes of Narnia.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844036714
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up is the perfect introduction to the very best books of childhood: those books that have a special place in the heart of every reader. It introduces a wonderfully rich world of literature to parents and their children, offering both new titles and much-loved classics that many generations have read and enjoyed. From wordless picture books and books introducing the first words and sounds of the alphabet through to hard-hitting and edgy teenage fiction, the titles featured in this book reflect the wealth of reading opportunities for children.Browsing the titles in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up will take you on a journey of discovery into fantasy, adventure, history, contermporary life, and much more. These books will enable you to travel to some of the most famous imaginary worlds such as Narnia, Middle Earth, and Hogwart's School. And the route taken may be pretty strange, too. You may fall down a rabbit hole, as Alice does on her way to Wonderland, or go through the back of a wardrobe to reach the snowy wastes of Narnia.
Anya Goes to Jamaica
Author: Nikko M Fungchung
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998149738
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Anya's World Adventures Book Series, takes young readers on a tour of the world through the eyes of a child. With the help of Anya's magic globe, readers will experience the joys of travel and adventure. The first stop in the series is Jamaica. Join Anya as she learns about the food, language and culture of this beautiful country.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998149738
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Anya's World Adventures Book Series, takes young readers on a tour of the world through the eyes of a child. With the help of Anya's magic globe, readers will experience the joys of travel and adventure. The first stop in the series is Jamaica. Join Anya as she learns about the food, language and culture of this beautiful country.