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| Author | : Ted Joans |
| Publisher | : Ekstasis Editions |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781894800006 |
Our Thang presents the extraordinary jazz-poems of the legendary Ted Joans alongside the surrealist drawings of Laura Corsiglia. The poems are characterized by black consciousness, strong rhythms and a musical sensibility closely linked to blues and avant-garde jazz.
| Author | : Michael G. Santos |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2007-04-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1429908548 |
American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million people each year, and it is estimated that 6 to 7 percent of the U.S. population will be confined in their lifetimes. Despite these disturbing numbers, little is known about life inside beyond the mythology of popular culture. Michael G. Santos, a federal prisoner nearing the end of his second decade of continuous confinement, has dedicated the last eighteen years to shedding light on the lives of the men warehoused in the American prison system. Inside:Life Behind Bars in America, his first book for the general public, takes us behind those bars and into the chaos of the cellblock. Capturing the voices of his fellow prisoners with perfect pitch, Santos makes the tragic--- and at times inspiring---stories of men from the toughest gang leaders to the richest Wall Street criminals come alive. From drug schemes, murders for hire, and even a prostitution ring that trades on the flesh of female prison guards, this book contains the never-before-seen details of prison life that at last illuminate the varied ways in which men experience life behind bars in America.
| Author | : Heather Woodbury |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2003-09-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429922044 |
"May be the nearest thing to an American Ulysses . . . wildly funny and infinitely sad." —Fintan O'Toole, The Irish times Focusing on the lives of more than a dozen characters—among them the Oregon rave boy Skeeter; the progressive-thinking octogenarian Violet, remembering her life from her bohemian youth in prewar Paris to her jazz-clubbing in postwar Greenwich Village; and the street-smart prostitute Bushie, holding forth on the profanity of the world—Heather Woodbury has forged a unique kind of fiction that combines the immediacy of performance art with the narrative structure and subtle characterization of a traditional novel. Taking off from her acclaimed one-woman show of the same title, Woodbury continually surprises in this novel with her ability to create new forms while always locating the unique, resonant humanity that links all the characters to one another—and to the reader.
| Author | : Raziya |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2009-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1438946139 |
BareBlue: a life lyric is an autobiographical collection of poetry that chronicles the transformation of a six year-old girl into a thirty-something year-old woman.
| Author | : Sara Cormany |
| Publisher | : Dexterity |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 2024-02-06 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1947297775 |
From award-winning author Sara Cormany, Even When is a raw and reflective devotional that ushers readers into God’s presence during difficult times and reminds us that even our hardest stories are written by the hand of a good God. In these uniquely challenging and unprecedented post-pandemic times, the notion that God’s goodness ensures an easy journey has been met by the unfaltering truth that life is hard. It’s not a question of if there will be trials, but when. Sara Cormany knows this reality all too well. However, through personal health complications and family tragedy, she has chosen to believe that Jesus is enough. Even When beautifully weaves together the inevitability of hard times with the unyielding heart of God’s goodness and inspires readers to experience His presence amid the storm in their lives. Each devotion begins with an “Even when…” statement, followed by a poignant personal story, a Bible verse, and a thought-provoking question that will encourage readers to embrace the truth that God is enough — even in our darkest moments. This powerful devotional helps readers to: - Become more comfortable with the difficult truth that life not only can, but will be hard. - Reflect on where God has shown up in their own hardships. - Experience God’s goodness while enduring life's challenges. - Explore what it looks like to “suffer well” and trust God as Jesus did on the Cross. - Love God and know God’s love in a fallen world. Vulnerable and authentic, Even When strikes a universal chord and points readers toward the heart of God’s goodness in even the most challenging of circumstances, knowing that even when life is hard, He is always good.
| Author | : Sandra Snowden |
| Publisher | : Xulon Press |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2008-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 160647894X |
The Baskets, who are driven by their ancestors, are looking for a better life that includes an inheritance. Their journey includes the breakup of their family, spiritual confusions and considerations, joy, sadness, and despair. Yet, they are determined that the ancestors are right and that they will experience the better life. Their oldest son Abunda, the renegade, is determined that he will not live as a slave and be denied the opportunities that he has heard about which exist outside of his small world. In his quest, he comes face to face with his ancestors and the White mans God. Who is right? His ancestors or God? Why does a good God allow bad things to happen to the Colored people? The New Plantation is a story of mystery, intrigue, humor, romance and spirituality. As the story unfolds, it draws you into the journey of The Baskets and Abundas separate journey to find the better life. Sandra Snowden, according to the many that know her, will tell you that she loves the Lord Jesus Christ first and foremost. She is a gifted teacher, a discipler, an administrator, and a Non-Profit Consultant. She is a single mother of three grown daughters and has assisted them in rearing five grandchildren. Sandra is a native of Annapolis, Maryland but has resided in the Atlanta, Georgia area for the last 14 years.
| Author | : North-Western Provinces, India |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 574 |
| Release | : 1856 |
| Genre | : India |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Snowden Wright |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2024-08-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062963600 |
Following an unforgettable cast of characters and a jaded female P.I. enmeshed in a criminal conspiracy in 1980s Mississippi, The Queen City Detective Agency is a riveting, razor-sharp Southern noir that unravels the greed, corruption, and racism at the heart of the American Dream. Meridian, Mississippi—once known as the Queen City for its status in the state—has lost much of its royal bearing by 1985. Overshadowed by more prosperous cities such as New Orleans and Atlanta, Meridian attracts less-than-legitimate businesses, including those enforced by the near-mythical Dixie Mafia. The city’s powerbrokers, wealthy white Southerners clinging to their privilege, resent any attempt at change to the old order. Real-estate developer Randall Hubbard took advantage of Meridian’s economic decline by opening strip malls that catered to low-income families in Black neighborhoods—until he wound up at the business end of a .38 Special. Then a Dixie Mafia affiliate named Lewis “Turnip” Coogan, who claims Hubbard’s wife hired him for the hit, dies under suspicious circumstances while in custody for the murder. Ex-cop turned private investigator Clementine Baldwin is hired by Coogan’s bereaved mother to find her son’s killer. A woman struggling with her own history growing up in Mississippi, Clem braves the Queen City’s corridors of crime as she digs into the case, opening wounds long forgotten. She soon finds herself in the crosshairs of powerful and dangerous people who manipulate the law for their own ends—and will kill anyone who threatens to reveal their secrets.
| Author | : Bob Whetstone |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2011-07-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1257845152 |
The untold story of the early Twentieth Century migration of farm hands to work in cotton mills in the south as seen through the eyes of a young man whose quest for freedom is stymied by his tyrannical father and overwhelming responsibility for his younger siblings.
| Author | : John Angus Jacobs |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 0557276373 |
