Download or read book A Piece of My Mind Poetic Confessions of a Self Proclaimed Diva written by Brenda's Child and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-03-21 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Piece of My Mind.." is the poetry collection that speaks to, and for the modern day female. It is raw with emotion as it explores love, sexuality, and social issues from objective and subjective points of view.
Download or read book Outspoken Poetry for the Bold written by Brenda's Child and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry for the Bold is the second collection from the Self-proclaimed Diva and Queen of Self-esteem, Brenda's Child. These poems take no prisoners as they ignite love, anger, pride, and sensuality in wonderfully thematic chapters. Inspiring, fun, and honest, this poetry is truly for the bold.
Download or read book On Her Own Two Feet written by Brenda's Child and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desiree has been running all of her life from heartache to abuse, from abandonment to shame, from herself... to nowhere. In the sequel to the best selling novella Despite Everything, Desiree Cruz has left her physically abusive, cocaine-addicted boyfriend and her long time job of exotic dancer to begin to her journey of self-acceptance and self-love. In order for her to move forward with her future Desiree must first make peace with her tormented past, which began right in the house where she was raised. Through with being the victim, Desiree is ready to chase her dreams. She is on a mission of redemption and for the first time in her life, to stand grounded...on her own two feet.
Download or read book Truth Tastes Better with a Side of Rhyme written by Brenda's Child and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brenda's Child is once again challenging the status quo, invoking hope, and inspiring change with her third collection. Using fantastic wordplay and imagery, she translates the highs and low of the human condition into a brazenly heartfelt flow
Download or read book From Girl to Grown A Guide to Living Unabashedly written by Dr. Latoya Bosworth and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unabashedly adverb.audaciously, fearlessly; in a manner that is not ashamed, embarrassed, or apologetic; boldly certain in one's position It's time for you to claim your rightful place on the throne. You are in control of your life. You make the rules and break them if you choose. Step into your destiny with joy and confidence. Learn to identify your truth and speak it. Fall in love with the brilliant being you are now and the one you are blossoming into. From Girl to Grown is dropping gems on how to find your purpose, build a strong support system, heal from your past, and put yourself first. True to her nature, Dr. Bosworth is transparent and authentic as she shares the personal lessons that helped her evolve into the self-proclaimed Queen of Self-esteem, then arms you with concrete steps for improving your life. Crown up Ladies?it's time live unabashedly
Download or read book Our Voices written by Brenda's Child and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Voices is a teen anthology of poems and essays, edited by teacher/poet Brenda's Child. Eye-opening, heart-felt, and honest, Our Voices definitely speaks to the soul.
Download or read book Self Titled written by Brenda's Child and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teen mother. Orphan. Economically disadvantaged. Fat. Ghetto. Angry Black Woman. Aggressive. Disenfranchised. Exploitable. Brenda's Child is determined to break out of every fragile box society has tried to place her in simply because of circumstance. With her latest poetry collection she is defiantly shattering false ideologies and denouncing all of the titles, except the ones she creates herself. Queen of Self-Esteem. Self-Proclaimed Diva. Feminist. Warrior. Educator. Motivator. Nurturer. Bad Ass. Inspired by her experiences and those of her ancestors, Brenda's Child is her most honest, audacious and self-aware in her writing as ever.
Download or read book More Than Organs written by Kay Ulanday Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A love letter to Brown, Queer, and Trans futures, Kay Ulanday Barrett's More Than Organs questions "whatever wholeness means" for bodies always in transit, for the safeties and dangers they silo. These poems remix people of color as earthbenders, replay "the choreography of loss" after the 2015 Pulse shooting, and till joy from the cosmic sweetness of a family's culinary history. Barrett works "to build / a shelter // of / everyone / [they] meet," from aunties to the legendary Princess Urduja to their favorite air sign. More Than Organs tattoos grief across the knuckles of its left hand and love across the knuckles of its right, leaving the reader physically changed by the intensity of experience, longing, strength, desire, and the need, above all else, to survive.
Download or read book When the Chant Comes written by Kay Ulanday Barrett and published by Topside Heliotrope. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kay Ulanday Barrett has been bringing his unique poetry to audiences for over a decade, unpicking vital political questions around race, sickness and disability and gender, and chronicling the everydayness of life in the U.S. Empire with humor, poignancy and inimitable vitality. Now at last a generous selection of his work will be available in print. Each of these poems is a brilliant little story. Taken together, they show a master craftsman at the top of his game. Pre-order them now.
Download or read book Michelangelo s Christian Mysticism written by Sarah Rolfe Prodan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Sarah Rolfe Prodan examines the spiritual poetry of Michelangelo in light of three contexts: the Catholic Reformation movement, Renaissance Augustinianism, and the tradition of Italian religious devotion. Prodan combines a literary, historical, and biographical approach to analyze the mystical constructs and conceits in Michelangelo's poems, thereby deepening our understanding of the artist's spiritual life in the context of Catholic Reform in the mid-sixteenth century. Prodan also demonstrates how Michelangelo's poetry is part of an Augustinian tradition that emphasizes mystical and moral evolution of the self. Examining such elements of early modern devotion as prayer, lauda singing, and the contemplation of religious images, Prodan provides a unique perspective on the subtleties of Michelangelo's approach to life and to art. Throughout, Prodan argues that Michelangelo's art can be more deeply understood when considered together with his poetry, which points to a spirituality that deeply informed all of his production.
Download or read book Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon written by Phyllis Weliver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reveals music's role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history.
Download or read book The Magician King written by Lev Grossman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lev Grossman’s new novel THE BRIGHT SWORD will be on sale July 2024 Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to the New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon, The Magicians, now an original series on SYFY, from the author of the #1 bestselling The Magician’s Land. Quentin Coldwater should be happy. He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood, matriculated at a secret college for magic, and graduated to discover that Fillory—a fictional utopia—was actually real. But even as a Fillorian king, Quentin finds little peace. His old restlessness returns, and he longs for the thrills a heroic quest can bring. Accompanied by his oldest friend, Julia, Quentin sets off—only to somehow wind up back in the real world and not in Fillory, as they’d hoped. As the pair struggle to find their way back to their lost kingdom, Quentin is forced to rely on Julia’s illicitly learned sorcery as they face a sinister threat in a world very far from the beloved fantasy novels of their youth.
Download or read book Confessions of a Shopaholic written by Sophie Kinsella and published by Delta. This book was released on 2003-03-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes “a hilarious tale . . . hijinks worthy of classic I Love Lucy episodes . . . too good to pass up.” (USA Today) “Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London’s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season’s must-haves. The only trouble is, she can’t actually afford it—not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Saving magazine not only bores her to tears, it doesn’t pay much at all. And lately Becky’s been chased by dismal letters from the bank—letters with large red sums she can’t bear to read. She tries cutting back. But none of her efforts succeeds. Her only consolation is to buy herself something . . . just a little something. Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her life—and the lives of those around her—forever. Praise for Sophie Kinsella and Confessions of a Shopaholic “Kinsella’s Bloomwood is plucky and funny. . . . You won’t have to shop around to find a more winning protagonist.”—People “If a crème brûlée could be transmogrified into a book, it would be Confessions of a Shopaholic.”—The Star-Ledger “A have-your-cake-and-eat-it romp, done with brio and not a syllable of moralizing. . . . Kinsella has a light touch and puckish humor.”—Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book No Ruined Stone written by Shara McCallum and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Ruined Stone is a verse sequence rooted in the life of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns. In 1786, Burns arranged to migrate to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation, a plan he ultimately abandoned. Voiced by a fictive Burns and his fictional granddaughter, a "mulatta" passing for white, the book asks: what would have happened had he gone?
Download or read book The Magicians written by Lev Grossman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lev Grossman’s new novel THE BRIGHT SWORD will be on sale July 2024 The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world, now an original series on SYFY “The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. . . . Hogwarts was never like this.” —George R.R. Martin “Sad, hilarious, beautiful, and essential to anyone who cares about modern fantasy.” —Joe Hill “A very knowing and wonderful take on the wizard school genre.” —John Green “The Magicians may just be the most subversive, gripping and enchanting fantasy novel I’ve read this century.” —Cory Doctorow “This gripping novel draws on the conventions of contemporary and classic fantasy novels in order to upend them . . . an unexpectedly moving coming-of-age story.” —The New Yorker “The best urban fantasy in years.” —A.V. Club Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he’s secretly fascinated with a series of children’s fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams have come true. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. . . . The prequel to the New York Times bestselling book The Magician King and the #1 bestseller The Magician's Land, The Magicians is one of the most daring and inventive works of literary fantasy in years. No one who has escaped into the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter should miss this breathtaking return to the landscape of the imagination.
Download or read book Three Philosophical Poets written by George Santayana and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University. This book was released on 1910 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nightwood written by Djuna Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
