Download or read book Big Mama Stories written by Eleanor Arnason and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ''Big Green Mama Falls in Love,'' Big Green Mama duplicates herself and discovers just how life-threatening a Big-Mama-sized case of love can be while the skwork learn that one cannot train a microbe to be patriotic. In ''Big Red Mama in Time and Morris, Minnesota,'' Big Red Mama is annoyed big-time when she discovers the Cretaceous has been invaded by an obnoxious human who has stolen a time-machine and decides that some information probably shouldn't be free, particularly since as a group, humans underestimated the damage they did and rarely took responsibility for anything. On the basis of these stories, the one thing you can say for sure is that Big Mamas' lives are never dull.
Download or read book Bigmama s written by Donald Crews and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 1998-01-21 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the train arrived in Cottondale, the summer at Bigmama's house in Florida began. Donald Crews brilliantly evokes the sights, sounds, and emotions of a memorable childhood experience. "A very special book by a superb artist and storyteller."--Horn Book.
Download or read book The Big Mama Stories written by Shay Youngblood and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Set in the Black small-town South of the early sixties, Shay Youngblood's stories capture the richness of being raised into womanhood by a community of women. As seen through the eyes of a girlchild mothered by her 'big mamas,' the daily lives of ordinary incredible women are dynamically portrayed. A 1990 Pushcart Selection."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Big mama stories written by Shay Youngblood and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Collection of Short Stories written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting new collection of twenty-nine short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez, a master storyteller who “forces upon us at every page the wonder and extravagance of life” (New York Review of Books) Spanning more than two decades, this collection combines humor, history, and mysticism to tell stories about the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, lost opportunities and present joys, memories, illusions, death, and other themes that resound throughout García Márquez’s fiction. Stories include: “The Third Resignation”“Eva Is Inside Her Cat”“Tubal-Cain Forges a Star”“The Other Side of Death”“Dialogue with the Mirror”“Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers”“How Nathanael Makes a Visit”“Eyes of a Blue Dog”“The Woman Who Came at Six O’clock”“The Night of the Curlews”“Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses”“Nabo: The Black Man Who Made the Angels Wait”“A Man Arrives in the Rain”“Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo”“Tuesday Siesta”“One of These Days”“There Are No Thieves in This Town”“Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon”“Montiel’s Widow”“One Day after Saturday”“Artificial Roses”“Big Mama’s Funeral”“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”“The Sea of Lost Time”“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”“Death Constant beyond Love”“The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship”“Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles”“The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother
Download or read book Stories from the Hart written by Anne Hart Preus and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made up of true stories ranging all the way from the ins and outs of daily life in the Mississippi Delta to bona fide brushes with history, Anne Hart Preuss Stories from the Hart is a vivid account of one girls life growing up during some of the most formative years in our nations history, the 1950s and 60s. The reader is introduced to characters from days gone by--family, friends, and other townfolk from rural Tallahatchie County, Mississippi--some of whom came and went quickly, and others who stayed a while. Although intensely personal, the memoir is set against a backdrop of social change, including events from the Emmett Till murder trial and trips to Memphis to see Elvis Presley and the Beatles. The tales in Stories from the Hart may be funny, dramatic, or occasionally even wistful, but they are always touching. Whether Anne Hart Preus is reminiscing about holiday traditions and unexpected snow days, recounting fascinating and endearing town characters, or remembering what it was like to grow up in a community where everyone knew everyone, her natural and engaging style weaves compelling stories that will keep readers coming back for more.
Download or read book Fairy Tales with a Black Consciousness written by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The all new essays in this book discuss black cultural retellings of traditional, European fairy tales. The representation of black protagonists in such tales helps to shape children's ideas about themselves and the world beyond--which can ignite a will to read books representing diverse characters. The need for a multicultural text set which includes the multiplicity of cultures within the black diaspora is discussed. The tales referenced in the text are rich in perspective: they are Aesop's fables, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Ananse. Readers will see that stories from black perspectives adhere to the dictates of traditional literary conventions while still steeped in literary traditions traceable to Africa or the diaspora.
Download or read book Mama s Home written by Shay Youngblood and published by Make Me a World. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously illustrated picture book that is a powerful love letter to chosen families and the village that raises us. A young girl basks in the love of her community--which includes not only her mother but the many different women who make up her world. Home can be a blue house with white trim you share with your mama. But it can be bigger than that, with lots of Big Mamas to take care of you when your mom works—different houses for every day of the week. Mondays mean Nurse Louella and bike riding. Tuesdays mean eating fufu with your fingers with Miss Zikora. And Wednesdays . . . well, no matter where you are, as long as you are with your Big Mamas, you are home. A girl basks in the warmth of her community in this powerful love letter to chosen families and the villages that raise us, from Pushcart Prize-winning author Shay Youngblood and popular illustrator Lo Harris.
Download or read book A Southern Weave of Women written by Linda Tate and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Southern Weave of Women is one of the first sustained treatments of the generation women writers who came of age in the post-World War II South as well as one of the first to situate southern literature fully within a multicultural context
Download or read book Having It All written by Veronica Chambers and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women, the groundbreaking HAVING IT ALL? is sure to spark discussions from cocktail parties to boardrooms. In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically, professionally, and financially. They’ve entered the workplace at a far greater rate than white women; increased their enrollment in law schools and graduate programs by 120 percent; and many are now running top companies, or in some cases, the country. Isn’t that enough? Not necessarily. With sharp insight, award-winning journalist Veronica Chambers explores the challenges and stereotypes she and other African American women continue to endure, and answers the question most often posed to her: What does success mean for black women? Twenty-first century black women draw their inspiration from a wide range of sources: Claire Huxtable to Audrey Hepburn, snowboarding to basketball, Gloria Steinem to bell hooks. They choose what they like. Yet they are misunderstood by mainstream America and lack an accurate portrayal in the media of their lives. HAVING IT ALL? interweaves the thoughts and reflections of more than fifty women who occupy this territory. The voices range from Thelma Golden, chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, to a Silicon Valley executive, to medical and legal professionals, and stay-at-home “mocha moms.” Successful black women today want it all: marriage, motherhood, engaging work, and prosperity. The difference is that they come to the table with the strength, courage and wisdom of black women ancestors who-did-it-all, even when they didn’t-have-it-all. What has gone so undocumented by the media is that modern black women are coming up with creative, satisfying answers to the juggling act that all women face. Veronica Chambers chronicles this topic for the first time in her absorbing, riveting and groundbreaking book HAVING IT ALL?
Download or read book Eye of the Storm written by Thomme Webb and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rafael Devereaux is a successful proposal developer in corporate America. In his early thirties, Rafael is a fiercely handsome black Creole man with smooth, light caramel skin with jet-black curly locks who turns heads of both sexes and is secretly envied by many. He followed the plan set forth by his pious Southern parents: great career, nice home, cars, and marriage. He has it all! So why does he feel so empty? Haunted by his unresolved sexual identities of the past, Rafael begins an introspective quest for truth and self-acceptance. Cherie is an attractive, pretentious, and calculating woman, who is self-absorbed and married to two things--Rafael and her career. She followed the plan too and married the most eligible suitor she met while an undergraduate in Cal. Everything goes according to the plan until she is confronted with her ex-boyfriend, Kelvin, a retired athlete who holds a shattering secret that will eventually shake up the perfect world that Cherie has erected. Michael is a deep-brown and physically solid man who grew up in the parishes surrounding New Orleans. As a search and rescue specialist, he witnesses firsthand the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina and suffers the loss of his friend and endearing grandmother. He is deeply affected, impacted by the storm that displaces his parents and other family members as he sets out to locate them. In the process of his journey, he is also discovering things about himself, questioning the traditional values he was raised on. His character provides us with a deeply spiritual and thoughtful commentary on how Katrina forever changed the lives of its victims on every level--physically, socially, emotionally, economically, and politically. One girl will bring them all together in an unforgettable way! Fast moving and an easy read, Eye of the Storm poses the philosophical questions about our place in the universe, our relationship with God, and the circumstances that define who we truly are.
Download or read book On Girlhood 15 Stories from the Well Read Black Girl Library written by Glory Edim and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of the Year Proudly introducing the Well-Read Black Girl Library Series, On Girlhood is a lovingly curated anthology celebrating short fiction from such luminaries as Rita Dove, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and more. Featuring stories by: Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Dorothy West, Rita Dove, Camille Acker, Toni Cade Bambara, Amina Gautier, Alexia Arthurs, Dana Johnson, Alice Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edwidge Danticat, Shay Youngblood, Paule Marshall, and Zora Neale Hurston. “When you look over your own library, who do you see?” asks Well-Read Black Girl founder Glory Edim in this lovingly curated anthology. Bringing together an array of “unforgettable, and resonant coming-of-age stories” (Nicole Dennis-Benn), Edim continues her life’s work to brighten and enrich American reading lives through the work of both canonical and contemporary Black authors—from Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison to Dana Johnson and Alexia Arthurs. Divided into four themes—Innocence, Belonging, Love, and Self-Discovery—On Girlhood features fierce young protagonists who contend with trials that shape who they are and what they will become. At times heartbreaking and hilarious, the stories within push past flat stereotypes and powerfully convey the beauty of Black girlhood, resulting in an indispensable compendium for every home library. “A compelling anthology that . . . results in a literary master class.” —Keishel Williams, Washington Post “A beautiful and comforting patchwork quilt of stories from our literary contemporaries and foremothers.” —Ibi Zoboi, New York Times best-selling coauthor of Punching the Air
Download or read book They Got Daddy written by Sharon Tubbs and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable journey through racism and faith across the generations. January 15, 1959—a day that changed one family forever. White supremacists kidnapped and severely beat rural Alabama preacher Israel Page, nearly killing him because he had sued a White sheriff's deputy for injuries suffered in a car crash. After "they" "got Daddy," Israel Page's children began leaving the Jim Crow South, the event leaving an indelible mark on the family and its future. Decades later, the events of that day fueled journalist Sharon Tubbs's epic quest to learn who had "gotten" her mother's daddy and why. They Got Daddy follows Tubbs on her moving journey from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to the back roads and rural churches of Alabama. A powerful revelation of the sustaining and redemptive power of faith and unflinching testimony to the deeply embedded effects of racism across the generations, it demonstrates how the search for the truth can offer a chance at true healing.
Download or read book Big Mama s Little Black Jesus written by William Roosevelt Leggette and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written about the Southern lifestyle during the 1930's through the 1940's, but sit back and lend your ear (eyes) to a personal account of how a young man grew up under these trying conditions. Not only were the conditions trying, but getting an education was bleak and almost impossible, not just due to the segregation, but from the internal conflicts among the families. See how the hand of God moved to help this family over-come hardships and calamities, but how He touched the life of this young man when he was determined to better himself, his sisters and brothers, mother and father and to make a life outside the Racial Southern expectations of young black men. These are issues that I experienced growing up as a black person in the South in the USA. I want my children and grandchildren to know the things I experienced and how I was able to overcome and make a better life for my family. Currently I am living in Southern California, and I have lived quite a long life. I am currently on the downside of being a septagenarian. Unfortunately, I have lost my eyesight due to a disease called diabetic retinopathy. I am dependent on my wife and my sister to assist me in getting this book completed. I have been trying to get the book finished for the past fifteen years. I hope this book gives insight to not only my family, but to all that would care to read it.
Download or read book The Jump written by Jayda Lee Wilson and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jump into a work of fiction revealing truths through a flight and secret missions of three siblings. It takes a leap of faith and unraveling Psalm 91 as the key to hope. Their assignment is to expose evil within the Corporation that controls life under the Dome and to bring deliverance. The Defenders and siblings coordinate their efforts using their unique talents and perspectives along with the Family Bible in awakening the people from the illusion of living free, but not actually being free. The rescue mission blossoms into a commission to bring a lost world to Jesus, offering salvation and healing, helping society find their voice, providing support to overcome corruption, and shepherding a Remnant to a promised land where freedom can be lived out as it was meant to be. Midtown, a pit stop for flights, is where mystery and much intrigue takes place. Their journey begins with the jump from an airplane and leads them to a fresh start in a new age of Believers.
Download or read book Report written by Illinois Farmers' Institute and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africanism written by Patricia Bamurangirwa and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of understanding of some young people in Africa. In her book, Patricia Bamurangirwa delves into the more serious aspects of emigrating from Africa to Britain and other Western countries alike and challenges some of them face. This is a heartfelt book that aims to bring hope and confidence to those from minority backgrounds, but also to those who have not personally experienced the trials and tribulations of being from an minority ethnic group within the UK. It also serves to educate readers about the cultural and societal issues currently facing Africa – from the responsibilities that have been facing Africa for years, to the corruption and violence, to the leaders of the Western world who need to learn to be happy being rich alongside the African continent. “While the book is a true story,” explains Patricia, “all the names have been changed.” Africanism encourages every young person to be proud of their heritage, background and ethnicity, as well as the country within which they currently live. This is a book about patriotism, passion and pride. Patricia Bamurangirwa will bring readers to tears with her story, but also hopefully bring laughter too. This is ultimately a story of self-confidence and belief, which will appeal to anyone looking for a motivational and inspirational story.
