Download or read book Dezirah Volume 4 written by Jacey K Dew and published by Crimson Notebook Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A millennium and a half ago, supernatural beings signed a treaty to disappear. Upset with their treatment and tired of hiding, supernaturals started a revolution. A day to day routine settles with those still alive. Survival requires skilled work and mundane tasks. Tensions slowly escalate between drawn sides. Spring thaws the snow and awakens all that lies dormant. Movement returns to the frozen North. Three souls traverse the new world in their plight to survive. Alexa stands in the aftermath of Darius killing Daniel and kidnapping Rayleen. She needs to pull herself together to rescue Rayleen. Will Alexa find Rayleen in time? Nikki grows within and helps lead the new revolution in Red Deer. Devastated by the loss of Rayleen, she will not stop until she rescues the little girl she's bonded with. Jaiden is reluctantly thrown into a leadership role overseeing the new revolution, but she works hard to fill the role in her sister's absence. Expanding the safety circle, finding supplies, and keeping followers alive are easy compared to clashing with the large personalities she has to work with.
Download or read book Dezirah Volume 2 written by Jacey K Dew and published by Crimson Notebook Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A millennium and a half ago, supernatural beings signed a treaty to disappear. Over time humans let their existence slip away into stories, myths, legends, fairy tale, fable, and movie plot. Upset with their treatment and tired of hiding, supernaturals started a revolution. Some rise up to take control back from the humans; to put them in their proper place in society. Three souls intersect in their plight to survive the new world. Three weeks have passed since the first attack. The world is in shambles. Chaos reigns as a power struggle begins. Alexa watched in horror as her niece was taken by Darius and Sandra. Her feelings are conflicted between her new boyfriend and her ex. Darius still holds her heart, but Daniel cares for her. She is determined to retrieve Rayleen, but at what cost? Nikki is trapped and tortured. Her only chance to survive long enough to escape is to convince her captors she can see the future. Using her acting skills to convince the demons she has visions might be the easy part. Jaiden hopes to reunite with her sister. She will use her abilities and the tools at her disposal to assist her travelling group; as long as she can keep them a secret. Resistance greets her at every turn.
Download or read book Dezirah Volume 3 written by Jacey K Dew and published by Crimson Notebook Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A millennium and a half ago, supernatural beings signed a treaty to disappear. Upset with their treatment and tired of hiding, supernaturals started a revolution; six months ago. After the initial hit, a blanket of calm fell over Banff. A day to day routine has settled with those still alive. Survival requires skilled work and mundane tasks. Tensions slowly escalate between drawn sides. Spring thaws the snow and awakens all that lies dormant. Movement returns to the frozen North. Three souls traverse the new world in their plight to survive. Alexa is united with her niece and Daniel, and are back in Bruce’s house. A new normal falls on them. Darius is a thought of the past, until he comes back to send her on a quest. What is his gift to her? Nikki has taken over as a one of the leaders. Keeping peace between the divided sides. Her family however, has never left her mind. Now that the snow has melted, she will stop at nothing to reunite with them. Jaiden has spent the last few months learning what she could about survival. Visions remind her that this calm will not last. Which of them will come true, which have been changed, and which will never come to pass?
Download or read book Dezirah Volume 1 written by Jacey K Dew and published by Crimson Notebook Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A millennium and a half ago, supernatural beings signed a treaty to disappear. The general public was told they were wiped out, and over time their existence became stories, myths, legends, fairy tale, fable, and movie plot. New generations and some nostalgic individuals decide to take back their place in society. They will chant Dezirah as they revolt against the humans. Supernatural beings throw the world into World War III like no one imagines. A supernatural revolution now threatens life as humans know it. The plight to survive in a world ravaged by a supernatural war, as told from different points of view of Alexa Brenner, Nikki Marshall, and Jaiden Kensington. Follow Alexa, a teenager whose world is in constant upheaval; from her family dying and being caught in the foster system with her young niece, to a supernatural war dismantling her way of life. Now she needs to choose between her vampire boyfriend and her humanity while struggling to survive in an unfair war. Follow Nikki as she grasps for her old life as she survives the supernatural revolution alongside three friends. She leads a group through denial, and disbelief of the events going on outside the mall. Embracing, then tolerating a party atmosphere may prove disastrous. Follow Jaiden as she finds herself, while thrust between supernaturals and humans. Dealing with multiple races and species, she finds herself questioning who she should fear more; the humans, the werewolves, the succubus, the vampires, ore the various other beings she encounters. The nightmares that plague her only show a glimpse of what is to come.
Download or read book Lost Souls written by Jacey K Dew and published by Crimson Notebook Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the initial hit, a blanket of calm fell over Banff. A day to day routine has settled with those still alive. Survival requires skilled work and mundane tasks. Tensions slowly escalate between drawn sides. Spring thaws the snow and awakens all that lies dormant. Darius sends Alexa on a hunt for a gift he left her. What disastrous consequences could a gift cause? Now that the snow has melted, Nikki will stop at nothing to reunite with loved ones. Jaiden is reluctantly thrown into a leadership role overseeing the new revolution. Visions remind her that this calm will not last. Which of them will come true, which have been changed, and which will never come to pass?
Download or read book Three Souls written by Jacey K Dew and published by Crimson Notebook Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of their existence being boiled down to myth and legend, supernatural beings start a revolution that threatens human existence and life as we know it. Follow the plight of three souls trying to survive in a world ravaged by supernatural war. Alexa struggles to choose between her vampire boyfriend and her humanity while figuring out how best to survive with her young niece. Nikki embraces denial and disbelief until she grasps for her old life. Partying while waiting for rescue to come may prove disastrous. Jaiden is thrust between humans and supernaturals. The nightmares that plague her only show a glimpse of what is to come.
Download or read book Brave Souls written by Jacey K Dew and published by Crimson Notebook Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three weeks have passed since the first attack. The world is in shambles. Chaos reigns as a power struggle begins. Alexa watched in horror as her niece was taken by Darius and Sandra. Her feelings are conflicted between her new boyfriend and her ex. Darius promises protection and vampirism, but Daniel cares for her. She is determined to retrieve Rayleen, but at what cost? Nikki is trapped and tortured. Her only chance at survival is to convince her captors she can see the future long enough to escape. Using her acting skills to convince them she has visions might be the easiest part of her plan. Jaiden hopes to reunite with her sister. She will use her abilities and the tools at her disposal to assist her travelling group- as long as she can keep them a secret. Resistance greets her at every turn.
Download or read book The Baby Name Countdown written by Janet Schwegel and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic, the baby name countdown (over 120,000 copies sold) is now fully revised and updated for the first time in a decade. Featuring more names than any other guide and based on more than 2.5 million birth records, the book includes brand-new data, a new introduction, a revised section on the most popular baby names of the past year and decade, and updated popularity ratings throughout. Discover at a glance the most popular given names from each decade of the 20th and 21st centuries, meanings and origins of the 3,000 top names, and thousands of rare and exotic monikers. Whether your taste in names is trendy, traditional, or international, The Baby Name Countdown is the ideal resource for every parent searching for the perfect name.
Download or read book Things Nobody Knows But Me written by Amra Pajalić and published by Transit Lounge . This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she is four years old Amra Pajalić realises that her mother is different. Fatima is loving but sometimes hears strange voices that tell her to do bizarre things. She is frequently sent to hospital and Amra and her brother are passed around to family friends and foster homes, and for a time live with their grandparents in Bosnia. At sixteen Amra ends up in the school counsellor's office for wagging school. She finally learns the name for the malady that has dogged her mother and affected her own life: bipolar disorder. Amra becomes her mother's confidante and learns the extraordinary story of her life: when she was fifteen years old Fatima visited family friends only to find herself in an arranged marriage. At sixteen she was a migrant, a mother, and mental patient. Surprisingly funny, Things Nobody Knows But Me is a tender portrait of family and migration, beautifully told. It captures a wonderful sense of bicultural place and life as it weaves between St Albans in suburban Australia and Bosanska Gradiška in Bosnia. Ultimately it is the heartrending story of a mother and daughter bond fractured and forged by illness and experience. Fatima emerges as a remarkable but wounded woman who learns that her daughter really loves her.
Download or read book N tis nak written by Jas M. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is about relatedness. Using a form of generative refusal towards western writing practices, the text works with the idea of kinship that derives from the author's Plains Cree and other kinship teachings. It also examines how queer kin were some of their first experiences of reciprocal relationality and care"--
Download or read book Talk Stories written by Jamaica Kincaid and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaica Kincaid’s collected writings for The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” record her first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York. Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid’s original writing for The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town,” composed during the time when she first arrived in the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to 1983. Kincaid developed a unique voice, both in sync with William Shawn’s tone for the quintessential elite magazine and (though unsigned) all her own—wonderingly alive to the ironies and screwball details that characterized her adopted city. The book also reflects Kincaid’s development as a young writer—the newcomer who sensitively records her impressions here takes root to become one of our most respected authors.
Download or read book In My Own Moccasins written by Helen Knott and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nationally bestselling book on the struggle of addiction and the power of Indigenous resilience. Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption. With gripping moments of withdrawal, times of spiritual awareness, and historical insights going back to the signing of Treaty 8 by her great-great grandfather, Chief Bigfoot, her journey exposes the legacy of colonialism, while reclaiming her spirit. " In My Own Moccasins never flinches. The story goes dark, and then darker. We live in an era where Indigenous women routinely go missing, our youth are killed and disposed of like trash, and the road to justice doesn't seem to run through the rez. Knott's journey is familiar, filled with the fallout of residential school, racial injustice, alcoholism, drugs, and despair. But she skillfully draws us along and opens up her life, her family, and her communities to show us a way forward. It's the best kind of memoir: clear-eyed, generous, and glorious....Bear witness to the emergence of one of the most powerful voices of her generation." -- Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster and Monkey Beach (from the foreword) "Helen Knott speaks truth to the experience of Indigenous women living through the violence of colonized spaces and she does so with grace, beauty and a ferocity that makes me feel so proud." -- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson , author of This Accident of Being Lost "Helen writes beautifully and painfully, about her own life and the lives of many of our sisters. A strong, gentle voice removing the colonial blanket and exposing truth." -- Maria Campbell , author of Halfbreed "An incredible debut that documents how trauma and addiction can be turned into healing and love. I am in awe of Helen Knott and her courage. I am a fan for life. Wow." -- Richard Van Camp , author of The Lesser Blessed "Heartfelt, heartbreaking, triumphant and raw, In My Own Moccasins is a must-read for anyone who's ever felt lost in their life... Actually, it's a must-read for anyone who appreciates stories of struggle, redemption and healing. Knott's writing is confident, clear, powerful and inspiring." -- Jowita Bydlowska , author of Guy: A Novel and Drunk Mom "Powerful, filled with emotion." -- Carol Daniels, author of Bearskin Diary and Hiraeth "A beautiful rendering of how recovery for our peoples is inevitably about reconnecting with Indigenous identities, lands, cultural and healing practices." -- Kim Anderson , author of Reconstructing Native Womenhood
Download or read book The Beautiful Side of Evil written by Johanna Michaelsen and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last 15 years have witnessed an unprecedented explosion of interest in psychic phenomena. Johanna Michaelsen shares an extraordinary story about how she became a personal assistant to a psychic surgeon and witnessed miraculous healings, yet realized the true occultic source behind The Beautiful Side of Evil. Over 235,000 sold!
Download or read book Mamaskatch written by Darrel J. McLeod and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in his Cree family’s history, passed down in the stories of his mother, Bertha. There he is surrounded by her tales of joy and horror—of the strong men in their family, of her love for Darrel, and of the cruelty she and her sisters endured in residential school—as well as his many siblings and cousins, and the smells of moose stew and wild peppermint tea. And there young Darrel learns to be fiercely proud of his heritage and to listen to the birds that will guide him throughout his life. But after a series of tragic losses, Bertha turns wild and unstable, and their home life becomes chaotic. Sweet and eager to please, Darrel struggles to maintain his grades and pursue interests in music and science while changing homes, witnessing domestic violence, caring for his younger siblings, and suffering abuse at the hands of his brother-in-law. Meanwhile, he begins to question and grapple with his sexual identity—a reckoning complicated by the repercussions of his abuse and his sibling’s own gender transition. Thrillingly written in a series of fractured vignettes, and unflinchingly honest, Mamaskatch—“It’s a wonder!” in Cree—is a heartbreaking account of how traumas are passed down from one generation to the next, and an uplifting story of one individual who overcame enormous obstacles in pursuit of a fulfilling and adventurous life.
Download or read book Love after the End written by Joshua Whitehead and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lambda Literary Award winner This exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous) writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism’s histories. Here, readers will discover bio-engineered AI rats, transplanted trees in space, the rise of a 2SQ resistance camp, a primer on how to survive Indigiqueerly, virtual reality applications, motherships at sea, and the very bending of space-time continuums queered through NDN time. Love after the End demonstrates the imaginatively queer Two-Spirit futurisms we have all been dreaming of since 1492. Contributors include Darcie Little Badger, Mari Kurisato, Kai Minosh Pyle, David Alexander Robertson, and jaye simpson. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
Download or read book I m Afraid of Men written by Vivek Shraya and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book by: The Globe and Mail, Indigo, Out Magazine, Audible, CBC, Apple, Quill & Quire, Kirkus Reviews, Brooklyn Public Library, Writers’ Trust of Canada, Autostraddle, Bitch, and BookRiot. Finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award, Transgender Nonfiction Nominated for the 2019 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Non-Fiction "Cultural rocket fuel." --Vanity Fair "Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, I'm Afraid of Men will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one--one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind." --Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of The Sun and Her Flowers and Milk and Honey A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl--and how we might reimagine gender for the twenty-first century. Vivek Shraya has reason to be afraid. Throughout her life she's endured acts of cruelty and aggression for being too feminine as a boy and not feminine enough as a girl. In order to survive childhood, she had to learn to convincingly perform masculinity. As an adult, she makes daily compromises to steel herself against everything from verbal attacks to heartbreak. Now, with raw honesty, Shraya delivers an important record of the cumulative damage caused by misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, releasing trauma from a body that has always refused to assimilate. I'm Afraid of Men is a journey from camouflage to a riot of colour and a blueprint for how we might cherish all that makes us different and conquer all that makes us afraid.
Download or read book This Wound Is a World written by Billy-Ray Belcourt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in the United States “i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants every blowjob to be transformative.” Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is “a prayer against breaking,” writes trans Anishinaabe and Métis poet Gwen Benaway. “By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with the hardness of colonization to shape a love song that dances Indigenous bodies back into being. This book is what we’ve been waiting for.” Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound Is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky / to world inside.” Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where “everyone is at least a little gay.” Presented here with several additional poems, this prize-winning collection pursues fresh directions for queer and decolonial theory as it opens uncharted paths for Indigenous poetry in North America. It is theory that sings, poetry that marshals experience in the service of a larger critique of the coloniality of the present and the tyranny of sexual and racial norms.
