Download or read book Magical Habits written by Monica Huerta and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Magical Habits Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family's Mexican restaurants and her life as a scholar of literature and culture to meditate on how relationships among self, place, race, and storytelling contend with both the afterlives of history and racial capitalism. Whether dwelling on mundane aspects of everyday life, such as the smell of old kitchen grease, or grappling with the thorny, unsatisfying question of authenticity, Huerta stages a dynamic conversation among genres, voices, and archives: personal and critical essays exist alongside a fairy tale; photographs and restaurant menus complement fictional monologues based on her family's history. Developing a new mode of criticism through storytelling, Huerta takes readers through Cook County courtrooms, the Cristero Rebellion (in which her great-grandfather was martyred by the Mexican government), Japanese baths in San Francisco—and a little bit about Chaucer too. Ultimately, Huerta sketches out habits of living while thinking that allow us to consider what it means to live with and try to peer beyond history even as we are caught up in the middle of it. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

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Download or read book College Student Self Efficacy Research Studies written by Terence Hicks and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College Student Self-Efficacy Research Studies offers three uniquely designed sections that provide a unique mixture of research studies conducted on African American, Mexican American, and first-generation college students. This book explores a variety of factors affecting a diverse group of college students including institutional commitment, college adjustment, and social and academic self-efficacy barriers.

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Download or read book The Million Dollar Deception written by RM Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost five years after his critically acclaimed novel The Million Dollar Divorce, Essence bestselling author RM Johnson returns with the sequel that fans have been waiting for...and in The Million Dollar Deception, Nate Kenny, Lewis Waters, and Monica Kenny still have not buried the hatchet. When readers last closed the book on Nate Kenny, his scheming had backfired, and he not only lost a great fortune in a messy divorce but his wife ended up with the very man he paid off to seduce her into infidelity. Now, four years later, it's time for payback. Meanwhile, Monica Kenny has a decision to make -- stay with and marry Lewis Waters, the younger man she knows may not be right for her? Or leave him, venture out on her own, and face the possibility of falling for another man who may leave her as her ex-husband did, because she cannot bear children? Lewis Waters recognizes that he's in a much better position than he ever was, now that he's with Monica. She takes care of him and his daughter and provides them with financial stability; but Lewis fears she is also starting to notice the pair's fundamental differences. In an attempt to repair the relationship, Lewis vows that he'll never return to his former thuggish life -- he intensifies life in the bedroom and promises to finish school and start a successful real estate business. But Nate is prepared to use all his cunning, expertise, and money to destroy Lewis, and take Monica back. Unbeknownst to all three, there will be life and death repercussions. A stirring saga of romance, loyalty, and friendship, The Million Dollar Deception is an explosive escapade of betrayal, sex, and suspense that will leave you breathless for the next, and final, installment.

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Download or read book Finding a Voice While Learning to Teach written by Derek Featherstone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of writings from newly qualified teachers describes the joys, challenges, tensions and frustrations of their earliest teaching experiences. The book moves from short sketches of classroom experiences to broader views of the student teaching experience and the initial teaching years.

Download or read book Sarah s List written by Denice Holt and published by FCM Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all fantasies were meant to be shared. Sarah Williams has it all: a handsome husband, Jack, who has a great job on Wall Street, a precocious four-year-old son, Colin, and a life in a small, posh Connecticut town that most people can’t begin to imagine. The only thing standing in the way of Sarah living out her years in comfort and Norman Rockwell family moments is one girl’s night gone wrong. Waking up with no memory of the events from the night before, Sarah discovers that she has shared things with Jack that have rocked the foundation of their marriage. In fact, she shared a list of them. For a man who has excelled at everything in his life, finding out that his wife has desires well beyond their “adequate” sex life was crushing. Desperate times call for desperate measures. With the genie out of the bottle, Jack races to devise a plan to deal with Sarah’s list of fantasies in hope of finding a place where they can both be happy before it all ends in tears. Join Sarah and Jack on this funny, steamy, quirky journey of love, romance, and self-discovery. CONTENT WARNING Portions of this story include situations that contain consensual extramarital sexual activities. If you find the thought of sexual partners outside of the marriage offensive, please do not read any further.

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