Download or read book Krazy White Girl written by Mary A. Monroe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-11-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They all called her Krazy... Fourteen-year-old Nicole Adams of South Florida awakes from a coma and finds her life changed forever. She has to testify at the trial of her mom’s boyfriend, Ricaldo, who brutally beat her upon discovering her shameful secret – cutting. After moving in to live with her Aunt Lori and cousin Johnny in New York, Nicole becomes “Niki,” and encounters friends like Blondie and Lo, and a new crush, Blake, who help her face her deepest fears. Through teachers Ms. Parker and her P.O.W.E.R. group and Ms. Gonzalez and her Poetry Slam Club, Niki is beginning to heal – until Ashley Williams publicly humiliates Niki, tailspinning her lower than ever. Krazy White Girl is Nicole's story, including her battle with cutting – up front, personal, gripping. Free materials available at... www.marymonroebooks.com Krazy White Girl is the second book of the exciting trilogy about students from Mr. Martin’s Drop Out Prevention Class, by the author of Miracle at Monty Middle School.
Download or read book The Good Life written by Dorian Sykes and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988 Detroit, Wink and his crew jump into the drug trade, determined to taste the good life, but as they pay their dues and the unforgiving streets harden their hearts, they learn that all dreams are not worth living.
Download or read book Tagger written by Mary A. Monroe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I love using Reader's Theatre in my classroom," . . . "When will they make a movie out of your books?" . . . "I love performing arts!" Comments such as these from loyal fans and teachers motivated Mary A. Monroe to write a Theatre/Screenplay version of her popular teen novel, Tagger. Now Luis and his friends, including The Beast, Grill, Loco, Catfish, The Princess and more, come to life in this easy-to-read and easy-to-act-out version of the original novel. Tagger is the story of Freshman Luis Arteaga, 14, who can't stay awake in class at Sunrise High School because he's up most nights until early morning working on graffiti drawings for his Black Book. Once Luis teams up with a crew called Skillz, headed by The Beast and Grill, his life gets more and more out of control until he's forced to move to his dad's home in a small midwestern river town called Cave-in-Rock, rich in mystery and heritage. Luis feels he is being called to the cave to do something -- but what? This is Luis' fascinating play, inspired by true events. Now theatre students in middle and high schools can share this exciting story with viewers across America. As well, since Cave-in-Rock has been the unforgettable setting for major motion pictures in the past such as "How the West Was Won," isn't it time for a new hit teen motion picture -- Tagger -- to premiere in film? The undeniable answer is "Yes!"
Download or read book Feel the Fire written by R. G. Weatherly and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dre and Rose were two people from different sides of the track who were only trying to live their lives as best as they could. Dre was just a simple young man trying to make up for a drunken mistake that he made two years prior. But no matter how much he tried to walk the straight and narrow path, other people found ways to make sure he relived the mistake made. Rose was a young woman who lived one life but wished she lived another. As the heiress to a billion-dollar company, Rose felt trapped by her status and her father's demands that she get married and have kids before it was too late. With all the pressure, and her desire to be a regular person, Rose made a decision that would change her life in more ways than one. So when a botched kidnapping brought the two together, their worlds collided in a very unexpected way. Now Dre and Rose found themselves not only falling for each other but fighting for their lives as well. And if that wasn't bad enough, they also had to deal with a backstabbing girlfriend and a controlling father.
Download or read book Sail Away Whitesnake s Fantastic Voyage written by Martin Popoff and published by Soundcheck Books. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first ever full biography of Whitesnake, top music writer Martin Popoff tells the tale of rock legend David Coverdale from his Deep Purple roots to the two distinct incarnations of his ὔber-creation. Whitesnake began life as a UK based blues rock outfit, until the lad from England’s chilly east coast upped sticks to America’s sunny west coast in search of fame, fortune, big videos and even bigger hair. He found them all, and 1987’s self-titled album went platinum eight times in the US alone, before their bright star waned in the face of dowdy grunge. In his 45th book, Martin has interviewed 30 major characters – including Coverdale – to piece together the band’s convoluted history. He traces the hirings and firings, the splits and reunions, the image changes which evolved over time enabling Coverdale and co. to stay ahead of the pack for over five decades. If you’ve rocked out to anthems such as “Here I Go Again”, “Fool For Your Loving”, “Still Of The Night”, or The Heart Of The City”, you’ll want to read about the man and the band that created them.
Download or read book Reality Check written by Eric Pete and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National bestselling author Eric Pete does it again with a reimagining of his first classic! Every woman dreams of getting married to the man she loves. So why is the independent, vivacious Glover having second thoughts about her engagement to her rich, sexy boyfriend Lionel? Meanwhile, Louisiana country boy Max decides moving to L.A. will better not only his career chances, but his love life. It's just his luck that the beautiful woman who can help him professionally--and personally--is about to be married to another man. A chance meeting at an employment office gives new meaning to the phrase Reality Check as Glover and Max try to sort through the drama that is bound to happen if they get together.
Download or read book When Janey Comes Marching Home written by Laura Browder and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While women are officially barred from combat in the American armed services, in the current war, where there are no front lines, the ban on combat is virtually meaningless. More than in any previous conflict in our history, American women are engaging with the enemy, suffering injuries, and even sacrificing their lives in the line of duty. When Janey Comes Marching Home juxtaposes forty-eight photographs by Sascha Pflaeging with oral histories collected by Laura Browder to provide a dramatic portrait of women at war. Women from all five branches of the military share their stories here--stories that are by turns moving, comic, thought-provoking, and profound. Seeing their faces in stunning color photographic portraits and reading what they have to say about loss, comradeship, conflict, and hard choices will change the ways we think about women and war. Serving in a combat zone is an all-encompassing experience that is transformative, life-defining, and difficult to leave behind. By coming face-to-face with women veterans, we who are outside that world can begin to get a sense of how the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have shaped their lives and how their stories may ripple out and influence the experiences of all American women. The book accompanies a photography exhibit of the same name opening May 1, 2010, at the Women in Military Service to America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, and continuing to travel around the country through 2011.
Download or read book First Body written by Melanie Rae Thon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1997 Whiting Writers’ Award:Taut, persistent, and brilliantly cadenced, First, Body is a testament to the breathtaking virtuosity of Granta-acclaimed author Melanie Rae Thon Through nine searing works of fiction, Melanie Rae Thon looks to the people who live in the borderlands, turning a keen and compassionate eye to those marginalized by circumstance and transgression. Taking us from the cobblestone streets of Boston to a deserted Montana road, from dance halls to hospital morgues, these urgent tales careen between the faults of the body and those of the mind, exploring the irruption of the past through the present, the sudden accidents and misguided passions that make it impossible to return to the safe territory of a former life.
Download or read book Caucasia written by Danzy Senna and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race take … Haunting.” —The New York Times Book Review Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970s Boston. The sisters are so close that they speak their own language, yet Birdie, with her light skin and straight hair, is often mistaken for white, while Cole is dark enough to fit in with the other kids at school. Despite their differences, Cole is Birdie’s confidant, her protector, the mirror by which she understands herself. Then their parents’ marriage collapses. One night Birdie watches her father and his new girlfriend drive away with Cole. Soon Birdie and her mother are on the road as well, drifting across the country in search of a new home. But for Birdie, home will always be Cole. Haunted by the loss of her sister, she sets out a desperate search for the family that left her behind. The extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Senna’s literary career, Caucasia is a modern classic, at once a powerful coming of age story and a groundbreaking work on identity and race in America.
Download or read book From Caucasia with Love written by Danzy Senna and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up amidst the power politics of 1970s America, Birdie and her older sister Cole are so close they speak their own language. Daughters of a white activist mother and a black academic father, Birdie appears white, Cole black, their relationship a refuge from the rest of their lives. Yet when their parents separate, Birdie and Cole are thrown worlds apart. But Birdie's desperate need to reclaim her family forces her back on to the road, where her search for her sister becomes, inevitably, a search for her self. 'Twists serious issues - race, politics, identity, social and familial responsibility - around the structure of a compelling storyline ...an intelligent, questioning book that sparks with ideas' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Download or read book My Life Personality written by Brenda Bonds and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had a dream before my mother passed I saw letters in my dream. All my life I've been going the wrong direction. This is my destiny this is what I want to do. Some of my life I was out there lonely and confused. Damn near all my life I've been out on the streets. Now that I'm older I've realized I missed out on a lot. Then I changed my life for the better. It took me a while to wake up but now I'm here. I'm doing me now I'm happy and I'm free. So why don't you just give me and chance and read me so you can understand me. Please don't judge. you wonder why you see my dog with me on cover because he is my roll dog you see me, you see him.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical written by Robert Gordon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stage musical constitutes a major industry not only in the US and the UK, but in many regions of the world. Over the last four decades many countries have developed their own musical theatre industries, not only by importing hit shows from Broadway and London but also by establishing or reviving local traditions of musical theatre. In response to the rapid growth of musical theatre as a global phenomenon, The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical presents new scholarly approaches to issues arising from these new international markets. The volume examines the stage musical from theoretical and empirical perspectives including concepts of globalization and consumer culture, performance and musicological analysis, historical and cultural studies, media studies, notions of interculturalism and hybridity, gender studies, and international politics. The thirty-three essays investigate major aspects of the global musical, such as the dominance of Western colonialism in its early production and dissemination, racism and sexism--both in representation and in the industry itself--as well as current conflicts between global and local interests in postmodern cultures. Featuring contributors from seventeen countries, the essays offer informed insider perspectives that reflect the diversity of the subject and offer in-depth examinations of specific cultural and economic systems. Together, they conduct penetrating comparative analysis of musical theatre in different contexts as well as a survey of the transcultural spread of musicals.
Download or read book Woman in Red written by Eileen Goudge and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of a shattering loss, an act of revenge, and a quest for redemption from the New York Times–bestselling author of Garden of Lies. Alice Kessler has lived through a mother’s worst nightmare. While riding his bike, her eight-year-old son, David, was killed by a drunk driver. Out of her mind with grief and rage—especially after losing the wrongful death suit—Alice runs down the driver, Owen White, crippling him. After serving nine years in prison, she returns to Grays Island in the Pacific Northwest, divorced and destitute, to reunite with her surviving son, Jeremy. But the child she has not seen in almost a decade has become an angry teenager, and when Jeremy is falsely accused of rape, White, who is now mayor, seizes his chance for revenge. To defend Jeremy, Alice seeks the help of former Manhattan DA Colin McGinty, who lost his wife on 9/11 and returned to Grays Island after the death of his grandfather—an artist famous for his haunting portrait Woman in Red. As the story of the painting is revealed, the past becomes intertwined with the present, and Alice and Colin discover that they are bound together by a deadly wartime secret on the verge of being exposed.
Download or read book Absalom s Daughters written by Suzanne Feldman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding debut about half sisters, one black and one white, on a 1950s road trip through the American South Self-educated and brown-skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother’s laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for “colored music” and dreams of life as a big city radio star. These teenaged girls are half-sisters. And when they catch wind of their wayward father’s inheritance coming down in Virginia, they hitch their hopes to a road trip together to claim what’s rightly theirs. In an old junk car, with a frying pan, a ham, and a few dollars hidden in a shoe, they set off through the American Deep South of the 1950s, a bewitchingly beautiful landscape as well as one bedeviled by racial strife and violence. Suzanne Feldman's Absalom’s Daughters combines the buddy movie, the coming-of-age tale, and a dash of magical realism to enthrall and move us with an unforgettable, illuminating novel.
Download or read book Art in a Democracy written by Ben Fink and published by New Village Press. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaborative plays with diverse ensembles across the country address pressing issues of our times The plays in Volume 2 come from Roadside’s intercultural and issue-specific theater work, including long-term collaborations with the African American Junebug Productions in New Orleans and the Puerto Rican Pregones Theater in the South Bronx, as well as with residents on both sides of the walls of recently-built prisons. Roadside has spent 45 years searching for what art in a democracy might look like. The anthology raises questions such as, What are common principles and common barriers to achieving democracy across disciplines, and how can the disciplines unite in common democratic cause?
Download or read book Brace for Impact written by Apocalypse D and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two archenemies/best friends set off on a journey across America to save their friend. They have six days to reach San Francisco from Kentucky, but they have no money and few practical skills. Along the way, they encounter truckers, pro-wrestlers, love-crazed middle-aged Japanese women, robots, an insane smoothie maker, and a plan to bring down the Internet.
Download or read book Don t Start Me To Talking written by John O'Neal and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eight plays by civil rights activist John O’Neal.
