Download or read book I Am Jazz written by Jessica Herthel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere "This is an essential tool for parents and teachers to share with children whether those kids identify as trans or not. I wish I had had a book like this when I was a kid struggling with gender identity questions. I found it deeply moving in its simplicity and honesty."—Laverne Cox (who plays Sophia in “Orange Is the New Black”) From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way. Jazz's story is based on her real-life experience and she tells it in a simple, clear way that will be appreciated by picture book readers, their parents, and teachers.

Download or read book Life in Between Attapulgus Bainbridge GA written by Robbie Miller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-11 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life for me wasn't always easy, but I made the best of it. I grew up in two towns called Attapulgus and Bainbridge, GA. You probably never heard of them because they are so small. The population is less than 500 to this day. It's on Hwy 241 and off Hwy 27. It only has one traffic light. When you come through the town you will see all the houses on one side--that's about 15 houses. Most houses got cats and dogs in their front yard, but not this town. They have hogs, goats, cows, chickens and their bitties (baby chickens) following them. Now that's what you call country as hell. What I'm about to tell you will make you laugh and want to kill me for the things I did to people growing up? This book is mainly about four men. The first one: some people called him Fadlow and some called him Buddy. But, he had another name he was called. He hated it. The name was Booger Nose Mule Train. The second: ShakerHead. The third: Splinter. And last, but not least, myself, BAD ASS ROBBIE DUKE.

Download or read book The Best Thing About My Ass Is That It s Behind Me written by Lisa Ann Walter and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actress and comic Lisa Ann Walter offers a hilarious, star-studded collection of essays encouraging women to laugh at what they can't change, enjoy a guilty pleasure or two, and finally accept the lives and the bodies they're in now. The star of shows like Abbott Elementary and movies like The Parent Trap, Shall We Dance, and Bruce Almighty delivers a warm, wry, honest, and effective exhortation to find happiness where you are, in a serenity prayer for today’s woman that’s perfect for fans of Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project, Valerie Bertinelli’s Losing It and Chelsea Handler’s My Horizontal Life.

Download or read book In Love With the Plug 3 written by Shameka Jones and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think loving the plug is hard, try being a plug in love. The ups and downs of business are nothing compared to all the ups and downs of trying to have love, happiness, and all that other good stuff. The last thing Em-kay expected to do was come face to face with a missing, yet important piece of his past. Now searching harder than ever for answers that are a matter of life or death, timing couldn’t be worse as Breelynn is pulled into a mess of trouble that may prove harmful for both her and Em-kay. Will Em have the solution to their problems, or will he uncover the one thing that could lead to a life sentence? Try as he might, Sas can’t seem to shake the chaos that seems to keep him and Purple at odds. Just when things are on the up and up for them, they’re knocked two steps back, constantly fighting a losing battle. Motherhood has created a new Purple, but the old Purple is ready and waiting for the right person to cross her at the wrong time. Juggling business, divorce, drama, and intimacy is weighing Sas down. Can he rise above it all, or will Purple be forced to remind people that she’s still not to be messed with? Me Me is doing well by not interfering in Peanut’s personal affairs, but she’s fighting her own personal wars. Tired of playing mother to her siblings because of her mother’s addiction, Me Me is desperate for a change, but will her next move leave her trapped in the crosshairs of danger? Peanut will move heaven and earth to keep Ava from winning full custody of their son, but Ava has a master plan that’s sure to claim innocent victims. Will Peanut come out on top, or will life as he knows it come to an end? More secrets. Plenty of drama. Twists and turns you’ll never see coming. ALL relationships are put to the test in this explosive finale.

Download or read book Reality written by Sheldon Douglas and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality is a factor of life especially with a dream that you know is going to come true throughout the situation you set for in life, and you can't look back as your mission is to conquer, as you learn how understand positivity and negativity, which is one as the soul, lets you know how to use which one at the right moment without emotion, but with all faith of knowledge to face it and let it be the reason of reality.

Download or read book My Husband s Mistress Is Me written by R. Simone and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she discovers that her life isn't so perfect after all, successful executive Rene Martin, faced with the possibility of losing everything, is torn between seeking what is right or seeking the ultimate revenge on her husband and best friend.

Download or read book The Shadows of a Man written by James M. Sellers and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2020-08-16 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shadows of a Man is a glimpse into the mind of a troubled and damaged boy making decisions that are destined to have lasting consequences. This true story is about a boy abused and who was faced with all the haunting family issues he thought he could keep inside to channel his own demons, but the shadows in his life has exploded into a cycle of drugs crime prostitution and murder. The first part of this drama identifies with a child who is wise beyond his years a child who was put in a position in his young life to handle adult issues. Now James must confront his Shadows of an abused and tortured past and decide who and what he really is and deal with The Shadows of a Man. The Shadows are those hellacious levels of life. It changes as life rearranges. There is always hurt in the shadows as well as our unseen reflection. What we do in the Shadows come out into the light. This story is filled with bad choices, broken pieces, failures and a lot of pain. It is also filled with a major change, come back, and a freedom in life. Because there can be no after without a before. This book is based on lies, Love, hate and murder and what actually happened.

Download or read book He s Still B A E 3 written by Jahquel J. and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the news that Tammy’s mother is sleeping with Richard, Moet’s dad, Tammy has a lot to take in consideration. Does she tell her best friend or handle the matters on her own? With her relationship with her mother being better than the past, will Tammy cut her mother out she and the kid’s life for good this time? Tammy has to deal with everything that happens, but what happens when Latrell starts staying out late and taking secret phone calls? Is Latrell cheating on Tammy or is her mind playing tricks on her? Essence got herself involved in a love triangle, but she is only loving one part of the triangle. She’s falling head over heels back in love with Sept and could give a hell about her failing relationship with Kamari. Will Sept change for Essence or will he fall back into the same hole he’s crawled out of many times before? Honey is set on getting Essence out of her son’s life for good. Knowing their relationship is sinking, she decides to put more weight on the sinking boat when she reveals the secret that she has been hiding for her son. Will Essence throw in the towel this time or is her love for Kamari too strong? Avon and Ace’s relationship has been heartbreak after heartbreak. After Ace dismisses her for giving up a role that could of changed her life, Avon isn’t ready to call it quits. She’s tried of running and wants to finally make it work with Ace. Ace is worried about his daughter and if she’ll pull through this. Knowing Iesha kept this information from him, he files paperwork in court, but will he be able to get his kids? Will Iesha try to play dirty and get his kids taken from him all together? Will Avon and Ace finally get their fighting chance and be together, or will the two find themselves running away from the relationship before it could even start? In this finale to the BAE saga, we find out just how close these friends are. They’ve been through hell and back together before, but will they all make it out of their own personal hell?

Download or read book Meant to be Yours written by Sequaia and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her heart is healing. His has been broken since she left. Can coming together again be for the best? For Aúrea Belle Shepard, everything she’s ever wanted has always been right in front of her. At 17, she decides to leave her hometown to get away from her abusive foster father and oblivious foster mother. Her freedom from them is worth leaving everything behind—except her best friend, Prentice. Prentice has been Aúrea’s rider and protector since they became friends, so when she returns to their hometown, Prentice tries to reconnect and create those roles for himself all over again. But things are different now. Aúrea has changed, her circumstances have changed, and so has her need for him. But there’s one thing that hasn’t changed and never will—their love for each other. A trip home to say goodbye for Aúrea turns into the opportunity to have the life and love she’s always wanted.

Download or read book Sins of a Mother written by Joshua D. Blocker and published by DAWAY ENTERTAINMENT. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violated, disgusted, & ashamed, Tarrylyn Brown has no other choice but to move into her grandmother's house after fighting her way out of a sexual assault brought on by her mother's drug dealing boyfriend. Big Mama, as she endearingly calls her, tries her best to instill solid values and principles into her grand-child that promote a healthy & successful course of life. But a hurt and angry Tarrylyn learns and masters the art of hiding her truth by remaining silent concerning the things that have affected her. To promote cathartic release, Big Mama buys Tarrylyn a diary that she promises she won't ever peek into no matter how curious she may get. After testing the waters Tarrylyn finds solace in burying her truest and deepest feelings in this diary. Succumbing to the lust of her high school crush, Tarrylyn finds herself pregnant & fearful of becoming another "teenage statistic", so her & her best friend, Cara, develop a fool proof plan that is sure to resolve her worry. Finally, relieved of her stress, Tarrylyn's life, takes a refreshing turn for better when she meets the love of her life and proceeds to live the life of her dreams, Until that falls to shits. Subsequently, after eighteen years, a now divorced and single mother, finds herself retracing her steps after the secrets from her past come back to haunt her, ultimately changing her life FOREVER! I guess Big Mama wasn't so crazy after all, "What Don't Come Out in The Wash, Always Comes Out in The Rinse".

Download or read book Girls From da Hood 8 written by Treasure Hernandez and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Books' popular Girls From da Hood series is back, bringing readers more dramatic tales about the lives of some tough, resourceful women who can hold their own when things get rough on the streets. Gabby Davenport spent the first fifteen years of her life in the suburbs, living a privileged and sheltered existence. When her mother dies unexpectedly, she is forced to move from her middle class neighborhood into Cumberland Projects in Brooklyn. Gabby's life will never be the same. Mika, the queen bee of the projects, doesn't appreciate the arrival of this private-school good girl. Mika and her posse are on a mission to make Gabby's life miserable, and things only get worse when Mika's "friend with benefits" B-Waite decides he wants to make Gabby his girl. Mika is ready to go to war to win back her man, and she doesn't care who she has to take down in the process. Keisha, Shawna, and LaRhonda are best friends forever, as the saying goes. Nothing will tear apart this tight trio—or so they think. When Keisha steps out of her box to become more of her own person, tension builds among the girls. In the eyes of her trusted friends, her lifestyle has become questionable. What happens when her secrets and desires are revealed? Shawna's life is just starting to look up. She's been hired at a major record label, and she's making enough money to move out of the projects for good. When her good news is met by fake smiles, Shawna gets a new perspective on how her girls really feel. LaRhonda sees each of her friends moving up while she's still struggling in the confines of the ghetto. After she gives birth to her second child by the age of eighteen, she feels like her dreams are out of reach. Her growing jealousy isn't easy to hide. What will happen when her misery wants company?

Download or read book All That I Got Is You written by Oc The and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the one you loved was suspected of a crime they did not commit, would you protect them by becoming their alibi? Deidra, Sandra, and Rachel all agree to do just that for the man they love. The only problem is they all are in love with the same man. Parish 'Panther' Coles. When Panther, a larger than life gangster from Miami, is the prime suspect in the murder of a wealthy banker, he must figure out who is trying to frame him. Before going underground, Panther asks the three women in his life to cover for him, and claim to be his alibi for when the crime took place. Deidra, Sandra, and Rachel are all strong, independent women with careers they love and dating the man of their dreams. Panther has been their world since coming into their lives, and they will do their part to help maintain his freedom. But when the police find their way to each of the women's homes, their trust in Panther is shaken and they are forced to make a choice between love and their own freedom.

Download or read book Reading Jazz written by Robert Gottlieb and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 1087 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comprehensive and intelligently organized. . . . Jazz aficionados . . . should be grateful to have so much good writing on the subject in one place."--The New York Times Book Review "Alluring. . . . Capture[s] much of the breadth of the music, as well as the passionate debates it has stirred, more vividly than any other jazz anthology to date."--Chicago Tribune No musical idiom has inspired more fine writing than jazz, and nowhere has that writing been presented with greater comprehensiveness and taste than in this glorious collection. In Reading Jazz, editor Robert Gottlieb combs through eighty years of autobiography, reportage, and criticism by the music's greatest players, commentators, and fans to create what is at once a monumental tapestry of jazz history and testimony to the elegance, vigor, and variety of jazz writing. Here are Jelly Roll Morton, recalling the whorehouse piano players of New Orleans in 1902; Whitney Balliett, profiling clarinetist Pee Wee Russell; poet Philip Larkin, with an eloquently dyspeptic jeremiad against bop. Here, too, are the voices of Billie Holiday and Charles Mingus, Albert Murray and Leonard Bernstein, Stanley Crouch and LeRoi Jones, reminiscing, analyzing, celebrating, and settling scores. For anyone who loves the music--or the music of great prose--Reading Jazz is indispensable. "The ideal gift for jazzniks and boppers everywhere. . . . It gathers the best and most varied jazz writing of more than a century."--Sunday Times (London)

Download or read book Finessed a Dope Boy s Heart written by Racquel Williams and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mika Blake works in law enforcement, and is married to one of the most distinguished detectives on the police force. Everything looks good on the outside-- but Rasheem is controlling and two-timing, so Mika buries herself into her career. She soon crosses paths with Jakeel, an ex-con fresh out of prison. The jovial jailbird piques her interest, and Mika soon forgets that there are certain lines you just don't cross. Now she's playing with two men on opposite sides of the law. Can Mika walk away, or will she make a move that could lead to murder and mayhem in her once quiet life?"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Growing Up Gangster written by Gregory Marshall and published by Brown Girls Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful...Poignant...Inspiring As a child growing up in South Central Los Angeles, Gregory Marshall was enamored with the fast life. Money, women and cars were the things to have and Greg was determined to get them-by any means necessary. It wasn't long before the innocent youngster had turned into a cold-hearted gangster known around town simply as G Man. His ruthless life of crime made him a legend in South Central LA-and the go-to man for everyone from Tupac Shakur to the notorious Monster Kody. But a drug deal gone bad eventually left him shot and near death...forcing him into the ultimate struggle for survival. Faced with intense rehabilitation and paralyssis that had crippled the entire right side of his body, Greg had two choices, give up or get up. He chose the latter. And with the use of only one finger, he wrote his story through gritty, breathtaking, and sometimes brutal details...including his anger at injustices, the pain of abandonment and one unlikely act of kindness that started him on the path of healing and forgiveness.

Download or read book Mothers Before written by Edan Lepucki and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was your mother before she was a mother? Essays and photos from Brit Bennett, Jennifer Egan, Danzy Senna, Laura Lippman, Jia Tolentino, and many more. In this remarkable collection, New York Times–bestselling novelist Edan Lepucki gathers more than sixty original essays and favorite photographs to explore this question. The daughters in Mothers Before are writers and poets, artists and teachers, and the images and stories they share reveal the lives of women in ways that are vulnerable and true, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always moving. Contributors include: Brit Bennett * Jennine Capó Crucet * Jennifer Egan * Angela Garbes * Annabeth Gish * Alison Roman * Lisa See * Danzy Senna * Dana Spiotta * Lan Samantha Chang * Laura Lippman * Jia Tolentino * Tiffany Nguyen * Charmaine Craig * Maya Ramakrishnan * Eirene Donohue * and many others

Download or read book The Struggles of a Black Woman written by Brenda Hood and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: