Download or read book Giovanni s Room written by James Baldwin and published by Everyman Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Introduction by Colm Toibin"--

Download or read book Who Will Carry My Name written by Bonginkosi Ndumiso and published by Bonginkosi Ndumiso . This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rossi family saga is an engaging narrative that tracks the lives of Isabella and Luca Rossi, a couple whose romance breaks through cultural barriers and societal norms. Rooted in their Italian heritage and the challenges of adapting to American customs, the Rossi family embarks on a journey characterized by love, strength, and a commitment to cultural respect and legality. In the initial chapters, Isabella and Luca tackle the nuances of marriage contracts and inheritance traditions, while later sections highlight their emergence as prominent advocates for unity and inclusivity. The story of the Rossi family weaves together themes of growth, empowerment, and transformation. Their steadfast dedication to honoring their cultural background while fostering understanding and respect sets the foundation for a legacy that endures through generations. As they confront the difficulties of merging tradition with contemporary life, Isabella and Luca find themselves leading a movement that champions cultural pride, unity, and justice. Their journey is rich with themes of resilience, family connections, advocacy, and the lasting power of love amid challenges and scrutiny. Through their bravery, empathy, and commitment to justice, the Rossi family rises to prominence, inspiring others to appreciate diversity, support cultural respect, and create positive change within their communities. Their narrative stands as a symbol of hope, unity, and empowerment, emphasizing the significance of honoring our roots, fighting for justice, and promoting love and compassion in a world that flourishes on understanding and togetherness. Accompany the Rossi family on their uplifting journey as they navigate the intricacies of culture, tradition, and advocacy, and uncover the transformative impact of love, resilience, and unity in creating a brighter future for everyone.

Download or read book Brother Giovanni s Little Reward written by Anna Smucker and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brother Giovanni is a happy man and the best baker his monastery has ever seen, but when he is tasked with preparing the children for the Bishop's visit, he has no luck until he twists some bread dough into a special shape, sprinkles it with salt, and offers it as a reward for learning prayers.

Download or read book Make Me Rain written by Nikki Giovanni and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart. For more than fifty years, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has dazzled and inspired readers. As sharp and outspoken as ever, she returns with this profound book of poetry in which she continues to call attention to injustice and racism, celebrate Black culture and Black lives, and and give readers an unfiltered look into her own experiences. In Make Me Rain, she celebrates her loved ones and unapologetically declares her pride in her Black heritage, while exploring the enduring impact of the twin sins of racism and white nationalism. Giovanni reaffirms her place as a uniquely vibrant and relevant American voice with poems such as “I Come from Athletes” and “Rainy Days”—calling out segregation and Donald Trump; as well as “Unloved (for Aunt Cleota)” and “”When I Could No Longer”—her personal elegy for the relatives who saved her from an abusive home life. Stirring, provocative, and resonant, the poems in Make Me Rain pierce the heart and nourish the soul.

Download or read book Don Giovanni Captured written by Richard Will and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Don Giovanni” Captured considers the life of a single opera, engaging with the entire history of its recorded performance. Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni has long inspired myths about eros and masculinity. Over time, its performance history has revealed a growing trend toward critique—an increasing effort on the part of performers and directors to highlight the violence and predatoriness of the libertine central character, alongside the suffering and resilience of his female victims. In “Don Giovanni” Captured, Richard Will sets out to analyze more than a century’s worth of recorded performances of the opera, tracing the ways it has changed from one performance to another and from one generation to the next. Will consults audio recordings, starting with wax cylinders and 78s, as well as video recordings, including DVDs, films, and streaming videos. As Will argues, recordings and other media shape our experience of opera as much as live performance does. Seen as a historical record, opera recordings are also a potent reminder of the refusal of works such as Don Giovanni to sit still. By choosing a work with such a rich and complex tradition of interpretation, Will helps us see Don Giovanni as a standard-bearer for evolving ideas about desire and power, both on and off the stage.

Download or read book Giovanni a Dark Mafia Romance written by Natasha Knight and published by Natasha Knight. This book was released on with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What s My Name Giovanni written by Tiina Walsh and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personalised storybook for boys called GIOVANNI. The story is based on the letters of the child's own name. All books are different from one another. The boy wakes up but can't remember his name. Magic Mouse knows how to solve the problem. They go on a wonderful adventure in the Magic Bus! Translated and adapted by the author from the top-selling Finnish language children's namebook series "Tytt�/Poika, joka unohti nimens�". The beautiful hand-drawn pictures will delight both the young and the young-at-heart! Looking for a namebook "What's my name?" but couldn't find a book for the name you are looking for? Please don't hesitate to contact me with your name request! -Tiina Walsh Author fb.me/whatsmynamestorybooks for more details about the storybooks

Download or read book Giovanni s Room written by James Baldwin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century comes a groundbreaking novel set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, about love and the fear of love—“a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction” (The Atlantic). One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni’s curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella’s return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into tragedy. David struggles for self-knowledge during one long, dark night—“the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life.” With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a deeply moving story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

Download or read book Giovanni s Gift written by Bradford Morrow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The domestic bliss of an architect and his wife is threatened by an unseen tormentor in this literary thriller by the award-winning author of The Forgers. When Grant’s marriage begins to fall apart, he reflects upon the perfect lives of his uncle Henry and aunt Edmé, self-sufficient intellectuals who live blissfully together in a home built by Henry in the high Rocky Mountains. But when Henry and Edmé tell Grant of the terrible nighttime incidents that occurred on their property and culminated in the gruesome murder of one of their close friends, Grant moves in with them to help save an ideal he holds dear. Giovanni’s Gift is a modern reinvention of the myth of Pandora’s box, and a harrowing meditation on the allure of the American landscape—and the menace that lurks beneath the beauty of its surfaces.

Download or read book The Chef s Secret written by Crystal King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating novel of Renaissance Italy detailing the mysterious life of Bartolomeo Scappi, the legendary chef to several popes and author of one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time, and the nephew who sets out to discover his late uncle’s secrets—including the identity of the noblewoman Bartolomeo loved until he died. When Bartolomeo Scappi dies in 1577, he leaves his vast estate—properties, money, and his position—to his nephew and apprentice Giovanni. He also gives Giovanni the keys to two strongboxes and strict instructions to burn their contents. Despite Scappi’s dire warning that the information concealed in those boxes could put Giovanni’s life and others at risk, Giovanni is compelled to learn his uncle’s secrets. He undertakes the arduous task of decoding Scappi’s journals and uncovers a history of deception, betrayal, and murder—all to protect an illicit love affair. As Giovanni pieces together the details of Scappi’s past, he must contend with two rivals who have joined forces—his brother Cesare and Scappi’s former protégé, Domenico Romoli, who will do anything to get his hands on the late chef’s recipes. With luscious prose that captures the full scale of the sumptuous feasts for which Scappi was known, The Chef’s Secret serves up power, intrigue, and passion, bringing Renaissance Italy to life in a delectable fashion.

Download or read book Hip Hop Speaks to Children with CD written by Nikki Giovanni and published by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 50 poems and an accompanying CD introduce poetry with a beat.

Download or read book Nikki Giovanni written by Virginia C. Fowler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive examination of the life and work of Nikki Giovanni, one of the most prolific and well-known poets to emerge during the Black Arts Movement. Nikki Giovanni: A Literary Biography focuses on one of the most widely read poets to emerge from the Black Arts Movement, providing a thorough examination of Giovanni's life and work, from her earliest volume of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, to the recent Bicycles. The book addresses Giovanni's preoccupation with historical themes and the past, and demonstrates the pervasiveness of music in Giovanni's poetry. Drawing on extensive interviews with Giovanni's friends and family, this book offers biographical information not previously available in other publications. It references material from Giovanni's prose works to illuminate and contextualize the analysis of her poetry, examining its highly allusive and topical nature. The book also shows the intersections of Giovanni's biography and the public history of the United States from the 1960s to the present, making it of interest to general readers as well as those studying American and African-American poetry or black feminism.

Download or read book Giovanni s Obsession written by Marissa Ann and published by Marissa Ann. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giovanni Catching a man beating the life out of a woman in a back alley doesn’t usually grab my attention. That is, unless that woman happens to be Raven. The waitress at the local diner. I don’t usually frequent the same establishment more than once if I can help it. It’s easier to stay hidden that way. Feeling this odd pull towards her, I try to fight it. But seeing her broken unleashes the rage inside that only her touch seems to calm. I’ll kill whoever did this, even if it kills me. Raven My life has never been my own. I ran away to a new city thinking I was small potatoes compared to everything else. I was wrong. HE wants me back. According to his thugs, he doesn’t care in what condition I return either. This time though, I’m not alone. This handsome as sin man that looks more dangerous than those I’ve run from. But when I look into his eyes, I feel pulled to him. When his hands touch mine, a spark ignites that just might consume us both. Will new found love save them? Or will it strike a fatal blow? Romantic Suspense, Hot Romance, Steamy Romance

Download or read book Giovanni s Return written by Frederick Bonnart and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the 17th century in quiet Castile, northern Spain. Giovanni, an orphan at an early age, is brought up with a duke's youngest son on the duke's country estate, where his father, a minor Italian noble, had been the administrator. A combination of his aristocratic environment and his own inferior position, as well as a childhood romance with a bitter end, influence his character. Succeeding in his first ambition, he is commissioned in the duke's regiment in the Spanish Army, which takes him from Northern Italy through Germany to the Low Countries in the battles of the 30-Years War. He distinguishes himself in these but meets misfortune as well as success. Wrongly accused of murder and rape, he has to fight for his life against greed, jealousy and prejudice; in this his loyal friends provide help and support. His romantic engagements begin early and continue lightly, some of them more seriously than others, until one of them results in a fundamental change of his life. A powerful dream provides a thread for him throughout his adventures and seems to lead him on to great heights, but his biggest test comes when he has to face reality in the end.

Download or read book Giovanni s Room and Other Stories written by Jamie Groccia and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's no available information at this time. Author will provide once information is available.

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