Download or read book My Name Is Leilani and This Is My Life Journey written by Leilani and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book is about a woman with many emotional traumas about the lost of her children from a previous marriage, the death of her father, and in the process of a divorce from her husband of twelve years. He travels extensively for his job and she finds herself alone in a foreign country as an expat must of the time. As a consequence of the distance, they experience emotional detachment and lack of communication. He made excuses not to attend her father's funeral which deeply hurt her feelings, and brought much anger into her life. She was unable to be present when her father passed on while living in Dubai, which made her feel quilt and anger; she then settles all the emotions by connecting to herself and returning to her passion for writing. After twelve years of marriage, she felt that something was missing in her life and she had to find it. When they finally get divorced, she begins to explore all of her talents, painting, writing, dancing and traveling. Despite all her efforts to move on after her divorce, she finds herself stock in Dubai without much hope and friends to relay on. She returns to the US where she meets an Italian man who reminded her of her ex-husband. In her relationship with him, she finds that he is the perfect image of her ex-husband. She felt as if the spirit of her ex-husband has return to hunt her as a ghost. During her meditation, she can see the image of the man from India she so much admire not knowing that this feelings she is experiencing is nothing more than the ghost of her ex-husband. One day, she seeks out to continue her dream of publishing a book about the power of the mind were she finds the courage to succeed and move on with her life. She leaves the past behind her and finds true love. Today, Leilani is sixty five years old, and has published five books and continues her creative passion for writing.
Download or read book Luster written by Raven Leilani and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book of the Year WINNER of the NBCC John Leonard Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, The New York Times Book Review, O Magazine, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Glamour, Shondaland, Boston Globe, and many more! "So delicious that it feels illicit . . . Raven Leilani’s first novel reads like summer: sentences like ice that crackle or melt into a languorous drip; plot suddenly, wildly flying forward like a bike down a hill." —Jazmine Hughes, The New York Times Book Review No one wants what no one wants. And how do we even know what we want? How do we know we’re ready to take it? Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties—sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage—with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren’t hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and invited into Eric’s home—though not by Eric. She becomes a hesitant ally to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie may be the only Black woman young Akila knows. Irresistibly unruly and strikingly beautiful, razor-sharp and slyly comic, sexually charged and utterly absorbing, Raven Leilani’s Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her life—her hunger, her anger—in a tumultuous era. It is also a haunting, aching description of how hard it is to believe in your own talent, and the unexpected influences that bring us into ourselves along the way. “An irreverent intergenerational tale of race and class that’s blisteringly smart and fan-yourself sexy.” —Michelle Hart, O: The Oprah Magazine
Download or read book From Death to Life written by Jesse Lefler and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever been in so much pain that sometimes it’s hard to breathe? Spiritual pain? Mental pain? Physical pain? I write this story to give you the hope no one was able to give me because people didn’t understand. Just about every character you read about is someone I know and the struggles they had in their lives. From divorce to panic attacks, it’s all here. The characters in From Death to Life are all in heaven, and they each have a job to do. Walking into the spiritual world can be fascinating and scary at the same time. They are waiting for Christ to return, but in the meantime, their jobs are complicated. From heaven to hell on earth, it’s a complex military structure. A thought can become an action. Action becomes a habit. Habit becomes a serious addiction. Let this story take you in and see that it does get better. God promised us, and he doesn’t lie.
Download or read book Indigenous Children s Survivance in Public Schools written by Leilani Sabzalian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools examines the cultural, social, and political terrain of Indigenous education by providing accounts of Indigenous students and educators creatively navigating the colonial dynamics within public schools. Through a series of survivance stories, the book surveys a range of educational issues, including implementation of Native-themed curriculum, teachers’ attempts to support Native students in their classrooms, and efforts to claim physical and cultural space in a school district, among others. As a collective, these stories highlight the ways that colonization continues to shape Native students’ experiences in schools. By documenting the nuanced intelligence, courage, artfulness, and survivance of Native students, families, and educators, the book counters deficit framings of Indigenous students. The goal is also to develop educators’ anticolonial literacy so that teachers can counter colonialism and better support Indigenous students in public schools.
Download or read book Pacific Voices Talk Story written by Margo King Lenson and published by Tui Communications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacific Voices Talk Story invites Pacific Americans to record their hearts and minds to be turned into pages not only Pacific Americans want to read, but our neighbors up the street. We ve much to learn about ourselves, other Islanders here, and the diversity of America. If we re not talking to each other now, reading Pacific Voices Talk Story will tell you that tribalism and village mentalities followed us to the mainland. Read and join the dialogue of Pacific Americans claiming new identities and finding a place in the mainland that trumps their nostalgic past.
Download or read book Ancestry of Experience written by Leilani Holmes and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Hawaiians continue to recover their language and culture, the voices of kupuna (elders) are heard once again in urban and rural settings, both in Hawai‘i and elsewhere. How do kupuna create knowledge and “tell” history? What do they tell us about being Hawaiian? Adopted by a Midwestern couple in the 1950s as an infant, Leilani Holmes spent much of her early life in settings that offered no clues about her Hawaiian past—images of which continued to haunt her even as she completed a master’s thesis on Hawaiian music and identity in southern California. Ancestry of Experience documents Holmes’ quest to reclaim and understand her own origin story. Holmes writes in two different and at times incongruent voices—one describing the search for her genealogy, the other critiquing Western epistemologies she encounters along the way. In the course of her journey, she finds that Hawaiian oral tradition links identity to the land (‘aina) through ancestry, while traditional, scholarly theories of knowing (particularly political economy and the discourse of the invention of tradition) textually obliterate land and ancestry. In interviews with kupuna, Holmes learns of the connectedness of spirituality and ‘aina; through her study and practice of hula kahiko comes an understanding of ancient hula as a conversation between ‘aina and the dancer’s body that has the power to activate historical memory. Holmes’ experience has special relevance for indigenous adoptees and indigenous scholars: Both are distanced from the knowledge agendas and strategies of their communities and are tasked to speak in languages ill-suited to the telling of their own stories and those of their ancestors. In addition to those with an interest in Hawaiian knowledge and culture, Ancestry of Experience will appeal to readers of memoirs of identity, academic and personal accounts of racial identity formation, and works of indigenous epistemologies. A website (www.ancestryofexperience.com) will include supplementary material.
Download or read book Prophetic Voices written by Maria Yraceburu and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TIME OF PROPHECY FULFILLMENT IS AT HAND AND THE WOMEN WISDOM KEEPERS OF EARTH step forward to request our assistance in making Earth a Place of Respect. These womenof great power and knowledge have long waited for the moment in time when reverence,responsibility, nurturing and life affi rmation of the future would signal the re-turning of Earth'¦ respected feminine in all areas ' from healing and spirituality to peace education and cooperative lifestyle changes, the teachings being presented here are fundamental elements of earth wisdom, including actualization of common nobility, individual potential recognition, and the interconnection with Earth. The teachings refl ect the proud andancient truth of Now.Ω
Download or read book Retold Stories Untold Histories written by Joanna Ziarkowska and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retold Stories, Untold Histories concentrates on how challenging questions concerning the nature of historical representation, the formation of national/ethnic identities, and creative agendas are addressed in the diverse and inspiring writings of Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko. The rationale behind juxtaposing two writers coming from diverse cultural contexts originates in the fact that both Kingston and Silko share the experience of historical and cultural marginalization and, more importantly, devise similar methods of rendering it in creative writing. Writing from the perspective of two distinct marginalized groups, Kingston and Silko share the view that the official version of national history may be seen as a narrative of misrepresentation and the exclusion of people who either greatly contributed to the building of the country or occupied the territory of the present United States long before its creation. In their texts, both writers engage in a polemic against a history that, using its legitimizing power as a scientific discipline, produces and perpetuates stereotypical images of Chinese and Native Americans, and, more importantly, eliminates the two groups from the process of constructing the national narratives of origins that monitor and control the borders of what constitutes American identity. Despite apparent differences in cultural and historical contexts, Kingston and Silko share an enthusiasm for employing unconventional tools and sources for offering creative reconstructions of a past which had been silenced or repressed.
Download or read book Night s End written by David Dane Wallace and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NIGHTS END. As David Dane is whisked away to the morgue a stranger appears out of nowhere to shadow Kate Shamrocks every move.Nights End, the final installment in The Urban Rain Trilogy that witnesses the finality of a legend. Now, a hooded stranger has emerged from the twilight to watch over Von “The Icons” niece prior to one of the greatest betrayals ever witnessed by a man who was once thought of as a hero. In the seedy alley walls off of Ontario Street, one fighter must face his greatest fears as he comes face to face with his toughest challenge ever. NIGHTS END, as a seasoned fighter makes an appearance with a band of thugs, Ontario Streets only hope is the one that they’ve lost to eternal darkness. NIGHTS END, the last in the trilogy about the life and death of Monica Medeiros Abbona a.k.a. Lilly Chicoine who inspired a series that has the entire world talking. NIGHTS END, bare witness as two famous Brothers(Robert and Richard Gray) from the back alleys of Grey Stone come to assist David Dane during his darkest hour. NIGHTS END, bear witness to the final chapter in one of the most popular sagas in modern history.
Download or read book Laura Smile written by Nina Pappas and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We do not get to choose our parents or the families into which we are born. That is predestined by God, for those who believe it. We are all born innocent, but for many, that time of innocence passes much too quickly. Such was the case for Laura Faye Flannery (Red), nicknamed for her thick copper red mane. Her days of childhood innocence came to an abrupt ending when she was thrown into a life that she did not want or ask for. Red would spend the next twenty-five years trying to escape from her life, living on daydreams and secrets to ease her sadness, while raising the children that were brought into that life. They too were innocent. Red had hoped that she might write a book one day about what had transpired from the first day she married Louk Papadakas, a domineering Greek man, who had many secrets of his own. But as the years disappeared, so did Red's mind. As dementia and later full Alzheimer's took over the memory of this brave and determined woman, her daughter, Melina, decided to write the story for her. Melina and her siblings had been raised in this fallacious marriage but held a loyalty for both parents, even though they had each suffered the brunt of it. Though Melina had lived through much of it herself, there were missing pieces that still lay hidden in her mother's memory. As Melina wrote the final chapters of her mother's story, she received a great gift, a deeper love and forgiveness, and she knew that God had shown her the reason for it all. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. (Psalm 139:16)
Download or read book Frangipani written by Célestine Vaite and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tahiti, it's a well-known fact that women are wisest, mothers know best, and Materena Mahi knows best of all -- or so everyone except for her own daughter thinks. Soon enough, mother and daughter are engaged in a tug-of-war that tests the bonds of their love.
Download or read book Both Ends of the Rainbow written by Gloria Ku'uleialoha Coppola and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lomilomi is a way of life that weaves a path of Aloha in all you do. Both Ends of the Rainbow shares this healing journey and how you can find your life's purpose through Gloria's inspiration. Exquisitely illustrated through stories shared by the author and the hawaiian teachers along with with beautifully depicted photos of this healing art. You will feel like you traveled to hawaii with Gloria Coppola.
Download or read book Renegade written by Leilani Frantik and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “My name is Jensen Galantis. I’m probably the worst person to tell a life story, mostly because only at the very end of a story do I see the light in it all.” Welcome to the world of the untold future, where the most dangerous job is given to the most unlikely candidate. Jensen Galantis is a twenty-two-year-old captain of a ship—and not just any ship, but the Annex, a dreadnaught spaceship that Jensen created from scratch, which is now considered a legend in the world of space exploration. Jensen leads a crew of thirteen into the vast reaches of the Milky Way. But despite his accomplishments as an engineer, biologist, and pilot—and the pressure of following in his father’s prestigious footsteps—his entire life is quickly turned upside down. On the planet Annoterra, Jensen emerges from the wreckage as the sole survivor. He is burdened with not only the blood of his crew on his hands, but with the loss of everything he knew back home: his family, and his secret love. With his will to survive lagging, Jensen eventually finds himself inside a war facility, where he meets his saviour: a strange creature named Aapi. Jensen and Aapi develop a telepathic wave-link and work to keep each other safe; however, this newfound security is questioned when a crewmember, thought dead, reappears—but changed, and possessing a dark power. With dubious companions, Jensen must scale foreign mountains and resist the elements of an unknown planet, burdened with a guilt-ridden heart, but driven by visions of a new destiny. In this alien world, his past gradually catches up to the present as he seeks redemption for something greater than himself.
Download or read book East Main Street written by Shilpa Dave and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to “faux Asian” fashions, housewares and fusion cuisine; from the new visibility of Asian film, music, video games and anime to the current popularity of martial arts motifs in hip hop, Asian influences have thoroughly saturated the U.S. cultural landscape and have now become an integral part of the vernacular of popular culture. By tracing cross-cultural influences and global cultural trends, the essays in East Main Street bring Asian American studies, in all its interdisciplinary richness, to bear on a broad spectrum of cultural artifacts. Contributors consider topics ranging from early Asian American movie stars to the influences of South Asian iconography on rave culture, and from the marketing of Asian culture through food to the contemporary clamor for transnational Chinese women’s historical fiction. East Main Street hits the shelves in the midst of a boom in Asian American population and cultural production. This book is essential not only for understanding Asian American popular culture but also contemporary U.S. popular culture writ large.
Download or read book Out of the Belly of the Whale written by J. Austin Eileen J. Austin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is completed and may be purchased at Amazon.com , Barnes and Noble or any of your favorite Christian or local bookstores. Just ask for Out of the Belly of the Whale by Eileen J. Austin
Download or read book A Three Hundred and Sixty Degree Perspective written by Dr. M. Jeanne Dolphus Cotton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will make you giggle and brush away a tear or two as you take a revealing journey into the extraordinary sacred relationship between a mother and daughter. This journey is made more special because it is an adult daughter and mother. As you read the book, it is like eavesdropping into the lives of two incredible women as they share their parallel stories. I recommend this book be read by mothers and daughters together because there is tenderness the mother can share about being young, in love, vulnerable, passionate and private dreams. For the young ladies who are not yet an adult, read this book as a primer to the legacy that awaits you and the relationship you will discover with your mother as an adult daughter...This book is like a great comforter on a chilly night. It makes me long for the adult relationship I never had with my mother who died when I was 11 years old.
Download or read book A Whisper Past written by Leilani Muir and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Leilani Muir, whose abusive mother had her institutionalized at the age of 11 as mentally defective. She was questioned by the Alberta Eugenics Board and was subsequently sterilized. She discusses her attempts to have that operation reversed and the lawsuit she eventually launched against the Alberta government.
