Download or read book Nice Dreads written by Lonnice Brittenum Bonner and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you always admired women with flowing hair? Do you long for a wash-and-go style? In Nice Dreads, Lonnice Brittenum Bonner, the author of the classic Good Hair, shares her secrets and personal stories about dreadlocks—from cultivating buds to keeping those locks looking their best! Perfect for women who want dreadlocks but aren’t sure how to start, or for those who’ve already started and want to know the best ways to keep hair healthy, Nice Dreads can help you grow your own lovely locks. From preparing for the haircut to everyday maintenance, Lonnice Brittenum Bonner tells you exactly what to expect, while photographs illustrate each stage of growth and showcase mature dreads in all their glory. The author (who sports locks herself) knows firsthand the challenges of caring for this hairstyle; those intimidated by a drastic cut or shy about showing off the stages of early growth will find personal encouragement from someone who knows exactly how they feel—and how great they’ll look! Learn how to overcome your reservations and wear your style with pride.
Download or read book Dreads written by and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents portraits of dread-heads from every walk of life and includes a brief history of this hairstyle
Download or read book Locs for Life written by Kalimah Johnson, LMSW, ACSW and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought about locking your African textured/type hair? Are you afraid what others will say or think about you? Do you need a guide to help you through the process? Do you already have Locs/Locks/Dreads and need style/care ideas or encouragement from other sisters who have? If you have answered yes to any of these questions then "Locs For Life: The Root to Well Being for African American Women" is the book for you! It is an easy read with a plethora of stories outlining the journey of hair locking. Topics such as colorism, racism, beauty standards and other social issues are candidily discussed by the writer. What is most unique about this book is that the writer prepares you for the emotional/spiritual aspects of hair locking. Kalimah Johnson is Masters Level Social Worker and uses those tools to discuss this topic from a sensitive and comprehensive standpoint. Her expertise and courageous efforts will provide you with all the tools, power and knowledge you will need to inspire you to wear your hair out in the world "as is".
Download or read book Nice Dreads written by Lonnice Brittenum Bonner and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soul Enchilada written by David Macinnis Gill and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The devil made 'em do it. Girl meets boy at a car wash. And probably this would have been a sweet teen romance . . . except that the girl's grandfather sold his soul for a classic Cadillac and he used her soul as collateral, too. Which the devil has come to collect, along with the car. Now eighteen-year-old Bug Smoot has to fight for both. Good thing she knows how to fight dirty. Good thing nothing frightens Bug Smoot: not the repo man, not the paranormal creatures, not sÉances or driving too fast. And good thing that boy from the car wash is actually a supernatural secret agent. This is one helluva ride.
Download or read book The Best Travel Writing 2008 written by James O'Reilly and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1993, readers have looked to Travelers' Tales for award-winning stories about the world, adventure, spirituality, and the transformative experiences that accompany life on the road. The Best Travel Writing 2008 is the fifth volume in the series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — much of it never before published — from Nobel Prize winners to up-and-coming new writers. The stories provide a perspective and depth of understanding that can only come from people who have actually been there, and encompass everything from high adventure to misadventure, spiritual growth to romance, service to humanity to encounters with exotic cuisines. Reading the book is like sitting in a café filled with fellow travelers, swapping tales about destinations near and far — readers emerge changed, eager for more, and ready to plan their next trips.
Download or read book Escape Theory written by Margaux Froley and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Devon Mackintosh has always felt like an outsider at Keaton, the prestigious California boarding school perched above the Pacific. As long as she’s not fitting in, Devon figures she might as well pad her application to Stanford’s psych program. So junior year, she decides to become a peer counselor, a de facto therapist for students in crisis. At first, it seems like it will be an easy fly-on-the-wall gig, but her expectations are turned upside down when Jason Hutchins (a.k.a. “Hutch”), one of the Keaton’s most popular students, commits suicide. Devon dives into her new role providing support for Hutch’s friends, but she’s haunted by her own attachment to him. The two shared an extraordinary night during their first week freshman year; it was the only time at Keaton when she felt like someone else really understood her. As the secrets and confessions pile up in her sessions, Devon comes to a startling conclusion: Hutch couldn't have taken his own life. Bound by her oath of confidentiality—and tortured by her unrequited love—Devon embarks on a solitary mission to get to the bottom of Hutch's death, and the stakes are higher than she ever could have imagined. Read an excerpt of Escape Theory. http://bit.ly/Yi5DZf
Download or read book Don t Give Up Don t Ever Give Up written by Brian Webb and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-10-23 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life happens while making plans. When life suddenly turns tragic and nothing makes sense, how is one able to move forward? The dreams and ambitions once hoped for have now faded away. How is one to cope? What can one do? This is the story of Brian Webb, a recent college graduate, whose world is suddenly thrown into the storms of life.....and survives. Suffering an intracranial hemorrhage, one week after graduation, Brian discovered a new lease for life. Recovering from the injury, Brian found a new appreciation and passion for what he lost and the strength to search for what is yet to come that will inspire the reader. The book Don’t Give Up, Don’t Ever Give Up, readers will find out what it may take to live life to the fullest. Once not putting any importance on anything, readers will see that Brian has a new appreciation for everything where at one point was taken for granted. Bills, unemployment, keeping up with the Jones' does not really matter. Love is the answer. Love is all that matters. Live life. Live strong. Live your dreams. Everyone can be someone, just believe in yourself and the answers will come. Don’t Give Up, Don’t Ever Give Up, shows that everyone has the power to live life to their fullest no matter what obstacle, no matter what difficulty. Be strong, don’t quit and never give up!
Download or read book Voices of Black Girls in Toronto written by Donna Kakonge and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices of Black Girls in Toronto is an academic book which includes research and non-fiction data collection and analysis concerning the career choices and futures of high school girls of African descent in Toronto.
Download or read book Androcide written by Erec Stebbins and published by Twice Pi Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Splash 17 written by Rachel Rubin Wolf and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing gesture, a brilliant quality of light, a particularly perfect bloom... This volume of Splash is dedicated to those glorious sparks of inspiration, and the stories of how 129 artists fanned them into some of today's greatest watercolor paintings. The emotional connection between subject and artist resonates in these pages, delivering the caliber of art and insight that has made Splash a perennial favorite. • 135 paintings, reproduced in large, juicy color • A diverse range of styles and subjects, including still lifes, portraits, city scenes, animals and landscapes • Commentary reveals the artists' passion, approaches and techniques The artists spotlighted inside found inspiration in even unlikely places. They spotted it in peeling paint, the faces of strangers, and the view from the kitchen window. They found beauty in places as poetic as Paris, and as seemingly pedestrian as a dilapidated shed. From a hawk proudly posed against a cloudless, cerulean sky to an everyday table setting transformed by light into a kaleidoscope of color, these are the moments that stopped artists in their tracks, to create the kind of paintings that do the same. "Whatever made you hold your breath or turn your head the first time you saw it, that is what you should paint!" --Kathleen Lanzoni
Download or read book This Thing Called the Future written by J. L. Powers and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AIDS and South Africa. Khosi, a 14-year-old girl, yearns for this thing called the future. Does she want too much'...
Download or read book Coming Home written by Brittney Griner and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. “Compelling . . . An intimate, honest recollection of Griner’s time held captive in Russia. Coming Home reads as a deeply personal, publicly powerful documentation of what happened—what is still happening—to her body and mind.” —Slate On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women’s basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittney’s world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publicly—until now. In Coming Home, Brittney finally shares the harrowing details of her sudden arrest days before Russia invaded Ukraine; her bewilderment and isolation while navigating a foreign legal system amid her trial and sentencing; her emotional and physical anguish as the first American woman ever to endure a Russian penal colony while the #WeAreBG movement rallied for her release; the chilling prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout; and her remarkable rise from hostage to global spokesperson on behalf of America’s forgotten. In haunting and vivid detail, Brittney takes readers inside the horrors of a geopolitical nightmare spanning ten months. And yet Coming Home is more than Brittney’s journey from captivity to freedom. In an account as gripping as it is poignant, she shares how her deep love for Cherelle, her college sweetheart and wife of six years, anchored her during their greatest storm; how her family’s support pulled her back from the brink; and how hundreds of letters from friends and neighbors lent her resolve to keep fighting. Coming Home is both a story of survival and a testament to love—the bonds that brought Brittney home to her family, and at last, to herself.
Download or read book Postcolonial Plays written by Helen Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with imperialism and its aftermath. It includes work from Canada, the Carribean, South and West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, New Zealand and Australia. A general introduction outlines major themes in postcolonial plays. Introductions to individual plays include information on authors as well as overviews of cultural contexts, major ideas and performance history. Dramaturgical techniques in the plays draw on Western theatre as well as local performance traditions and include agit-prop dialogue, musical routines, storytelling, ritual incantation, epic narration, dance, multimedia presentation and puppetry. The plays dramatize diverse issues, such as: *globalization * political corruption * race and class relations *slavery *gender and sexuality *media representation *nationalism
Download or read book The Exorsistah X Returns written by Claudia Mair Burney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: fun new series about a young woman fighting to overcome her own personal demons and the forces of darkness. Emme Vaughn has walked away from her home and the love of her life, all so she can snatch her mother from the clutches of evil. When she arrives at the mental hospital her mother has languished in, she’s astounded to find her mother isn’t there. She’s given an important key to her past and future and now must begin a new search. Adding to Emme’s never ending challenges is an ancient devil that has stepped up its game, inexplicably attacking Emme with more force than ever and the fact that she’s ducking her sweetheart, Francis. Francis, led by his spiritual intuition—and MapQuest directions she left on his computer screen—is hot on her trail. Can a girl get a break? Exorsistah has a job to do. She has no idea what she’s up against but she has to save her loved ones. Assembling her own rag-tag band of believers that include friends and a couple of Archangels to go up against the devil’s kingdom is just the beginning. Emme is out to defeat one of history’s most destructive forces, and learn that one of the most powerful forces known to man—love—really does win in the end.
Download or read book Rescue Me written by Yvette T. Sexton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Download or read book Winter s Tide written by Lisa Williams Kline and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Diana and Stephanie, new stepsisters on a vacation at a ranch with Diana's mom and Stephanie's dad, who are newlyweds. Diana has a "mood disorder" for which she takes medication. In her estimation, Stephanie is just too perfect. But Stephanie has some secrets of her own. The girls band together to free two captive wolves, an action that has unexpected and unintended consequences. Told in the alternating voices of Diana and Stephanie, the book explores themes of family, friendship, mental health, and nature.
