Download or read book The Black Joy Backpack written by Jacqueline Wigfall and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first edition of Black Joy Backpack was course prep: an early, pre-X look at the changing scope and emerging academic parameters of #BlackJoy in relationship to Black literature and Black critical theory. Not a textbook adoption used for classroom instruction, the book still contains topics that the curriculum did not pilot. Each chapter of this edition opens with the authors under discussion and ends with multimedia recommendations for exploration in tandem with or after content coverage. Select chapters also include vocabulary review and journal prompts. (Cover created with Canva with image licensed for free use "in marketing or social media, or even sell merchandise").
Download or read book Black Joy written by Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely collection of deeply personal, uplifting, and powerful essays that celebrate the redemptive strength of Black joy--in the vein of Black Girls Rock, You Are Your Best Thing, and I Really Needed This Today. When Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts wrote an essay on Black joy for The Washington Post, she had no idea just how deeply it would resonate. But the outpouring of responses affirmed her own lived experience: that Black joy is not just a weapon of resistance, it is a tool for resilience. With this book, Tracey aims to gift her community with a collection of lyrical essays about the way joy has evolved, even in the midst of trauma, in her own life. Detailing these instances of joy in the context of Black culture allows us to recognize the power of Black joy as a resource to draw upon, and to challenge the one-note narratives of Black life as solely comprised of trauma and hardship. Black Joy is a collection that will recharge you. It is the kind of book that is passed between friends and offers both challenge and comfort at the end of a long day. It is an answer for anyone who needs confirmation that they are not alone and a brave place to quiet their mind and heal their soul.
Download or read book The Book of More Delights written by Ross Gay and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.
Download or read book A Piece of Heaven written by Barbara Samuel and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her acclaimed hardcover debut, No Place Like Home, readers enthusiastically welcomed Barbara Samuel into the ranks of bestselling women’s fiction, applauding her stirring novel of loss and redemption. In A Piece of Heaven, she shares another poignant tale rich in atmosphere and insight that explores the complexity of relationships, the importance of family, and the healing power of love. In the sun-baked hills of New Mexico, Luna McGraw has lived a lifetime of regrets, struggling to conquer the demons that destroyed her marriage and caused her to lose custody of her beloved daughter. But as Luna fights to rebuild a relationship with the troubled teenager, she remains haunted by images of her own childhood and the father she barely knew. Strong and resilient as the houses he builds, Thomas Coyote comes into Luna’s life one extraordinary night when his grandmother nearly dies while conjuring a fiery brew of spiritual enchantment. Luna does not need a man— especially one with a needy ex-wife—to complicate her fragile dreams of the future. Their attraction pushes them both beyond reason into a place where there is only possibility. Yet it will take more than passion to recover the tattered pieces of Luna’s soul, more than time to forgive the sins of an offending husband, and more than promises to mend the broken heart of a child. A Piece of Heaven is an irresistible novel full of colorful characters and lush settings spiced with the magical flavors of the Southwest, a brilliant tapestry of romance and realism by a master storyteller. From the Paperback edition.
Download or read book Joy of Backpacking written by Brian Beffort and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide covering every aspect of how to backpack--from planning a first trip to advanced wilderness travel. For those new to the activity, longtime backpacker and author Brian Beffort covers the fundamentals, with sections on trip planning, gear, backcountry nutrition and cooking, navigation, and other essential wilderness skills. You will also learn what to expect on the trail and in camp, and how to stay safe with first aid, weather preparedness, and more. For experienced packers, this book is filled with practical tips and inspired ideas on how to update and refine your approach to backpacking based on trends in lightweight gear, high-tech gadgets, changing wilderness rules, and increasing opportunities for wilderness travel around the world.
Download or read book Black Boy Joy written by Kwame Mbalia and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FIVE STARRED REVIEWS Celebrate the joys of Black boyhood with stories from seventeen bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors—including Jason Reynolds, Jerry Craft, and Kwame Mbalia. ★ "Pick up Black Boy Joy for a heavy dose of happiness." —Booklist, starred review Black boy joy is… Picking out a fresh first-day-of-school outfit. Saving the universe in an epic intergalactic race. Finding your voice—and your rhymes—during tough times. Flying on your skateboard like nobody’s watching. And more! From seventeen acclaimed Black male and non-binary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood. Contributors include: B. B. Alston, Dean Atta, P. Djèlí Clark, Jay Coles, Jerry Craft, Lamar Giles, Don P. Hooper, George M. Johnson, Varian Johnson, Kwame Mbalia, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Tochi Onyebuchi, Julian Randall, Jason Reynolds, Justin Reynolds, DaVaun Sanders, and Julian Winters
Download or read book We Refuse written by Kellie Carter Jackson and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence and Malcolm X’s “by any means necessary.” In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women. The dismissal of “Black violence” as an illegitimate form of resistance is itself a manifestation of white supremacy, a distraction from the insidious, unrelenting violence of structural racism. Force—from work stoppages and property destruction to armed revolt—has played a pivotal part in securing freedom and justice for Black people since the days of the American and Haitian Revolutions. But violence is only one tool among many. Carter Jackson examines other, no less vital tactics that have shaped the Black struggle, from the restorative power of finding joy in the face of suffering to the quiet strength of simply walking away. Clear-eyed, impassioned, and ultimately hopeful, We Refuse offers a fundamental corrective to the historical record, a love letter to Black resilience, and a path toward liberation.
Download or read book Little Joy written by Cecilia Pavon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of contemporary Argentine author Cecilia Pavón's short stories. Poet, writer and translator Cecilia Pavón emerged in the late 1990s as one of the most prolific and central figures of the young Argentine literary scene--the so-called "Generation of the 90s": artists and writers whose aesthetics and politics were an earnest response to the disastrous impact of American-exported neoliberal policies and the resulting economic crisis of 2001. Their publications were fragile--xeroxed, painted on cardboard--but their cultural impact, indelible. A cofounder of Buenos Aires's independent art space and publishing press Belleza y Felicidad--where a whole generation of soon-to-be-famous Argentine artists showed for the first time--Pavón pioneered the use of "unpoetic" and intimate content, her verses often lifted from text messages or chatrooms, her tone often impish, yet brutally sincere. Fellow Argentine poet Marina Yuszczuk once wrote, "Pavón's writing is filled with minor illuminations and conjectures; her syntax is the syntax of commas, 'buts,' and disjunctives, thoughts and impressions organized into a current that flows, branches off, and stands still." In 2015, Pavón's first volume of collected poems, A Hotel With My Name, was published in English. Contemporary writers in the US, Australasia and Europe discovered a deep affinity with her work. Pavón's protagonists, Ariana Reines noted, "are absolute women, guileless dreamers, saints in sneakers, on sidewalks, in jail, in Zara, on buses, in nightclubs, in bed." Translated by Pavón's own poetic protégé Jacob Steinberg, Little Joy collects the best of Pavón's short stories written between 1999-2020, originally published in three volumes in Spanish.
Download or read book Joy Sebenza written by Hilde van der Merwe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a unique and utopian South Africa of the far future, a secret agent crosses paths with a doomed man, a few adventurous children, and a unit of nurses. He also meets a murdered woman, which is highly unusual since crime is just about unheard off in the Age of Integrity. To a background of wild South African landscapes and phenomenal technology, investigations continue. However, it is not the agent but the nurses who get to have most of the adventures. But will they uncover the truth about the dead woman? And will they discover the identities of the two John Does, lying unconscious in their hospital? Joy Sebenza, Better Than Hope, is a utopian sci fi drama, sleuth detective adventure, with hints of romance and a sprinkle of fairy tale flavor, but most of all, it is an origin story.
Download or read book The Joy Document written by Jennifer McGaha and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2024 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Joy Document is probing and uplifting, both a celebration of a half-century well lived and a meditation on what comes next. The book contains fifty essays of varying length and explores spirituality, aging, women's empowerment, identity, and the practices of cultivating gratitude and radically reclaiming joy, all while gently inspiring readers to find their own joy, to imagine or perhaps re-imagine their own best lives. In The Joy Document, almost anything can become revelatory-an Earth Day Whole Foods errand, Claire Saffitz's fruit cake recipe, a harrowing ride in Twinkly Taxi, an evening picnic at Dvorak's Symphony 8, cartwheels in the driveway, a small dog with a big erection, weekday morning gin shots, blue ghost fireflies...you name it. From this post-fifty perspective, joy is both harder to come by and easier to find, and once you begin really looking for it, you can find it pretty much anywhere"--
Download or read book The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily written by Laura Creedle and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily, who has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Abelard, who has Asperger's, meet in detention and discover a mutual affinity for love letters--and, despite their differences, each other.
Download or read book Thorns of Joy written by Robert of Prague and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who's given a thought about the meaning of liberty & this life, whether there is a God, life after death, spiritual awakening and joy, deep love, forgiveness & peace of mind will find the answers in this unique book. Thorns of Joy vividly describes the thorny and dark life in oppression under the Soviet communism, the intense and unique escape to freedom from the Soviet tanks, abiding love and heartbreak, even agony & ecstasy sprinkled with many adventures & trials. It culminates in the Joy of finding God in the wilderness and the ensuing complete transformation from an atheist into a believer. It is a passionate witness that God is the author of our Liberties & that He is approachable. Michelangelo was indeed inspired; his Adam on the grand ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome touching, almost, the finger of God is not a fantasy or a fairytale. Hope, faith & charity are a reality. The transcending power of God and the sacred journey of enlightenment are priceless. Thorns of Joy will make you laugh, shed a tear or two, hold you breath, think, dream, learn, and maybe even change your outlook on life. It was written to change your life. It contains grains of hard won wisdom, joy and insight into the human condition.
Download or read book Mission Joy written by Janya Ten and published by Riku & Bull Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mission Joy is high octane middle-grade adventure full of comedy and heart. Perfect for readers aged 8+ and fans of David Walliams and The Last Kids on Earth. Jesse Joy is a twelve year old that never smiles. Why would he? School is seriously boring. People won’t stop telling him what to do. And he is the poorest kid in class. And just when Jesse thinks things can’t get any worse, his dad gets kidnapped. A mysterious family friend tells Jesse that to save his dad he needs the help of Frankenstein, Dracula and Cinderella. It shouldn’t be too hard. First, he needs to break into the British Library and steal one of its most prized possessions. Then he has to survive a trip to Paris on top of a bullet train. Then he has to jump off a moving rollercoaster into a magical book in Abu Dhabi. Then, and only then, he can finally begin his rescue mission. Can Jesse pull it off? Will he save his father before it’s too late? And will he ever find a reason to smile? WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT MISSION JOY ‘OMG, such a funny book! I laughed so hard I broke a rib! ... The rib punctured my liver. Srsly. They took me to a hospital.’ - William Shakespeare ‘This book is not sad enough. Where is all the pain, the suffering? What is this?’ – Fyodor Dostoevsky ‘Cracking good read!’ - Humpty Dumpty ‘A triumph! It’s the new Harry Potter, only without wands, brooms, spells, a magical school, a boy wizard or wizardry of any kind.’ - Unicyclist Weekly ‘Hugely entertaining. If you like adventure, chases, explosions, comedy then this one is for you. If you don’t like those things then it’s not.’ - Miniature Donkey Digest ‘A modern-day Tom Sawyer with a healthy dash of David Walliams’ - Marketing Department ‘Mission Joy is an absolute masterpiece in my completely unbiased opinion for which I didn’t not receive a small thank you gift from the publisher.’ - Tom Pinocchio, author of Encyclopaedia of Lying ‘This book has a great amount of words. Great words. So very great.’ - Former president of the United States ‘You need to buy this book! Go! Drop everything now! (Unless you are holding a baby.)’ - Negligence Illustrated ‘This is the greatest book in the world, besides mine’ - New York Times bestselling author ‘Unputdownable. I stopped eating, drinking, bathing, breathing. I’m pretty sure there are insects living in my hair. I have a dead cat in my kitchen.’ - Jane Austen
Download or read book Backpack Explorer Discovering Trees written by Editors of Storey Publishing and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpack Explorer: Discovering Trees encourages junior naturalists to step outside and get curious about the trees they see, whether in their backyard, in their neighborhood, in a park, or on a trail. With this take-along activity book—the fifth in the best-selling Backpack Explorer series from the Editors of Storey Publishing—kids will stop, look, listen, and touch as they search for leaves, count tree rings, notice the sound of birds or wind in the branches, gather pinecones, and feel bark. Each page is packed with prompts and activities, including 12 interactive field guides for identifying common trees, simple craft projects such as Make a Tree Rubbing or Make a Nature Mask from colorful leaves, and simple discovery features with fun tree facts. Equipped with a real magnifying glass, stickers, and log for recording tree finds, this book is the perfect accompaniment for any nature adventure.
Download or read book Invisible written by Dawn Metcalf and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some things lie beneath the surface. Invisible. With the power to change everything. Joy Malone wants it all—power, freedom and the boyfriend who loves her. Yet when an unstoppable assassin is hired to kill her, Joy learns that being the girl with the Sight comes with a price that might be too high to pay. Love will be tested, lives will be threatened, and everyone Joy knows and cares about will be affected by her decision to stand by Ink or to leave the Twixt forever. Her choice is balanced on a scalpel's edge and the consequences will be more life-altering than anyone can guess.
Download or read book Backpacks and Blue Roses written by Kendrick Sims and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To everything there is a beginning. A story which must be told. There are secrets which have not yet been heard. There are mysteries which must be unsealed. For at the very least this much is true. In the forgotten darkness of yesterday lay the hope of tomorrow. In that twilight dawn a blossom will spread its shadow. Seeds will be planted. Indwelled and nurturing, a toy man will look at the moon and prophesize before tears will fall. Wings will be spread as the moon sheds her light and time, for a moment will shatter for the mistress in red. For the sake of friendship, for the riddles of time and for one unseen a record must be played. He who dances with the rose, his name is Lazar Lion. He dances with a blue rose and with the one who has placed it in his paw. Standing aside and watching events play out is Lazar's cousin Jingles. He watches, waits, and helps when possible. Above all else, Jingles hopes. He hopes for a future where fear is cast aside and blue roses bloom free.
Download or read book Great Western Highway written by Anthony Macris and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-something Nick is walking down Parramatta Roads six lanes of thundering traffic to see his former girlfriend Penny for the first time since they agreed to be just friends. By the novel's end, he is racing back up that same road so he does not lose her. Nick and Penny's awkward romance is played out against the backdrop of high capitalism and the rise of the digital age. Bombarded by advertisements, slogans, news, wars, politics and consumerism, just a little silence is hard to find.
