Download or read book The Color of My Aunt s Coffee written by Tia DeShay and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up, I remember my Aunt Mona drinking coffee. It wasn't anything spectacular about her drinking coffee. What was magical to me as a child was that her coffee matched her skin tone perfectly. Whenever I saw her drinking coffee I would think, Aunt Mona is drinking herself. The Color of My Aunt's Coffee. Sugar vs. Cream is a collection of poetry that matches my skin tone perfectly. I invite you to find your nearest cafe or melt into your favorite chair and enjoy a cup of me. You will enjoy the way I taste.
Download or read book Coffee Will Make You Black written by April Sinclair and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A funny, fresh novel about growing up African-American in 1960s Chicago” by an author who “writes like Terry McMillan’s kid sister” (Entertainment Weekly). In this hilarious and insightful coming-of-age novel, author April Sinclair introduces the charming Jean “Stevie” Stevenson, a young woman raised on Chicago’s South Side during an era of irrevocable social upheaval. Curious and witty, bold but naïve, Stevie grows up debating the qualities of good hair and dark skin. As the years pass, her family and neighborhood are changed by the times, from the War on Poverty to race riots and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., from “Black Is Beautiful” to Black Power. Against this remarkable backdrop, Stevie makes the sometimes harrowing, often comic, always enthralling transformation into a young adult—socially aware, discovering her sexuality, and proud of her identity. “Whether she’s dealing with a subject as monumental as the civil rights movement or as intimate as Stevie’s first sexual encounters,” writes the Los Angeles Times, “Sinclair never fails to make you laugh and never sacrifices the narrative to make a point.” Winner of the Carl Sandburg Award from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library and named a best book of the year in young adult fiction by the American Library Association, Coffee Will Make You Black is an exquisite portrait of adolescence that will resonate with readers of all ages.
Download or read book The Cruel Country written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cruel Country is a memoir centered around the author's journey to Puerto Rico after her mother had been diagnosed with late stage lung cancer. The story takes us through Cofer's journey as she sits by the her mother's hospital bed during the last moments of her life, through the grieving process and Catholic funereal rites that follow her mother's death and her return to her life in the U.S. Cofer's writerly talents richly inform this narrative meditation on her family's life in Puerto Rico and the States, her frantic research on cancer, considerations of Catholicism, family, and culture , and much more. The book at the same time is very much a study of cultural differences and the balance that the author must find as a Puerto-Rican American, not wholly part of her mother's culture. We see this come to a head as she communicates with doctors, participates in funeral arrangements and sacraments, and recollects her Anglo husband John's father's death. This very personal story about the author's life will resonate with Cofer's legions of fans including students and those interested in memoir, ethnic and cultural crossings, spirituality, loss, grief, and reconciliation"--
Download or read book The Color of Home written by Rich Marcello and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A love story for today, an open and striking look into the private relationship of a musician and chef living in New York City"--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Seasons at Lakeside Dairy written by Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opened in 1907 in Shreveport, Louisiana, by Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins’s grandfather, Black dairy farmer Angus Bates, Lakeside Dairy was a rarity in the post-Reconstruction South. The dairy thrived despite the time's challenging, racially oppressive, and hostile social and political climate. While Lakeside Dairy closed in 1943, Angus’s life and work legacy echoed through the Bates family for generations. LeFalle-Collins structures her narrative around familial creative storytelling heard as a child, supported by family ephemera about the dairy and the family’s social and community engagement. These documents directed her historical research as Seasons at Lakeside Dairy tracks life on the farm through the year, showing how the family worked, lived, and cooked and how they made a sustainable living in a climate of pervasive racism. Survival in the farming community was mainly due to the influence of George Washington Carver, who disseminated innovative recommendations for farmers, and Booker T. Washington, who advocated for Black entrepreneurs to remain and rebuild the South to make it their own. Angus Bates passed in 1935, and his spouse Carrie D. Bates, who had always been the dairy's partner and financial manager, rebranded the dairy in her name with her sons until closing. Realizing Shreveport held few opportunities for her children, she encouraged them to move west, a migratory route followed by many Black Louisianans. Family members’ voices are interwoven into each chapter with direct quotations, creative storytelling, historical contexts, ephemera, and healthier recipes based on family favorites. Seasons at Lakeside Dairy offers unique insight into their persistence, sustainability, self-sufficiency, and joy. Migration tales also open a window into the complex history of race and identity, continuing as they became homeowners in the West.
Download or read book My Child written by Mattie Gaskins and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Child By: Mattie Gaskins Get Ready!!! You are about to embark on the autobiographical journey of my daughter. She was born into the early 80’s, the day after Christmas and since then she has been putting her stamp down on this world. Read as I take you from day one, with me delivering her at the hospital alone to me raising her semi-alone all the way through college graduation and then with her testimony of her beating Cancer twice. Follow us, through the day of diagnosis, through being diagnosed again after being in remission for 23 months on through her Bone Marrow Transplant and beyond. Find out what she is doing today and what she’s developing for preparation and implementation tomorrow.
Download or read book What Lies Beneath written by Michele White and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida detectives Megan and Lacy get pulled deep into a bizarre murder investigation that has strange ties to a secretive voodoo community while a group of big-money international investors obstructs them at every turn. They move forward against the unknown forces, trying to protect the community they hold so dear.
Download or read book Murder Past Due written by Miranda James and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIRST IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING CAT IN THE STACKS MYSTERY SERIES! Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows Charlie Harris, the good-natured librarian with a rescued Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash. He’s returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but soon enough he’s entangled in a real-life thriller... A famous author of gory bestsellers and a former classmate of Charlie’s, Godfrey Priest may be the pride of Athena, but Charlie remembers him as an arrogant, manipulative jerk—and he’s not the only one. Godfrey’s homecoming as a distinguished alumnus couldn’t possibly go worse: by lunch, he’s put a man in the hospital. By dinner, Godfrey’s dead. Now it’s up to Charlie, with some help from Diesel, to paw through the town’s grudges and find the killer before an impatient deputy throws the book at the wrong person. But every last one of Charlie’s friends and co-workers had a score to settle with the nasty novelist. As if the murder wasn’t already purr-plexing enough...
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Download or read book Things My Mother Taught Me written by Maria Godoy and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about experiences that occurred in my life during my growing years both physically and spiritually. The emphasis is to reach a lost world for Christ through personal testimonies. These testimonies are to show the world that there is a God that loves us and that he is listening to our prayers. 1
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