Download or read book Christmas in Da Hood written by Martha Solomon and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, every year in New York at Christmastime, we'd watch "Twas the Night Before Christmas" on the television. My mother had a gift; she had the ability to take a single word and write whole stories and poems. One day I realized I had the same gift as my mother. I took the thoughts from my mind, put them on paper, and lo and behold, I wrote a children's book--not a story that falls too far from the tree of the original--one that deviates just enough to make you wonder what could happen if a mouse was found in the house at Christmas. Because I am from the city, I've lived among all kinds of pests, including mice. I imagined how whimsical it would be if a mouse showed up at Christmas. I also recalled one Christmas, as my mom and the 5 of us children were cleaning our 4 floor house in the city, the dogs got a hold of the turkey that was supposed to be our dinner that night. They pulled it to the floor and ate it all up. It was out of that memory that I chose to implement that storyline in the book and decided to add humor. After years of meditation, I finally wrote it out and thus, "Christmas in Da Hood" was born. This is a humorous children's story of how a family had to cope with a mouse and the excitement he brought to this household. I truly hope you enjoy this clever twist on the classic story.

Download or read book Christmas in the Hood written by Nikki Turner and published by One World. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The undisputed queen of hip-hop fiction, #1 Essence bestselling author Nikki Turner unwraps a talented new collection of writers with raw urban stories to jingle your bells this season. Christmas in the Hood presents fresh talent alongside shining stars such as K. Elliott and Seth “Soul Man” Ferranti–all writing gritty tales that reveal what the holidays bring for the naughty and the nice who live by the code of the street. In “Secret Santa,” after her children’s Christmas presents are stolen, a woman has to decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to give them the holiday they deserve; in “Me and Grandma,” a senior sleighs more crack than candy canes to bring Christmas cheer to her needy grandkids; and in “Holiday Hell,” Noelle must raise $23,000 to repay a loan shark or her sister will become a ghost of Christmas past. True to the streets and true to the season, these stories will raise the holiday spirit in the heart of even the most ghetto-hardened gangsta. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Nikki Turner's Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife. “The ghetto’s voice without constraint.”—Upscale, on Tales from da Hood

Download or read book The Night Before Christmas N Da Hood written by Lewis B. Grizzle and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the idea of Christmas is intertwined with tinsel, glitter and merriment, the reality for many is one of loneliness, depression and financial challenges. A time of year that should be celebrated as a joyous occasion often becomes stressful for many. Santa doesn't always come down the chimney and in many cases doesn't show up at all. This short, easy to read story provides a lighthearted look at the Christmas experience in the Black Community, through the eyes of a lower, middle-class Black family. It can however, be related to by many that experience the down-side of Christmas and the reality of their existence highlighted by the holiday season. Get insight and possible solutions to issues faced by families from all social, economic and cultural backgrounds. See "The Night before Christmas" told by Clement Moore from a different prospective by reading "The Night before Christmas - N Da Hood".

Download or read book The Night Before Christmas in the Hood written by Debra H. Harris and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprise surprise-everything's different in the hood! Here's a new spin on what Christmas looks like when Santa Claus rides through. Of course, parts of his operation are the same no matter where he goes. The reindeer work hard as we've all been told, but some other details of this legend are all brand new. For starters, St. Nick doesn't show up in anything less than the best-a big Cadillac and gold everything. Who can imagine what he will bring to put in all the stockings? Read about the night before our favorite day of the year as you've never seen it before. Just in time for the Holidays 2013 it's The Night Before Christmas in the Hood. Get it now!

Download or read book The Night Before Christmas in the Hood written by Debra H. Harris and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the 'hood...Who knew holidays in this part of town could be so good?The story sounds familiar: the kids are asleep while their parents are up way past bedtime. The reindeer know their role and do their part. The ground is all covered in peaceful, white snow, but... you've never imagined the Claus like this! He shows up in style and does his work with flava! Debra Harris reimagins this classic tale of Santa's hard work to make all the children of the world, even the ones in the 'hood, feel happy and loved. We think we know the whole story, but Saint Nick is full of surprises! Just check out the spinner rims on his ride... who knows what kinds of flashy gifts could be inside? Get ready to find out and start a new holiday tradition with The Night Before Christmas in the Hood.

Download or read book Girls from da Hood 13 written by Ms. Michel Moore and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Urban Books authors have teamed up to bring the drama in this latest installment of the popular Girls from da Hood Series. Get It, Get It! by Ms. Michel Moore: Monica was conceived on a pile of dirty clothes in the corner of a trap house. Cursed with a mother who worshiped the crack pipe more than her children, she quickly learned a Detroit reality: Get it how ya live or die trying. The young teenager is forced to beg, borrow, and steal to make sure she and her siblings survive to see another day. Cutthroat and conniving, Monica will make it, no matter who she has to step on or step over. You Can’t Break Usby Treasure Hernandez: Voodo and his girl, Moni, are inseparable. Like a modern Bonnie and Clyde from the hood, they let no one, even family, get in their way. When the people they do “around the way” business with turn out to be verified snakes, the ruthless couple gets revenge the only way they know how—street justice. With the law in hot pursuit, it’s Voodo and Moni against the world, just like they always knew it would be. So Far Gone by Katt: Sometimes love is the best feeling in the world, but the wrong kind of love can turn you into an entirely different person. When good-girl-turned-bad Renee gets together with Keithon, it’s them against the world, until the streets get to talking and their fairy-tale relationship turns into a full-blown nightmare. Karma steps in and has her way with the couple, and their lives will never be the same.

Download or read book Under the Hood written by Stan Slap and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can't sell it outside if you can't sell it inside. You want maximum business performance? Look under the hood and you’ll find your employee culture: it is the power that drives the enterprise engine. To harness that rumbling power you’ve got to solve the mystery of what an employee culture actually is, how it operates and how to move it forward. These are the keys that this book will put right in your hands. Renowned business culture expert Stan Slap knows the difference between understanding your employees and understanding your employee culture. The distinction isn’t semantics; it’s the key to whether your strategies will succeed or fail. This myth-busting book reveals why an employee culture is an independent organism with its own rules, beliefs, and motivations—and the power to make or break any management plan (and any manager right along with it). Slap shows you how to get whatever you want from your employee culture, whether it’s improved accountability, innovation, flexibility, resilience, energy, loyalty, or trust. Along the way he solves mysteries that have puzzled managers since the first Mesopotamian farmer hired some help, including: Why does an employee culture really resist change? What does it care about more than money? Why does it respond to leadership differently than to management? How does it talk to itself, and what does it mean when it won’t talk to you? Why are company values the most dangerous threat to gaining its trust? If you have a wonderful employee culture, this book will help you scale it. If you have a troubled employee culture, this book will help you fix it. If you have an employee culture under pressure, this book will help you ease it. If you have a new employee culture, this book will help you shape it. And if you are investing in a company, this book will help you protect your greatest purchasable asset. Under the Hood is informed by immaculate research, including surveys of more than 15,000 employees from companies the world over. It’s packed with original tactics that have driven performance for many organizations and countless managers. And it includes jaw-dropping inside stories of employee cultures from the likes of Samsung, Oracle, Progressive, CNN during wartime, Paul McCartney’s band, and the Super Bowl film crew. It’s all delivered in classic Stan Slap style: profound and provocative, heartfelt and often hysterical. This is not simply a management book; it is the business case for humanity. Management advice doesn’t get realer or more important than this.

Download or read book Christmas in the Hood written by Michay and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas is supposed to be a time for giving, a time for love, and a time for everyone coming together. At a young age, tragedy struck the Coleman family hard on Christmas Day, leaving five young kids to find their own way. Draco, AR, and Tech find a way to get through the hard days, along with caring for their twin sisters Journey and Justice. Thinking life was a piece of shit, they meet Karon, who was the king of Chicago, and had everything on lock. Karon taught all three of them a different way In life, but most of all how to love each other. Many miles away, in Valdosta Georgia, Alani, Cali, and Jazzy is heart broken after their father was killed. All they want is to get the person responsible and live a normal life. When everything come into play, plans fail and they run into Draco, AR, and Tech. The first encounter wasn't good, but overtime things slowly start to come together. Trying to make the best of the holidays, each and everyone of them battle with personal issues, including finding love. Can they come together as one big happy family for Christmas or will this be another day where Christmas is in the Hood.

Download or read book Ijamama Speaks Wisdom of a Black Sistah from the Urban Hood written by Frederick Douglas Harper and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ijamama Speaks is a hilarious satire. Ijamama is a woman from the urban Hood who is accidentally discovered by a feminist magazine, Hot Heifer, after she stood up to a sexist law that allowed men to be topless in public but not women. A published interview of Ijamama in Hot Heifer magazine leads to her cohosting a feminist, late-night TV show, and eventually getting her own late-night TV show, The Ijamama Tell-It-Like-It-Is Midnight Show, targeted to urban blacks, college students, and working-class women. Although very funny, Ijamama Speaks presents meaningful lessons about rightful living and quality living through dialogues of host Ijamama with her diverse TV guests. Some of her guests include Celibate Dude, Lead Belly, Benevolent Angel, Smart-Ass White Boy, Dr. Fartenstein, PumpDaddy, Spiritual Teacher, Bootylicious Queens, Preacher-Teacher, Little Red Rapper from da Hood, and HoneyBaby.

Download or read book The English Illustrated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Christmas Passage written by David Saperstein and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Christmas Eve morning at a crowded airport threatens to become Christmas Day when a heavy snowfall waylays five strangers on their way to Asheville, North Carolina. But in the spirit of the season, a good samaritan offers to drive them to Asheville. Then her van gets stuck on a snowy road --and the real journey begins for an unlikely group who have more in common than meets the eye."--P. [4] cover.

Download or read book The Boy s Yearly Volume for written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hood Battalion written by Leonard Sellers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1993-09-14 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hood Battalion saw some of the fiercest fighting of the First World war particularly at Antwerp, in the Gallipoli Campaign and then again on the West Front at the Ancre, Gavrelle and Passchendaele. The author lets the participants tell their own story, having expended prodigious labour in unearthing the many first-hand accounts of the Hood's exploits. It is indeed a tale told by heroes.

Download or read book Keeping It Real written by Jeffrey Talton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a passionate journey through varied emotions experienced in human life and I'm just keeping it real.

Download or read book Holding Out for Christmas written by Janet Dailey and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of RaeAnne Thayne, Lori Wilde, and Fern Michaels will delight in this beautiful Christmas love story with a heart the size of Texas. A visit to Janet Dailey’s Christmas Tree Ranch is the perfect kick-off to a flawless holiday season! “Cute…The festive atmosphere and charming cast—Megan’s younger brother, Daniel, who has Down syndrome, is especially well-developed—will draw readers in.” —Publishers Weekly She’s all he wants for Christmas. Maybe even forever… Conner Branch hasn’t stopping thinking about the sultry singer he spotted on stage during last year’s Cowboy Christmas ball. So imagine his surprise when he discovers the demure kindergarten teacher who comes home for the holidays to Branding Iron, Texas, is the very same woman. And once he’s up close and personal with the mesmerizing Megan, he’s downright determined to keep her by his side for good… If only Conner Branch were simply the star struck cowboy she once believed him to be, Megan wouldn’t have to worry about losing everything to the rugged—and wildly romantic—rancher. With Christmas in the air, it’s a little too easy to imagine spending the holidays, not to mention her whole life, wrapped in Conner’s loving arms. But this songstress has hopes for a big career back in Nashville. And no little holiday romance will ever get in the way of that. So what’s a woman to do when she finds herself facing down a love as big and bold as Texas itself?

Download or read book Christmas with the Billionaire A Tiara for Christmas written by Niobia Bryant and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHRISTMAS WITH THE BILLIONAIRE Despite her family’s billions, Samira Ansah is climbing the corporate ladder on her own. She needs to buy a lucrative property owned by bestselling author Emerson Lance Miller. The sexy recluse isn’t selling, but when he assumes she’s his new assistant, Samira plays along to get closer. There’s nothing fake about the sizzling attraction between these two opposites. But revealing the truth could close the book on their future… A TIARA FOR CHRISTMAS Kimber Reyes has been good all year—and she’s ready to be a little naughty. Back in Southwood, Georgia, to help her aunt with a beauty pageant, she’s reconnecting with former bad boy Dario Crowne. Her other mission: track down the mysterious designer of beautiful pageant tiaras. Dario is guarding secrets—and his heart. But unless he reveals both, the perfect Christmas gift might slip through his fingers…

Download or read book The Canadian Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: