Download or read book Poetry Is My Lyfe Revenge Is My Mission written by Rae-Shell W Jenkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A great fiction novel that appeals to all women! Rae-Shell carefully depicts the idiosyncratic behavioral traits of adolescent gals and guys, and thoroughly explores the maturation of their physical, mental, and emotional beings. Skillfully woven through the setting of cultural signals, which capture and hold the attention! The novel is creatively combined with poetry, eliciting great passion and soul!" -Je'Caryous Johnson, Chairman & CEO of I'm Ready Productions, NAACP award winning producer, author, playwright Meet Ariyah Xavier who is in love with Zachary Lyfe. As the two practically grow up together in love, and in life, they experience the natural emotions of teenage love. As jealously begins to reveal itself, abuse makes its way into the relationship. Ariyah becomes Mrs. Ariyah Lyfe and all of a sudden, all promises that were made have been broken. Ariyah discovers betrayal, lies, money, and drugs. In her search for peace of mind, she embraces her poetic gift by visiting various poetry clubs, by the advice of her doctor. There she meets real life poets such as Rae, Se7en, Punkin from Pluto, Meen Joe Swanson, Honey, Deep Blue See, and Jala. When Ariyah has had enough, she begins to think with her mind, and not with her heart. Her blue print to leave Zachary is masterminded, and funded by Zachary himself. The twist comes when Zachary's "Lyfe" is revealed through poetry by an unsuspecting Poet.

Download or read book The Musings of a Muse written by Neesha Ofori-Atta and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-08-27 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kanadra, a muse from the realm of Callowdon, hates her life. She hates being a muse, she hates helping people and most of all she hates the Muse Council, the pinnacle of the muse hierarchy. And after what they did to her, who can blame her?

Download or read book His Dirty Secret 4 Kim s Story written by Mia Black and published by Mahogany Publications. This book was released on with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim and Lloyd have finally reconnected and things keep getting better and better between them. Yet when Lloyds baby mama, Ariyah, decides that she is not going to let him go without a fight, everything is bound to change. Ariyah's sudden arrival presents a major problem for Lloyd and a more than uncomfortable moment for Kim. But what Ariyah has in her possession... could turn this encounter into a fatal one for all parties involved! Find out what happens in part four of His Dirty Secret: Kim’s Story

Download or read book Reflection written by Brandon Hargraves and published by Brandon Hargraves. This book was released on 2021-11-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After witnessing the tragic death of her closest friends and family, Dawn travels across the country with a weathered vagabond in search of her aunt. On the way, she discovers that the world is a much scarier place than she had initially imagined, and that she might have some darkness lingering within herself as well. A nail-biting, edge of your seat fantasy story; one that tackles issues of the human heart, as well as mental and emotional wellness in the wake of trauma. Reflection is a story that teeters the line between wonder, amazement, and real life terrors. In a world is filled with all sorts of monsters and creatures, Reflection will leave its readers asking questions about life, and their own mental well-being.

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Download or read book Tara Strong Mystery Bundle Girl Without a Chance 1 and Girl Without a Home 2 written by Rylie Dark and published by Rylie Dark. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bundle of books #1 (GIRL WITHOUT A CHANCE) and #2 (GIRL WITHOUT A HOME) in Rylie Dark’s Tara Strong Mystery series! This bundle offers books one and two in one convenient file, with over 100,000 words of reading. A woman escapes from the clutches of a serial killer in a small, mountain town, and Deputy Sheriff Tara Strong must race to decode the incoherent victim’s report and save the next one before it’s too late. But in a shocking twist, Tara realizes she is up against a killer more diabolical than she could imagine—and that, with her own life at stake, some of a town’s secrets are best left buried. In GIRL WITHOUT A CHANCE (Book #1), Tara Strong has risen to become her county’s Deputy Sheriff through her bravery and her brilliant capacity to enter killer’s minds. Small-town life in the mountains, centered around their picturesque lake, should be idyllic. But Tara has already seen enough to know that there is a dark side to everything, that small towns hide secrets, that everyone has something in their past—and that a killer may just be lurking right next door. In GIRL WITHOUT A HOME (Book #2), Tara remains haunted by her own past, by her missing sister, by her guilt over the unsolved case. She must battle the demons of her own past, while trying to get ahead in a male-dominated police force. Can Tara keep it together long enough to catch a killer? A cat-and-mouse thriller with harrowing twists and turns and filled with heart-pounding suspense, the TARA STRONG mystery series offers a fresh twist on the genre as it introduces two brilliant protagonists who will make you fall in love and keep you turning pages late into the night. Books #3-#5—GIRL WITHOUT A TRACE, GIRL WITHOUT A NAME, and GIRL WITHOUT A PRAYER—are also available.

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Download or read book All She Left Behind written by Jane Kirkpatrick and published by Revell. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already well-versed in the natural healing properties of herbs and oils, Jennie Pickett longs to become a doctor. But the Oregon frontier of the 1870s doesn't approve of such innovations as women attending medical school. To leave grief and guilt behind, as well as support herself and her challenging young son, Jennie cares for an elderly woman using skills she's developed on her own. When her patient dies, Jennie discovers that her heart has become entangled with the woman's widowed husband, a man many years her senior. Their unlikely romance may lead her to her ultimate goal--but the road will be winding and the way forward will not always be clear. Will Jennie find shelter in life's storms? Will she discover where healing truly lives? Through her award-winning, layered storytelling, New York Times bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick invites readers to leave behind their preconceived notions about love and life as they, along with Jennie, discover that dreams may be deferred--but they never really die. Based on a true story.

Download or read book Blood Light written by A. Roberts and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charissa is a 200-plus-year-old vampire living and working in Old Town, Chicago, only blocks away from the parish of one Father Christopher, a dutiful Catholic priest whose only real concern is the spiritual welfare of his community. That is until the two meet and are never the same again. A chance meeting brings the man of God and the mistress of the night into a strangely symbiotic relationship once she feeds upon him, something she initially tried hard to resist. Soon they are sensing each other's patterns in odd daydream interludes, building toward a newfound connection neither of them can deny. Before long, Charissa begins to experience Communion services conducted by Christopher as though she herself were drinking the blood the wine represents, and he sees sessions she conducts as a dominatrix, a way she's learned over the years to feed in a setting conducive to such. Their lives become more and more entangled as each grapple with the interruption this unwanted bonding has wrought. Moreover, Charissa's cannibalistic vampire origins come into the picture when her maker, a cannibal shaman of the Caribbean, throws out his own tangled web in an attempt to reconnect with her after over a century of silence between them. Though still struggling with the insanity their insertion into each other's lives has wrought, Christopher and Charissa find themselves, and her friend Ariyah and her beau Joe, in the middle of a cross-continental nightmare leading them into the still cannibal-infested islands of the West Indies. For more information about this and other A.F. Roberts title, visit his website here .

Download or read book How to Leave the House written by Nathan Newman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wild and funny ride through modern life.” —The Financial Times It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: the deeply embarrassing package he ordered to his house - which still hasn't arrived. He won't leave town without it. Any alternative is too distressing to consider ... This is the story of twenty-four hours in the life of Natwest, and his small-town odyssey in pursuit of the missing package. And yet it's also the story of a middle-aged dentist who dreams of being a respected artist - but the only thing he can seem to paint is the human mouth. And it's the story of a tortured imam involved in a quasi-romantic entanglement with the local vicar; and an octogenerian mourning the death of her secretive husband; and a troubled teenager whose nudes have leaked on the internet. It's the story of Natwest's obnoxious ex-boyfriend, and his class-traitor mother and her childhood boyfriend, and the life-changing secrets he knows about Natwest's past. Alternating between Natwest's idiosyncratic inner world and the perspectives of the other characters - and dazzling in its energy, imagination and originality - this is an outrageously funny and tenderly moving story about being connected to everyone and everything at all times; about love, friendship, and the lies we tell ourselves; about unhappy endings, happy endings - and whether anything really is as simple as one or the other.

Download or read book THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS written by L. L. Ariyah Smith and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to my world and the journey of love. Walking into the unknown tales of what we call life. This is the sweat and tears of thirteen summers and the evolution of love. You will have full possession of my heart to witness the stages of healing the inner demons within. Hear my voice, feel my happiness, and then feel my pain. Capture that moment in time where you will look down and fall, but that day shall come when you will stand tall and rise again. This too shall pass.

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Download or read book His Dirty Secret 2 Kim s Story written by Mia Black and published by Mahogany Publications. This book was released on with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After reuniting with Lloyd, things are moving and moving fast. Kim's feelings for Lloyd are only getting deeper and deeper, and she can't wait to share the news with her friend Rochelle. But now that Rochelle knows, she might have some news of her own for Kim. Find out what happens in part two of His Dirty Secret: Kim’s Story! keywords: side chick, side chick romance,african american romance, urban books, urban books free, urban, urban fiction, urban street fiction, urban african american, free book, freebie, free book, free ebook, free, urban books black authors free, african american books free

Download or read book Parenting for Liberation written by Trina Greene Brown and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking directly to parents raising Black children in a world of racialized violence, this guidebook combines powerful storytelling with practical exercises, encouraging readers to imagine methods of parenting rooted in liberation rather than fear. In 2016, activist and mother Trina Greene Brown created the virtual multimedia platform Parenting for Liberation to connect, inspire, and uplift Black parents. In this book, she pairs personal anecdotes with open-ended reflective prompts; together, they help readers dismantle harmful narratives about the Black family and imagine anti-oppressive parenting methods. Parenting for Liberation fills a critical gap in currently available, timely parenting resources. Rooted in an Afrofuturistic vision of connectivity and inspiration, the community created within these pages works to image a world that amplifies Black girl magic and Black boy joy, and everything in between. "Trina Greene Brown has created a guide for Black parents who want to raise fierce, fearless, joyful children. She knows what a challenge this is given the state of the world but argues that liberated parenting is possible if we commit to knowing and trusting ourselves, our children, and our communities. Anyone curious about how to walk with a child through tumultuous times needs to read this book now." —Dani McClain, author of We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood

Download or read book The Forever Knight written by John Marco and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lukien the Bronze Knight is given a chance for redemption: to be the protector of the Inhumans --fragile mortals living deep in the desert who have been granted magical powers in exchange for the hardships and handicaps life has handed them. But how can Lukien, now an immortal warrior, protect hundreds from a world of potential enemies?

Download or read book In the Company of Women written by Barbara Anderson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Anderson’s debut novel follows the story of Joanna, who is mentioned in the Gospels as a supporter of Jesus despite her affluent status as a member of Herod Agrippa’s court. A woman of her time and culture, and trained as a midwife, she dares to join Mary Magdalene and Susanna in acts of solidarity and sacrifice in order to follow Jesus and to continue sharing his message after his crucifixion and resurrection.