Download or read book My Face His Fist My Pillow written by Becky Coke and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His Fist, My Face, My Pillow is a true story of Becky's life in Jamaica and the struggles, abuse, and hurt she had to endure from the very people who vowed to love and protect her. The disappointments and hurt Becky endured are what some psychologist might phrase as "survival of the fittest." She lost both parents at an early age and had to live with her grandmother. Living an adult life for Becky began after that. She spent time on and off the streets. She was forced to marry at an early age and was physically abuse by her husband. She was almost raped by family members who were old enough to be her father. She was, however, given a second chance when she met a man that introduced her to opportunities.
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Download or read book Northwood written by Maryse Meijer and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Artfully explores themes of pain, desire, and the meeting place of the two, for a surreal, fairytale–esque accounting of what happens when we go to the darkest places within ourselves, and within others.” —NYLON Part fairy tale, part horror story, Northwood is a genre–breaking novella told in short, brilliant, beautifully strange passages. The narrator, a young woman, has fled to the forest to pursue her artwork in isolation. While there, she falls in love with a married man she meets at a country dance. The man is violent, their affair even more so. As she struggles to free herself, she questions the difference between desire and obsession—and the brutal nature of intimacy. Packaged with a cover and end papers by famed English artist Rufus Newell and inventive, white–on–black text treatments by award–winning designer Jonathan Yamakami, Northwood is a work of art as well as a literary marvel.
Download or read book How to Say Babylon written by Safiya Sinclair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner A New York Times Notable Book A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! A Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Vulture, Shelf Awareness, Goodreads, Esquire, The Atlantic, NPR, and Barack Obama With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father’s strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find her own voice as a woman and poet. Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience. In an effort to keep Babylon outside the gate, he forbade almost everything. In place of pants, the women in her family were made to wear long skirts and dresses to cover their arms and legs, head wraps to cover their hair, no make-up, no jewelry, no opinions, no friends. Safiya’s mother, while loyal to her father, nonetheless gave Safiya and her siblings the gift of books, including poetry, to which Safiya latched on for dear life. And as Safiya watched her mother struggle voicelessly for years under housework and the rigidity of her father’s beliefs, she increasingly used her education as a sharp tool with which to find her voice and break free. Inevitably, with her rebellion comes clashes with her father, whose rage and paranoia explodes in increasing violence. As Safiya’s voice grows, lyrically and poetically, a collision course is set between them. How to Say Babylon is Sinclair’s reckoning with the culture that initially nourished but ultimately sought to silence her; it is her reckoning with patriarchy and tradition, and the legacy of colonialism in Jamaica. Rich in lyricism and language only a poet could evoke, How to Say Babylon is both a universal story of a woman finding her own power and a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we may know how to name, Rastafari, but one we know little about.
Download or read book Barbed Wire Hearts written by Kendra Moreno and published by Kendra Moreno. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate has always been a city girl. The city is all she knows, and she’s fine with that until an ex-boyfriend knocks on her door and destroys all her carefully made plans. Now, she has no choice but to run and get as far away from the city as possible. Head west. Move fast. She doesn’t stop until she finds herself in the mountains of Wyoming. Answering an ad looking for help on a ranch should have been a silly idea, but Kate’s never been afraid of hard work and she likes animals. Besides, no one should find her out in the middle of nowhere. Steele Mountain Ranch is safe and exactly what she’s looking for, or so she thinks. Dakota Steele, the namesake of the ranch. Wiley Carter, the horse wrangler. Levi James, the lead cowhand. Each of them is as unpredictable as the Wyoming weather. But not everything is as safe as it seems out in the mountains. Kate may have run from a murder of crows only to find herself in a rattlesnake nest, and everyone knows a rattlesnake bite can be deadly. The past is coming for Kate. She can’t run forever, but Steele Mountain won’t let her go without a fight. Out here, they don’t call 911. Come and take her. **Barbed Wire Hearts is a full-length dark WhyChoose stand-alone novel. Get ready to enter your dark cowboy romance era! Recommended 18+ due to mature language, adult situations, and sensitive content. Check the trigger warnings.**
Download or read book Sky Watcher written by Heather Lynn and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Harper’s life isn’t going as she expected. She had to change her course of studies, her ex-boyfriend has hooked up with her best friend, and she misses her mother desperately since her passing. Searching for meaning and direction, she pours herself into her family history, researching her roots. When she learns of a possible ancestor named Elizabeth from the early nineteenth century, who was hung for the crime of witchcraft, she is determined to try to save her fate. Charlotte explores the strength of her Wiccan beliefs and the powers within her stones, preparing a spell to transport herself back in time nearly two centuries. She arrives at a small, sleepy town on the shore of Owasco Lake, New York. Intending to stay just long enough to save her ancestor, she creates a cover story and attempts to fit in, but after waiting for weeks with no word of Elizabeth, she immerses herself in the community. She works in the General Store to earn her keep and uses her knowledge of herbs and medicine to help those in need. She soon forms strong bonds with those around her, finding herself drawn into the simple and fulfilling life of a bygone era, and even falls in love—more deeply than she ever thought possible. As the deadline of the execution nears, visions of the future begin to plague her and those around her. Can she truly save Elizabeth and undo what happened almost two centuries ago? With two lives on the line, she knows she must face the consequences of meddling with time, even if it costs her everything.
Download or read book A Labor of Love written by Leah Omar and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Malone has her life mapped out. After graduating with her master's degree, she plans to marry her high-school sweetheart and settle down in the same comfortable town where she's lived her whole life. But when a betrayal shatters her dreams of the future, Kate's father convinces her to volunteer for a few months as a midwife at a rural hospital in Tanzania. Heartbroken and unsure of who she is and what she wants, Kate is braced to wait out the four-month commitment on the other side of the world in misery. Instead, she finds friendship, meaningful work, and a growing attraction to Dr. Andrew-the talented, kind, and impossibly handsome physician she works under. Drawn together by an immediate and undeniable chemistry, Kate and Andrew's flirtation soon develops into something more until Kate's two worlds collide unexpectedly. Suddenly forced to confront race issues and the sacrifices she's made to please others at the expense of her own happiness, Kate must make an impossible choice. Can she finally find the courage to be the star of her own life?
Download or read book Trap of Immortality written by G Jullie FRK and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the north of Redbree, in a peasant-infested kingdom, Eliza, a young, unpredictable girl, quickly infuriated lives. She visualizes the day she can escape the firm grasp of her loathsome parents, wondering what it would feel like to run through the free lands hand in hand with her brothers. Her dream comes true, when she hears the weak voice of a prince she knows to be long dead.
Download or read book Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child A Classic 1935 Comparative Study of Ape Emotions and Intelligence written by the late N. N. Ladygina-Kohts and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002-02-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition presents the first complete English translation of N.N. Ladygina-Kohts' journal chronicling her pioneering work with the chimpanzee, Joni. The journal entries describe and compare the instincts, emotions, play, and habits of her son Rudy and Joni as each develops. First published in Moscow in 1935 as a memoir in the Darwin Museum Series, this edition has 120 photographs, 46 drawings and an introduction by Allen and Beatrix Gardner of the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Nevada, as well as a Foreword and an Afterword by Lisa A. Parr, Signe Preuschoft, and Frans B. M. de Waal of the Living Links Center at Emory University.
Download or read book The Hurt written by Eva Bielby and published by Joyster Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything we do in life always has a price! Well-spoken, intelligent and beautiful, Helen Pawson has lived a privileged life. Her parents have made sure she wants for nothing. She’s attended the best private schools and has learned to appreciate the finer things in life. In her mind, she has everything she needs at her fingertips. Her father’s unexpected illness soon turns Helen’s world topsy-turvy. To make matters worse, she experiences a betrayal that will last a lifetime. Determined to overcome the mental illness she fights, she dives head-first into a decision that will change her life forever. The trials and tribulations of marriage leave her wanting more from the life she leads. Displeased and tired of her husband’s dark secrets, Helen sets out on a journey of self-discovery, one that leads her straight into the arms of dashing lawyer, Simon. Startled by the fact she enjoys carnal pleasures in more ways than one, Helen agrees to Simon’s subtle demands. In doing so, he opens her eyes to the dark and gritty world of being a call girl. A world she soon begins to crave. The secrets of Helen’s past follow her at every turn. If she’s to succeed in making something of herself, she’ll need to confront each of her ghosts. Will she be able to set all wrongs to right before it’s too late? Or will her new hunger for more end up swallowing her in the process? The Hurt is the first novel in The Hurt trilogy
Download or read book The Crossroads Cafe written by Deborah Smith and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most beautiful movie star is scarred in a fiery car accident. Her career over and her self-esteem in shreds, she hides in the magnificent home her grandmother left her in the mountains of North Carolina. But her motherly cousin refuses to let her become a recluse, and a handsome neighbor with painful dilemmas of his own is lured into the mix. Romance, family life, drama, humor, and secrets.
Download or read book Roses Take Practice written by Connie Biewald and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I went to the kitchen, took off my coat. You'll find vat you need in the freezer, said the voice. Seven loaf cakes waited for me. I took them out to thaw. I covered a board with foil and prepared to mix an industrial sized batch of icing. Don't you be using shortening in that! In the refrigerator, I found pounds and pounds of butter. As I unwrapped each one, it softened in my hands, soft enough to mix with sugar. Shaping the cakes, gluing them together, listening to the voice in my head as I mixed colors I never knew existed and would never be able to recreate, I lost track of time. The butter cream, usually next to impossible to work with, held its shape better than any shortening. I lost myself in the cake, the last cake Sofie and I would make together. Praise for author Connie Biewald's Digging to Indochina "Digging is an apt metaphor for Connie Biewald's writing, which probes and sifts the buried storage vaults of family relationships with an archaeologist's precision. Her work will appeal to those readers who love the fiction of Anne Tyler and Carol Shields." -Lois Lowry, author of Newbery Medal Award-winning books, Number the Stars and The Giver Visit Biewald's website at www.conniebiewald.com.
Download or read book The Redshirt written by Corey Sobel and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize IPPY Gold Medal for LGBT+ Fiction Selected for NPR's Books We Love LitHub's Best Books of 2020 You Might Have Missed Foreword Reviews Editor's Pick and Book of the Day Roundup 10 Things to Tell You's Best Book of the Year Corey Sobel challenges tenacious stereotypes in this compelling debut novel, shedding new light on the hypermasculine world of American football. The Redshirt introduces Miles Furling, a young man who is convinced he was placed on earth to play football. Deep in the closet, he sees the sport as a means of gaining a permanent foothold in a culture that would otherwise reject him. Still, Miles's body lags behind his ambitions, and recruiters tell him he is not big enough to compete at the top level. His dreams come true when a letter arrives from King College. The elite southern school boasts one of the best educations in America and one of the worst Division One football programs. King football is filled with obscure, ignored players like Miles—which is why he and the sports world in general are shocked when the country's top recruit, Reshawn McCoy, also chooses to attend the college. As brilliant a student as he is a player, the intensely private Reshawn refuses to explain why he chose King over other programs. Miles is as baffled as everyone else, and less than thrilled when he winds up rooming with the taciturn Reshawn. Initially at odds with each other, the pair become confidants as the win-at-all-costs program makes brutal demands on their time and bodies. When their true selves and the identities that have been imposed on them by the game collide, both young men are forced to make life-changing choices.
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Download or read book Possess 1 The Possess Saga written by J.A. Howell and published by SideStreet Cookie Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stumbling off the bus in Midtown, Harley Martin thought she found an escape from her old life. She soon realizes it was anything but that. Low on cash and options, she manages to find herself a cheap but surprisingly nice apartment. The catch? The last tenant, Brody Walsh, killed himself. Or did he? As disturbing dreams and hauntings start to occur, Harley realizes there may be much more behind the previous tenant’s death than a simple suicide. She finds her life further entangled with his when she learns that her new boss, Nolan, was also his best friend. Could this handsome but evasive pub owner have something to do with Brody’s death? Trying to piece together the events surrounding Brody’s death proves to be a daunting task, but Harley can’t give up. Brody won’t let her. He is still in the apartment with her, trapped in limbo until she finds his killer. But he’s not waiting for revenge. Harley’s next.
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Download or read book The Red Room written by Nicci French and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2001-08-07 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the request of London police, psychologist Kit Quinn agrees to evaluate Michael Doll, a sexual predator who slashes her face. As she recovers, Kit has horrible dreams of a red room. Months later, Doll is arrested for murder. As Doll's obsession with Kit escalates, Kit is gripped with a paralyzing fear that the killer isn't Doll--but someone close to her heart.
