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 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
Download or read book Godey s Lady s Book written by Louis Antoine Godey and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music.
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"--
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Download or read book My Sister s Hand in Mine written by Jane Bowles and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though she wrote only one novella, one short play, and fewer than a dozen short stories over a roughly twenty-year span from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s, Jane Bowles has long been regarded by critics as one of the premier stylists of her generation. Enlivened at unexpected moments by sexual exploration, mysticism, and flashes of wit alternately dry and hilarious, her prose is spare and honed, her stories filled with subtly sly characterizations of men and, mostly, women, dissatisfied not so much with the downward spiral of their fortunes as with the hollowness of their neat little lives. She focuses her eagle eye on such predicaments as the separate emergences of Miss Goering and Mrs. Copperfield from their affluent, airless lives in New York and Panama into a less defined but intense sexual and social maelstrom in the novella Two Serious Ladies; the doomed efforts of the neighbors Mr. Drake and Mrs. Perry to form a connection out of their very different loneliness in "Plain Pleasures"; and the bittersweet cultural collision of an American wife and a peasant woman in Morocco in "Everything Is Nice." Jane Bowles creates whole worlds out of the unexpressed longings of individuals, adrift in their own lives, whether residing in their childhood homes or in faraway lands that are somehow both stranger and more familiar than what they left behind. Book jacket.
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.
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Download or read book Hospitality and Homicide written by Lynn Cahoon and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times-Bestselling Author: A writer checks in at a California B&B to work on a murder mystery—but the plot is all too real… A visit to the serene coastal town of South Cove, California, could make anybody feel refreshed and inspired. But as Jill Gardner—owner of Coffee, Books, and More—discovers, some folks won’t live to tell about it . . . Mystery author Nathan Pike checked into South Cove Bed & Breakfast to compose a compelling novel, not commit murder. But things get real when a rival B&B owner ends up exactly like the victim in his draft—undeniably dead. As Nathan prepares to complete his magnum opus behind bars, Jill’s the only one who can prove his innocence and deconstruct the plot of a twisted killer! Praise for The Tourist Trap Mysteries “Murder, dirty politics, pirate lore, and a hot police detective: Guidebook to Murder has it all! A cozy lover’s dream come true.” —Susan McBride, author of The Debutante Dropout Mysteries “Lynn Cahoon has created an absorbing, good fun mystery in Mission to Murder.” —Fresh Fiction
Download or read book My Sister Life written by Maria Flook and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Maria Flook's fourteen-year-old sister Karen disappeared from their suburban home, the author was changed forever. My Sister Life maps the story of two castaways from American suburbia who, while apart from each other, live mysteriously parallel lives. With unrelenting realism and beguiling wit, Flook gives us an intimate account of her sister's life as a child prostitute, and of their coming of age in the 1960s--that surreal and wrenching moment of baby-boomer disenfranchisement, when the sexual revolution collided with the domestic fallout from the Vietnam War. From the ocean liners and Paris vacations of their refined upbringing to the gritty peepshows and adult theaters where they find jobs, the girls flee from a beautiful and tormented matriarch with secrets of her own. Her missing sister becomes Flook's secret heroine--the sole example to follow in her journey into womanhood. The sisters live in trailer parks. They are faced with sexual assault, car thefts, and petty crimes with unpredictable men. Escaping from an abusive Vietnam vet, Karen takes her toddler to join her sister, who is herself raising a baby on her own; it is the first time they are under the same roof since their childhood. Their unorthodox reunion allows the sisters to forge a life-saving bond. My Sister Life moves beyond biography or memoir to give us an astonishing vision of an American family--an authentic testimony to the defiant, undaunted faith between two sisters who connect after years apart.
Download or read book Frank Leslie s Lady s Magazine written by Frank Leslie and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cure for What Ales You written by Ellie Alexander and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amateur sleuth and brewer Sloan Krause contends with her past--and a murder related to it--in The Cure for What Ales You, another delightful mystery from cozy writer Ellie Alexander. After a long cold winter, spring is beginning to bloom in the alpine village of Leavenworth, Washington, where craft brewer Sloan Krause and her partner in crime Garrett Strong are putting the finishing touches on their bright and refreshing Lemon Kiss ale. They’ll be debuting their new line at the Maifest celebration, which will bring visitors from near and far to dance around the Maipole and shop at the outdoor flower markets. Despite the festive spirit in the air, Sloan is brewing over her past. She’s spent months following leads that have turned into dead ends. But when she spots a woman who strongly resembles Marianne—a long lost contact who may be her only connection to piecing together her story—she hopes that things might be taking a turn in her favor. That hope is quickly smashed when Marianne is involved in the murder of a local housekeeper. To make matters worse, Marianne issues a dire warning that Sloan and her entire family are in danger. If Sloan can’t figure out who the killer is and what happened in her past, she won’t find any hoppy endings.
Download or read book The Murderer s Daughters written by Randy Susan Meyers and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lulu and Merry's childhood was never ideal, but on the day before Lulu's tenth birthday their father propels them into a nightmare. He's always hungered for the love of the girls' self-obsessed mother; after she throws him out, their troubles turn deadly. Lulu had been warned not let her father in, but when he shows up drunk, he's impossible to ignore. He bullies his way past Lulu, who then listens in horror as her parents struggle. She runs for help, but discovers upon her return that he's murdered her mother, stabbed her five-year-old sister, Merry, and tried, unsuccessfully, to kill himself. Lulu and Merry are effectively orphaned by their mother's death and father's imprisonment. The girls' relatives refuse to care for them and abandon them to a terrifying group home. Even as they plot to be taken in by a well-to-do family, they come to learn they'll never really belong anywhere or to anyone—that all they have to hold onto is each other. For thirty years, the sisters try to make sense of what happened. Their imprisoned father is a specter in both their lives, shadowing every choice they make. One spends her life pretending he's dead, while the other feels compelled--by fear, by duty--to keep him close. Both dread the day his attempts to win parole may meet with success. A beautifully written, compulsively readable debut, Randy Susan Meyers's The Murderer's Daughters is a testament to the power of family and the ties that bind us together and tear us apart.
Download or read book Lady Larkspur written by Meredith Nicholson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Lady Larkspur" by Meredith Nicholson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Download or read book Son of God Idiotic story Memory loss written by Mr Son and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imaginary mystical fairy tale based on true events. Which tells the story of a little boy`s childhood, and the boy`s sick relative, and the dreams of the spirits seen by the young man over time, and related fantasies about television programs at different stages of the man`s life that caused the man`s state of mind to be shocked. The beginning and end are real, during the creature and night of shock imaginary.
