Let Our Eyes Linger

Let Our Eyes Linger

Author: Hayes Davis

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-03-28

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 1365005194

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Let Our Eyes Linger delves deeply into the author's life as son, grandson, father, husband, artist, and schoolteacher while illuminating currents of racial identity and the plight of other black men. These include Jim, the runaway slave from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, who speaks here in his own in poems that deepen one of the most complicated and controversial characters in American Literature. Reginald Dwayne Betts calls Let Our Eyes Linger "a testament to how the stories we tell ourselves to get through the day can become the poetry that speaks to more than our own existence." Joshua Wiener praises poems "that dramatize the contingencies of family; of its direct influence on the kinds of language we speak...that draw honestly the flight of eros from the domestic scene, as well as the endurance of love & devotion." Toi Derricote writes that "Davis' poems invite comparisons with Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks' poems of 20thcentury family life."


Linger

Linger

Author: Maggie Stiefvater

Publisher: Scholastic UK

Published: 2011-08-04

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1407129384

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In SHIVER, Grace and Sam found each other. Now, in LINGER, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping dangerous secrets. For Sam, it means grappling with his werewolf past ... and figuring out a way to survive the future. But just when they manage to find happiness, Grace finds herself changing in ways she could never have expected...


Art of Mountain Biking

Art of Mountain Biking

Author: Robert Hurst

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011-11-08

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0762775572

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An unprecedented new look at mountain biking and trail riding techniques from the author of The Art of Cycling Riding obstacle-strewn singletrack trails on a two-wheeled machine is one of those seductive challenges that can never be fully mastered, even by the most talented and experienced. In The Art of Mountain Biking, Robert Hurst deliberately avoids discussion of equipment, training, and other subjects that have already been beaten to death in mountain bike books and magazines, to focus on the deeply complex art of riding trails. From page to page and switchback to switchback, he chases the complex mysteries that make trail riding so difficult—and so rewarding—from the application of “soft power” and the biomechanics of balance and vision, to the philosophy of line choice and the Riccatti equations that describe the path of the bike's rear wheel, to the nature of dirt itself. Built on the author’s own quarter-century of experience and the tried-and-true wisdom of many other veteran mountain bikers, this environmentalist and darkly humorous manual provides a collection of unexpected knowledge that will be indispensable to both novices and experts. Throughout, Hurst explains with clarity, revelation—and a healthy dash of wit—the ins and outs of riding a mountain bike.


Body Count

Body Count

Author: P.D. Martin

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1459211839

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TO CATCH A KILLER, YOU HAVE TO THINK LIKE ONE FBI agent Sophie Anderson has been trained to uncover the minds of serial killers, to understand their vile impulses and cravings—to catch them before they kill again. Newly relocated from Australia, Sophie is settling in to her job at Quantico with the help of her new friend, Agent Samantha Wright, and a potential new boyfriend, Agent Josh Marco, and is quickly becoming the FBI's star profiler. The only problem is the nightmares. These intense images are more than dreams. They are psychic visions, like those she experienced during childhood when her brother was abducted. When grisly details match recent crime scene photos, she confides in Sam, and her visions lead to several breakthroughs in the case. But when Sam is abducted, Sophie must finally trust her visions and use them. She may not have been able to save her brother, but perhaps she can save Sam—and herself.


The Wealth of Networks

The Wealth of Networks

Author: Yochai Benkler

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 0300127235

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Describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing. The author shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people create and express themselves. He describes the range of legal and policy choices that confront.


Go Ahead in the Rain

Go Ahead in the Rain

Author: Hanif Abdurraqib

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2019-02-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1477318445

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A New York Times Best Seller 2019 National Book Award Longlist, Nonfiction 2019 Kirkus Book Prize Finalist, Nonfiction A February IndieNext Pick Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, Nylon, The A. V. Club, CBC Books, and The Rumpus, and a Winter's Most Anticipated Book by Vanity Fair and The Week Starred Reviews: Kirkus and Booklist "Warm, immediate and intensely personal."—New York Times How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service, which arrived when fans needed it most, in the aftermath of the 2016 election. Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the group’s history and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its distinctive sound resonated among fans like himself. The result is as ambitious and genre-bending as the rap group itself. Abdurraqib traces the Tribe's creative career, from their early days as part of the Afrocentric rap collective known as the Native Tongues, through their first three classic albums, to their eventual breakup and long hiatus. Their work is placed in the context of the broader rap landscape of the 1990s, one upended by sampling laws that forced a reinvention in production methods, the East Coast–West Coast rivalry that threatened to destroy the genre, and some record labels’ shift from focusing on groups to individual MCs. Throughout the narrative Abdurraqib connects the music and cultural history to their street-level impact. Whether he’s remembering The Source magazine cover announcing the Tribe’s 1998 breakup or writing personal letters to the group after bandmate Phife Dawg’s death, Abdurraqib seeks the deeper truths of A Tribe Called Quest; truths that—like the low end, the bass—are not simply heard in the head, but felt in the chest.


Grave Talk

Grave Talk

Author: Maria Farina

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-10-20

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1440182604

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Someone or something has infiltrated the vampire captain's lair, threatening his power. The undead are full of unrest. It's Trudi MacKenzie to the rescue...again. Sewickley's only Gypsy has been called on to find the conspirators by way of the internet. Trouble is, Trudi has problems of her own, namely a demon who has invaded her mind through her dreams. A mysterious stranger gives Trudi an offer she can't refuse so that she may help the vampires. The question is, can she save herself?


The Palace Tiger

The Palace Tiger

Author: Barbara Cleverly

Publisher: C & R Crime

Published: 2012-03-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 178033768X

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India, 1922. In this, the fourth in the acclaimed Joe Sandilands series, Scotland Yard detective Joe arrives in the princely state of Ranipur at the request of the Maharajah, an old ally of the British. The Maharajah is dying, and the succession is unclear. The death of his first son, while panther-wrestling, is suspicious, but as Joe begins to investigate a second son dies dramatically right before his eyes. With only the youngest, aged 12, now left to succeed, can Joe ensure his survival? In the glittering and luxurious setting of the court with its array of powerful, scheming characters, Joe must find his way through the maze of intrigue to trap, at last, the palace tiger.


Stellina

Stellina

Author: Wie-aam Adams

Publisher: eXtasy Books

Published: 2024-04-19

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1487441363

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Growing up so close to the powerful Romano family, twenty-year-old Caterina Russo has always been good buddies with their youngest son, Luciano. How could she predict that being sent to fetch him downstairs for dinner with their families would bring her face-to-face with his latest lover—or worse, that she’d be so suddenly smitten by him? Any such feelings must immediately be quashed, buried too deep to ever threaten her again. Stellina—Luciano’s little star. He has always planned to put a ring on Caterina’s finger, just not yet. No need to clip his wings at only twenty-five, not even for her. So why does he find himself monitoring her every move, rescuing her from dangerous situations, and instantly enraged if another man so much as looks at her? And what can he possibly say when, in desperation to avoid an arranged marriage, she asks him to marry her? But yes is only the beginning. Having grown up under the harsh rules of mafia families, can either Caterina or Luciano ever learn to trust? Can they possibly overcome the obstacles those same families throw in their way? They’ll have to fight for what they want—together.