The Velvet Machine
The Velvet Machine

Author: S.K. Black

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2014-08-05

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1491739886

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The Velvet Machine is a unique blend of thought-provoking essays, humorous anecdotes and real-life adventures as told by two of today's most bold and candid authors. In Part One, D.J. Blue (The Good Life Chronicles) features sociological food for thought in his Velvet Communique series. He tackles a variety of issues, including the root of all sociological evil, a hypothetical explanation of the sleep mechanism from a mathematical perspective, the meaning of dreams, as well as opinions on education, marriage, baseball, and glazed doughnut selection. In Part Two, newcomer S.K. Black paints a colorful, honest and sometimes amusing portrait of Midwestern culture. He also pushes the boundaries of decency with some eyebrow-raising poetry. But the cornerstone of Black's piece is his droll yet insightful narrative of a trip through America's heartland, where everything from Kansas cowgirls to Texas State Troopers is experienced and discussed. The Velvet Machine is a cerebral, boldly provocative, and sometimes amusing book which will make an impression on the reader and will not soon be forgotten.

New Blood in Contemporary Cinema
New Blood in Contemporary Cinema

Author: Pisters Patricia Pisters

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-08-18

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1474466982

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Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, Patricia Pisters investigates contemporary women directors such as Ngozi Onwurah, Claire Denis, Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Ana Lily Amirpour, who put 'a poetics of horror' to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialised perspectives in the horror genre. Exploring themes such as rage, trauma, sexuality, family ties and politics, New Blood in Contemporary Cinema takes on avenging women, bloody vampires, lustful witches, scary mothers, terrifying offspring and female Frankensteins. By following a red trail of blood, the book illuminates a new generation of women directors who have enlarged the general scope and stretched the emotional spectrum of the genre.

The Shellman Story
The Shellman Story

Author: Henry A. Buchanan

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2007-02-16

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1467084093

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THE SHELLMAN STORY is the story of a Pastor and his Church locked in battle over the racial issue in the early fifties of the twentieth century because the Supreme Court had said black children could go to school with white children in Shellman Georgia, and the Pastor of the Shellman Baptist Church said it was the right thing to do. But the people of that little Church in that little town said they would not allow their Pastor to say such a thing because it was contradictory to their hallowed traditions. The Pastor insisted on preaching this new teaching, so they fired him, after the hanging in effigy did not convince him that he was wrong about what he believed was right. But there was a Remnant of the Church who stood by their Pastor and the Remnant is the true Glory of the Church. Here in THE SHELLMAN STORY Henry Buchanan has told how it all happened fifty years ago. But because it seemed so strange to the people who heard him and saw it all happen in Shellman Georgia, Buchanan has included some tales from his boyhood which show how the boy who grew up in a racially stratified home and community became the man would challenge the Southern Tradition of his own people, and be hanged in effigy for it, and in the end be fired by the Church he served as God's spokesman in a time of great crisis and turmoil because he believed he was Right.

Ideal Love
Ideal Love

Author: Alice Burnett

Publisher: Legend Press

Published: 2017-08-14

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1787199886

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'An extraordinary interrogation of the human heart in all its complexity. Anyone who has ever felt they might die for love will relish this book.' Rowan PellingAfter an argument with her husband Gilles, Venus Rees is left devastated by his sudden death. But when she discovers that he died of a treatable genetic condition she knew nothing about, she is haunted by the thought that he didn’t love her enough to save himself. As time passes, Venus looks set to be trapped between grief and distrust forever. Until she meets the shy, good-looking and seemingly ideal Alex.Intertwining Venus’s compelling attraction to Alex in the present with Gilles’ enraptured pursuit of her in the past, Ideal Love is an intimate and life-affirming novel about love, from its incandescent beginnings to its final breath and back again.What Reviewers and Readers Say:'Burnett's ear for dialogue between lovers – and friends – is second to none. Ideal Love is an extraordinary interrogation of the human heart in all its complexity. Anyone who has ever felt they might die for love will relish this book.' Rowan Pelling'A rich and evocative novel about what it means to love and, above all, what it means to be human.' Annabel Abbs'Interesting and challenging' Katie Fforde

Welcome to the Family, Jesse
Welcome to the Family, Jesse

Author: Zoe Quintero

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2019-08-26

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1645446360

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Welcome to the Family, Jessie is about this boy named Michael, but people call him Mike. He has two brothers named Matthew and Daniel. Daniel is his oldest brother, and Matthew is his second-oldest brother. He has a dad that he says is strict with him and doesn't love him the same way he loves his other two brothers, but really, his dad just knows his little boy is growing up way too fast. They have friends that are part of their gang too that they call family. Which are John, David, Mark, Clark, Bradley, George, and Alex, who were his brothers he'd known all their life and grew up with. In the story, it tells you about who they are and what's going on with them now and what happened to them in the past throughout the book. In the book, Mike also explains how his brother Dan is lonely and needs to get a girlfriend. Till out of the blue a girl named Jessie Smith catches his heart. So Mike and his best friend, Alex, think of a plan to get them together. Although the plan didn't exactly work, Dan and Jessie still went on a date. But after you come across the end of the book, you might have a different point of view about your family.

Kingston Noir
Kingston Noir

Author: Colin Channer

Publisher: Akashic Books

Published: 2012-05-29

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1617751170

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“Subverts the simplistic sunshine/reggae/spliff-smoking image of Jamaica at almost every turn . . . with a rich interplay of geographies and themes.” —Los Angeles Times From Trench Town to Half Way Tree to Norbrook to Portmore and beyond, the stories of Kingston Noir shine light into the darkest corners of this fabled city. Joining award-winning Jamaican authors such as Marlon James, Leone Ross, and Thomas Glave are two “special guest” writers with no Jamaican lineage: Nigerian-born Chris Abani and British writer Ian Thomson. The menacing tone that runs through some of these stories is counterbalanced by the clever humor in others, such as Kei Miller’s “White Gyal with a Camera,” who softens even the hardest of August Town’s gangsters; and Mr. Brown, the private investigator in Kwame Dawes’s story, who explains why his girth works to his advantage: “In Jamaica a woman like a big man. She can see he is prosperous, and that he can be in charge.” Together—with more contributions from Patricia Powell, Colin Channer, Marcia Douglas, and Christopher John Farley—the outstanding tales in Kingston Noir comprise the best volume of short fiction ever to arise from the literary wellspring that is Jamaica. “Thoroughly well-written stories . . . fans of noir will enjoy this batch of sordid tales set in the sweltering heat of the tropics.” —Publishers Weekly “An eclectic and gritty mélange of tales that sears the imagination . . . Kingston Noir proves its worth as a quintessential piece of West Indian literature—rich, artistic, timeless, and above all, draped in unmistakable realism.” —The Gleaner (Jamaica)

Just Friends
Just Friends

Author: Carol Joyce

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2011-11-08

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1449729703

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As the school year comes to a close, Melissa Rose Hartley wishes school were over and her summer at Southern Shores were underway. Frustrated with the boys at school, Melissa Rose vows to never get involved with any boy, everuntil she meets Flynn. Melissas adventures take her to faraway places, involve her in the neighborhood mystery, lead her to a hidden treasure, and send her stepping into a blissful friendship. Join Melissa Rose as she finds fun and adventure at her beloved summer home in Southern Shores. Author Carol Joyce shares the adventures she had growing up at the old shore home and the importance of developing friendships with boys in this inspiring story for young adults.

The Awakening of Miss Dana
The Awakening of Miss Dana

Author: Taylor Johnson

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-04-10

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1483613623

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Real Strength Is In The Mind And Not The Fist You seem to have forgotten who you are here. This is my house. This is not your room, it is mine. When I want you to do something, you will do it. How quickly relationships can build you up and then, like a swift hurricane, tear you down and apart blinding you with helplessness. What began as an over seas journey to teach at a school in Haiti with her new found love Raffy, becomes an unexpected storm of the misunderstood and misaddressed throws of abuse and violence. In a country where she has no family or friends except for the children she hopes to inspire and protect, Miss Dana finds her life in danger and her entire reality blown apart within the bile of the exploitation and domination of herself and those she cares most for from communities, institutions and even her lover, Raffy. How can she both protect herself and stay with the children she has fallen so in love with? Through suspense and emotional uprise, Taylor Johnson pulls the reader into a world seldom understood by outsiders and those unwilling to open their eyes to oppression and violence. A story of empowerment and hope, The Awakening Of Miss Dana brings a dark truth about the exploitation, and physical and psychological abuse that occurs within families, institutions and entire communities, into the light. ~ Opeyemi Agbaje, CEO and Executive Director of OROL (Our Right, Our Life) initiative empowering the young with knowledge of sexual and reproductive health, rights, education and gender equality.

Coming Up The Driveway
Coming Up The Driveway

Author: HENDERSON FRANK PONDER

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-09-18

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1304447510

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This memoir will carry you to a little three-room cabin on the banks of Raccoon Creek in the Northwest Georgia Mountains. Go back to the depression era where you will go with a little six year old boy to his first day of school, watch him catch crawdads and tadpoles, and learn to deal with big bully boys. Learn to deal with doubts, and confusion planted in a young boy's mind by overzealous religious teaching. Sit by the radio and listen to Gabriel Heater tell about the beginning of the world's greatest war. Go there, stand over a large open pit and count the bodies of men, women, and children... of little babies who committed the dreadful sin of being born a Jew. Meet Bunton, the most beautiful girl in Georgia, and witness the pleasures, joys, and hardships of a marriage that lasts 65 years. And then, sit by a cold mound of dirt and relive a million memories. Yes, you will laugh. But, if you are not willing to shed a few tears, do not read this book.

Dare to Love
Dare to Love

Author: Penny Dixon

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2011-11-03

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1780880219

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Josi’s finally got her life sorted. Her children have flown the nest, she has a successful business and she’s just married her other half of eleven years – stable, dependable Richard, a partner in a highly respected accountancy practice. At 50, she’s where she wants to be: in a lovely cottage in Derbyshire, with an attractive body and a future with the man who loves her. Then a secret from Richard’s past shatters her dreams. She seeks the company of the only person she feels she can confide in. Celia welcomes her back to Barbados. Away from the grey of England and the pressure of her cottage, she finally opens to her friend. In her raw, vulnerable state she meets Grant, the smooth Guyanese with eyes that see through her, hands that soothe and excite her, and a body that can’t hide its feelings for her. Socially they are worlds apart. There’s so much that Grant has to hide and so many things that could take him under, but there’s something that pulls them together – something that threatens to blow their worlds apart and change them forever. They have a chance of happiness together – but can they risk taking it? Dare to Love is a romance with an erotic twist that will appeal to anyone who has ever been in love, or want to be in love. It will also appeal to readers with an interest in the Caribbean as it addresses many issues of the region. Author Penny has been inspired by a number of authors, including Terry McMillan, Eric Jerome Dickey, Zane, Fiona Zedde and Colin Channer. ‘The book is essentially about how people face extreme challenges and how we bend the rules to suit our situation. Ultimately, we all want love and recognition,’ says Penny, on the motivation to write her novel.