My Name is Life
Author: Karen Bugingo
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9789997773128
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Author: Karen Bugingo
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9789997773128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lesléa Newman
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing ™
Published: 2015-08-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1512491713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"My name is Aviva, not Amoeba!" shouts Aviva at her teasing classmates. Aviva is determined to change her name until she discovers where her name comes from and why her parents chose that special name for her.
Author: Betty Reid Soskin
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1401954227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Betty Reid Soskin’s 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national epidemic, blackface minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, white women had only just won the right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until her mid-20s, Betty heard stories of slavery and the times of terror and struggle for black folk that followed. In her lifetime, Betty has watched the nation begin to confront its race and gender biases when forced to come together in the World War II era; seen our differences nearly break us apart again in the upheavals of the civil rights and Black Power eras; and, finally, lived long enough to witness both the election of an African-American president and the re-emergence of a militant, racist far right. The child of proud Louisiana Creole parents who refused to bow down to Southern discrimination, Betty was raised in the Bay Area black community before the great westward migration of World War II. After working in the civilian home front effort in the war years, she and her husband, Mel Reid, helped break down racial boundaries by moving into a previously all-white community east of the Oakland hills, where they raised four children while resisting the prejudices against the family that many of her neighbors held. With Mel, she opened up one of the first Bay Area record stores in Berkeley both owned by African-Americans and dedicated to the distribution of African-American music. Her volunteer work in rehabilitating the community where the record shop began eventually led her to a paid position as a state legislative aide, helping to plan the innovative Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, then to a “second” career as the oldest park ranger in the history of the National Park Service. In between, she used her talents as a singer and songwriter to interpret and chronicle the great American social upheavals that marked the 1960s. In 2003, Betty displayed a new talent when she created the popular blog CBreaux Speaks, sharing the sometimes fierce, sometimes gently persuasive, but always brightly honest story of her long journey through an American and African-American life. Blending together selections from many of Betty’s hundreds of blog entries with interviews, letters, and speeches, Sign My Name to Freedom invites you along on that journey, through the words and thoughts of a national treasure who has never stopped looking at herself, the nation, or the world with fresh eyes.
Author: Deborah Harkness
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-05-26
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 0143127527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe #1 New York Times bestselling third installment in the All Souls series, from the author of The Discovery of Witches and The Black Bird Oracle. Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder! Bringing the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying conclusion, this highly anticipated finale went straight to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. In The Book of Life, Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present—facing new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home, Sept-Tours, they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency.
Author: Austin Nelson
Publisher: America Star Books
Published: 2012-05-01
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781462679775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you were to write a list of words that would describe your ideal life, would it contain many houses, luxury vacations, or just being true to yourself? Welcome to the idyllic, privileged and dramatic world of Austin Nelson. Hello, My Name Is LIFE is the engaging personal memoir of a very lively young man finding his place in the world, one dramatic event at a time. From the moment you begin reading, Hello, My Name Is LIFE feels like a personal note from Nelson, lending a sense of familiarity and friendship between author and reader. Apart from Beach Houses and smart cars, Nelson makes it a point to keep it real by sharing his family's struggles through rehab and bipolar disorder, all the while keeping the faith in God. Entertaining, bubbly and at times sad, Nelson successfully presents his world and his own observations on the fragile human psychology and the special relationships that children have with their parents; and at the same time, echoes the sentiments of all the young people in this world in search for purpose and meaning. Life is something everyone goes through. Some seem to have an easy, glamorous life while others always seem to struggle. From the outside, life might look amazing, but no one really knows the inside story until it's told.
Author: Terrion L. Williamson
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2016-10-03
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0823274748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom sapphire, mammy, and jezebel, to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured history in public culture. The telling of this history has long occupied the work of black female theorists—much of which has been foundational in situating black women within the matrix of sociopolitical thought and practice in the United States. Scandalize My Name builds upon the rich tradition of this work while approaching the study of black female representation as an opening onto a critical contemplation of the vagaries of black social life. It makes a case for a radical black subject-position that structures and is structured by an intramural social order that revels in the underside of the stereotype and ultimately destabilizes the very notion of “civil society.” At turns memoir, sociological inquiry, literary analysis, and cultural critique, Scandalize My Name explores topics as varied as serial murder, reality television, Christian evangelism, teenage pregnancy, and the work of Toni Morrison to advance black feminist practice as a mode through which black sociality is both theorized and made material.
Author: Asma Mobin-Uddin
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Published: 2020-10-20
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1635924944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatured in a New York Times article titled "Teach Your Kids to Resist Hatred Toward Asians" A young boy wrestles with his Muslim identify until a compassionate teacher helps him to understand more about his heritage. After a family move, Bilal and his sister Ayesha attend a new school where they find out that they may be the only Muslim students there. Bilal sees his sister bullied on their first day, so he worries about being teased himself, thinking it might be best if his classmates didn't know that he is Muslim. Maybe if he tells kids his name is Bill, rather than Bilal, then they will eave him alone. But when Bilal's teacher Mr. Ali, who is also Muslim, sees how Bilal is struggling. He gives Bilal a book about the first person to give the call to prayer during the time of the Prophet Muhammad. That person was another Bilal: Bilal Ibn Rabah. What Bilal learns from the book forms the compelling story of a young boy grappling with his identity.
Author: Erich Fromm
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Mark Comer
Publisher:
Published: 2011-12-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780615565651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chanel Miller
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2020-08-18
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0735223726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Know My Name is a gut-punch, and in the end, somehow, also blessedly hopeful." --Washington Post Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter." (The Wrap). Her story of trauma and transcendence illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators, indicting a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable, and, ultimately, shining with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life. Know My Name will forever transform the way we think about sexual assault, challenging our beliefs about what is acceptable and speaking truth to the tumultuous reality of healing. Entwining pain, resilience, and humor, this memoir will stand as a modern classic.