Sisterfriends

Sisterfriends

Author: Michelle V. Agins

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001-11

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0671037137

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A collection of inspirational essays combines with photographs to celebrate the role and implications of sisterhood--friendship among African-American women, both famous and unsung.


Sisterfriends

Sisterfriends

Author: Jewel Diamond Taylor

Publisher: Quiet Time Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Jewel Diamond Taylor, author of the bestselling Success Gems, helps women get ready for the 21st century by presenting ideas for a Business Development Checklist, Spiritual Understanding, Goal Setting Strategies, Money Management for Women, Too Blessed to be Stressed, Ways to Improve Your Relationship, Successful Parenting, Rites of Passage for Young Teens, Don't Take Your Health for Granted, and more, in one handy text.


Sister Friends Forever

Sister Friends Forever

Author: Kimberla Lawson Roby

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2022-08-09

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1538708973

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This emotional novel from a New York Times bestselling author follows four lifelong friends as each faces a crisis in family, love, and forgiveness. Serena, Michelle, Kenya, and Lynette have been best friends since they were small children. And as sister friends forever, they have always been there for one another, through good times and bad, no matter what. This year is a crucial turning point for each woman. Serena, still single, is questioning why love hasn’t found her yet. Michelle is engaged and ready to walk down the aisle—until an old flame strolls back into her life. Kenya is happily married, but at the same time, her husband’s ex-wife won’t allow them or their family to live in peace. And Lynette’s divorce from her cheating husband has her nervously dating for the first time in well over a decade. During this difficult period, their friendship will be tested like never before. Yet it is that sisterly love that they will need . . . more than ever.


Playing Hard To Get

Playing Hard To Get

Author: Grace Octavia

Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.

Published: 2011-10-24

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0758278691

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They're gorgeous, sophisticated, and successful--but the lives of these three New York City "It Girls" are about to be turned upside down. . . With her career as an attorney on the rise, and her millionaire boyfriend about to propose, Tamia has it all. Then she meets Malik, a sexy Harlem brother who makes her second-guess everything. Love struck, Tamia's on a mission to convince Malik to stop playing hard to get and come along for the ride. . . Since she married a pastor, Troy has gone from smokin' hottie to Bible-quoting church lady. Everyone thinks Troy is happy until some dirty secrets turn her life--and her marriage--upside down. . . As the wife of a pro basketball player and mother of two, Tasha has traded her fabulous city life for the suburbs. Bored and starving for action, Tasha's desires spin out of control, and she finds that being the new "It Girl" has its drawbacks. . . "Octavia gives Sex and the City a smart Afrocentric update." --Publishers Weekly "It's clear that Octavia is talented with a great imagination and storytelling ability." --RT Book Review "Entertaining and packed with drama." --RT Book Reviews


Semiotics of Friendship

Semiotics of Friendship

Author: Claus Emmeche

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2025-01-27

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 3111423786

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A friend should be able to be an attentive listener, which made semiotician Roland Barthes wonder in his intriguing dictionary of love, "cannot friendship be defined as a space with total sonority?". This volume takes on the encyclopedic task - in the sense of Umberto Eco, where an encyclopedia is a very complex sign - to explore friendship in detail, not only as a form of love but in all its complexity as a bond that connects people and forms communities. Semiotics, the study of signs and meaning-making, is used alongside insights from a wide range of friendship studies to create a far-reaching intellectual resonance, or sonority, around friendship as a central human experience. As a study of the significance of friendship, it presents findings from friendship research across the globe, enabling new ways of thinking about friends. It includes: key concepts from semiotics, sociology, anthropology, and other fields, briefly explained major models of friendship from antiquity to contemporary societies proverbs and sayings about friendship from Africa, America, Asia, and Europe stories about famous or forgotten friends from mythology, fiction, and real history summaries of research on friendship from selected academic disciplines bibliographical references for further studies


All the Joy You Can Stand

All the Joy You Can Stand

Author: Debrena Jackson Gandy

Publisher: Harmony

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0307419746

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As a successful writer, keynote speaker, consultant, and seminar leader, Debrena Jackson Gandy has helped thousands of African-American women access their inner power and live life more joyfully and boldly. All the Joy You Can Stand: 101 Sacred Power Principles for Making Joy Real in Your Life is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her best-seller, Sacred Pampering Principles. This engaging, thought-provoking book features 101 Power Principles that will help you tap into what brings you joy in your life and give you the spiritual tools to manifest the desires of your heart, including how to:Discover Your Sacred SelfStrengthen Your Gratitude MusclesIntegrate Renewal Into Your LifeBe a Sensuous WomanFree Your Creative GeniusCultivate Your IntuitionBecome a Spiritual GardenerBe the Architect of Your LifeExpand Your Joy Threshold Using insightful stories from her own life, as well as the lives of her readers, friends, and seminar and lecture participants, Debrena Jackson Gandy has written an uplifting and transformational get-real guide for women who want to develop their spiritual strength and actualize their divine potential. Whether it's freeing your spirit by learning to release and forgive, or discovering how to more gracefully move through life's cycles and seasons, here are proven answers for some of life's most difficult questions. Prepare to be challenged and to ask yourself, "How much joy can I stand?" For as Debrena says, the more joy you can stand, the more joy God gives you.


Buy Black

Buy Black

Author: Aria S. Halliday

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2022-04-26

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0252053265

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Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from haircare to Nicki Minaj’s hip-hop, Aria S. Halliday spotlights how the products created by Black women have furthered Black women’s position as the moral compass and arbiter of Black racial progress. Far-ranging and bold, Buy Black reveals what attitudes inform a contemporary Black sensibility based in representation and consumerism. It also traces the parameters of Black symbolic power, mapping the sites where intraracial ideals of blackness, womanhood, beauty, play, and sexuality meet and mix in consumer and popular culture.


A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence

A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence

Author: Stephanie M. Crumpton

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-02

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1137370904

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This book is about Black women's search for relationships and encounters that support healing from intimate and cultural violence. Narratives provide an ethnographic snapshot of this violence, while raising concerns over whether or not existing paradigms for pastoral care and counseling are congruent with how many Black women approach healing.