Blue Talk And Love

Author : Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Publisher : Riverdale Avenue Books LLC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781626011618

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Blue Talk and Love by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Pdf

The award-wining collection Blue Talk and Love tells the stories of girls and women of color navigating the moods and mazes of urban daily life. Set in various enclaves of New York City — including the middle-class Hamilton Heights section of Harlem, the black queer social world of the West Village, the Spanish-speaking borderland between Harlem and Washington Heights, and historic Tin Pan Alley — the collection uses magic realism, historical fiction, satire and more to highlight young black women's inner lives. The storylines range widely: a big-bodied teenage girl from Harlem discovers her sexuality in the midst of racial tensions at her Upper East Side school; four young women from Newark, New Jersey, are charged with assaulting the man who threatens to rape them; a pair of conjoined black female twins born into slavery, make their fame as stage performers in the Big City. In each story, the characters push past what is expected of them, learning to celebrate their voices and their lives. In honor of Mecca Sullivan’s being named the recipient of the 2018 Judith A. Markowitz Lambda Award as an emerging LGBTQ writer, Riverdale Avenue Books has released a second edition of her acclaimed collection for which the Lambda judges called Sullivan, "An essential writer of our present moment.” "We are so proud of Mecca for receiving this prestigious award. She made her fiction debut with Riverdale Avenue Books five years ago, when we were both new to the literary scene, and we are publishing an updated second edition with the wonderful quote from Ntozake Shange on the cover to commemorate this achievement,” said Publisher Lori Perkins.

Author : Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781324091424

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Big Girl: A Novel by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Pdf

Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award A Phenomenal Book Club Pick TIME • Best Books of the Month New York Times • Editors’ Choice Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year by Vulture, Goodreads, Essence, Ms. Magazine, and SheReads.com An extraordinary debut novel shot through with remarkable nuance and tenderness, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers of the profoundly lovable Malaya Clondon. “Alive with delicious prose and the cacophony of ’90s Harlem, Big Girl gifts us a heroine carrying the weight of worn-out ideas, who dares to defy the compulsion to shrink, and in turn teaches us to pursue our fullest, most desirous selves without shame.” —Janet Mock Malaya Clondon hates when her mother drags her to Weight Watchers meetings in the church’s stuffy basement community center. A quietly inquisitive eight-year-old struggling to suppress her insatiable longing, she would much rather paint alone in her bedroom, or sneak out with her father for a sampling of Harlem’s forbidden street foods. For Malaya, the pressures of going to a predominantly white Upper East Side prep school are compounded by the high expectations passed down over generations from her sharp-tongued grandmother and her mother, Nyela, a painfully proper professor struggling to earn tenure at a prestigious university. But their relentless prescriptions—fad diets of cottage-cheese and sugar-free Jell-O, high-cardio African dance classes, endless doctors’ appointments—don’t work on Malaya. As Malaya comes of age in a rapidly gentrifying 1990s Harlem, she strains to understand “ladyness” and fit neatly within the suffocating confines of a so-called “femininity” that holds no room for her body. She finds solace in the lyrical riffs of Biggie Smalls and Aaliyah, and in the support of her sensitive father, Percy; still, tensions at home mount as rapidly as Malaya’s weight. Nothing seems to help—until a family tragedy forces her to finally face the source of her hunger on her own terms. Exquisitely compassionate and clever, Big Girl is “filled with everyday people who, in Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s gifted hands, show us the love and struggle of what it means to be inside bodies that don’t always fit with the outside world” (Jacqueline Woodson). In tracing the perils and pleasures of the inheritance that comes with being born, Sullivan pushes boundaries and creates an unforgettable portrait of Black womanhood in America.

Author : George M. Johnson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780374312725

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All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson Pdf

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. A New York Times Bestseller! Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature stories From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. Johnson's emotionally frank style of writing will appeal directly to young adults. Velshi Banned Book Club Indie Bestseller Teen Vogue Recommended Read Buzzfeed Recommended Read People Magazine Best Book of the Summer A New York Library Best Book of 2020 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 ... and more!

Author : Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252052897

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The Poetics of Difference by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Pdf

Winner of the Modern Language Association (MLA)’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muholi, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Missy Elliott, Black women writers and artists across the African Diaspora have developed nuanced and complex creative forms. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ventures into the unexplored spaces of black women’s queer creative theorizing to learn its languages and read the textures of its forms. Moving beyond fixed notions, Sullivan points to a space of queer imagination where black women invent new languages, spaces, and genres to speak the many names of difference. Black women’s literary cultures have long theorized the complexities surrounding nation and class, the indeterminacy of gender and race, and the multiple meanings of sexuality. Yet their ideas and work remain obscure in the face of indifference from Western scholarship. Innovative and timely, The Poetics of Difference illuminates understudied queer contours of black women’s writing.

Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 1259 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476804224

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The Real Little Best Fake Book Ever (Songbook) by Hal Leonard Corp. Pdf

(Fake Book). The latest edition of this fake book is truly the Best Ever! It contains more than 1,000 huge hits, and icludes the melody lines, lyrics and chords for: Against All Odds * Amazed * At the Hop * Autumn Leaves * The Birth of the Blues * Bohemian Rhapsody * Cabaret * California Girls * Candle in the Wind * Centerfold * Chariots of Fire * Colors of the Wind * Crazy * Dust in the Wind * Earth Angel * Eleanor Rigby * Fever * Fire and Rain * From a Distance * Hello, Dolly! * Hey Jude * I Am Woman * Imagine * Joy to the World * Kansas City * The Keeper of the Stars * La Bamba * Lady in Red * Linus and Lucy * Longer * Me and Bobby McGee * Mickey Mouse March * Misty * More * More Than Words * Oye Como Va * Peggy Sue * The Rainbow Connection * Respect * Route 66 * Shout * Spanish Eyes * Stormy Weather * Take Five * Thriller * Time in a Bottle * Unchained Melody * Wave * The Way We Were * Y.M.C.A. * You've Got a Friend * and hundreds more!

Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781458437419

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The Ultimate Pop/Rock Fake Book (Songbook) by Hal Leonard Corp. Pdf

(Fake Book). This 4th edition is the ultimate collection of 600 pop/rock hits in one amazing book in arrangements appropriate for all C instruments! Includes: Adia * Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) * Ain't No Mountain High Enough * All Shook Up * Amazed * Angel * Another One Bites the Dust * At the Hop * Breathe * California Girls * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Can't Help Falling in Love * Come Sail Away * December 1963 (Oh What a Night) * Don't Cry Out Loud * Don't Know Much * Dust in the Wind * Earth Angel * Every Breath You Take * Fast Car * Great Balls of Fire * A Groovy Kind of Love * Hero * Hey Jude * How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) * Imagine * Iris * Layla * The Loco-Motion * Love Will Keep Us Together * Maggie May * Me and Bobby McGee * Memory * Mission: Impossible Theme * My Heart Will Go On * Oh, Pretty Woman * On Broadway * The Power of Love * Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head * The River of Dreams * Save the Best for Last * Sea of Love * The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) * Something * Spinning Wheel * Stand by Me * Stayin' Alive * Surfin' U.S.A. * Tears in Heaven * True Colors * The Twist * The Way We Were * We've Only Just Begun * What a Wonderful World * What's Going On * When I Fall in Love * Wild Thing * Wooly Bully * Yesterday * You've Got a Friend * You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' * and many hundreds more!

Author : Frances Trollope,Frances Milton Trollope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : English fiction
ISBN : BSB:BSB10750718

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The Blue Belles of England by Frances Trollope,Frances Milton Trollope Pdf

Author : Margaret Rustin,Michael Rustin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789607451

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Narratives of Love and Loss by Margaret Rustin,Michael Rustin Pdf

Why do some stories written for children have so powerful an emotional resonance for both child and adult readers? This is the question addressed by Margaret and Michael Rustin. in a book which offers a detailed critical reading of some of the best-known mosern British and American stories for children by writers such as E.B. White. Philippa Pearce and C.S. Lewis. The authors make use of psychoanalytical and sociological ideas in their approach, interpreting the stories both as metaphors of states of feeling often experienced by children, and as images of the wider society in which they are written. A particular theme of their discussion is personal and imaginative growth in childhood, and the ways this can be affected, both for better and worse. by separation and loss. In their detailed consideration of the narratives of the stories, the authors avoid theoretical jargon. and concentrate on works which have interest and meaning for adult readers as well as children. Narratives of Love and Loss is an important and accessible book which wilt be of especial interest to parents and teachers concerned with children's reading and imaginative play, and to those working in the fields of psychoanalysis, English literature and popular culture.

Author : Erin Aubry Kaplan
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781555537661

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Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line by Erin Aubry Kaplan Pdf

This lively and thoughtful book explores what it means to be black in an allegedly postracial America

Author : Justin Timberlake,Various,Anna Kendrick
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781495095375

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Trolls Songbook by Justin Timberlake,Various,Anna Kendrick Pdf

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Matching folio to the infectious soundtrack of the 2016 DreamWorks film featuring songs by Justin Timberlake; Anna Kendrick; Zooey Deschanel; Gwen Stefani; Ariana Grande; Earth, Wind & Fire; and more! It includes the Grammy Award-winning song "Can't Stop the Feeling" plus: Get Back up Again * Hair Up * Hello * September * The Sound of Silence * They Don't Know * True Colors * and more.

Author : Dillon Watson
Publisher : Bella Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594938542

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Back to Blue by Dillon Watson Pdf

They tell her she was an artist. They tell her she has family and friends. But Summer Rain Baxby remembers nothing after a year-long coma. Just as she thinks she’s turned a new corner with a new job, reality shatters around her—someone else’s memories of terror crowd into the void in her own mind. Unnerved, Summer still tries to move on and is grateful to reclaim her friends Keile and Haydn as part of her life. When they introduce her to the attractive author Renny Jamison, Summer wants to focus on possibilities and creating brand new, wonderful memories. It’s not to be—a child’s memory of her own abduction gives Summer nightmares. Afraid she is losing her sanity, Summer tries to confirm these “memories” are real. The police immediately brand her a flake. To her surprise, however, one person steadfastly believes in her: Renny. Romance and a thrilling race to save the life of a child are highlighted in Dillon Watson’s eagerly awaited follow-up to the award-winning Keile’s Chance.

Author : Casey McQuiston
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250316783

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Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Pdf

* Instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller * * GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 * * BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR* for VOGUE, NPR, VANITY FAIR, and more! * What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue proves: true love isn't always diplomatic. "I took this with me wherever I went and stole every second I had to read! Absorbing, hilarious, tender, sexy—this book had everything I crave. I’m jealous of all the readers out there who still get to experience Red, White & Royal Blue for the first time!" - Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners "Red, White & Royal Blue is outrageously fun. It is romantic, sexy, witty, and thrilling. I loved every second." - Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six

Author : Solae Dehvine
Publisher : Dehvine Publishing
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Dark Side of Love 2 by Solae Dehvine Pdf

Rya is between a rock and a hard place literally. Her life has turned upside down and she doesn't know what to do about it or if she wants to do anything at all. She never knew being out of control would be so satisfying but with every benefit comes an equally leveled price. And when Rya finds out the truth she may not want to pay up. Find out the truth on Dark Side of Love 2 Keywords: Urban Fiction, African american fiction, African american books free, Solae dehvine, Urban Lit, Black books, Side Chicks, Side Chick Books, Hood books, Urban Fantasy

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006280478

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Michelle Love
Publisher : Blessings For All SC
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648086700

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Holiday Romances by Michelle Love Pdf

Enjoy this bad-boy billionaire romance novel at a terrific discount. Three steamy reads to tempt your senses! Holiday Romances: Billionaires in Love is a collection of three romance stories steaming with an international cast of beautiful people, stunning locations, dark storylines, and hot, hot sensual romance! 1. After The Darkest Hour - A Secrets & Desires Extra Odelle Griffongy, still grieving the death of her fiancé, Roan Saintmarc, has thrown herself into working for the Foundation her friends Livia and Nox Chatelaine founded. With Odelle’s society contacts, she finds that she enjoys her work as the Foundation’s events executive and is now heading to Copenhagen to meet with a media mogul who has expressed interest in hosting a charity benefit. When she gets there, however, she meets the apparently haughty and arrogant Elias Knudsen who asks her why she has settled for a supporting role in the Foundation when she’s clearly meant for so much more and attempts to poach her for his company. 2. Dance With Me - The Naughty One Extra Spending her first Christmas away from her family, Juno Sasse finds that while her day job as a music teacher at the Gabriella Renaud Foundation is fulfilling, she feels a little isolated, with nearly all of her friends coupled up. Spending the holidays with her friends Livia and Nox, she bonds with a young singer, Ebony, and the two become good friends. When Juno reveals a lifetime dream of learning to dance, Ebony introduces her to her older brother, Obadiah, one of New Orleans’s finest dance tutors. Their working relationship is soon complicated by a growing attraction between the two of them and when Obe asks Juno to be his partner at an important dance competition, Juno has to put aside her innate shyness and step up to the challenge… 3. Shanghai Dreams - Her Dark Melody Extra “Okay, tough love time,” said Clelia Tigri-Monarato to her friend Molly Hudson, as they sat outside Clelia’s home in the Tuscan Hills. It was a beautiful summer evening, but Molly still shivered. Since the murder of her love, Mateo Tigri—Clelia’s brother—a few months ago, Molly had fled to Italy. Although she loved Fino, Mateo’s son, as if he were her own, being around him, and Mateo’s identical twin Atlas, had been too much to bear for the young woman. She couldn’t exile herself entirely though, and so when she had turned up at Clelia’s home, desperate for some connection to the family, Clelia had welcomed her with open arms. Keywords: billionaire, bad boy, holiday, love books, marriage mistake, love stories, new adult, sweet romance, romantic novels, sexually romantic books, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, happily ever after.