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Snake Hips

Anne Thomas Soffee
Snake Hips Book PDF

Author : Anne Thomas Soffee
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446438169

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SNAKE HIPS follows an Arab-American woman's life as she shimmies her way from getting dumped by her tattoo-artist boyfriend to coming to grips with being single, ample, and 30. Her heart broken, Soffee moves back home to wallow in self-pity. There she comes across a flier advertising the usual classes in yoga, vegetarian cookery, ballet and...belly dancing. Against the wishes of her extended family and friends, she enrols, hoping to heal her heart and reconnect with her Lebanese roots. Soffee soon discovers that her life will never be the same after she enters the riotous world of belly dancing, a warm and welcoming subculture where younger and thinner are not necessarily better. Soffee's ethnic high leads to Princess Jasmine fantasies - for example, being 'third-favourite wife' to a sheik she is cyber-dating, a perfect relationship until she realizes that being obedient is easier online. Then she falls for a beautiful Lebanese boy-next-door. Among the zils (finger cymbals) and thrills of performing in moose lodges and county fairs, Soffee is surprised to find happiness and true love along the way.

Pioneer Trails West

Western Writers of America
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Author : Western Writers of America
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0870043048

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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Nineteen veteran authors, members of the Western Writers of America all, have been collected in this volume of essays detailing the travails and triumphs of the whites who emigrated rest along the Pioneer Trails.

African Roots/American Cultures

Sheila S. Walker
African Roots American Cultures Book PDF

Author : Sheila S. Walker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0742501655

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African Roots/American Cultures by Sheila S. Walker Pdf

This multidisciplinary volume highlights the African presence throughout the Americas, and African and African Diasporan contributions to the material and cultural life of all of the Americas, and of all Americans. It includes articles from leading scholars and from cultural leaders from both well-known and little-known African Diasporan communities. Privileging African Diasporan voices, it offers new perspectives, data, and interpretations that challenge prevailing understandings of the Americas. Visit our website for sample chapters!

The Undesirables - The Inside Story of the Inter City Jibbers

Colin Blaney
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Author : Colin Blaney
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781784181055

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The Undesirables - The Inside Story of the Inter City Jibbers by Colin Blaney Pdf

THE INTER CITY JIBBERS. WHERE UNITED WENT, THEY FOLLOWED. MAYHEM WAS NEVER FAR BEHIND.The Inter City Jibbers were the most notorious Manchester United hooligan crew of the last thirty years, and Colin 'Beaner' Blaney was up to his neck in it. His years as an ICJ and Wide Awake Firm (WAF) footsoldier saw him blacklisted as an 'Undesirable' by Interpol for smuggling Ecstasy, tearing through gangland warfare with rival crooks, and carrying out daring jewellery thefts as far afield as Taiwan and South Korea.Spurred on by the overwhelming acclaim for his first book, Grafters, Blaney's latest account includes stories originally deemed too risky to tell. This shocking, searingly honest new work from the core of the Inter City Jibbers tells of four attempted jailbreaks, and describes members of the ICJ's experiences in numerous hellish overseas jails. These include the gang rape of one WAF member in a Pakistani prison, a brutal time spent in a county lock-up in Virginia and a stint in a Yakuza-filled Japanese jail, as well as run-ins with gun-wielding foreign thugs. Above all, this is a chronicle of twenty-five years of life as an Undesirable, stealing anything that wasn't nailed down.

Ella Fitzgerald

Katherine E. Krohn
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Author : Katherine E. Krohn
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822549336

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Ella Fitzgerald by Katherine E. Krohn Pdf

A biography of the celebrated jazz singer, known especially for her scat singing and "songbook" recordings of the works of many major American composers.

The Hex Is In: The Fast Life and Fantastic Times of Harry the Book

Mike Resnick
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Author : Mike Resnick
Publisher : UFO Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Hex Is In: The Fast Life and Fantastic Times of Harry the Book by Mike Resnick Pdf

From boxing matches to dragon races to elections, there's no wager Harry won't cover—so long as the odds are right. Harry the Book operates out of a Manhattan bar booth, with his personal wizard and his zombie bodyguard close at hand. He'll dope out the odds on any sort of contest, even if that gets him into a heap of trouble. Be it conniving gamblers, lovelorn wizards, or flea-bitten werewolves, when it comes to the misadventures of Harry and his crew one thing is certain: the hex is always in. This book contains fifteen tales of Harry the Book—the complete set of Resnick's beloved Damon Runyon-inspired urban fantasy yarns, including one brand-new story and several never before published in the United States.

Faces in the Street

Pip Wilson
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Author : Pip Wilson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781430300212

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She struggled to get women the vote. Her son was Australia's most famous writer. They drove each other crazy. Meticulously researched big Aussie historical novel that takes the lid off the world of Louisa Lawson and Henry Lawson and their circle of radical friends: revolution, poverty, love affairs, madness, drunkenness, sedition, terrorism, passionate hopes, and friendships with some of Australia's most remarkable people. Much historical info here is not in their biographies. Good stuff - experientially, politically, anecdotally, stylistically, narratively, romantically, alcoholically. What more can one say? -- Douglas Houston, PhD, co-editor of the Oxford 'Good Fiction Guide'.

Snake Hips

Anne Thomas Soffee
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Author : Anne Thomas Soffee
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781556525223

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"Snake Hips" follows an Arab-American woman through her adventures in love and belly dancing.

Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City

Anne Thomas Soffee
Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City Book PDF

Author : Anne Thomas Soffee
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781556525865

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Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City by Anne Thomas Soffee Pdf

This uproarious prequel to Snake Hips brings to life Anne Thomas Soffee's wild days only alluded to in her first memoir.

Two Guns from Harlem

Robert E. Skinner
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Author : Robert E. Skinner
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879724544

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Two Guns from Harlem by Robert E. Skinner Pdf

Among the many writers who lent their talents to the creation of hard-boiled detective fiction, few have approached it from a more original perspective than Chester Himes. A former criminal himself, Himes brought to the writing of detective fiction the perspective of the black man. Himes made his debut with the brilliant For Love of Imabelle, for which he was awarded the coveted Grand Prix de la Littérature Policière. Two Guns from Harlem probes Himes's early life and career for the roots of this series and for its heroes, Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. Skinner discusses how Himes's experience as a black man, combined with his unique outlook on sociology, politics, violence, sex, and race relations, resulted not only in an unusual portrait of black America but also opened the way for the creation of the ethnic and female hard-boiled detectives who followed.

Lucky Fish

Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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Author : Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Publisher : Tupelo Press
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781936797325

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Lucky Fish by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Pdf

Lucky Fish travels along a lush current — a confluence of leaping vocabulary and startling formal variety, with upwelling gratitude at its source: for love, motherhood, “new hope,” and the fluid and rich possibilities of words themselves. With an exuberant appetite for “my morning song, my scurry-step, my dew,” anchored in complicated human situations, this astounding young poet’s third collection of poems is her strongest yet. "Nezhukumatathil's third book is fascinated with the small mechanisms of being, whether natural, personal, or imagined. Everything from eating eels in the Ozark mountains to the history of red dye finds a rich life in her poems. At times her lush settings and small stories are reminiscent of fairy tales, while at others Nezhukumatathil speaks with resonance and fierceness. Even as the poems jump from the Philippines to India to New York, they still take their time, stopping to notice that 'there is no mystery on water/ greater than the absence of rust,' and to draw small but wonderful parallels." —Publishers Weekly

Race and Performance after Repetition

Soyica Diggs Colbert,Douglas A. Jones Jr.,Shane Vogel
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Author : Soyica Diggs Colbert,Douglas A. Jones Jr.,Shane Vogel
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478009313

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Race and Performance after Repetition by Soyica Diggs Colbert,Douglas A. Jones Jr.,Shane Vogel Pdf

The contributors to Race and Performance after Repetition explore how theater and performance studies account for the complex relationship between race and time. Pointing out that repetition has been the primary point of reference for understanding both the complex temporality of theater and the historical persistence of race, they identify and pursue critical alternatives to the conceptualization, organization, measurement, and politics of race in performance. The contributors examine theater, performance art, music, sports, dance, photography, and other forms of performance in topics that range from the movement of boxer Joe Louis to George C. Wolfe's 2016 reimagining of the 1921 all-black musical comedy Shuffle Along to the relationship between dance, mourning, and black adolescence in Flying Lotus's music video “Never Catch Me.” Proposing a spectrum of coexisting racial temporalities that are not tethered to repetition, this collection reconsiders central theories in performance studies in order to find new understandings of race. Contributors. Joshua Chambers-Letson, Soyica Diggs Colbert, Nicholas Fesette, Patricia Herrera, Jasmine Elizabeth Johnson, Douglas A. Jones Jr., Mario LaMothe, Daphne P. Lei, Jisha Menon, Tavia Nyong’o, Tina Post, Elizabeth W. Son, Shane Vogel, Catherine M. Young, Katherine Zien

Ella Fitzgerald

Tanya Lee Stone
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Author : Tanya Lee Stone
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0670061492

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Ella Fitzgerald by Tanya Lee Stone Pdf

Presents the life and accomplishments of the world-revered jazz singer who won thirteen Grammys, toured for more than fifty years, and became known as the First Lady of Song.

A Spy in the Sky

Kenneth B. Johnson
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Author : Kenneth B. Johnson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526761576

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“An enjoyable ramble . . . the memoir of an unassuming, self-doubting aviator who, despite himself, proved to be pretty bloody good.” —Aircrew Book Review Many stories abound of the daring exploits of the RAF’s young fighter pilots defying the might of Hitler’s Luftwaffe, yet little has been written about the pilots who provided the key evidence that guided the RAF planners—the aerial photographers. Ken Johnson joined No.1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit as an eighteen-year-old. In this lighthearted reminiscence, he relives his training and transfer to an operational unit, but not the one he had expected. He had asked if he could fly Spitfires. He was granted that request, only to find himself joining a rare band of flyers who took to the skies alone, and who flew in broad daylight to photograph enemy installations with no radios and no armament. Unlike the fighter pilots who sought out enemy aircraft, the pilots of the PRU endeavored to avoid all contact; returning safely with their vital photographs was their sole objective. As well as flying in northern Europe, Ken Johnson was sent to North Africa, where his squadron became part of the United States Army Air Force North West African Photographic Wing (NAPRW). In this role, he flew across southern Europe, photographing targets in France and Italy. The Spy in the Sky fills a much-needed gap in the history of the RAF and, uniquely, the USAAF during the latter stages of the Second World War. “The sorties he flew are nothing less than heroic . . . his writing style is very good, and very humorous at that!” —Flyin’ and Ridin’ Blog

Essays on Race and Empire

Nancy Cunard
Essays on Race and Empire Book PDF

Author : Nancy Cunard
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1551112302

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Essays on Race and Empire by Nancy Cunard Pdf

This edition assembles the major essays on race and imperialism written by Nancy Cunard in the 1930s and 1940s. As a British expatriate living in France, and as a politically-engaged poet, editor, publisher, and journalist, Nancy Cunard devoted much of her energy to the cause of racial justice. This Broadview edition contextualizes Cunard’s writings on race in terms of the relations among modernism, gender, and empire. It includes a range of contemporaneous documents that place her essays in dialogue with other European writers and with the work of writers of the African diaspora.