Kaiden the Courageous Beast is based on a true event that took place last summer. While visiting the park I observed my son trying to figure out how to get across the monkey bars and I watched how he struggled but one thing he never did was give up and that showed me he had built up confidence and the will power to finish this one task as most five- and six-year old’s do. I want to instill and show other little boys and girls that it is ok to have confidence and to push yourself to work harder at achieving many obstacles that will come in life.
LOVE RADIO is mega swoonworthy, effortlessly cool, and full of heart. Turn this one all the way up." Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE and ONE LAST STOP "Prepare to swoon, LOVE RADIO gives voice to some of the sweetest hopes and the hardest truths. Readers won't be able to get enough of these dope ass characters." Elizabeth Acevedo, Carnegie Medal winning author of THE POET X and CLAP WHEN YOU LAND Clear your TBR pile for this slick, heart-melting romance for fans of Jenny Han and Nicola Yoon. Prince Jones is passionate about music and romance, dishing out relationship advice on his Love Radio show. But his own love life is looking kind of quiet... Until he meets Dani Ford. Dani isn't checking for anybody. She's focused on her plan to move to New York City to become a famous author, and avoiding dealing with what happened at that party a few months ago. When the two meet, sparks fly - but Dani's not looking to get derailed. So she gives Prince just three dates to convince her that he's worth falling for... Sometimes the best love story is the one you write yourself.
AN AUSPICIOUS DEBUT EXAMINING THE CULTURE OF HAIR FROM THE RONA JAFFE FOUNDATION AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women’s lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm—a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In “Virgin Hair” taunts of “tender-headed” sting as much as the perm itself. It’s a scenario that repeats fifteen years later as an adult when, tired of the maintenance, Flowers shaves her head only to be hurled new put-downs. The story “My Lil Sister Lena” traces the stress resulting from being the only black player on a white softball team. Her hair is the team curio, an object to touched, a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates, leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Among the series of cultural touchpoints that make you both laugh and cry, Flowers recreates classic magazine ads idealizing women’s needs for hair relaxers and product. “Change your hair form to fit your life form” and “Kinks and Koils Forever” call customers from the page. Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through Flowers’ stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking. Flowers began drawing comics while earning her PhD, and her early mastery of sequential storytelling is nothing short of sublime. Hot Comb is a propitious display of talent from a new cartoonist who has already made her mark.
There is a school only to train werewolves made by a woman, named Skylar, who have a line of great descendents and leaders. Her grandson, Sammie, who grew up as a normal kid had supernatural strength and senses, loses his mother and father, he didn't know any of his family, and he has to find out who he is and what he has to do to accomplish his goal and fulfill his destiny. As he finds out who he is, he automatically falls in love with a werewolf, Christina, whom also has a destiny to fulfill. But his human side makes him eager to explore his options, especially since he is a teenager. Will he go with the profecy and love Christina? or will he love someone else and destroy all that has been built from dust?
Addie Rean is a rambunctious child with a heart of gold and a pension for the extreme. Her story, told by her nameless best friend, is one of laughter, heroism, and most importantly, friendship. At a time when children are learning their place in the world, Addie Rean challenges us to check the space within ourselves that make us unique and to define the love we both have to give and want to receive.
Kaiden the Courageous Beast is based on a true event that took place last summer. While visiting the park I observed my son trying to figure out how to get across the monkey bars and I watched how he struggled but one thing he never did was give up and that showed me he had built up confidence and the will power to finish this one task as most five- and six-year old’s do. I want to instill and show other little boys and girls that it is ok to have confidence and to push yourself to work harder at achieving many obstacles that will come in life.
Kola's life seemed to consist one loss after another. She's lost her mother, her father, and her first love, all before the age of thirty. Kola was raised to be tough and self-assured by her father, and when she met Anthony, her first love, he taught her how to be a boss. Now that Anthony and her father are no longer around to guide her, Kola must make some power moves of her own while she nurses her broken heart. Money becomes her only love, and she is content with her new normal until a blue-eyed, dreadlocked cop steps on the scene and shakes everything up. Jayson Wells is a cop by day and the plug by night. He runs the streets of LA from behind the scenes, using his younger brother as the face of his organization. When a newcomer by the name of Guap starts to make noise in the streets, Jayson uses his role within the LAPD to shut them down. But, he gets more than he bargained for when he comes face to face with the beautiful Kola, also known as Guap. The attraction between Kola and Jayson is immediate and intense. Although Kola wants nothing to do with a pig, Jayson is determined to make her his own. The odds are stacked against them, but how does one walk away from something that feels so right? That hood love is all she ever wanted, but it doesn't come easy
Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children’s publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter. The Dark Fantastic is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fanfiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century: Bonnie Bennett from the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, Rue from Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Gwen from the BBC’s Merlin, and Angelina Johnson from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Analyzing their narratives and audience reactions to them reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world. In response, Thomas uncovers and builds upon a tradition of fantasy and radical imagination in Black feminism and Afrofuturism to reveal new possibilities. Through fanfiction and other modes of counter-storytelling, young people of color have reinvisioned fantastic worlds that reflect their own experiences, their own lives. As Thomas powerfully asserts, “we dark girls deserve more, because we are more.”
There is a school only to train werewolves made by a woman, named Skylar, who have a line of great descendents and leaders. Her grandson, Sammie, who grew up as a normal kid had supernatural strength and senses, loses his mother and father, he didn't know any of his family, and he has to find out who he is and what he has to do to accomplish his goal and fulfill his destiny. As he finds out who he is, he automatically falls in love with a werewolf, Christina, whom also has a destiny to fulfill. But his human side makes him eager to explore his options, especially since he is a teenager. Will he go with the profecy and love Christina? or will he love someone else and destroy all that has been built from dust?
There are many evil people in the world, and they are not monsters, beasts, ghosts, or demons. They are often... cultivators. Evil is not the opposite of good, it comes from fear! All living beings are afraid of me, so I am evil! If there is really evil retribution, then I will continue my evil to the end and become the person whose life and death are determined by me...the worst! Zongheng Xianxia, the evil ghost asked. My path to becoming an immortal begins with the smoke coming out of my head...
Invisible Threads. It is Sydney Australia, and Paul Henry, a widower, has taken up permanent residence there after discovering he has a terminal disease. He meets and dates an alluring woman, Isabella. She enchants him with her beauteous looks, and disturbs him with her bizarre conduct. With his illness constantly on his mind Paul finds her to be an extra burden. He befriends his neighbor and her teenage son, Brett, and becomes involved in Brett's illicit affairs. Throughout Paul's ups and downs he fights his disease hoping desperately for survival, and terrified of death. Only the future holds the answer.
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition "Judith Godwin: Paintings, 1954-2002." It includes color illustrations of the eighteen works included in the show, an introduction by Ira Spanierman, and essays by Lowery Stokes Sims and David Ebony.
A fast-paced, true story of how an NFL football cheerleader secretly survived the daily abuses of unhealthy relationships to excel in the world of professional cheerleading.
In 2008, two young ladies come of age on the gritty streets of Washington, DC. They were raised as sisters in the same foster home, but along the way, jealousy and resentment crept in and severed their bond. December was orphaned at the age of seven when her parents were tragically killed in a car accident, while Milina’s parents died at her hands after years of abuse. The girls reach their teen years, and Milina’s shady ways begin to surface when December catches the eye of the handsome DarQuise. As the relationship blossoms between December and Darquise, Milina commits an unthinkable act that shatters December’s relationship and all her plans for the future. Years later, when December and DarQuise meet again, the connection is still there, but the misunderstanding between them may be too much for them to overcome. With a love so hood, things are bound to get to get out of hand. Find out if December will be forever DarQuise’s baby, or will she forever be the one who got away.
A fascination with hands and the female body, a kind of natural history of sultry affairs with high heels and Rococo sugars, an insolent funny erotic weightless "expose" of just what it is that we're missing: Akhenaton riding a carousel horse, facing skeleton face, gardens with bushes of blue tuna, a bird man sings, the pleasure of wearing red gloves is contagious, a poignant tribute to "The Lunatic," a popular Yiddish play from another era that premiered up the street. ..."Forbidden Windmills," "Asymmetrical Shoe Master," "Mystical SEances in the Circus..". Valery Oisteanu's world of collage is porous, generative, iterative, erotic... He said it best: Lighter than Air... Allan Graubard ( surrealist poet and publisher) At the hand of the poet Valery Oisteanu we find a world of event and happenstance worthy of our attention. A catalog of all that happens. Art (the hardest calling) is not for the faint of heart. Or for the heartless. But for the person alive lusting to be heard. Collage is the hymn of the modern era from Braque and company to Schwitters and Hannah Hoch to Dizzy Gillespie to Stockhausen to Fluxus to DJ Kool Herc. Valery Oisteanu in his book Moons of Venus says: My heart Shines like a haunted star These works are that star Haunted with the wreck of history Not a mirror on the world but the poet's hammer with which to shape it Fletcher Coop (poet/painter) Valery Oisteanu's collages are alchemical mirrors in which oneiric elements are steeped in the most delirious eroticism imaginable. Breathless as lightning, these collages are raw, uncompromising, and subversive. They summon you into a trance state in which the unexpected always triumphs over the mundane. Bill Wolak (poet/collagist)
It is a summer that will change everything . . . .NaTasha has a wonderful life in affluent Park Adams. She fits in, she has friends, and she's a member of the all-white ballet troupe. Being nearly the only African American in her school doesn't bother NaTasha. But it bothers Tilly, NaTasha's spitfire grandmother from Harlem, who decides NaTasha needs to get back to her roots or her granddaughter is in danger of losing herself completely. Tilly whisks NaTasha away to a world where all of a sudden nothing in NaTasha's life makes any sense: Harlem and Comfort Zone in the Bronx, a crisis center where (cont'd)
Fifteen-year-old Essence Imani Harris can't believe it. Her parents have both been called to a fifteen-month military deployment to fight the war in Afghanistan. She, her older brother, and younger sister must leave their home and friends in San Antonio, Texas to live with their aunt and uncle in Mississippi. Essence, nicknamed CeCe, wrestles with this change and the physical separation from both parents. After moving in with their aunt and uncle, the siblings begin to build lives for themselves in Mississippi. CeCe learns her aunt may be infertile, and the couple desperately want children of their own. This situation creates stress for all in household. CeCe holds things together, overcoming the stress and tension through her faith and examples from her mother and her aunt. Recognizing where she is, and not knowing what lies ahead CeCe re-commits her life to Christ, and she is tested by life's trials. Seemingly, the gates of hell open and CeCe deals with death, loss, and some of her deepest fears. During this trying period, she bonds with her aunt's parents who become surrogate grandparents to CeCe and her siblings. An answer to prayer, CeCe's new grandparents help keep the family rooted in Christ and give them needed reality checks. With all that life throws at CeCe, will she find a ray of hope?
Embark on your foraging journey and cultivate a more meaningful, magical relationship with nature. No matter where you live, natural resources are all around you. These pieces of nature hold inherent properties—and inherent magic—that could be useful to you, and they are often hiding in plain sight. In this book, divided into chapters by season, you'll find: Tips for foraging correctly, mindfully, and sustainably Instructions for teas, balms, decoctions, and other herbal remedies made out of foraged ingredients and materials Wildcrafts for rituals that usher in the new season, inspired by mystical folk practices around the world And more! With practical advice for novice foragers and sidebars on how different cultures have connected with the greatest mystic of all, Mother Earth, Enchanted Foraging explores plants and their various uses not just for consumption but for their intrinsic value. Readers will come away with a more complete knowledge of, and appreciation for, the world that lies just beyond their doors--its abundance, hidden applications, and how it makes enchanted beings of us all.
AN AUSPICIOUS DEBUT EXAMINING THE CULTURE OF HAIR FROM THE RONA JAFFE FOUNDATION AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women’s lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm—a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In “Virgin Hair” taunts of “tender-headed” sting as much as the perm itself. It’s a scenario that repeats fifteen years later as an adult when, tired of the maintenance, Flowers shaves her head only to be hurled new put-downs. The story “My Lil Sister Lena” traces the stress resulting from being the only black player on a white softball team. Her hair is the team curio, an object to touched, a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates, leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Among the series of cultural touchpoints that make you both laugh and cry, Flowers recreates classic magazine ads idealizing women’s needs for hair relaxers and product. “Change your hair form to fit your life form” and “Kinks and Koils Forever” call customers from the page. Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through Flowers’ stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking. Flowers began drawing comics while earning her PhD, and her early mastery of sequential storytelling is nothing short of sublime. Hot Comb is a propitious display of talent from a new cartoonist who has already made her mark.
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