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View from the Back Pew

By: Raquel Eldridge,Sha Murdock-Lognion

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Malone Harris has wanted to leave The Shelter from the Storm Church in Christ for a long time, but even more so after she and her best friend, Alanna, had a falling out regarding Alannas affair with their pastor. As her love for the place begins to diminish, she changes her point of view by sitting in the back pew where she does more people-watching than lesson-learning. In silent observation, she discovers there is more going on than praise and worship amongst the congregation of the Houston-area mega church. The young and trendy congregation flock into the sanctuary to see and be seenbut its what the members arent seeing that is putting their very souls in jeopardy. Alanna Crawford makes a hasty retreat from The Shelter after it becomes painfully obvious she cant count on Pastor Wilson McKinney to leave his wife and make her his First Lady like hed been promising he would for years. In search of a new church, a new man, and hopefully the new title of First Lady, she sets her sights on the handsome new pastor of a newly emerging church in town. Her feminine wiles are no match for the nave preacher and soon, shell be well on her way to getting everything she wants, but will the freaky skeletons in her closet cause her to lose it all? For Malone and Alanna, what started as a journey for peace and a spiritual relationship with God, ended as a journey through a sinners paradise when they find out they were surrounded by schemers, liars and hypocritesand that they were being led by the biggest Charlatan of them all! Will they ever find whatever it was they were looking for that fateful day years ago when they joined hands and joined ranks with the worldly masses at The Shelter from the Storm Church in Christ?

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A Lover's Deceit

By: Raquel Eldridge & Shawnte’ Henderson

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A Lover's Deceit

By: Raquel Eldridge & Shawnte’ Henderson

Three years have passed since we last checked in with Ramona Shaw and Cheyenne Morris, and it seems the more things change, the more they stay the same. Drama is dished up thick and heavy in the lives of the best friends and the people around them. Ramona and her live-in girlfriend, Leslie, experience a three-year itch and their relationship is called to task as Ramona realizes her life might be far too complicated to be stuck in a relationship box. She begins to pursue other romantic endeavors that surprise everyone but Cheyenne and an event takes place that will change her life forever. The Lewis’s, Cheyenne and Keith, are blissfully in love! Their daughter is growing up healthy and happy and business couldn’t be better for this power couple, but past heartaches surface to test their trust and commitment. Will their marriage survive? Darius and his fiancée, Amber Schneider, are expecting their first child and riding the blissful waves of love and joy as their family is on verge of formation...but will this rebound relationship last? Darius begins to doubt his desire to marry Amber, but will Amber be easily disengaged from the man who’s child she is about to give birth to? Tawny Coleman is on a mission and once complete, a lot of powerful people’s careers will be over and a wealthy career of her own will be launched. She’s been spending a lot of time with superstar rapper, Duane “DJ N-Sane” Jackson, but he no longer is the focus of her attention. She taking notes and taking names for what will become the biggest blockbuster tell-all book of the century.

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1467831395

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Mixed Emotions

By: Raquel Y. Eldridge

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Mixed Emotions

By: Raquel Y. Eldridge

Journey through the lives of Emily and Skylar Mathis. These two sisters are coming of age in a world that takes no prisoners and has no loyalties. A world where life’s little trials and tribulations can change the course of your entire life in the blink of an eye. Emily is a small time beautician’s assistant whose beauty school education is never put to use until an untimely incident puts her in the controller’s chair. Using this to her advantage, she rises to the challenge and exceeds with unexpected grandeur.SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" Her dedication to love leaves her hurt and at a loss.SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" Skylar is beautiful, young, and innocent until fate throws her a life-altering curve ball she isn’t ready to hit.Once a grocery store checkout clerk, she makes an unsuspecting change in careers, which lead to more decisions that not only affect her life, but also changes the course of the people’s lives closest to her.She battles to reclaim her happiness, her stability, and her innocence. These young women, and their friends; Victoria, Meagan, Ginseng and Myeisha, evolve from their adolescence into glamorous adulthood.Their lives seem perfect to the world but dark secrets, bad circumstance and foolish choices cost them a lot more than they are willing to pay.In time, things are returned to some sense of normalcy, but at what price?

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1463485689

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Afrodiasporic Forms

Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora

By: Raquel Kennon

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Afrodiasporic Forms

Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora

By: Raquel Kennon

Afrodiasporic Forms explores the epistemological possibilities of the “Black world” paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the monde noir and its constitutive African diasporas across multiple poetic, visual, and cultural permutations. Examining the transatlantic slave trade and modern racial slavery, Raquel Kennon challenges the US-centric focus of slavery studies and draws on a transnational, eclectic archive of materials from Lusophone, Hispanophone, and Anglophone sources in the Americas to inspect evolving, multitudinous, and disparate forms of Afrodiasporic cultural expression. Spanning the 1830s to the twenty-first century, Afrodiasporic Forms traverses national, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries as it investigates how cultural products of slavery’s afterlife—including poetry, prose, painting, television, sculpture, and song—shape understandings of the African diaspora. Each chapter uncovers multidirectional pathways for exploring representations of slavery, considering works such as a Brazilian telenovela based on Bernardo Guimarães’s novel A Escrava Isaura, Robert Hayden’s poem “Middle Passage,” Kara Walker’s sculpture A Subtlety, and Juan Francisco Manzano’s Autobiografía de un esclavo. Kennon’s expansive method of comparative reading across the diaspora uses eclectic pairings of canonical and popular textual and artistic sources to stretch beyond disciplinary and national borders, promoting expansive diasporic literacies.

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LSU Press

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0807177636

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9780807177631

Face Value

The Politics of Beauty

By: Robin Lakoff,Raquel Scherr

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Face Value

The Politics of Beauty

By: Robin Lakoff,Raquel Scherr

First published in 1984, Face Value confronts the pervasive power of beauty through art and literature, as well as interviews with men and women with varying perspectives on the subject. The topics covered range widely: the history of beauty from the Greeks to the present; the pathology of beauty: how women have been willing to harm themselves, mentally and physically, to achieve ‘beauty’; the language we use to speak of beauty, and its implications; our attitudes towards beauty, as examined by psychologists; beauty and ethnic identity; men and beauty. The authors present in fact a redefinition of beauty, enabling both women and men to enjoy it in themselves and in others, while discarding the sex-role stereotypes that have governed the definition of beauty in the past. With a new preface that explores the gaps created by time in the book’s discourse, this book will be of interest to students of linguistics, gender studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, sociology and anthropology.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000854108

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Risk Work

Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967–1987

By: Faye Raquel Gleisser

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Risk Work

Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967–1987

By: Faye Raquel Gleisser

How artists in the US starting in the 1960s came to use guerrilla tactics in performance and conceptual art, maneuvering policing, racism, and surveillance. As US news covered anticolonialist resistance abroad and urban rebellions at home, and as politicians mobilized the perceived threat of “guerrilla warfare” to justify increased police presence nationwide, artists across the country began adopting guerrilla tactics in performance and conceptual art. Risk Work tells the story of how artists’ experimentation with physical and psychological interference from the late 1960s through the late 1980s reveals the complex and enduring relationship between contemporary art, state power, and policing. Focusing on instances of arrest or potential arrest in art by Chris Burden, Adrian Piper, Jean Toche, Tehching Hsieh, Pope.L, the Guerrilla Girls, Asco, and PESTS, Faye Raquel Gleisser analyzes the gendered, sexualized, and racial politics of risk-taking that are overlooked in prevailing, white-centered narratives of American art. Drawing on art history and sociology as well as performance, prison, and Black studies, Gleisser argues that artists’ anticipation of state-sanctioned violence invokes the concept of “punitive literacy,” a collectively formed understanding of how to protect oneself and others in a carceral society.

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0226826473

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View from the Back Pew

By: Raquel Eldridge,Sha Murdock-Lognion

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Where Friendship Lies

By: Raquel Y. Eldridge,Shawnte' Henderson

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Where Friendship Lies

By: Raquel Y. Eldridge,Shawnte' Henderson

The Eight Essential Keystones of Happy, Successful People C. Steven Haymore Happy and successful people live by principles, values, and standards that produce a happy, successful life. The single most important component of happy, successful people, is a keystone. A keystone is the central supporting element of a whole. It is the most vital element of an entire structure. For example, the stone at the top of an arch is the Keystone of the arch. Remove the keystone, and the arch falls. Keystones for happy and successful living are central supporting elements for your soul, your family, your church, your business, your company, and your world. Now C. Steven Haymore reveals to you The Eight Essential Keystones of Happy, Successful People. Discover: How to Always Feel EXCEEDINGLY HAPPY. Enjoying the happy, successful life is in your hands, mind and heart. This book will show you, step-by-step, how to start where you are, ACHIEVE, and MAINTAIN the happiness level you desire. NOW! IMPORTANT. Everyone is thirsting and craving to feel important. An essential ingredient for the success of an individual, family, business, church, or any organization, is the feeling of importance. Learn how YOU can always feel important, and then you will naturally help others feel important and of great worth. VALUED. Now YOUR self-worth can soar higher than ever. You will also learn how to help other people feel the highest degree of value and self-worth they have ever felt. Feeling valued makes the difference. LOVED. Victor Hugo said, "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." This book teaches how you can always feel loved, no matter what. To feel loved is supreme! To Feel Great...Live The 8

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A Lover's Deceit

By: Raquel Eldridge,Shawnte' Henderson

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Three years have passed since we last checked in with Ramona Shaw and Cheyenne Morris, and it seems the more things change, the more they stay the same. Drama is dished up thick and heavy in the lives of the best friends and the people around them. Ramona and her live-in girlfriend, Leslie, experience a three-year itch and their relationship is called to task as Ramona realizes her life might be far too complicated to be stuck in a relationship box. She begins to pursue other romantic endeavors that surprise everyone but Cheyenne and an event takes place that will change her life forever. The Lewis's, Cheyenne and Keith, are blissfully in love! Their daughter is growing up healthy and happy and business couldn't be better for this power couple, but past heartaches surface to test their trust and commitment. Will their marriage survive? Darius and his fiancée, Amber Schneider, are expecting their first child and riding the blissful waves of love and joy as their family is on verge of formation but will this rebound relationship last? Darius begins to doubt his desire to marry Amber, but will Amber be easily disengaged from the man who's child she is about to give birth to? Tawny Coleman is on a mission and once complete, a lot of powerful people's careers will be over and a wealthy career of her own will be launched. She's been spending a lot of time with superstar rapper, Duane "DJ N-Sane" Jackson, but he no longer is the focus of her attention. She taking notes and taking names for what will become the biggest blockbuster tell-all book of the century.

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View from the Back Pew

View from the Back Pew

A Lover's Deceit

A Lover's Deceit

Mixed Emotions

Mixed Emotions

Afrodiasporic Forms

Afrodiasporic Forms

Face Value

Face Value

Risk Work

Risk Work

View from the Back Pew

View from the Back Pew

Where Friendship Lies

Where Friendship Lies

A Lover's Deceit

A Lover's Deceit

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