Author : Prince Kelvin Ikonne
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 22,78 MB
Release : 2015-01-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781506148649
...why should the black child lose his direction in life? Could it be traced to his inability to uncover the secrets of his environment and history, or probably out of the broken legacies of his predecessors? The most crucial question for the black child now is no longer how, where, when and why........but who? "Agony of the Black Child" is a novel that represents nothing but the death and the rebirth of the true black consciousness.....!
Author : Omoteniola R. Otun
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Children
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan U. Okafor
Publisher : Raider Pub International
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781934360989
George is relieved of his job and evicted from the company's residential quarters as a result of false allegations of theft in his office. Life which has always been a bed of roses for him and his family turns out to be a nightmare as they are rendered homeless and subjected to penury. The demerits of having a handful of children is realised as the family's misfortune continues to ravage George, emotionally and physically. Meanwhile as poverty bites deeper into the family by the day, his wife Felicia who is his tower of strength refuses to give up on life, believing that the down fall of a man is not the end of his life. In his desperate quest for job, George runs into Raymond, an old college friend, who helps him to secure a small apartment and a job in a funeral home. But as George is destined for calamity, he gets involved in a ghastly auto crash on his way back from his boss' wedding. He loses his legs and finally takes to the dust, leaving his unhealthy house wife and children in the shackles of poverty. Felicia takes up the challenge and responsibility for scouring for a job of any nature at the expense of her delicate health, considering her children's wellbeing and education as her fundamental priority. But death eventually lays his icy hands on her after taking up a menial job that deteriorated her health condition. George's children remain orphans and become object of slavery, abuse and traffic as Mazi Amadi, a selfish and diabolical relative traffic's them off to individuals who subject them to sexual abuse and child labour, there by turning their dreams into nightmares, formerly bright future into a bleak one and making them social misfits. But as the saying goes, 'Evil hasa way catching up with it's perpetrators', the individuals responsible for the dehumanization, tears and agony of George's children face the consequences of their inhuman practices.
Author : Randall Robinson
Publisher : Civitas Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2007-06-26
Category : History
ISBN :
Presents an exploration of the turbulent history of Haiti, from Columbus's arrival to the abduction of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004, and the nation's ongoing struggle to achieve stability and prosperity.
Author : Sibnath Deb
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,37 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Child abuse
ISBN : 9788180693250
This book deals with the multidimensional problems of children in general and disadvantaged children in particular around the world, with special reference to India.
Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 144246576X
Life, Alice McKinley feels, is just one big embarrassment. Here she is, about to be a teenager and she doesn't know how. It's worse for her than for anyone else, she believes, because she has no role model. Her mother has been dead for years. Help and advice can only come from her father, manager of a music store, and her nineteen-year-old brother, who is a slob. What do they know about being a teen age girl? What she needs, Alice decides, is a gorgeous woman who does everything right, as a roadmap, so to speak. If only she finds herself, when school begins, in the classroom of the beautiful sixth-grade teacher, Miss Cole, her troubles will be over. Unfortunately, she draws the homely, pear-shaped Mrs. Plotkin. One of Mrs. Plotkin's first assignments is for each member of the class to keep a journal of their thoughts and feelings. Alice calls hers "The Agony of Alice," and in it she records all the embarrassing things that happen to her. Through the school year, Alice has lots to record. She also comes to know the lovely Miss Cole, as well as Mrs. Plotkin. And she meets an aunt and a female cousin whom she has not really known before. Out of all this, to her amazement, comes a role model -- one that she would never have accepted before she made a few very important discoveries on her own, things no roadmap could have shown her. Alice moves on, ready to be a wise teenager.
Author : Heather Smith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0143198661
Little Miss Sunshine meets Room in this quirky, heartwarming story of friendship, loyalty and discovery. It's Newfoundland, 1986. Fourteen-year-old Bun O'Keefe has lived a solitary life in an unsafe, unsanitary house. Her mother is a compulsive hoarder, and Bun has had little contact with the outside world. What she's learned about life comes from the random books and old VHS tapes that she finds in the boxes and bags her mother brings home. Bun and her mother rarely talk, so when Bun's mother tells Bun to leave one day, she does. Hitchhiking out of town, Bun ends up on the streets of St. John's, Newfoundland. Fortunately, the first person she meets is Busker Boy, a street musician who senses her naivety and takes her in. Together they live in a house with an eclectic cast of characters: Chef, a hotel dishwasher with culinary dreams; Cher, a drag queen with a tragic past; Big Eyes, a Catholic school girl desperately trying to reinvent herself; and The Landlord, a man who Bun is told to avoid at all cost. Through her experiences with her new roommates, and their sometimes tragic revelations, Bun learns that the world extends beyond the walls of her mother's house and discovers the joy of being part of a new family -- a family of friends who care.
Author : Grafton Tanner
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 11,60 MB
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 1782797602
In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry. Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the gaps inherent in the electronic media that pervade our lives. Vaporwave is an infant musical micro-genre that foregrounds the horror of electronic media's ability to appear - as media theorist Jeffrey Sconce terms it - "haunted." Experimental musicians such as INTERNET CLUB and MACINTOSH PLUS manipulate Muzak and commercial music to undermine the commodification of nostalgia in the age of global capitalism while accentuating the uncanny properties of electronic music production. Babbling Corpse reveals vaporwave's many intersections with politics, media theory, and our present fascination with uncanny, co(s)mic horror. The book is aimed at those interested in global capitalism's effect on art, musical raids on mainstream "indie" and popular music, and anyone intrigued by the changing relationship between art and commerce.
Author : Mary Potter
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 2020-12-28
Category :
ISBN :
Ambera Amare Zean, the lady who is said to have poison in her lips. Once the world believed that her mother Lyssa has spells that will hypnotize anyone. The world ditched her after her husband's demise, when the world threw stones at her the little girl Ambera lost her childhood. The fun, the joy, the curiosity and enthusiasm a child should have was grabbed from her. No colourful balloons, no toys and friends. Life was inside the four walled home. Lyssa spelt her recipes for baking cakes, she spelled her daughter the magic of relationship. The secret toppings of ger birthday cake! Sprinkle them and wait to witness the magic! Her life rolled on such cute little joys of baking and gardening. Life threw Ambera again in hell taking her mither's life. The veil her mother had wore when going out helped Ambera to hide herself. The words her mother spoke at her last breathe reverberated new hopes for Ambera's life. "my little angel, don't wet your soft cheeks, You are my moon, my life's meaning. At any storm of life, never loss hope" "My dear, life can never be a calm stream, it's always an Ocean of whirls and waves" "once if you find someone perfect to share your world share your smile and your words, then your birthday with a perfect banana treat cake. Don't forget our 'secret toppings'! This will make your sky blue and cheeks pink. When you see the lillies smile and hear nightingales son, gs share your love at the crimson's shade" Colouring her hell to heaven there was a man in her life with whom she shared the banana treat spell, the crimson shade then blessed them with life of love, the lillies then danced for his serenade.... Ambera relished the honey of his love... But fate sucks for some at times of all goodness served there came a night that changed her life to a hell, more than a hell again. AGONY OF A WRETCHED BLACK WIDOW is the book reflecting the dark social beliefs and curses of those whose life entied to be worse than hell. How Ambera lived? What made her hope? What made her took off the veil? What made her color her dreams again? And what broke her into pieces of the shattered mirror? BEING ALONE IN COLD SILENCE when mind spells madness that rages through each nerve and heart pounds to elope and rise to any world other than this Amber lived... Leaving the questions WHY? and HOW? WHAT MADE HER SPELL AGAIN, WHAT MADE HER DECODE HER MOTHER'S FINAL WORDS!! - to be answered by turning the ink-filled pages..... Grab a Coffee!
Author : Tommy C. Eugene
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781719857048
Minnesota, 1973. The true and terrifying story of an abused and tortured 12 year old child and his terrifying struggle to escape the 'Monsters' in his life. Experience first hand one frightened and traumatized young boy's graphic descriptions of escaping one tormentor only to fall prey to another and yet another! From Pedophiles to Child Abusing Manipulators! And an unbelievably violent, animal beating, child torturing farmer who under the disguise of a County funded 'Foster Home' inflicts the most Horrible Brutality that no small boy should ever have to survive! This gripping story takes hold of your heart and your interest from page one, and never lets go! Including a terrifying encounter with a 10 foot Female Sasquatch in the deep woods of Northern Minnesota, that will leave you a BELIEVER from someone who knows they exist! Ride along, as he fights to save a terrified young girl from the hands of a Merciless and violent Rapist, and their wild escape to freedom in the BEAST! You will find yourself, laughing, crying and cheering as this incredible drama unfolds in an exciting, descriptively honest way by this very talented new writer! *WARNING* This book is written exactly as the author remembers it, with all the foul mouthed expletives and gory bloody descriptions and details that can only be properly and completely understood in their original verbiage. To 'sugar coat' or minimize the painful descriptions of trauma and abuse retold in this book, would also minimize it's effectiveness as a reminder to us all, to be aware of the Dangerous Strangers stalking our children and of the unknown creatures that inhabit the forests of this country. You wouldn't think that a book about a child's anguish and about Sasquatch would work together, But this incredible author puts the two together in one fantastic true story, Ingeniously! Enjoy! (If You Dare!)
