Author : Alessandra Lynch
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1948579871
In Lynch’s fourth collection, we carefully navigate the fine line between terror and beauty as we face palpable trauma, heartbreak, and wild astonishment through the raw and personal poems. The genuine, delicate voice works to examine who we are, after everything.
Author : Lee Child
Publisher : Random House
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Detective and mystery fiction
ISBN : 0857500066
Jack Reacher's anonymity in Key West is shattered by the appearance of a private investigator who' come to town looking for him. But only hours after his arrival, the stranger is murdered. Retracing the PI's cold trail back to New York City, Reacher is compelled to find out who was looking for him and why. He never expected the reasons to be so personal, so dangerous, and so very twisted.
Author : Robert Adams
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0615183379
Tripwire is the gripping saga of one man's struggle against the shadows of war, revealing to all the silent thunder that can continue long after the shelling has stopped. Tripwire strips away the falsehoods that PTSD embeds in its victims, forcing it into the light of truth where it can be seen for what it really is.It is my hope that Tripwire will cut PTSD off at the knees before it can cause irreparable damage. I have learned that PTSD's coup de grace is knowledge and truth. And when you become entangled in its web, it is only these two weapons that can disarm the maze of tripwires this affection throws in your path.A testament to the human spirit's ability to overcome all obstacles, prepare to be catapulted into an adventure with as many twists and turns as the rivers that raged through the mountainous jungles of South Vietnam. Graphic, suspenseful and fast-moving, follow the trail of fear and courage that will challenge you to the very core.So...look out ahead for...tripwires!
Author : C. A. Williams
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
About the Book Peyton Riley is a normal teenage girl in the protected research city of Wester, living life with friends, family, school, and...homework. But when she finds out that she will no longer be able to communicate across the war-ravaged country and speak with her twin brother, Hunter, she makes the daring decision to leave the protection of Wester to travel to Coda and find him. Then, it all goes wrong. Her parents get kidnapped. One of her best friends turns out to not even be human, and worst of all, Hunter may be a complete lie. Or is she the lie? About the Author C. A. Williams is a born-and-raised native of South Carolina. He is an orchestra teacher and spends his spare time writing both music and stories, like this one. His current works are geared toward middle and high school students, but he also enjoys exploring the crazy-fun world of the elementary mind. He is a fledgling author and hopes that you enjoy this story. Dreamland is a child's bedtime story to help inspire positive emotions to sleep on, reminding us that anything is possible. It is so important that your children are reminded regularly that you are thinking of them and that you love them. Serena O’Brien is co-founder of the non-profit organization, Adaptive SCUBA Programs, serving Veterans and Individuals with disabilities through SCUBA Diving.
Author : Candace Williams
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2023-05-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1949944255
Over the course of these poems, the Black, queer protagonist begins to erase violent structures and fill the white spaces with her hard-won wisdom and love. I am the Most Dangerous Thing doesn't just use poetry to comment on life and history. The book is a comment on writing itself. What have words done? When does writing become a form of disengagement, or worse, violence? The book is an exercise in paring the state down to its true logic of violence and imagining what can happen next. There are many contradictions—Although the protagonist teaches the same science that was used to justify enslavement and a racial caste system, she knows she will die at the hands of science and denies the state the last word by penning her own death certificate. As an educator and knowledge worker, she is an overseer of the same racist, misogynistic, and homophobic systems that terrorize her. Yet, she musters the courage to kill Kurtz, a primordial vision of white terror. She is Black and queer and fat and angry and chill and witty and joyful and depressed and lovely and flawed and an (im)perfect dagger to the heart of white supremacist capitalism.
Author : Andrés Cerpa
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1948579421
The Vault is a quiet and vulnerable sequence of ethereal fragments, letters, and poems that trace a narrative of love and healing in the afterlife of a parent’s death. Seasons turn and a life is built despite the ruin. Each poem is a music box of prayer, of the decisions made and yet to be made.
Author : Omotara James
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1948579480
Recommended by Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Shondaland, & Book Riot “It’s not often that fat women feel such thorough representation of themselves not only in poetry but in any media and not only in the beautiful moments but in the sorrowful ones, ranging throughout life. James does a brilliant job of portraying this and all her themes brilliantly; highly recommended.” —Starred review by Library Journal The raw poems inside Song of My Softening studies the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship that the world and nation has with Black queerness. Poems open wide the questioning of how we express both love and pain, and how we view our bodies in society, offering themselves wholly, with sharpness and compassion.
Author : Sarah Ghazal Ali
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2024-01-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 194994431X
Moving between the scriptures of the Qur’an and the Bible, these poems explore the complexities and spectacles of gender, faith, and family by unraveling the age-old idea that seeing is believing. Navigating both scripture and culture, the poems in Theophanies work to spin miracles from the mundanities of desire and violence. Through art and music, Pakistani history, and scriptural stories, these poems struggle to envision a true self and speak back against time to the matriarchs of the larger Abrahamic faiths, the mothers at the heart of sacred history Stitched through these poems is longing—for mothers, angels, and signs from the divine. Theophanies asks: is seeing really believing, and is believing belonging? The speaker seeks to understand her own, bewildering “I,” to use it with reverence, and to mythologize herself and all mothers to ensure their survival in a male-dominated world hard at work erasing them In the absence of matrilineal elders in her family, the speaker turns to the archetypal “mother of nations” for whom she is named, Sarah, and her sent-away “sister,” Hajar. What does it mean to have a woman’s body when that body has been hailed a vessel for the divine? Theophanies arises from the speaker’s tenuous grip on her own faith while navigating the colonial legacy of Partition and inherited patriarchal expectations of womanhood.
Author : Charlotte Carter
Publisher : One World
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 034548200X
Of Jackson Park, the first Cook County mystery featuring an unconventional trio of sleuths, Margo Jefferson of The New York Times said, “Charlotte Carter blends street savvy with wry urbanity and delivers a truly modern big-city crime tale.” Now Carter returns with another suspenseful novel that brings the black experience to vivid life during one of the most turbulent times in American history. It is December 1968. In the wake of assassinations and the violence of the Democratic convention in Chicago, “Summer of Love” idealism has disintegrated into suspicion and disillusion. On the city’s North Side, twentyishCassandra Perry longs to be independent. She leaves the overprotective embrace of her granduncle and grandaunt, Woody ans Ivy Lisle, and moves into a multiracial commune dedicated to brotherhood and just causes. But Cassandra’s search for identity plunges her into the dark side of peace, love, and unlimited freedom–even before she discovers the brutally violated bodies of the commune’s most charismatic activist couple. As Cassandra investigates with the help of Woody and Ivy, she begins to see some friends–especially one of her dearest–in a disturbing, deadly light. But when the three amateur sleuths run afoul of a police cover-up with explosive political ramifications, they face a desperate enemy determined to bury the–along with the truth.
Author : Ina Cariño
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,8 MB
Release : 2023-03-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1949944271
Winner of a 2022 Whiting Award in Poetry Winner of the 2021 Alice James Award At times located in the Philippines, at others in the United States, the speaker of these poems is curious about how home can be an alchemy from one to the other. Feast explores the intricacies of intergenerational nourishment beyond trauma, as well as the bonds and community formed when those in diaspora feed each other, both literally and metaphorically. The language in these poems is full of musicality—another way in which abundance manifests in the book. Feast feeds its readers by employing lush sonics and imagery unafraid of being Filipino and of being Asian American. Feast offers abundance and nourishment through language, and reaches toward a place an immigrant might call home. The poems in this collection—many of which revolve around food and its cultural significance—examine the brown body's relationship with nourishment. Poems delve into what it means to be brown in a white world, and how that encourages (or restricts) growth.
