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A Souls of My Sisters Book No woman comes into this world with all the answers, but every woman can learn from her sisters.In the Essence ® #1 national bestseller Souls of My Sisters, strong, successful black women shared their unforgettable personal stories of faith, hope, and healing. Now, a dynamic new group of young sisters with hopes and dreams, fears and struggles, just like you, tells their stories of triumph over adversity for the generation coming up. . .Being a young woman today...
| Автор | Dawn Marie Daniels |
Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris Bestselling author and literary icon E. Lynn Harris captivated millions of readers with his powerful, groundbreaking stories of black men searching for love in a taboo world. Now three outstanding writers and friends honor the late author with this trio of original novellas in the genre E. Lynn helped create–each accompanied by a special personal tribute remembering the important role he played in their lives. Evoking the hope, romance, and complexity...
| Автор | Terrance Dean |
Con este libro ahondamos en la verdad, en la realidad del día a día. Elena Segovia saca el lado bueno de las situaciones con una meta: homenajear a su madre.El sentir, la experiencia y algunas preguntas coinciden en esta sucesión de páginas que se inunda de la pasión de la vida, la devoción de una palabra clara y rotunda.
| Автор | Elena Segovia Luque |
Reme y Lucas habían tenido un secreto en el pasado. Un pasado de cuando estuvieron juntos en la escuela. Un secreto que dejó su huella. Al pasar de los años, la vida de cada uno, tomó un rumbo diferente, pero su secreto estaba allí a pesar de los años y de la distancia, hasta que una casualidad hizo que se encontraran de nuevo y… ¿perdonaran el pasado? ¿Podría su amistad de la adolescencia convertirse en un verdadero amor? ¿Podrían amarse a pesar de su oscuro secreto?
| Автор | Erina Alcalá |
Eine traumartige, surreale Allegorie über einen Himmelskörper, der keiner war: Ein Komet droht auf die Erde zu fallen, dreht jedoch kurz vor dem erwarteten Aufprall ab und verliert seine Spannkraft. Die Welt ist somit gerettet. Doch der Komet stellt sich als Allegorie heraus, der im Wettrennen gegen den Zeitgeist verlor. Schulz kreiert mit seiner eigentümlichen Sprache eine phantastische Parallelwelt.-
| Автор | Bruno Schulz |
What happens after all your dreams come true? In these uplifting tales of faith and fortune, delve into the lives of three people whose hearts–and wallets–are on the line when an unexpected windfall tests them like never before. . . Showers of Blessings Angela Benson Assistant pastor Ronnie has a shameful secret: he's a compulsive gambler. And just when it seems he's run out of luck, he finds salvation in a miraculous win. But nothing can keep Ronnie from recklessly betting his...
| Автор | Angela Benson |
Hungry. Ruthless. Irresistibly erotic. Succumb to desire as dark and mysterious as the men featured in these four tales of sensual–and deliciously sinister–passion. . . Midnight Thirsts The Nightwatchers, by Greg Herren Aspiring actor Phillip Rutledge is looking only for a role in a local theater production when he finds something much more tempting in the arms of mysterious Kevin Lockhart. Yet what Kevin craves may be more than Phillip is willing to offer as he learns that one more night in...
| Автор | Michael Thomas Ford |
Which of us hasn't daydreamed about what we'd do if we won the lottery? A Dollar And A Dream brings those fantasies to hilarious, heartbreaking life in three stories by #1 national bestselling author Carl Weber and La Jill Hunt, Essence bestselling author Angel Hunter, and Cushcity.com bestselling author Dwayne S. Joseph. In «Easy Street,» Carl Weber and La Jill Hunt deliver a drama-filled world of money, greed, and lies. When Paul, a wannabe player, is sent out by his neighbors to...
| Автор | Carl Weber |
A small town falls on hard times and through much persuasion, decides to skip Christmas. A lone woman finds that her small nephew, now orphaned, is coming to live with her on Christmas Eve. The town decides to do things to welcome him that are 'not really for Christmas.' But of course the spirit of love and brotherhood shines through as Christmas softens hearts and is reborn in this tiny village.
| Автор | Gale Zona |
Los liberales de El salado hacen que se cumpla el espíritu de La Guerra de Los tres años al impedir la celebración de actos de culto externo. Los conservadores, en cambio, ejercen sus creencias auspiciando fiestas religiosas. Un hecho jocoso de esta índole origina la acción de la novela.
| Автор | Emilio Rabasa |
Heiße Kurzgeschichte mit dominanten Charakteren, herrisch und verrucht.Blümchensex ist nichts für sie. Viel gleiler findet sie es, wenn sie ihren Mr. Boyfriend herumkommandieren kann und dieser ihr devot jeden Sex-Wunsch von den Augen abliest. Doch was passiert, wenn während des SM-Liebesspiels plötzlich unerwarteter Besuch vor der Tür steht?-
| Автор | Lea Lind |
A woman lets herself go and finally does something wrong. Down on his luck, a man tries to do something right. For both, the consequences are as surprising as they are rewarding in two tales of lost souls by two rising stars in contemporary African-American fiction. "Nightmare in Paradise" by Mary Monroe Good-looking and as dutiful a wife as she is a devoted friend, reserved and respectful Renee Webb always does the right thing. So when she gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to let her...
| Автор | Mary Monroe |
An analytic and historical perspective of literary texts to understand the position of domestic workers in South Africa More than a million black South African women are domestic workers. Precariously situated between urban and rural areas, rich and poor, white and black, these women are at once intimately connected and at a distant remove from the families they serve. Ena Jansen shows that domestic worker relations in South Africa were shaped by the institution of slavery, establishing social...
| Автор | Ena Jansen |
African-language writing is in crisis. The conditions under which African writing developed in the past (only remotely similar to those of Western models), resulted in an inability of Eurocentric literary models to explore the hermeneutic world of African language poetics inherited from the oral and the modern worlds. Existing modes of criticism in the study of this literary tradition are often unsuited for a nuanced understanding of the intrinsic and extrinsic aspects at play in the...
| Автор | Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi |
En el contexto de la generación de los ochenta, el autor ha optado por una escritura que reivindica la precisión de lo anecdótico y del lenguaje coloquial con las referencias culturales específicas, así como la agudeza del juego de palabras.
| Автор | Jorge Montealegre |
Zu klein, zu groß, zu hübsch, zu albern, zu hochmütig oder zu langweilig. Irgendwann ist jeder Mensch mal lächerlich. Gut für ihn, wenn er es nicht bemerkt. Heribert Riesenhuber versammelt in dreizehn skurrilen Kurzgeschichten ganz normale Sonderlinge. Dabei blitzt in flüchtigen Momenten Fantastik auf und surreale Missverständnisse bauschen sich zu Traumwelten auf.
| Автор | Heribert Riesenhuber |
Escribí tu nombre tres veces en la arena y las tres veces se hizo adarce. Ya no sé qué somos, ya no sé qué quieres… Recopilación de pioesías de Rebecca J. Davern.
| Автор | Rebecca J. Davern |
Heiße Verführung in der Weihnachtszeit!Joeleen arbeitet in einem Bordell in North Dakota als Prostituierte. Am 24. Dezember bekommt sie Besuch von einem besonderen Gast, dem New Yorker Börsenmarkler und Freund des Hauses Mr. Harrison. Schon bald zeigt sich, dass Mr. Harrison mehr ist als nur ein Gast. Sein Motiv, das Bordell zu besuchen, ist nicht das gleiche, wie das der anderen Gäste – jedenfalls nicht nur…-
| Автор | Camille Bech |
"Modern Chinese fiction . . . looks to have made a great leap towards the bookshelves of [Western] readers."— Guardian Hugely popular in China, flash fiction is poised to be the most exciting new development in contemporary Chinese literature in a decade. Integrating both vernacular and contemporary styles while embracing new technologies such as text messaging (SMS) and blogging, contemporary Chinese flash fiction represents the voice of a civilization at the brink of a startling and...
| Автор | Shouhua Qi |
What does it mean when people say “You can’t compare apples and oranges”? Are comparisons across genres inherently invalid, or can they be insightful and illuminating? In this brilliant and provocative collection of essays, Dutch author Maarten Asscher maintains that comparisons can be the highest form of argument.Asscher makes his case with examples drawn from classical to contemporary history, art, and literature: Hamlet in Ithaca and Telemachus in Elsinore, the...
| Автор | Maarten Asscher |
This book introduces readers to basic concepts of sociolinguistics with a focus on Spanish in the US. The coverage goes beyond linguistics to examine the history and politics of Spanish in the US, the relationship of language to Latinx identities, and how language ideologies and policies reflect and shape societal views of Spanish and its speakers. Accessible to those with no linguistic background, this book provides students with a foundation in the study of language and society, and the...
| Автор | Janet M. Fuller |
<P><B>Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies (2016)</B></P><P>Fantasy worlds are never mere backdrops. They are an integral part of the work, and refuse to remain separate from other elements. These worlds combine landscape with narrative logic by incorporating alternative rules about cause and effect or physical transformation. They become actors in the drama—interacting with the characters,...
| Автор | Stefan Ekman |
Fontanes Krimi-Klassiker aus dem 19. Jahrhundert: Der Schankwirt Abel Hradschek ist Spieler und hochverschuldet bei einer polnischen Firma, die deswegen einen Vertreter zum Eintreiben der Schulden schickt. Als Hradschek dann bei der Gartenarbeit das Skelett eines französischen Soldaten unter seinem Birnbaum findet, kommt ihm eine mörderische Idee…-
| Автор | Theodor Fontane |