Nightcrawling

Nightcrawling
Author: Leila Mottley
Publsiher: McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2022-06-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780771050428

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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This debut of a blazingly original voice “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, author of There There). A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME, GOODREADS Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an East Oakland apartment complex optimistically called the Regal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison But while Marcus clings to his dream of rap stardom, Kiara hunts for work to pay their rent—which has more than doubled—and to keep the nine-year-old boy next door, abandoned by his mother, safe and fed. One night, what begins as a drunken misunderstanding with a stranger turns into the job Kiara never imagined wanting but now desperately needs: nightcrawling. Her world breaks open even further when her name surfaces in an investigation that exposes her as a key witness in a massive scandal within the Oakland Police Department. Rich with raw beauty, electrifying intensity, and piercing vulnerability, Nightcrawling marks the stunning arrival of a voice unlike any we have heard before.

Nightcrawler

Nightcrawler
Author: John Reinhard Dizon
Publsiher: Next Chapter
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2022-02-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: PKEY:6610000343980

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There's a new crime fighter in town. After her father's death, Sabrina Brooks - heir to the Brooks Chemical Company - is putting her life back together. When she gains access to top-secret government archives, Sabrina uses her knowledge of chemistry to become a vigilante known as the Nightcrawler, and wages war against the ruthless drug gangs of New York. But even with the help of her best friend, NYPD officer Hoyt Wexford, can she take down the notorious drug gang Octagon and their mysterious leader, only known as Reaper?

Marriage Customs of the World 2 volumes

Marriage Customs of the World  2 volumes
Author: George P. Monger
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1282
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9798216115090

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This book presents a comprehensive overview of global courtship and marriage customs, from ancient history to contemporary society, demonstrating the vast differences as well as the similarities across all of human culture. This second edition of Marriage Customs of the World examines historical context, social significance, and current trends and controversies of matrimony in the Western world as well as other cultures. Apart from detailing the ceremonies from specific countries, the book identifies specific elements of the wedding event and discusses them in a comparative manner, showcasing the similarities across cultures. The new content in this work includes additional information on courtship and how future spouses are found in other cultures; marriage in art, cinema, theater, and poetry; wedding bands; forced marriages and shotgun weddings; New Year's weddings; legislation regarding marriage; and engagement practices. Entries carried over from the first edition have been revised and updated as well. With its broad scope and consideration of contemporary issues alongside historical information, this work will be ideal for high school and undergraduate students; scholars of anthropology, social studies, and history; and general readers.

Handbook of Human Sexuality

Handbook of Human Sexuality
Author: Benjamin B. Wolman
Publsiher: Jason Aronson
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1993
Genre: Psychosexual disorders
ISBN: 0876687753

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Presents a survey of what is known about sexual disorders and their treatment. It covers all the therapeutic approaches to sexual dysfunction: psychoanalytic, behavioural, Masters and Johnson's, Helen Kaplan's, and the holistic.

Icy Sparks

Icy Sparks
Author: Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2001-03-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781101200186

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A New York Times Notable Book and the March 2001 selection of Oprah's Book Club® ! Icy Sparks is the sad, funny and transcendent tale of a young girl growing up in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky during the 1950’s. Gwyn Hyman Rubio’s beautifully written first novel revolves around Icy Sparks, an unforgettable heroine in the tradition of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird or Will Treed in Cold Sassy Tree. At the age of ten, Icy, a bright, curious child orphaned as a baby but raised by adoring grandparents, begins to have strange experiences. Try as she might, her "secrets"—verbal croaks, groans, and physical spasms—keep afflicting her. As an adult, she will find out she has Tourette’s Syndrome, a rare neurological disorder, but for years her behavior is the source of mystery, confusion, and deep humiliation. Narrated by a grown up Icy, the book chronicles a difficult, but ultimately hilarious and heartwarming journey, from her first spasms to her self-acceptance as a young woman. Curious about life beyond the hills, talented, and energetic, Icy learns to cut through all barriers—physical, mental, and spiritual—in order to find community and acceptance. Along her journey, Icy faces the jeers of her classmates as well as the malevolence of her often-ignorant teachers—including Mrs. Stilton, one of the most evil fourth grade teachers ever created by a writer. Called willful by her teachers and "Frog Child" by her schoolmates, she is exiled from the schoolroom and sent to a children’s asylum where it is hoped that the roots of her mysterious behavior can be discovered. Here Icy learns about difference—her own and those who are even more scarred than she. Yet, it isn’t until Icy returns home that she really begins to flower, especially through her friendship with the eccentric and obese Miss Emily, who knows first-hand how it feels to be an outcast in this tightly knit Appalachian community. Under Miss Emily’s tutelage, Icy learns about life’s struggles and rewards, survives her first comical and heartbreaking misadventure with romance, discovers the healing power of her voice when she sings, and ultimately—takes her first steps back into the world. Gwyn Hyman Rubio’s Icy Sparks is a fresh, original, and completely redeeming novel about learning to overcome others’ ignorance and celebrate the differences that make each of us unique.

More Stories by Japanese Women Writers An Anthology

More Stories by Japanese Women Writers  An Anthology
Author: Kyoko Siden
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781317464358

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This anthology introduces sixteen modern Japanese women writers spanning a century in time and a wide range of life circumstances and literary styles. No other collection offers usch a diversity of women's voices

His Bloody Project

His Bloody Project
Author: Graeme Macrae Burnet
Publsiher: Saraband
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2022-03-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781913393601

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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and an international bestseller: a brilliant meditation on truth, power, and (in)sanity. A BBC Radio 4 Book Club pick The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but it falls to the country’s finest legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to commit such merciless acts of violence. Was he insane? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between Macrae and the gallows. Graeme Macrae Burnet tells an irresistible and original story about the provisional nature of truth, even when the facts seem clear. His Bloody Project is a mesmerising literary thriller set in an unforgiving landscape where the exercise of power is arbitrary.

The Interim

The Interim
Author: Wolfgang Hilbig
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1949641236

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From a writer whose work is considered "among the most significant prose and poetry written not just in the GDR but in all of postwar Germany" (Joshua Cohen), a digressive masterwork in the tradition of Heinrich Böll, Imre Kértesz, and Dasa Drndic that interrogates lust, God, statelessness, addiction, capitalism, and above all else the writer's place in "a century of lies."