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Best known for his glorious comic novels, Charles Portis was also a prolific essayist, travel writer, and newspaper reporter. Now, for the first time, these writings—journalism, short fiction, memoir, travel stories, and even a play—have been brought together in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany. The collection encompasses the breadth of Portis’s fifty-year writing career, covering topics as varied as road tripping in Baja, Elvis’s visits to his aging mother, and his own boyhood in Arkansas.

Venus has the chance of a lifetime to take a trip alone. No children, no husband. The women's retreat promises daily massages, meditation, and divine meals prepared by a top chef. What she doesn't see in the ad are locked gates, militia-style security guards, and a mysterious driver who isn't who he appears. The trip she deserves turns into a dangerous, heart-pounding, sexy adventure she will never forget.

Fresh and electrifying—stories, poems, and essays by African and diaspora writers, edited by author Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond. Relations punctures the human illusion of separation. New and established storytellers reshape the narratives that divide and subjugate, revealing the truth of our shared...

The Ugandan Tales is set in Uganda and is about the struggles of ordinary Africans against post-independence African rulers that preach freedom and emancipation but have turned into oppressors. This collection of poetry dives deep into topics of police brutality, social injustices, and oppression through the landscape of the tortured cities. Ordinary people seek to reassert their rights against an intransigent regime that is determined to keep them oppressed. The poems chronicle everyday struggles that are faced at the hands of fellow Africans masquerading as Pan-Africanists.

Brought to you by Penguin. *Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2018* *Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 2018* Translating as 'initiation', kumukanda is the name given to the rites a young boy from the Luvale tribe must pass through before he is considered a man. The poems of Kayo Chingonyi's...

Kayo Chingonyi's remarkable second collection follows the course of a 'blood condition' as it finds its way to deeply personal grounds. From the banks of the Zambezi river to London and Leeds, these poems speak to how distance and time, nations and history can collapse within a body. With astonishing lyricism and musicality, this is a story of multiple inheritances—of grief and survival, renewal and the painful process of letting go—and a hymn to the people and places that run in our blood.

Der Gewinner des Booker Preis 2021: Über den Zerfall einer weißen Farmerfamilie in Südafrika - von der Apartheid bis zur Demokratie. "Das Versprechen" erzählt vom zunehmenden Zerfall einer weißen südafrikanischen Familie, die auf einer Farm außerhalb Pretorias lebt. Die Swarts versammeln sich zur Beerdigung ihrer Mutter Rachel, die mit vierzig an Krebs stirbt. Die jüngere Generation, Anton und Amor, verabscheuen alles, wofür die Familie steht - nicht zuletzt das gescheiterte Versprechen an die schwarze Frau, die ihr ganzes Leben für sie gearbeitet hat.

Collective Amnesia: The Audio Experience is the marriage of sound, poetry, music, and theatre making, a storytelling experience for the ears, transporting the listener from their reality into the worlds of the poems.

In Opened Doors, author Artie Bryant passionately delves into love, pain and the whirlwind of emotions in between through a profound collection of poetry, intricately penned to propel listeners into the author's transparent, visual feast of confessions.

Der Literaturnobelpreisträger von 2021 erstmals als ungekürzte Lesung. Sansibar, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts: Der zwölfjährige Yusuf lebt mit seiner Familie im ländlichen Ostafrika. Als der Vater sich verschuldet, wird der Junge an einen Gläubiger verkauft, an "Onkel Aziz". Von einem Tag auf den anderen landet er in der Stadt, zwischen afrikanischen Muslimen, christlichen Missionaren und Indern vom Subkontinent.

Die Bewohner von Kosawa leben in Angst, denn ein amerikanischer Ölkonzern droht das kleine afrikanische Dorf auszulöschen. Öllecks haben das Ackerland unfruchtbar gemacht; Kinder sterben, weil das Trinkwasser vergiftet ist. Den Menschen aus Kosawa werden Versprechungen über Aufräumarbeiten und finanzielle Reparationen gemacht, die nie eingehalten werden, aber die korrupte Regierung bedient nur ihre eigenen Interessen. Die Dorfbewohner beschließen, sich zu wehren. Ihr Kampf soll Jahrzehnte andauern.

When Waties Waring left his wife of 30 years for a "Yankee spitfire", he dropped a turd into the local teacup. Charleston (SC) society banished him forever. He, in turn, became the first federal judge in US history to rule that separate but equal is not equal, the hallmark of civil rights in America. Robert Wintner, the author's, tale begins at Judge Waties Waring's funeral, the day Arthur Covingdale, an up-and-coming attorney, must come to terms with his own vengeful role. This narrative is based on actual events, with the course of history accurately represented.

With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women and teenage girls.

1996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warring African nations, without allegiance. And tonight they have a new recruit—Manu, a nineteen-year-old cowherd fleeing Congo's bloody war. Taken in by this band of unlikely brothers, Manu hopes to reinvent himself. But no matter how fast he flies, trouble always seems to follow closely behind...

A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures Renowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diaka is also an exultant, fierce, and visceral poet whose work leaves a lasting impact. Touching on...

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa’s most populous nation through words or images. Yet here, through personal essays from twenty-four of its writers, a more accurate...

Ífè Myths presents one of the earliest English-language collections of Yoruba sacred stories—gathered directly from the people of Southwestern Nigeria during the author’s years of service as an Assistant District Officer. Living among Yoruba communities, the collector gained rare access to fragments of oral tradition, ritual incantations, and passing references that, when carefully assembled, reveal glimpses of the spiritual worldview that shaped one of Africa’s greatest civilizations.

Your wound is not your fault, but your healing is your responsibility. Until the End is full of emotion, but also a lot of which a person can relate to from their own perspective. Love, betrayal, anger, struggle, and finally understanding, all woven together for the listener to meander through. This collection of poetry is a roller coaster of grief, sympathy, and empowerment. It takes you through a journey of different feelings - know that you're not alone - when it comes to the heart.

Here we go again; new project, new game. It is already planned out, the outcome the same; entertain the masses in separate classes with propaganda...

Flowers and Bee Stings is a contemporary poetry collection that examines the themes of pain, self-discovery, and freedom, as well as the beauty of happiness and healing through trials and tribulations. Divided into 10 sections, this audiobook is a metaphor for dealing with life and pain, but over coming those obstacles. The poems were written to inspire and encourage one to move beyond their past hurts and pains. For with healing comes hope and with hope comes freedom. Find yourself again and begin again.

Breaking the Rod of the Sadist: Gyinaye (The Survivor) is prose and poetic piece written to invoke a compelling note of pleasure, trials, tears, and joys of a successful end to a total “life’s journey’’....

Whether or not we realize it, affirmations are already part of our daily dialogue with others and with ourselves. Whatever we speak, proclaim, or declare is coming from a place of belief and acceptance, that what we have said already is, or will be so. Unfortunately, not all of our affirmations are positive, and over time we get stuck into habits of affirming in our lives the very things we do NOT desire.

People recognize me best for my creation of music, and poetry is a huge part of music.

The poems in The Rinehart Frames seek to exhaust the labyrinths of ekphrasis. By juxtaposing the character of Rinehart from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man with the film 24 Frames by Abbas Kiarostami, the poems leap into secondary histories, spaces, and languages that encompass a collective yet varied consciousness of being.

A Booktiful Love is a collection of poems that deal with the entirety of human experience in its various forms. Didactically rich, the poems explore ideas ranging from love, relationships, and patriotism to marriage, morality, and many other concepts pertinent to daily living. Given its variety of themes, what unifies the poems in this collection is the simplicity and ambiguousness of language which the poet employs. The poems draw their strength from their clarity and meaning.

This is the first poetry compilation from Oakland's very own Mrs. Tyna. As a writer and tutor in her community, Tyna has taken the time to collect her expressions of her journey, the education she endured within her own self. She shares her pieces...from the Depth of her Artistic Soul....

Gyinaye is a collection of poetry inspired by what the writer sees, feels, and hears from his many travels around the world of a searching mind - a true account of the different spheres and phases of natural beauty; historical and cultural diversity to soothe the listener's mind. It is a rich unveiling of the beauty of indigenous Africa’s natural resources and the power of nature on human life.

In the late 1970s, 15-year-old Camille Sheridan moved to Crescent Falls with her mom and stepfather. It was an unfamiliar place, but it wasn’t long before she met Christopher Peters and Luke Samuels, two boys in the neighborhood that would soon become her best friends. Chris was colorful, funny, and optimistic, a free spirit and full of life. Luke was kind and thoughtful; constantly talking about the future and a better life.

Trois femmes, trois histoires, trois destins liés. Ce roman polyphonique retrace le destin de la jeune Ramla, arrachée à son amour pour être mariée à l'époux de Safira, tandis que Hindou, sa sœur, est contrainte d'épouser son cousin. Patience ! C'est le seul et unique conseil qui leur est donné par leur entourage, puisqu'il est impensable d'aller contre la volonté d'Allah. Comme le dit le proverbe peul : "Au bout de la patience, il y a le ciel." Mais le ciel peut devenir un enfer. Comment ces trois femmes impatientes parviendront-elles à se libérer ?

Before you listen to any of this book, Jimmie asks your permission to speak freely. If you wear your feelings on your sleeves, he asks you to go topless. Now grab a beverage of your choice, sit back, and let's experience life in the Deep South through the eyes of a Black man. This book takes both prose and poetry and walks you through life experiences and living in a culture where color still makes a difference.