A Quarantine Anthology From Tressie

A Quarantine Anthology From Tressie
Author: Tressie Lockwood
Publisher: Tressie Lockwood
Total Pages: 845
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Genre: Fiction
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Take your mind off unsettling current events as you curl up with these scorching hot interracial romances. This anthology consists of five novels of love, lust, and a little bit of intrigue from bestselling interracial author Tressie Lockwood. Ice In His Veins, His Brother’s Keeper, & The Right One The Johansson Brothers were torn apart as boys. Now Brand Johansson wants to bring them back together. Arik is wary of bringing up old hurts. He’s made a life keeping his heart in a case of ice. Brand has no problem interfering in his brothers’ lives. But even Brand’s investigative skills are put to the test when no one is sure if Jack Miller is the third brother or an imposter. It takes three very special women to tame these proud, somewhat damaged, men. The Way Back & With His Touch Keon Kitson has lost his five year old son in a tragic accident, and he still loves his ex. There doesn’t seem to be any room in his life or heart for Shakita Chambers, especially when she looks nothing like his ideal woman. Mistaken identity lands abused Cabrina Barnes in the lap of Jamie Westgate. Recognizing chance has brought Jamie what he longed for most, he’s determined to protect Cabrina. Everyone thinks he’s crazy or just a little too jealous of his best friend’s happiness. Jamie doesn’t care what anyone says. He’s working on convincing the lady herself to be his forever.

Another Quarantine Anthology From Tressie: Interracial Romance

Another Quarantine Anthology From Tressie: Interracial Romance
Author: Tressie Lockwood
Publisher: Tressie Lockwood
Total Pages: 613
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Genre: Fiction
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Accepting His Name Ezio married Shakarri for an heir. Shakarri agreed to get out of debt. The contract states her obligation to please Ezio. He’s got a lot of demands, chief being Shakarri’s obedience. She’s beginning to think she made a big mistake. Ezio has taken over the payments for her debt, and he can just as easily give them back. Intimacy with Ezio is beyond Shakarri’s wildest imagination. Should she stay or should she run while she still has control of her own heart? Raising His Baby Sonya is keeping a secret from Romy. She’s raising his son. After an accident took Sonya’s half-sister’s life, Sonya is raising her nephew as her own. She takes a job working as Romy's assistant, but she's better at playing sports than wearing heels and running behind spoiled rich men. Romy discovers the truth. It's too bad no one told Sonya Romy hates scheming women, and worse that she finds him irresistible. Reaching His Heart Cason’s wild lifestyle caught up with him with a near fatal accident. No woman will ever look at him again. Solette has dealt with angry patients. She can get Cason up and walking again, even change his attitude. What she didn't count on was falling for him. Solette's faced abuse and cruelty. It looks like Cason is just another man who spouts hurtful words, but she sees his pain and wants to take it away. Cason has never been a hero, but when Solette needs his protection most, he'll be there. Involuntary Daddy Gabriel steers clear of kids after his heart was destroyed five years ago. His brother asks him to help out at his Daddy Day Care. Gabriel meets Neeka and her daughter. Neeka only wants to help her daughter overcome social anxiety. She refuses to get involved with a man who's arrogant and thinks only of himself and what he wants. Then she meets Gabriel. He's angry, outspoken, opinionated, mean, and smoking hot. Worse, he makes friends with Monnie then has the nerve to ask Neeka out. There can't be anything between them, but trouble comes knocking, and Neeka needs a stand-in daddy. Matching Tony Tony dreams of working in protective services. Chanise is an overweight image consultant with little confidence in choosing a man. As a favor for her friend, Chanise agrees to take Tony on as her bodyguard-in-training. Tony’s perfect—from his healthy eating and his skills in boxing to his hero complex. He’s everything Chanise should avoid if she wants to hold onto her heart. Tony lives in her house and drives her car. They eat together and sleep… Ten days—that's all she will allow him to train using her as the test client. Then he's out. **interracial romance, multicultural romance, clean romance, contemporary romance, baby romance, pregnancy romance, bwwm

Burn It Down!

Burn It Down!
Author: Breanne Fahs
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2024-02-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788735390

"A must-read, an antidote to powerlessness, a literary companion for the ages." –Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir "Editors' Choice" –New York Times Book Review A comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos, chronicling rage and dreams from the nineteenth century to the present day A landmark collection spanning two centuries and four waves of feminist activism and writing, Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge. The manifesto—raging, demanding, quarreling and provocative—has always been central to feminism, and it’s the angry, brash feminism we need now. Collecting over seventy-five manifestos from around the world, Burn It Down! is a rallying cry and a call to action. Among this confrontational sisterhood, you’ll find the Dyke Manifesto by the Lesbian Avengers, The Ax Tampax Poem Feministo by the Bloodsisters Project, The Manifesto of Apocalyptic Witchcraft by Peter Grey, Simone de Beauvoir’s pro-abortion Manifesto of the 343, Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female by Frances M. Beal, and many more. Feminist academic and writer Breanne Fahs argues that we need manifestos in all their urgent rawness, for it is at the bleeding edge of rage and defiance that new ideas are born.

How Contagion Works

How Contagion Works
Author: Paolo Giordano
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1635576857

The groundbreaking, moving essay on the coronavirus pandemic shared over 4 million times in Italy and published in 25 countries around the world-which lucidly explains how disease spreads and how our interconnectedness will save us. "Lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about where we are now... The literature of the time after begins here." --Evening Standard (UK) In this extraordinarily elegant work written from lockdown in Italy as the crisis deepened day to day, Paolo Giordano, the internationally bestselling writer of The Solitude of Prime Numbers with a PhD in physics, shows us what this outbreak really is about: human interconnectedness. Illuminating the big picture of how the disease spreads with great simplicity and mathematical insight and placing it in the context of other modern crises like climate change and xenophobia, Giordano reveals how battling the pandemic is ultimately about realizing how inextricably linked all our lives are and acting accordingly. Both timely and timeless, How Contagion Works is an accessible, deeply felt meditation on what it means to confront this pandemic both as individuals and as a community and empowers us not to show fear in the face of it.

Switched on Pop

Switched on Pop
Author: Nate Sloan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-12-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190056657

Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly for its witty and accessible analysis of Top 40 hits. Through close studies of sixteen modern classics, musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding shift pop from the background to the foreground, illuminating the essential musical concepts behind two decades of chart-topping songs. In 1939, Aaron Copland published What to Listen for in Music, the bestseller that made classical music approachable for generations of listeners. Eighty years later, Nate and Charlie update Copland's idea for a new audience and repertoire: 21st century pop, from Britney to Beyoncé, Outkast to Kendrick Lamar. Despite the importance of pop music in contemporary culture, most discourse only revolves around lyrics and celebrity. Switched on Pop gives readers the tools they need to interpret our modern soundtrack. Each chapter investigates a different song and artist, revealing musical insights such as how a single melodic motif follows Taylor Swift through every genre that she samples, André 3000 uses metric manipulation to get listeners to "shake it like a Polaroid picture," or Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee create harmonic ambiguity in "Despacito" that mirrors the patterns of global migration. Replete with engaging discussions and eye-catching illustrations, Switched on Pop brings to life the musical qualities that catapult songs into the pop pantheon. Readers will find themselves listening to familiar tracks in new waysand not just those from the Top 40. The timeless concepts that Nate and Charlie define can be applied to any musical style. From fanatics to skeptics, teenagers to octogenarians, non-musicians to professional composers, every music lover will discover something ear-opening in Switched on Pop.

The Butterfly Lampshade

The Butterfly Lampshade
Author: Aimee Bender
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385534884

The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she's sleeping, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie spies a dead butterfly, exactly matching the ones on the lamp, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. Twenty years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two other incidents -- her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact -- she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her, and what they say about her own place in the world. As Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie's past glow with the intensity of childhood perception, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? Told in the lush, lilting prose that led the San Francisco Chronicle to say Aimee Bender is "a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language," The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world, and a broken love between mother and child.

Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age

Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age
Author: Michael Zimmer
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2017
Genre: Internet research
ISBN: 9781433142666

Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts directly engages with the discussions and debates surrounding the Internet, and stimulates new ways to think about - and work towards resolving - the novel ethical dilemmas we face as internet and social media-based research continues to evolve.

Every Body Shines

Every Body Shines
Author: Cassandra Newbould
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1547606088

An intersectional, feminist YA anthology from some of today's most exciting voices across a span of genres, all celebrating body diversity and fat acceptance through short stories. A Junior Library Guild Selection Fat girls and boys and nonbinary teens are: friends who lift each other up, heroes who rescue themselves, big bodies in space, intellects taking up space, and bodies looking and feeling beautiful. They express themselves through fashion, sports and other physical pursuits, through food, and music, and art. They are flirting and falling in love. They are loving to themselves and one another. With stories that feature fat main characters starring in a multitude of settings, and written by authors who live these lives too, this is truly a unique collection that shows fat young people the representation they deserve. With a foreword by Aubrey Gordon, creator of Your Fat Friend, and with stories by: Nafiza Azad, Chris Baron, Sheena Boekweg, Linda Camacho, Kelly deVos, Alex Gino, Claire Kann, amanda lovelace, Hillary Monahan, Cassandra Newbould, Francina Simone, Rebecca Sky, Monique Gray Smith, Renée Watson, Catherine Adel West, Jennifer Yen

On Imagination

On Imagination
Author: Mary Ruefle
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1946448028

"It is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea," Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her essay. With wit and intellectual abandon, Ruefle draws inspiration from Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Jesus, Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Emily Dickson to explore her subject. The chapbook features original interior illustrations. Mary Ruefle is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and prose, including Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Selected Poems, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.