Makeda's Soul

Makeda's Soul
Author: N. Makeda Lucas
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2000-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 059512979X

A sensuous collection of poetry filled with consciousness and spirit. The baring of a soul that has lived, loved, lost and rediscovered it’s passion.

Soul Tap

Soul Tap
Author: N. Makeda Lucas-Ingram
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2002-06-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0595229948

The second collection of poetry filled with soulful words written to stir and inspire readers. Tapping into your soul from my soul.

Path(Os) of Redemption

Path(Os) of Redemption
Author: Julian Lesouffrir
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2014-06-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496915941

What is the true depth of love and commitment? On the road to being forgiven, and tasked to aid those that are lost, Blaeciel, a newly born Cherub seeks to answer just that when his charge, a girl named Deirdre, commits suicide. While battling demons from his own past, Blaeciel attempts to find his beloved in the lowest depths of the universeTartarus. On his journey he confronts many foes, friends, and unlikely allies, but on his quest to find one he runs the risk of losing himself. This novel explores the true path, and pains, of redemption, and how true love can help one to see paradise even in the darkest regions of Hell.

Makeda

Makeda
Author: Randall Robinson
Publisher: Akashic Books
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2011-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1617750220

Makeda Gee Florida Harris March is a proud matriarch, the anchor and emotional bellwether who holds together a hard-working African American family living in 1950s Richmond, Virginia. Lost in shadow is Makeda's grandson Gray, who begins escaping into themagical world of Makeda's tiny parlor.

Pilgrimage to Iona

Pilgrimage to Iona
Author: Claire Nahmad
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014-09-23
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1780287852

A celebration of the beauty and mystery of Iona—a hallowed place of pilgrimage and spiritual self-discovery. With a history swathed in spirituality and mystery, the Scottish isle of Iona has always been revered as a holy place, the center of Scottish Christianity. Legends abound of Jesus and Mary Magdalene alighting and living here before the Crucifixion, and Christ is believed to have visited the island with his mother. Celebrating sacred Iona as a place of pilgrimage, Claire Nahmad explores the fascinating ancient link between Iona and Rosslyn Chapel, the extraordinary unfinished building near Edinburgh, another prominent destination for those interested in biblical, masonic and pagan history. Nahmad takes you on a journey of revelation, unlocking the golden secret of the island and unveiling the undisclosed legacy of the Knights Templar.

Juju Fission

Juju Fission
Author: Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2007
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781433100895

Women, especially leaders, holding tête-à-têtes with men to address political impasses have been recognized as shrewd, double headed, or witchlike distinctions that link them with juju or extraordinary, survivalist powers. Juju Fission: Women's Alternative Fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the Oases In-Between is a theoretical and analytical book on African women writers that focuses on seven representative novels from different parts of Africa: Bessie Head's Maru (South Africa/Botswana); Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero (Egypt); Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy; or Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint and Changes (Ghana); Assia Djebar's A Sister to Scheherazade (Algeria); Calixthe Beyala's The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me (Cameroon); and Yvonne Vera's Nehanda (Zimbabwe). In her analysis, Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi demonstrates how women are viewed and how they operate in critical times. Ogunyemi explains how the heritage is passed on, in spite of dire situations emanating from colonialism, postcolonialism, ethnicism, sexism, and grinding poverty. An important contribution to many fields, Juju Fission is excellent background material for courses on African studies, women's studies, African Diaspora studies, black studies, global studies, and general literature studies.

Searching for Sycorax

Searching for Sycorax
Author: Kinitra D. Brooks
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2017-12-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813584639

Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre’s historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory. Brooks examines the works of women across the African diaspora, from Haiti, Trinidad, and Jamaica, to England and the United States, looking at new and canonized horror texts by Nalo Hopkinson, NK Jemisin, Gloria Naylor, and Chesya Burke. These Black women fiction writers take advantage of horror’s ability to highlight U.S. white dominant cultural anxieties by using Africana folklore to revise horror’s semiotics within their own imaginary. Ultimately, Brooks compares the legacy of Shakespeare’s Sycorax (of The Tempest) to Black women writers themselves, who, deprived of mainstream access to self-articulation, nevertheless influence the trajectory of horror criticism by forcing the genre to de-centralize whiteness and maleness.

Makeda’s Ring – Part 1

Makeda’s Ring – Part 1
Author: Alfred Wallner
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 899
Release: 2022-07-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1398413402

For Markus the choice was stark: - Leave Austria, the homeland he both loved and hated. - Flee from Lizzy, never more than a pale substitute for Laura, the love of his life, shattered to pieces by a bomb. - Flee a country still overshadowed by the aftermath of Nazism. - Make for Ethiopia, that land of all mysteries, magical and captivating, sombre and dangerous, luminous and healing. There, as he sets out to fulfil Laura’s dream of finding her uncle’s grave, Markus is forced to face his deepest fears and experience the highs and lows of every emotion, through the fascinating power of a single object. A ring. A simple ring, on the finger of an Ethiopian princess, which will lead him on his quest, bring him the answers. And the words which already haunt his memories. Makeda, Makeda’s Ring.

The Poet Prince

The Poet Prince
Author: Kathleen McGowan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2010-07-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 085720016X

The third book in the Magdalene Line Trilogy takes Maureen to Florence, where she begins training in the secret teachings of The Order of the Holy Sepulcher. Under the guidance of her new teacher, Destino, she discovers the fascinating story of Lorenzo de Medici - the godfather of the Renaissance and the greatest patron of the arts in history. But Lorenzo's obsession was not with culture alone. Instead, he worked carefully to create a body of work which would preserve a series of ancient secrets - secrets too powerful and dangerous to be committed to writing. But Maureen's most explosive discovery affects the person closest to her, as she realizes that her lover, Berenger, shares an extraordinary legacy with Lorenzo de Medici. Both men were born under the auspices of a prophecy found in the early writing of the Bloodline - the prophecy of the Poet Prince. But as Berenger and Maureen explore the daunting task of filling Lorenzo's place in the 21st Century, they find themselves the subject of an ancient vendetta hell-bent on destroying the heresy and ending Maureen's life in the process.

Makeda

Makeda
Author: Prue Sobers
Publisher: Old Trees Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0987210416

A novel that gives life to two biblical figures, Solomon and Makeda, the Queen of Sheba and all of Ethiopia.