Real Life Action

Real Life Action
Author: Joshua Levi Brown
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2012-05-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 142699379X

Transform struggling into success. Thrilling, superb, suspenseful, impossible-to-put-down, true story. The author encourages, inspires and entertains. Guaranteed to motivate you into prosperity.

Destructive Desires

Destructive Desires
Author: Robert J. Patterson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019-04-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1978803583

Despite rhythm and blues culture’s undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to receive the serious scholarly examination it deserves. Destructive Desires corrects this omission by analyzing how post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues culture articulates competing and conflicting political, social, familial, and economic desires within and for African American communities. As an important form of black cultural production, rhythm and blues music helps us to understand black political and cultural desires and longings in light of neo-liberalism’s increased codification in America’s racial politics and policies since the 1970s. Robert J. Patterson provides a thorough analysis of four artists—Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Adina Howard, Whitney Houston, and Toni Braxton—to examine black cultural longings by demonstrating how our reading of specific moments in their lives, careers, and performances serve as metacommentaries for broader issues in black culture and politics.

Mind Games

Mind Games
Author: Dionne
Publisher: Dionne
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1425766870

Parris Reed is a smart, young and attractive woman, who just landed her dream job. She's happy with her life, but like most single women, she's looking for a "good" man to make it complete. When Parris meets attorney Victor Baxter through a colleague, she feels like her prayers have been answered. She finally has it all, but demons from her childhood resurface and strange things keep happening that convince her it's all too good to be true. Sometimes your mind can play tricks and people aren't always who they seem. It's a deadly game of who's who and Parris must figure it out before it's too late.

Hit Singles

Hit Singles
Author:
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780879308087

(Book). This entertaining book presents the U.S. and U.K. Top 20 charts side by side, month by month showing how rock and pop developed on each side of the Atlantic. Fully updated, it lists the hits from 1954 through 2003. Alongside every song listing, readers will find important facts such as the artist's name and nationality, current and previous month's chart position, record label, weeks on the chart, and simultaneous position on the other side of the pond. Includes an alphabetical listing of song titles with artists, and an alphabetical listing of artists with song titles and chart-entry dates, enabling easy cross-referencing to help you track down any Top 20 record since 1954.

Jet

Jet
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1994-03-14
Genre:
ISBN:

The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Snatched from the Fire

Snatched from the Fire
Author: Patricia Amis
Publisher: CCB Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2013-01-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1771430478

Amis, portraying herself as Sabrina Matheson, was living a relatively normal, happy life when a break-up, and well-intentioned recovery trip kicked off a chain of events that would leave the life she once knew in shambles. She realizes that her step-grandmother, who influenced the spiritual aspect of ex-serial killer David Berkowitz's life also influenced her spiritual life, but in an adverse way. To help cope with a difficult break-up, Amis' father sends her on a vacation in Jamaica with her best friend. It is there that she almost instantly becomes "consumed into the fire" when she is introduced to a man named Gary and the other worlds of witchcraft. She quickly found herself in the middle of a domestic violence situation, and it became increasingly difficult to be a mother of her two children. The memories of the materialistic life that her father, Mr. Barnes, introduced her to when she was a teenager did not alleviate any of the drama. About the Author Patricia Amis holds a Bachelor's degree from Wagner College in Staten Island, New York. She has also attended The New York University Graduate School of Social Work. Patricia is the Host, Founder, and Executive Producer of Elderview Talkshow, which airs on Time Warner Cable and Verizon Fios.

You Can Issue It, but Can You Take It When It Comes Back to You?

You Can Issue It, but Can You Take It When It Comes Back to You?
Author: Maya Sanders
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2013-04-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1475981651

Maya Sanders has had enough drama to last a lifetime. For too long has Maya withstood the slings and arrows of those close to herher aunts, uncles, and cousins; her daughters father; his mother; and any number of so-called friends. Now she is ready to open a Pandoras box and share secrets about herself and others that everyone believed would go with them to their graves. She tells her story with the hope that when shes done, everything will finally be out in the open. In her memoir, she recalls the forty-year grieving process that she has undergone in order to get where she is today. She has overcome the sense of being held hostage by those whom she believed loved her. Exploring the tragic circumstances of her life, she discusses all the pain she experienced and affirms that God has given her the strength to move on. Maya shares the honest saga of her trials and tribulations as she tried to navigate the world on the streets of Chicago. Now, after decades of grief and healing within the comforting arms of God, Maya is ready to finally say goodbye to her pain.

Jet

Jet
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2000-08-07
Genre:
ISBN:

The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

The Book of Hit Singles

The Book of Hit Singles
Author: Dave McAleer
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2001
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780879306663

(Book). Based on the official Top 20 charts from Billboard in the US and NME/Music Week in the UK, this entertaining book shows at a glance the monthly international status of the hits. The fully updated and revised fourth edition lists the charts since they began in January 1954 all the way through December 2000. Each song is listed with artist name and nationality, current and previous month's chart position, record label, weeks on the chart, and simultaneous position on the "other side of the pond." Special symbols indicate million-sellers, plus artists' first and most recent hits. All stars and songs are indexed separately, making it especially easy to pinpoint any Top 20 hit. Includes 200 photos, plus new pop trivia and star gossip!