Encyclopedia of African-American Literature

Encyclopedia of African-American Literature
Author: Wilfred D. Samuels
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Total Pages: 1999
Release: 2015-04-22
Genre: African American authors
ISBN: 1438140592

Presents a reference on African American literature providing profiles of notable and little-known writers and their works, literary forms and genres, critics and scholars, themes and terminology and more.

New York Calling

New York Calling
Author: Marshall Berman
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781861893383

Acclaimed historian Berman and journalist Berger gather a stellar group of writers and photographers who combine their energies to weave a rich tale of New York Citys struggle, excitement, and wonder.

Garner's Quotations

Garner's Quotations
Author: Dwight Garner
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0374722145

A selection of favorite quotes that the celebrated literary critic has collected over the decades. From Dwight Garner, the New York Times book critic, comes a rollicking, irreverent, scabrous, amazingly alive selection of unforgettable moments from forty years of wide and deep reading. Garner’s Quotations is like no commonplace book you’ll ever read. If you’ve ever wondered what’s really going on in the world of letters today, this book will make you sit up and take notice. Unputdownable!

The Collected Novels of Charles Wright

The Collected Novels of Charles Wright
Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062966421

“Reading Wright is a steep, stinging pleasure.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times In this incisive, satirical collection of three classic American novels by Charles Wright—hailed by the New York Times as “malevolent, bitter, glittering”—a young, black intellectual from the South struggles to make it in New York City. This special compilation includes a foreword by acclaimed poet and novelist Ishmael Reed, who calls Wright, “Richard Pryor on paper.” As fresh and poignant as when originally published in the sixties and seventies, The Messenger, The Wig, and Absolutely Nothing to get Alarmed About form Charles Wright’s remarkable New York City trilogy. By turns brutally funny and starkly real, these three autobiographical novels create a memorable portrait of a young, working-class, black intellectual—a man caught between the bohemian elite of Greenwich Village and the dregs of male prostitution and drug abuse. Wright’s fiction is searingly original in bringing to life a special time, a special place, and the remarkable story of a man living in two worlds. This updated edition shines a spotlight once again on this important writer—a writer whose work is so crucial to our times.

Magical Adventures Paranormal Cozy Mystery Starter Pack

Magical Adventures Paranormal Cozy Mystery Starter Pack
Author: Nyx Halliwell
Publisher: Beach Path Publishing, LLC.
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2023-01-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Looking for a new Paranormal Cozy Mystery series? Try these THREE full-length series starters filled with magical heroines, romance, talking cats, and fun! Get cozy with a warm drink and dive into: Of Potions & Portents, Sister Witches of Raven Falls, Book 1 - Welcome to Raven Falls, where four sisters—Spring, Summer, Autumn, & Winter—run their witchy shop, Conjure, and find themselves up to their magickal tea cups in murder, mystery, and romance! Pumpkins & Poltergeists, Confessions of a Closet Medium, Book 1 - Avalon Fantome sees ghosts, but lordy, she wishes she didn’t! Returning to her family home in Georgia after her Aunt Willa is murdered, she must take charge of her aunt’s event planning business, live with a shape-shifting cat, cope with small town secrets, and deal with poltergeists, cursed objects, and malevolent spirits…and then there are the townsfolk who don’t want her messing in their affairs. It all adds up to magic, murder, laughter and love. Cinder, Sister Witches of Story Cove, Book 1 - Once upon a time in a small town called Story Cove… Four magickal sisters, plus their family, find themselves in very real, living versions of their favorite fairytales. These stories come with princes, poison apples, and shape-shifting wolves, but also murder, mystery, and—let’s not forget—magick. Enchantment abounds as they fight evil, break curses, and navigate the modern dating world, all while searching for their personal happy endings. Grab this starter pack today and find a new series to binge!

Of Potions and Portents, Sister Witches of Raven Falls Mystery Series, Book 1

Of Potions and Portents, Sister Witches of Raven Falls Mystery Series, Book 1
Author: Nyx Halliwell
Publisher: Beach Path Publishing, LLC.
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2021-05-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1948686139

A Magickal Witchy Mystery... First book in a completed series of four stories from USA Today bestselling author Nyx Halliwell featuring humorous mysteries with witches, talking animals, shifters, ghosts, and fun! ★★★★★ “…mystical, magical, and a joy to read from start to finish.” ~ So Many Reads I’m Spring Whitethorne, kitchen witch, and I’ll be honest—I long for love and a “normal” social life, just like everyone else. Finding the time, however—not to mention the right guy—is a lost cause. My days are spent cooking up products for the Lotions, Potions, and Herbs line for Conjure, the metaphysical shop I run with my sisters, and my specialty love potion blend is helping everyone else in Raven Falls find romance, while I’m working my broomstick off preparing for the upcoming Beltane celebration. That is until Tristan McGregor, the sexy chief of police, threatens to shut down my kitchen and accuses me of murder. Two people have died, entangled in—ahem—a compromising position, and covered in my love potion. On top of that, I discover an unsettling portent about the chief in his tea leaves, and when he steals a kiss after catching me at the crime scene, I try to convince myself it's only because he’s under the influence of the love potion enchantment. But is he? With my cursed mockingbird familiar, Hoax, my sassy sister witches, and a whole lot of peppermint tea, I have to solve the mystery before Tristan puts me behind bars. Even so, as the fires of Beltane nip at my heels, introducing the chief to the world of magick could send my chances at love up in smoke.

Evening Bags and Executions

Evening Bags and Executions
Author: Dorothy Howell
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0758253354

When retail worker Haley Randolph stumbles across the dead body of Lacy Hobbs, who was recently hired by L.A. Affairs to bake a six-foot yellow submarine for high-maintenance Sheridan Adams's A-list charity auction, Haley is blamed for the theft of collectible Beatles bobbleheads and begins to wonder if her new boss Vanessa Lord is trying to sabotage her.