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Author | : Brooke Stephens |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307813517 |
One evening in 1994, writer Brooke Stephens was listening to the news while working on a tribute to her grandfather for an upcoming family reunion. The evening's newscast began with three negative reports about black men--as rapists, muggers and murderers. The contrast between the black men on the news and the black man she was writing about suddenly seemed enormous. Where were the black men she knew? Stephens wondered. Why were they never featured on the evening news? Never publicly discussed or shown? From these questions, the idea for Men We Cherish was born. Waiting to Exhale and the Million Man March to the contrary, good black men are neither fantasy nor unanswered prayer. In Men We Cherish, thirty African American women celebrate these everyday heroes: fathers and grandfathers, brothers and best friends, sons and husbands. These essays, memoirs, and love letters offer moving portraits of the three-out-of-four black men who never make the headlines. The men in the lives of established black women writers, including Bebe Moore Campbell, Gloria Wade-Gayles, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and the Delany sisters, reflect the diversity, honesty, generosity and depth that is the reality of African American men. With Men We Cherish, Brooke Stephens has created a groundbreaking collection that stands alone in the market as a literary memoir, a social critique, and an affirmation of faith.
Author | : Jamillah A. McDaniel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2012-06-20 |
Genre | : Contemporary fiction |
ISBN | : 9780615636092 |
All the Men We Love is an inspiring story of first generation college graduates journeying to become complete women. The story focuses on three twenty-something, young, hip, professional, urban women. Cameron Turner, Tomiko Bordeaux, and LaShaun Johnson are women prepared to make their mark on the metro area of Atlanta, GA. Cameron is a second year graduate student by day and a gifted poet by night. Her beauty, talent, and charm make for an eclectic soul that her friends adore. She is facing a constant battle with continuing school, pursuing her poetic license, and losing her virginity. Cameron is ready for love, but can't seem to discern if her supposed soul mate, Corey, is truly good for her. Tomiko, a bold, confident and beautiful woman, works at a reputable marketing firm. Raised by a single mother in Chicago, she is not familiar with the concept of unconditional love from a man. Her hard exterior is shattered when Michael proposes to marry her. Tomiko attempts to devalue her relationship with him, until betrayal places her in harm's way. If you want someone on your side when times get rough, LaShaun is the one to have in your corner. Her liberated and sometimes less than feminine demeanor is enough to make any person intimidated. Her friends know that she is a caring person, even when she curses them out. LaShaun desires to be with a financially secure man and in order to keep her ideal mate, she allows Jason, an arrogant man, to run in and out of her life.
Author | : Eleonora “Gigi” Bulz |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 71 |
Release | : 2011-03-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1456892614 |
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Author | : Gary Thomas |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2009-05-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0310317487 |
What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?By popular demand, the author of Sacred Marriage returns to the topic of how God uses marriage to expand our souls and make us holy. With all new material, Devotions for a Sacred Marriage explores how God can reveal himself to you through your marriage and help you grow closer to him as well as to your spouse.Fifty-two devotions encourage you to build your marriage around God’s priorities. From learning to live with a fellow sinner, to the process of two becoming one, to sharing our lives as brothers and sisters in Christ, Devotions for a Sacred Marriage challenges couples to embrace the profound and soul-stretching reality of Christian marriage.
Author | : bell hooks |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2004-01-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0743480333 |
From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, a timelessly necessary treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all, with a new introduction by poet Ross Gay. Feminist writing did not tell us about the deep inner misery of men. Everyone needs to love and be loved—including men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways in which patriarchal culture keeps them from understanding themselves. In The Will to Change, bell hooks provides a compassionate guide for men of all ages and identities to understand how to be in touch with their feelings, and how to express versus repress the emotions that are a fundamental part of who we are. With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. The Will to Change “creates space for men to acknowledge their traumas and heal—not only for their sake, but for the sake of everyone in their lives” (BuzzFeed).
Author | : Gary Thomas |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017-01-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0310347270 |
Gary Thomas, pastor and bestselling author of Sacred Marriage, believes that one simple word can bring hope, light, and life into any marriage: Cherish. Most marriages survive by gritting teeth and holding on. But what if surviving marriage wasn't the goal? What if we aimed to thrive instead? In Cherish, Thomas teaches us that although there are a countless number of marriages consisting of two people just going through the motions, there are real ways this pattern can be reversed: when husbands and wives learn to cherish one another in their everyday actions and words. The way we treat something acknowledges whether we cherish it or hold it with indifference or contempt. To truly cherish something is to go out of our way to show it off, protect it, and honor it. We want others to see and recognize and affirm the value that we see. Thomas reminds us that in a world desperate for marriage redemption, the act of cherishing is needed now more than ever. Cherishing your spouse will elevate your marriage relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and even physically. You will set different goals for your relationship, and you'll see your marriage with fresh eyes. Through personal stories, real-world examples, and timeless biblical truths, Thomas shares the tools you need to turn your marriage around, including: Using your mind to change your heart Sacrificing for your spouse Praying with intentionality Prioritizing your life partner Through the biblical act of cherishing, we can empower our spouses to become who they are called by God to be, and in the process to become more of who we are called to be, creating a marriage that feels more precious, more connected, and more satisfying. If you're ready to revolutionize your relationship, it's time to learn how to truly Cherish it.
Author | : Alison A. Armstrong |
Publisher | : Pax Programs |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-02 |
Genre | : Interpersonal communication |
ISBN | : 9781605309095 |
Step into the world of Alison Armstrong, where love, care, and attention from men are normal and relied upon-and a way of life available for every women. Do you have to sell our soul? Not even close. This book can be your guide, an unexpected friend, even a prophecy for your future. Funny information-packed text, illustrative charts and enlightening side-bars will deliver priceless insights into men their motivations and their inspirations. Making Sense of Men will teach you:"Why men pursue some women for sex and others for heart-felt relationships"How to tell when a man is emotionally involved"How to inspire generosity and attentiveness in all men"How you can be strong and successful-without discouraging men
Author | : Jill Conner Browne |
Publisher | : Crown Archetype |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2004-11-30 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1400082854 |
To know the Sweet Potato Queens is to love them, and if you haven't heard about them yet, you will. Since the early 1980s, this group of belles gone bad has been the toast of Jackson, Mississippi, with their glorious annual appearance in the St. Patrick's Day parade. In The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love, their royal ringleader, Jill Conner Browne, introduces the Queens to the world with this sly, hilarious manifesto about love, life, men, and the importance of being prepared. Chapters include: • The True Magic Words Guaranteed to Get Any Man to Do Your Bidding • The Five Men You Must Have in Your Life at All Times • Men Who May Need Killing, Quite Frankly • What to Eat When Tragedy Strikes, or Just for Entertainment • The Best Advice Ever Given in the Entire History of the World From tales of the infamous Sweet Potato Queens' Promise to the joys of Chocolate Stuff and Fat Mama's Knock You Naked Margaritas, this irreverent, shamelessly funny book is the gen-u-wine article.
Author | : James Louis Hevia |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822316374 |
In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time--the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain. The occasion was the mission of Lord Macartney, sent by the British crown and sponsored by the East India Company, to the court of the Qianlong emperor. Cherishing Men from Afar looks at the initial confrontation between these two empires from a historical perspective informed by the insights of contemporary postcolonial criticism and cultural studies. The history of this encounter, like that of most colonial and imperial encounters, has traditionally been told from the Europeans' point of view. In this book, James L. Hevia consults Chinese sources--many previously untranslated--for a broader sense of what Qing court officials understood; and considers these documents in light of a sophisticated anthropological understanding of Qing ritual processes and expectations. He also reexamines the more familiar British accounts in the context of recent critiques of orientalism and work on the development of the bourgeois subject. Hevia's reading of these sources reveals the logics of two discrete imperial formations, not so much impaired by the cultural misunderstandings that have historically been attributed to their meeting, but animated by differing ideas about constructing relations of sovereignty and power. His examination of Chinese and English-language scholarly treatments of this event, both historical and contemporary, sheds new light on the place of the Macartney mission in the dynamics of colonial and imperial encounters.
Author | : Pam Jenoff |
Publisher | : Random House LLC |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385534205 |
Defending the brother of a Holocaust hero against allegations of World War II crimes, fiercely independent attorneys Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington slowly fall for one another, while their client refuses to help in his own defense and claims that proof of his innocence lies within an intricate clock. By the author of The Kommandant's Girl. 40,000 first printing.