Naked Rain

Naked Rain
Author: Lorraine Taylor Ramkeesoon
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1524647942

Naked Rain is about an average middle-class family who faced a crisis that is, unfortunately, getting too familiarthe murder of a child. From birth to youth, we protect our children with every fiber of our beingwith passion, with vigor, with prideonly to have their light extinguished. As parents, we struggle when we have been suddenly deprived of our futurefrom giving birth, welcoming them home to their new nursery, carefully burping, holding their little head and neck, feeding and changing diapers, to taking them to school. We figure out what sports they should partake in to their first car and everything in betweenmusic lessons, extracurricular activities, having pets, detentions, successes, and failures. But never do we ever contemplate what would happen should they be insidiously taken away from us.

Drop of Rain!

Drop of Rain!
Author: Phalafala Aphane
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2010-12-20
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1456839047

Rain

Rain
Author: Ernestine Coleman-Dupree
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2022-01-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1685500315

Richard Forrest is just going through the motions. Childhood baggage keeps him in line but away from some of the things he truly wants. His friendship with Adrian -- or Rain, as Richard calls him -- put him in constant conflict with the path in life he thought he should be on. After nearly two years of separation, Richard bumps into Rain, and their incidental meeting results in old emotions flaring to life for both of them despite everything in the way. Rain’s free-spirited nature led him down a road of bad decisions that included drug use. This was ultimately the thing that separated the two of them in the past. Now a recovering addict, Rain is trying his best to put his life back together. When Richard finds out Rain is drug free, he welcomes him back into his life and embraces who he truly is in the process. Their friendship moves to romance until all too familiar behaviors start to resurface. Can Richard and Rain work their way through this latest set of trials and tribulations? Will suspicion and fear tear apart what their love has stitched back together?

Sunshine & Rain

Sunshine & Rain
Author: Dawn Desiree
Publisher: Urban Books
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2016-02-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1622868722

With their families torn apart by the vicious life of the streets, Sunshine and Rain find each other living with the same foster mother, who has a secret life of her own. With Rain's stern heart of steel and Sunshine's innocent heart of gold, they try to cope with traumatic, unforeseen circumstances that come their way. As these two diamonds hook up and shine, they go from rags to riches. Watch as Sunshine and Rain deal with death, betrayal, love, and sweet temptation. Can their newfound friendship survive through all the madness?

Raindrop!

Raindrop!
Author: Phalafala Aphane
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2010-12-20
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1469159104

Rain, in the African context, has a deep cultural significance. It symbolizes the prevalence of peace as a tirade against any cruel authority or fundamentalism of all kinds. Drop of Rain! is a unique, epic, surrealistic and long unparalleled poem . . .which is used ornamentally as a tender whisper of struggle and peace that offers unlimited thinking and space and uncovers the truth that toughens and softens the dark shades of human souls and the shape of the animus within our dreams from multi-textured life. It reveals the conscience, the consciousness and conscientiousness, the wit, care and foresight—to everyone who feels, thinks, sings, and dreams of Rain; to share that inner glowing, glorious, chorally co-operative music of rain and making of tomorrow—as a liberating and humanistic philosophy; to awaken societal and opinionated values and social intercourse. This poetry, I hope, offers a window on African humanity, in and beyond the continent; because the Rain is everywhere. Every Drop of Rain! has a poem to unite our beautiful world for a permanent global peace. ‘Personal Rain alone is not enough, Village Rain alone is not enough, Country Rain alone is not enough, African Rain alone is not enough, European Rain alone is not enough, American Rain alone is not enough and . . . ‘ A cow does not excrete its whole dung at once. Pula ga e ne! Let it rain in four corners of the world! Drop of Rain! will constantly invite your own freedom of interpretation as you enjoy the journey of reading it.

The Keys of Power

The Keys of Power
Author: J. Abbott
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000390047

This book, first published in 1932, demonstrates how the control of certain ‘-isms’ has for long moulded the interpretation of Indian belief and ritual by Western writers particularly. In every chapter there is some new coordination, often iconoclastic of then-accepted theory, whilst the new wealth of customs carefully recorded is astonishing. Long disputed problems such as that of the Maratha ‘devak’, or that of the ceremonial sowing of seedlings known to Western scholars as the ‘gardens of Adonis’, have at last been settled through careful research.

Spirits of Ash and Foam

Spirits of Ash and Foam
Author: Greg Weisman
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250029813

Welcome to the Prospero Keys (or as the locals call them: the Ghost Keys), the beautiful chain of tropical islands on the edge of the Bermuda Triangle where Rain Cacique lives. When Rain's maternal grandfather passed away, he left her his special armband: two gold snakes intertwined, clasping each other's tails in their mouths. Rain soon discovers that the armband is actually a zemi – a very powerful talisman created by the island's native Arawak Taino Indians – and that it allows Rain to see ghosts, including her own grandfather who is determined to help her uncover the Ghost Keys' hidden world of mystery and mysticism, intrigue and adventure. Now, Rain Cacique's looking for a few answers — and the second zemi, a Taino relic that allows her to see dead people. But it's the first week of school, so she's pretty busy juggling teachers, homework, baby-sitting duties, new friends, missing tourist kids... and a vampire with a tribal twist. Spirits of Ash and Foam is the second installment in Greg Weisman's Rain of the Ghosts series.

Introducing Arguments

Introducing Arguments
Author: Liina Pylkkänen
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0262162547

This compositional theory of verbal argument structures explores how 'noncore' arguments (i.e. arguments that are not introduced by verbal roots themselves) are introduced into argument structure, and examines cross-linguistic variation in introducing arguments.