Everywhere You Dont Belong

Download or read book Everywhere You Don't Belong written by Gabriel Bump and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020 “A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it’s also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into the work . . . Bump’s meditation on belonging and not belonging, where or with whom, how love is a way home no matter where you are, is handled so beautifully that you don’t know he’s hypnotized you until he’s done.” —Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review In this alternately witty and heartbreaking debut novel, Gabriel Bump gives us an unforgettable protagonist, Claude McKay Love. Claude isn’t dangerous or brilliant—he’s an average kid coping with abandonment, violence, riots, failed love, and societal pressures as he steers his way past the signposts of youth: childhood friendships, basketball tryouts, first love, first heartbreak, picking a college, moving away from home. Claude just wants a place where he can fit. As a young black man born on the South Side of Chicago, he is raised by his civil rights–era grandmother, who tries to shape him into a principled actor for change; yet when riots consume his neighborhood, he hesitates to take sides, unwilling to let race define his life. He decides to escape Chicago for another place, to go to college, to find a new identity, to leave the pressure cooker of his hometown behind. But as he discovers, he cannot; there is no safe haven for a young black man in this time and place called America. Percolating with fierceness and originality, attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape, Everywhere You Don’t Belong marks the arrival of a brilliant young talent.

Download or read book The Unfuckingstoppable written by Hiral Nagda and published by Hiral Nagda Inc . This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unfuckingstoppable was born after hitting rock bottom and realizing that rock bottom was a priceless treasure to begin a never-before adventure to become limitless. This book offers you ways to collaborate with your inner powers and begin tapping the unlimited capacities positioned within you. By connecting with your boundless potential, you can create and experience every impossibility that fires up your heart because you are not just a human being with no control over your destiny, you are the power that can shake the universe by entirely redefining your destiny. Get ready to not just fulfill your grand destiny, but also to have a bash each day in the process of doing it. Living an extraordinary life is not a privilege for a few. It's the birthright of every single person to live a life of absolute bliss, joy, happiness, peace, wisdom, zest, energy, strength and prosperity (of all kinds) The book will help you to: • Knock out all the seemingly looking obstacles, difficulties, and challenges and keep moving forward with or without anyone. • Fill up with power, courage, and strength right during massive difficulties. • Not just live but thrive through life because that’s how life is intended for you. • Rise with zest and vigor in your passion, purpose and mission. • Not waste precious energy thinking about what others think and retain all that attention on things that drive your heart and soul. • Cherish wonderful hours, days, weeks, months, and years doing what you love to do, instead of what you have to do. • Turn every unwanted circumstance into fuel to become an unbreakable superstar. The UNFUCKINGSTOPPABLE is not just a book. It's the beginning of a lifestyle, a movement that starts from here. It's not a trend that turns viral and fizzles out. It's a fire that gets stronger in our hearts to illuminate the world. The book is a starting point. I aim to go beyond the book and connect directly with you and your fired-up mission. Hiral Nagda

Download or read book The Universal Anthology written by Richard Garnett and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book of Literature written by Richard Garnett and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kindred written by Octavia Butler and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As you turn the pages of this novel and get lost in Dana’s story, allow yourself to relive the horrors of slavery. . . . Allow yourself to know the pain of our nation’s past.”—Tomi Adeyemi, New York Times bestseller and Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, from the new foreword This brand new package for young adults includes a redesigned interior for better readability, specially commissioned cover art by Carlos Fama and spot gloss on cover elements “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.” Dana, a 1970s Black woman, is celebrating her 26th birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin. This young-adult edition includes a new foreword by Tomi Adeyemi, New York Times bestseller and Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of fantasy titles Children of Blood and Bone and Children of Virtue and Vengeance. Adeyemi was also named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people and was named one of Forbes’s 30 Under 30 in Media.

Download or read book Little Man with a Big Dream written by Susan Sykes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Sykes is a kind and respectful lady in her 50’s. Who enjoy working with all people and like sharing the positive things! She went to school, pass all her classes, graduated from the 12th and went to college for child care. Her first job was cleaning the streets in different neighborhoods. This was a summer job for children but you had to be 15 or 16 years old. Back then you were given a learner’s permit and your parent had to sign it and the school saying it was o.k. to work. She was able to help her mother, who was rising five (5) kids as a single mom. Susan was able to buy her own clothes, school supplies, shoe etc. Her mother still brought most of the items, for all her children. But what Susan didn’t learn in school was about money, investments, the rule of 72, how much money you need for retirement, where to put your money so it can grow and have a savings for emergency money. Everyone need 6 months to 12 months of emergency saving so when a disaster come, they will be prepared. Just like the Coronavirus in March 3, 2020, people were not prepared for that fall and out of a job. We all were told to go to school, to college, get a job and later get your own place. Many parents never learn about saving money either, that is why we were not taught. Susan pray that, you get some idea about saving your money, while you are young. Start as soon as possible. Susan Sykes has two children and one grand-daughter. Susan wants to dedicate this book to her children, (Bria, Rod and Taniyah). Susan worked with the public all her life and got along with mostly everyone she came in contact with. Susan’s mom had five children, she loves her mom very much and she is the middle child. Thank you, mother (Evelyn Brown) for all your hard work and your love. Susan knows, she on this earth for one reason and that is to win soul to Jesus and try to lead people in the right direction. She wants male/female to be educated on money. Especially the younger generation but it’s for everyone, age is just a number. Things people didn’t learn in schools, colleges, private schools and many more. Susan hope you find some kind of truth from this book and change your mind set. Start doing what you have read and you won’t be disappointed in the future to come. Follow these examples in the book and what Susan has written. Follow me! Why don’t you follow me, to a place where you can be free! We want to make this world a better place if we all can. Susan believe we can all do it if we stick to the examples and stick together. Stop making excuses instead, get knowledgeable and ask yourself, the reason WHY, you should do it for yourselves, your children and family. There is light and life at the end of the road. For many adults the road seems dark a lot of times but it’s also your mind and the way you think. So, if you think you can’t you are right and if you think you can have, you will have. Let’s have money working for us. You are not alone! Thank you all who reads this book. This is just the beginning! I pray you be so blessed by this book.

Download or read book Kindred written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.” Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. “Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise” (New York Times). “Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it’s absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.” —N. K. Jemisin Developed for television by writer/executive producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), executive producers also include Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (The Americans, The Patient), and Darren Aronofsky (The Whale). Janicza Bravo (Zola) is director and an executive producer of the pilot. Kindred stars Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, and Gayle Rankin.