A collection of twelve stories, features stories of a hapless petty thief, a light-skinned Guyanese girl, and a stranger in England who experiences a recurrent nightmare
Meet Our Sheroes
In a time where both the young and old are giving up on their dreams; Single, Saved & Young addresses these issues and more. Too many times we fail to turn to the only person that can make us better and to bring change in our lives. We look for temporary void fillers to relief the pain inflicted upon us while walking this pathway called life. Single, Saved, & Young encourages readers to be re-born again, re-commit themselves to God, and to begin to walk in the fullness of who he has called them to be. In order for us to realize who we are, we must first identify who we are in Christ How can one try to deal with these three and remain in the will of God? Single, Saved and Young tackle these questions by stressing the importance of having a relationship with God, seeking God for your purpose, and by not allowing your age to be a determining factor in your potential to become great. Most importantly, this book shows the ways in which a person can learn how to not be distracted in their season of singleness.
Sunday’s Child by Anne Lyken-Garner is the remarkably inspirational true story of a little girl struggling to rise above poverty, appalling living conditions, food lines, violence, abuse, mental anguish and political hardships. It shows how she picks out little glimmers of hope and love and uses them as positive anchors in her life. She draws on everything she has – just to survive. Readers, all of the events I’ve recorded in this book have happened to me in real life, each and every one of them and more. I have changed the names of the people in this memoir – but not Theresa’s – because I did not wish to cause them any embarrassment. Apart from these names, nothing else has been changed; although, a few of the events may not have appeared chronologically. I have recorded these episodes of my life to show that regardless of your past, with God’s help, and a few good people, you are potentially able to rise above it and can consciously decide not to allow it to affect who you are at present. It’s an agonizing affair, but I believe that if people who’ve been abused in their childhood allow their entire lives to be ruined by it, they have in effect surrendered to their abuser their right of self. Abusers are aware of the devastating powers of their actions, so if the victim continues to live his or her life in the shadow of that abuse even after it has ceased, he or she is enabling the abuser to succeed in destroying their life, thus achieving their goal. I wrote this book in the progressive developmental language of a growing child to provide an opportunity for the reader to visualise the intimate thoughts of an imprisoned child of that age. This I hope, would offer a tool, which could help to identify a child who is being abused. This approach also enabled me to show how abused children can grow to believe the lies they’re told, and actually sympathise with their abusers in some respects. You would’ve also noticed how easy it is for children to believe the ignorance with which some adults saturate their thoughts and lives. In addition, I wanted to express my experiences in the way I saw them as a child, because I was not willing to add my adult opinions to this story. Firstly, because this approach allowed the person I am now to take a step back and write the story objectively. Also, it meant that I did not have to painstakingly analyse a lot of the behaviours demonstrated in Sunday’s Child; patterns which, although I could not understand them then, are clear to me now because of my training, Child Psychology qualifications, and work experiences. For legal purposes, I want to mention also, that some of my then juvenile political assessments of the government were not necessarily factual. They are merely what I believed to be the truth, based mainly on the opinions of the adults I overheard, and also on the effects the Government’s policies had on my young life.
A Guyanese Girl’s Story
Back in print: an extraordinary first novel by’a writer to watch and to enjoy.’*
Told in the voice of a girl as she moves from childhood into adolescence, Buxton Spice is the story the town of Tamarind Grove: its eccentric families, its sweeping joys, and its sudden tragedies. The novel brings to life 1970s Guyana-a world at a cultural and political crossroads-and perfectly captures a child’s keen observations, sense of wonder, and the growing complexity of consciousness that marks the passage from innocence to experience.
Through her travels to such exotic locales as New Zealand, North Africa, India, and the Caribbean, to name a few, Nirmala Narine has scoured local markets and remote hillsides for herbs and spices to bring home to her own kitchen. In this collection of recipes and personal anecdotes, Nirmala includes a thorough glossary of herbs and spices to guide even the most inexperienced cook beyond table salt and pepper.
“She’s mad real. She don’t front for nobody. If you listen to her music you learn stuff about her life and how she struggled to get where she is. She’s not just singing about how she’s out at the club.”
New York high school student China on R&B singer Mary J. Blige
Overwhelmingly, Black teenage girls are negatively represented in national and global popular discourses, either as being “at risk” for teenage pregnancy, obesity, or sexually transmitted diseases, or as helpless victims of inner city poverty and violence. Such popular representations are pervasive and often portray Black adolescents’ consumer and leisure culture as corruptive, uncivilized, and pathological.
In She’s Mad Real, Oneka LaBennett draws on over a decade of researching teenage West Indian girls in the Flatbush and Crown Heights sections of Brooklyn to argue that Black youth are in fact strategic consumers of popular culture and through this consumption they assert far more agency in defining race, ethnicity, and gender than academic and popular discourses tend to acknowledge. Importantly, LaBennett also studies West Indian girls’ consumer and leisure culture within public spaces in order to analyze how teens like China are marginalized and policed as they attempt to carve out places for themselves within New York’s contested terrains.
Are you ready to join the Sacred Bombshell r/evolution?
It’s Time to Step Into Your Greatness!
The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love is your passport to become the woman you were born to be. If you’ve been looking for a sign, this is it. Love-Body-Spirit™ coach, advice columnist, and motivational speaker Abiola Abrams reveals 11 self-worth secrets with assignments to awaken your feminine energy, reclaiming the word “bombshell” to mean a woman who deliciously embodies her mind, body, spirit – and joy.
Abiola’s transformational coaching is buoyed by her Guyanese family lessons and overcoming personal challenges from disordered eating to a “failed” marriage. If you have everything going for you, except what you really want, this journey is for you.
Self-love is sacred. Being empowered is your “femergetic” birthright. Consider this your playbook to activate your Big, Brave, Brazen, Bombshell Breakthrough Life!
Sacred Bombshell readers will learn:
* Why nothing matters more than you feeling good;
* When to activate your sacred “blisspower” and “blissipline;”
* How to use your super powers to overcome any challenge;
* The Bombshell Breakthrough Blueprint;
* When activating intuition makes you powerful beyond measure;
* How to make beauty a spiritual practice;
* Why being “full of yourself” conquers your Inner Bully, and so much more…
Communication Power and Change in the Caribbean takes a fascinating, holistic, multi-level actor-oriented approach to examining social change in two Caribbean countries. Paloma Mohamed evaluates the power of various communicative artefacts produced by various strata in those societies, investigating what constitutes this power, how it is used, how it is maintained and whose interests are served. The result is a richly researched, deeply thoughtful and passionately argued case for placing communication at the core of evaluations of power and change in the world.
It’s Star’s first day of school and she isn’t afraid to make new friends. Throughout the day, her conversations with her classmates teach her about many places and cultures around the world. And, by the end of her school day, she learns a big life lesson!