Aimé Césaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. The long poem was the beginning of Césaire's quest for négritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. With its emphasis on unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, manipulation of language into puns and neologisms, and rhythm, Césaire considered his style a "beneficial madness" that could "break into the forbidden" and reach the powerfu...

When you've reached the bottom, there's only one way to go-up. But how, when all your bridges are burned and there's nothing to hold onto?Annette comes forward in this very real book to reveal her abuse and her sins and the crushing guilt and shame they leave behind. These pages come to life in the sweet and innocent memories of childhood, sprinkled with love and fun, living in a family of four girls and four boys. Then when Annette is only six, she became scared, bashful,...

My A,B,Cs was inspired by my niece Meg Smith, who is 3 years old. Together we sat down and began to learn the alphabet. At the end of the day we had penned a poem and titled it My A,B,C's. This was published by Forward Press in an anthology titled "Take A Peek".After Meg's Aunty Fay read, "Take A Peek" she illustrated my poem.We both realised, a book like this would be fun to publish and it would also make an excellent learning aid for all children in her age group and up. Children...

Annette Smith has been blessed with the ability to observe and find beauty, meaning, and humor in seemingly ordinary situations. Within a sentence or two, readers are captivated by her delightful, descriptive writing style, connected with the characters, and eager to hear more.Watermelon Days and Firefly Nights is Smith's fifth book of original short stories. In this charming collection, adults of all ages enjoy a behind-the-scenes peek at the lives and loves of a few of th...

From Philip Gulley to Chicken Soup books*,* short stories are everywhere! And readers can't get enough.In Homemade Humble Pie Annette Smith offers a collection of 26 heartwarming and wonderfully quirky stories about fictional characters we all seem to know. She dips into her experience as a friend and neighbor to cook up slice-of-life tales about people of all ages and walks of life. Smith's book introduces readers to an array of interesting characters--an elderly...

His whole life has been a story of hurt and rejection. Is one family’s love enough to turn it all around? Josh lost his parents in a drunk-driving accident and lost track of his two brothers after a tragic fire. By age eighteen, he is an angry young man who only wants a job, an apartment, and to be left alone. Instead, he meets Mike and Anna, an unusual son-and-mother team who draw him into their lives. For the first time, Josh receives unconditional love and something every human being cr...

From New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Gemma Halliday comes a female PI on the run, out of options, and totally unbreakable...Her name is Bond. Jamie Bond. And her life is about to be shaken and stirred in a cocktail of lies, scandal, and one very dead body.When Jamie Bond's father is injured on the job, she leaves her career as a fashion model to take over the family business, the Bond Agency, a PI firm located in Los Angeles that specializes in domestic espion...

THE BASIS FOR SILO, NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOW ON APPLE TV“One of dystopian fiction’s masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World." — Daily ExpressThe first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of mankind clawing for survival. The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underg...

From New York Times bestselling author Gemma Halliday and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Fischetto...Her name is Bond. Jamie Bond. And her luck may have just run out...P.I. Jamie Bond knows there's corruption in the Los Angeles County D.A.'s office. What she doesn't know is how far it runs and if her on-again, off-again love interest, A.D.A. Aiden Prince, is involved. Is he aware of the danger lurking in his halls of justice? Is he dating his exotic beauty of a co-ch...

Her name is Bond. Jamie Bond. And danger follows her everywhere…As a private investigator, Jamie Bond thought she had seen every sort of cheating-spouse case imaginable. That is until she's hired by a wife who's afraid her husband is cheating…on his diet. Rodger Claremont lost mega-pounds eating sandwiches from the Hoagies chain and subsequently became their celebrity spokesman. A position his wife fears he'll quickly lose if the pounds come back on. But what starts as a simple cas...

"Fans of Janet Evanovich will be glad to see that you don't always have to go to the burgh for mirthful murder and mayhem."- BooklistHow does a blonde spell "Farm"?E-I-E-I-OTressa Jayne Turner has had it up to here with the dumb-blonde jokes and a childhood nickname that's harder to get rid of than her favorite pair of cowboy boots. Thanks to one Rick Townsend, Iowa Department of Natural Resources officer, local hott...

From USA Today bestselling author Kelly Rey comes a laugh-out-loud mystery that is so funny it should be a crime…Jamie Winter loathes her job as a secretary in the sleaziest law firm in New Jersey. Trouble is, someone else loathes the whole firm—enough to kill one of the partners, the two-timing, eleven-fingered king of lowbrow television commercial spots, Dougie Digits. Now, Jamie is being strong-armed into investigating by Dougie's frosty widow, Hilary. The suspect list is long, ...