Kirjahaku

What if you remembered being born? Imagine your awakening...Tanner Blue is an African-American woman named after the black painter, Henry Tanner. Her memory of being born inspires Tanner Blue to explore her own potential as an artist. Nurtured by her father and discouraged by her mother, Tanner Blue resorts to the artist's weapon of choice-imagination-in order to pursue her dream. Destiny leads Tanner Blue to a magical world that tests her creative abilities and alters her relationship to reality forever. Tanner Blue is set on the dreamy North Coast of California and in the enticing territory of Blackton. This novel embodies universal themes of duty, alienation, and self-fulfillment. In the traditions of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Richard Bach's Illusions, the lessons in Tanner Blue are familiar yet profound.

Isalene Will is a black girl from the projects on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The summer of her ninth birthday presents her with several intense transitions, one of which is leaving her neighborhood to attend an elite school where she is one of few black students. Divided between two worlds, she digs deep and tests the stability of her roots.

LENORE BROOKS is an African-American woman in her early forties who visits the Old Town Oakland farmers' market on Friday afternoons. Though she is married to JAMEY LAMONTE, who is a very successful realtor, she finds herself drawn to MANGROVE WINGFEATHER, who she has noticed at the market for several weeks. Lenore dabbles at painting and Mangrove sets up exhibits at the Oakland museum. After Jamey invades Lenore's "artistic space," Lenore leaves home and accepts Mangrove's invitation to accompany him to the Painted Desert on a business trip. Overshadowed by a full solar eclipse, their travels bring to light a shocking secret that pulls Lenore in many revealing directions. PAINTED DESERTS will appeal to the audiences of THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho; ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach; and THE CELESTINE PROPHECY by James Redfield.

El ni o, Demonstration, Cross Country, What If The Indians?, Sleep Away, Flip Turn, and Music for the Dream make up this collection of seven short stories. In them you will meet Nash and Joana, who are considering having a child; Charm Palm , an aspiring journalist who wants to show a positive side of Oakland, California; Merina Jordan, who gets caught up in double romantic intrigue on her way from New York City to Los Angeles; Alura, who speaks up for the first time in her high-school history class; Glori, an adolescent who is coming of age; Blessine and Brick who are tempted to buy a houseboat and "simplify" their lives; and Naniki, who lives on a hidden island in danger of being discovered. These characters stand ready to escort you through worlds of desire, nostalgia, and future possibilities.

Intimacy as an ideal is one way to regard this series of romantic vignettes. Qpid is a lonely and disgruntled matchmaker tasked with connecting Her and Him "over, and over, and over again." In this original series of vignettes, the reader gets to fill in many of her or his blanks regarding perceptions of the story's nonlinear progression, making it interactive in an unusual way. Not only does the reader get to experience the idealized intellectual, physical, and spiritual intimacy of one couple, she/he also gets to find out if Qpid, himself, finally meets his own match.

Award-winning author, Valerie Haynes Perry, has written this book to help you maintain the clarity, self-confidence, and motivation you need to bring your own book into being. Write the Book You Want-Be Your Own Coach is the third book in her writers' trilogy. It's preceded by Listening Out Loud-A Friend to the Serious Writer and Write, Read, Listen-Your Handy Writing Coach. This capstone empowers you to combine your desire, experience, and skill in order to live up to the promise of the title. You can benefit from this book if you are new to writing or experienced and wish to approach the craft from an innovative perspective.New in this edition is a SIXTH Chapter, Motivational (TM) Writing. It introduces the reader to an uplifting and empowering approach toward cultivating personal literary development.