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Tawanda's Quest

Tawanda's Quest

Brooke Alexis Burks

Docubrooke
2019
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When Tawanda's big brother Marcus is killed at age 14, Tawanda begins writing her memories of him to help her cope with the loss. The laughter and tears roll together for her, but in the end, she learns more about herself than she could ever imagine.
Mythatypes

Mythatypes

Alexis Brooks De Vita

Praeger Publishers Inc
2000
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Dr. Alexis Brooks De Vita takes up the challenge to develop culturally relevant modes of literary analysis of African/Diaspora literatures by identifying traditional African and Diaspora figures of myth, religion, legend, and history that interact with African and Diaspora literary heroines and their authors. Following upon Karla Holloway's arguments in Moorings and Metaphors that African American and West African women share strong traits of storytelling that both isolate and identify their literatures, Brooks De Vita traces these traits to their religious, legendary, and historical sources, identifying African and Diaspora female figures of power whose interaction with literary protagonists places personal stories among the collective historical and spiritual African/Diaspora experience, broadening and deepening each authorial voice by demonstrating how it breaks free of the European perspective of linear time and resonates in a timeless community whose members ceaselessly interact. African/Diaspora women's symbols of power assert their autonomous definitions of good and evil, enabled by decolonialist analysis as expounded by theorists such as Chinweizu, Jemie, and Madubuike to be separated from universalizing, Eurocentric or masculinist assessments. Symbols of inherent, rootedness and empowerment are clearly identified, allowing the reader to perceive tales of salvation and success underlying and further developing literal tales of suffering, surrender, or loss. Will be of particular interest to students, scholars, and researchers of comparative literature as well as African American literature and African/Diaspora and Women's Studies.
Conscious Musings: Contemplations to Transform Life and Realize Potential
What do human personality, paranormal phenomena, manifestation, and abundance all have in common? Answer: A tethering to the spectrum of reality that is begging humanity to pay attention Conscious Musings is an allegorical and literal composite of the world as it is and the world as it could be, weaving a common thread of spiritual consciousness, extraordinary experience, and creation powers to show that humans carry an inherent ability to transcend reality and themselves Despite what appears to be inescapable challenge and inexplicable events - anomalies that don't fit within "normal" experience, a world of milk and honey is a lot closer than we think, but with one critical caveat: We must exercise the act of honest contemplation. Is that all it would take to jumpstart a change in our reality and our world, individually and collectively? According to this powerful volume by metaphysical researcher, essayist, and journalist Alexis Brooks, the answer is a resounding yes She says, "...one must use unbiased introspection to realize where we are in our growth and evolution in order to root out the challenges and begin the process of embodying the solutions." The potential solutions can be seen and experienced through a myriad of lenses. Conscious Musings looks at the wide swings of consciousness as it relates to belief systems and world views, spiritual and revolutionary pursuits, ego and intuition, individualism and collectivism, the suppression or expression of paranormal experience, and the grounding of our innate metaphysical abilities into the physical world. Among the core premise, Brooks illuminates the phenomenon of out of body experiences (OBE), after-death communication, dreams and visualization, reincarnation and past lives, all within the context of realizing ultimate potential as part of our innate makeup. Included in this well-rounded collection of insights are effective and simple tools to empower and assist the reader in transforming life from ordinary to extraordinary The universal themes presented in Conscious Musings provide a compass for our journey to help us utilize our intrinsic powers of reflection, creation, and action and to evolve in a vast reality that is beckoning us forward. "I recommend Conscious Musings as a roadmap and Alexis Brooks your muse." -Ann Bolinger-McQuade, author of Everyday Oracles - Decoding the Divine Messages That Are All Around Us
Burning Streams

Burning Streams

Alexis Brooks de Vita

Double Dragon
2020
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When Eva Dennison learns that she has inherited the fallow sharecropping plantation in Mississippi that her parents fled to make a new life in L.A., she is eager to escape the big city and explore her historical roots. Eva abandons her dissertation about ancestral memory in African American literature and myth and takes with her Anastasia, her college-age daughter, and Charley, her investment broker cousin. Together, they plan to restore the old mansion and grounds and open a retreat and think-tank for activist women of the hard-hit Gulf region. But the three women's arrival at Eva's decayed mansion lands them in tragedy and terror. Eva falls in love with the troubled man researching her family's supernatural folklore about how they freed themselves from slavery. Charley thinks she's being stalked by a murderer. And beautiful Anastasia becomes enchanted by a mysterious wanderer in the woods who watches and waits for the family fairy tales to come true. Soon, Eva realizes that she must confront her family's mythical past before it destroys them all.
Blood of Angels - The Second Book of Joy

Blood of Angels - The Second Book of Joy

Alexis Brooks de Vita

Double Dragon
2020
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The Second Book of Joy: Blood of Angels is the first notebook of family lore that Professor Bo Wolfson researched in The Books of Joy: Burning Streams. These are the magical tales about their enslaved ancestors that his lover Eva Dennison fought with him to destroy. In their collected memoirs, nine enslaved women tell how they freed themselves and took over their owners' Mississippi breeding plantation, using African, African American, and European folktales to describe the magic and willpower that set them free. From the tale of a beautiful woman imprisoned in a tower to save her village from slave raiders to the murdered girl whose spirit is trapped in her bedroom mirror, these stories build to a bloody battle between the shape-shifting freed people hiding in plain sight and the bounty-hunting patrollers who pursue them. The blue-eyed African American girl who masquerades as the freed people's owner must learn, in the end, to choose the love and freedom in hiding that she can have or succumb to the death that is its only alternative.
Left Hand of the Moon

Left Hand of the Moon

Alexis Brooks de Vita

Fiction4all
2021
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Left Hand of the Moon is an American Romeo and Juliet story about doomed love between the very young. In the early 1800s, as the fledgling United States completes the Louisiana Purchase and marches troops through the newly acquired state, executing by firing squad the freed adult children of enslaved women and their owners, an enslaved teen and her owner's youngest son run away to live together. They have grown up together and have always trusted and loved each other. Now that adulthood threatens to force them into roles they would rather die than play, the passionate young couple determines to create their own future.Defying French and Spanish colonial custom and the new American laws, Aur lie and Jules masquerade as revelers and escape into the festive chaos of All Hallows' Eve in old New Orleans. On this night when spirits walk abroad, the lovers discover they have begun an adventure that may ultimately shatter every illusion they have about themselves, their families, their countrymen, and each other. Perhaps some dreams are best left undisturbed.
Love And Darker Passions

Love And Darker Passions

Alexis Brooks De Vita

Double Dragon
2022
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Love and Darker Passions is a collection of provocative short stories by today's up-and-coming authors of dark, urban and Gothic fantasy. Award-winning author Karen Duvall sends a Millennial Alice through a very different looking glass, and acclaimed author Lee Barwood sends the Sight-gifted bard of her upcoming series into the passionate world of faerie to hunt for a child - and find her own destiny. Bestseller C.E. Murphy reworks a favorite fairytale into a stunning perspective on what draws us into the arms of those we think we love. And new fantasy voices offer their disturbing visions.One man becomes enchanted by a fabled monster, another by a voice that drives him to a frenzy of self-punishing acts, and a third by the increasingly bizarre demands of his changeling girlfriend. A household appliance adores its new family and only wants to be needed - just a little more than is good for its owners, and a hexed man trusts his butler more than he does his wife. An Edenic society of loving innocents is confronted by jealous rage, and a woman too long taken for granted develops a fatal persona for whom she can at last demand her family's affection. And these lovers They fight curses - new, historical and ancient - to be united. They undertake epic quests to find each other. And they discover, again and again, that the shadowy third figure distorting their relationships into a triangle isn't quite what they thought it would be. For in this collection love proves to be that bloody splatter across the eons that moves at the edges of our lives, in our silences and secrets, drawing yearning hearts to hear what they were always listening for, in its indecipherable whispers in the dark. In Love and Darker Passions, a host of edgy and cult fantasy authors combine their talents to make us question what inspires love, why we crave revenge against those who've stolen love from us, and what is it that makes us despair in the event of love's loss.
The 1855 Murder Case of Missouri versus Celia, an Enslaved Woman
The 1855 Murder Case of Missouri versus Celia, an Enslaved Woman: An Exercise in Historical Imagination reconstructs and sets in motion known and suspected details, rebuilding the elided background story behind the conviction of an enslaved teen found guilty of bludgeoning and burning to death her owner. A middle-aged widower bought Celia for sexual usage that began in the first hour of her purchase; he fathered her three children in quick succession. After five years of sexual entrapment on his isolated farm, as the child Celia entered legal womanhood, someone brutally murdered her enslaver and told the posse to force a confession from Celia. The judge who decided the handling of the case suppressed testimony and struck exonerating evidence. The political climate and social tensions of pre-Civil War Missouri did not favor justice for an enslaved young woman who confessed, even under torture, to murdering her owner and mutilating his remains, though those acquainted with the case believed she could not have committed the deed. But why would Celia confess and then stick to her coerced confession, claiming that Satan made her do it? Who else might have harbored motives to brutalize and burn to death Celia's enslaver and then leave her to be condemned to hang? U.S. history favors belief in Celia's forced confession, but The 1855 Murder Case of Missouri versus Celia, an Enslaved Woman, interrogates the circumstances that produced it.
Case Studies in Public Sector Procurement and Design

Case Studies in Public Sector Procurement and Design

Alexis D. Brooks

Liverpool Business Publishing
2002
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Central government in Britain spends in the region of GBP24 billion a year in goods and services, presenting a massive opportunity for procurement innovation and design. Customer satisfaction is paramount and failure to provide it can be linked to poor specification or the lack of incorporation of key determinants. The case studies chosen for this book show current best practice processes and display how building in sound procurement and design criteria in the early stages produces decisions that meet the customer's needs. Case studies in Public Sector Procurement and Design is a study aid to specifically support the professional stage syllabus of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Graduate Diploma and other graduate and post-graduate programmes available across the UK and abroad. Sponsored by the Design Council with a foreword written by the Chief Executive