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Black Dove
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Author : Ana Castillo
language : en
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 2016-04-18
Black Dove written by Ana Castillo and has been published by The Feminist Press at CUNY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Growing up as the intellectually spirited daughter of a Mexican Indian immigrant family during the 1970s, Castillo defied convention as a writer and a feminist. A generation later, her mother's crooning mariachi lyrics resonate once again. Castillo—now an established Chicana novelist, playwright, and scholar—witnesses her own son's spiraling adulthood and eventual incarceration. Standing in the stifling courtroom, Castillo describes a scene that could be any mother's worst nightmare. But in a country of glaring and stacked statistics, it is a nightmare especially reserved for mothers like her: the inner-city mothers, the single mothers, the mothers of brown sons. Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me looks at what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial profiling, and police brutality. Through startling humor and love, Castillo weaves intergenerational stories traveling from Mexico City to Chicago. And in doing so, she narrates some of America's most heated political debates and urgent social injustices through the oft-neglected lens of motherhood and family.
Black Dove White Raven
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Author : Elizabeth E. Wein
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group
Release Date : 2015-03-31
Black Dove White Raven written by Elizabeth E. Wein and has been published by Penguin Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-31 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
From the beloved and acclaimed Elizabeth Wein comes a searing new novel about friendship, flying, and war. Emilia and Teo's lives changed in a fiery, terrifying instant when a bird brought down the plane their mothers were piloting. Teo's mother died immediately, but Em's survived, determined to raise Teo according to his late mother's wishes--among his own people in Ethiopia. Rhoda brings Em and Teo to Ethiopia and all three fall in love with the beautiful, peaceful country. But that peace is shattered by the threat of war with Italy, and teenage Em and Teo are drawn into the conflict. Will their love for their country and each other be their downfall . . . or their salvation?
Black Dove
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Author : Colin McAdam
language : en
Publisher: Soho Press
Release Date : 2023-02-07
Black Dove written by Colin McAdam and has been published by Soho Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-07 with Fiction categories.
“Stark and beautiful, horrifying and lyrical, Black Dove's pages thrum with flight, transformation, grief, revenge, transcendence, the remorseless power of stories and the very nature of creation. Ever since reading, Black Dove has drifted in and out of my dreams.” —Helen Macdonald, author H Is For Hawk In a tall and narrow house, on a stained and busy street, live twelve-year-old Oliver and his father, a story-loving writer. Haunted by the ghost of his alcoholic mother, Oliver finds comfort in his father’s impromptu tales: the Black Dove, an elusive flower that gives strength; the girl who consumes it as she battles attackers and yearns for happier realms. Stories where lonely souls keep searching despite their losses and grief. Running from a bully one night, Oliver hides in a junk shop owned by an enigmatic man. Soon, instead of hiding in the janitor’s closet after school, Oliver spends afternoons in the shop, a cavernous place full of storied oddities and grubby wonders where creatures rise up from the basement. A snake in the shape of a boy. A hunter named Night, part panther, part hound, who proves to Oliver that the world holds invisible wonder. Wanting to forget his mother, afraid of his own genes, constantly harassed by bullies, Oliver joins the shop owner in experimenting with dangerous forms of genetic editing. Meanwhile, he meets the girl from across the street, and their friendship grows in a neighbourhood where magic is real, where murderers gather, and where the darker consequences of fantasies play out. A twisting story of grief and revenge, Black Dove is a thrilling read with its own kind of magic. In rich but tightly reined prose, McAdam celebrates the value and shortfalls of storytelling, finding a light in all the darkness to conjure a tender portrait of childhood’s end.
Black Dove
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Author : Stuart Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-09-23
Black Dove written by Stuart Campbell and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-23 with categories.
This is the first book of the Black Dove Trilogy. 14th century in Feudal Japan; the country is under the stranglehold of the brutal Kamakura Shogunate. For the common people this is a period of extreme oppression and control. Iga is a province ruled by a ruthless Daimyo - Saito Sakamura. Sakamura uses his army of highly skilled Samurai to enforce his control. He believes he is untouchable and completely secure in his mountain protected valley. However his control is about to be challenged by a series of seemingly unconnected events orchestrated by an invisible force. Black Dove is a story of hope, intrigue and overwhelming courage. It depicts a period in Japanese history where ordinary people developed seemingly super human powers. A period when these skills were used to help free their beloved country from the brutal stranglehold of the blood thirsty and power hungry Shogun. This is a story that gives us hope that no matter how high the odds, even one person can make a difference.
The Black Dove
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Author : Steve Hockensmith
language : en
Publisher: Rough Edges Press
Release Date : 2023-07-25
The Black Dove written by Steve Hockensmith and has been published by Rough Edges Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-25 with categories.
SHERLOCK HOLMES MEETS THE OLD WEST IN THIS EXCITING DETECTIVE ADVENTURE CHOCK-FULL OF CRIME LORDS AND CUTTHROATS. Sherlock Holmes-obsessed Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer are hanging up their spurs and bringing their sleuthing to the dangerous streets of San Francisco. And despite their unfamiliarity with city ways, one thing remains the same-their unmatched talent for getting into trouble. It's not long before the Amlingmeyer brothers face off against Chinatown crime lords and Barbary Coast cutthroats. Thankfully, they have a new-if not duplicitous-friend along for the ride, whose wily charms have the potential to save them when they stumble into the middle of a Tong war and trudge through the criminal underworld to track down the mysterious "Black Dove" in time to unmask a murderer. Will Big Red and Old Red be able to save an entire city from disaster before it's too late?
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Author : Steve Hockensmith
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2009-05-12
The Black Dove written by Steve Hockensmith and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-12 with Fiction categories.
In the summer of 1893, Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer and his brother Otto (a.k.a. "Big Red") find themselves down and out in San Francisco. Though cowpokes by training, the brothers are devotees of the late, great Sherlock Holmes and his trademark method of "deducifying." But when they set out to land jobs as professional detectives, they land themselves in hot water, instead. First their friend Dr. Chan mysteriously takes a potshot at them, fatally wounding Big Red's new hat. Then a secretive young woman from their past pops up and convinces them that Chan's in trouble -- and they're just the men to get him out of it. Unfortunately, they're too late: By the time they track Chan down again, he's dead. The police call it a suicide. Old Red calls that a lie. When he and his brother set out to prove it, they put themselves on a collision course with shady S.F.P.D. cops, brutal Barbary Coast hoodlums and the deadly Chinatown tongs. Before long, all sides are in a race to uncover the secret that could rock the city. And their only clue to what's actually going on is the enigmatic, exotic and extremely difficult to find "Black Dove."
Black Dove
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Author : Robin Wyatt Dunn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
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Love and war in the Middle East: Robert is a disillusioned reporter; Rachel an agent for Mossad. Modeled on the Song of Solomon, Black Dove explores the intricate interconnectedness between love and war, violence and friendship, and the complicated relationship between the United States and Israel. When Robert moves to Jerusalem to chase his beloved, he finds that changing addressees changes something within him, and he abandons the role of disinterested observer to aid in the transformation of the Middle East, and the United States. But what he discovers is that Mossad is actually working against a Jewish-only state, and that to aid the Palestinian people they must subvert parts of their own government. Black Dove reveals how the Middle East is a crucible for change around the world, and in the human heart.
Black Dove White Raven
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Author : Elizabeth Wein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Black Dove White Raven written by Elizabeth Wein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Adoption categories.
Having moved to Ethiopia to avoid the prejudices of 1930s America, Emilia Menotti, her black adoptive brother Teo, and their mother Rhoda, a stunt pilot, are devoted to their new country even after war with Italy looms, drawing the teens into the conflict.
Black Dove
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Author : Robin Wyatt Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Scarlet Leaf
Release Date : 2016-10-19
Black Dove written by Robin Wyatt Dunn and has been published by Scarlet Leaf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-19 with categories.
"A terse, taut read sometimes miserably bleak splintered with moments of dark humour and heightened poetics." -- Saira Viola, author of Jukebox Love and war in the Middle East: Robert is a disillusioned reporter; Rachel an agent for Mossad. Modeled on the Song of Solomon, Black Dove explores the intricate interconnectedness between love and war, violence and friendship, and the complicated relationship between the United States and Israel. When Robert moves to Jerusalem to chase his beloved, he finds that changing addressees changes something within him, and he abandons the role of disinterested observer to aid in the transformation of the Middle East, and the United States. But what he discovers is that Mossad is actually working against a Jewish-only state, and that to aid the Palestinian people they must subvert parts of their own government. Black Dove reveals how the Middle East is a crucible for change around the world, and in the human heart.
Black Dove
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Author : C. H. Jamieson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-10-01
Black Dove written by C. H. Jamieson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-01 with Fiction categories.
Synopsis of Novel Black Dove Abby Spooner is the mulatto daughter of ex-slaves who escaped from bondage in Kentucky before the Civil War. Fleeing to Kansas they hoped they could find a safe haven that would provide for opportunity for fugitives in a free state on an equal footing with Anglos in the west. Squatting on a tract of bottom land in eastern Kansas they farmed and eked out a lively hood harvesting a subsistence crop. When "Bleeding Kansas" is terrorized by competing bands of guerillas trying to influence the admission of the state into the union as a free state vs. slave state to balance partisan votes in the Congress of the United States, Abby's parents and little brother are brutally murdered by Quantrill's raiders in 1863. Raised in a Quaker orphanage in Lawrence, her mixed parentage (descendents of white owners and Negro slaves) provide the mulatto child with the genetic heritage of both races. She is neither white nor black. Excelling in the Quaker school her mentor, Sara Quitman, trains her to be a teacher with the hope that frontier schools will not discriminate against her star pupil because of race. Teachers are in short supply on the frontier. Engaged as a teacher by mail order by a group of German farm families settled in Ford County, the innocent and naive Abby leaves the orphanage at age 18 to travel by train to Dodge City with a one way ticket. The train is de-railed by a band of Indians and she is forced to continue her trip in a horse drawn wagon accompanied by cattle buyer, Sam Kluge. They are waylaid and robbed and forced to finish the trip to Dodge on foot, barefoot and bleeding. Arriving at the railhead town at the same time as drovers from Texas arrive tosell their Longhorn cattle, she is summarily dismissed from her teaching job because of her obvious ethnic origin. Abandoned and on her own, Abby gets mixed up in a free for all between the town banker, Rafe Knutson, cattle buyers, cattle rustlers, Irish railroad workers, cowboys from Texas, and Buffalo soldiers from Fort Dodge. In Dodge City she meets Sergeant Ben Able, a black soldier serving in the 10th Cavalry. They fall in love, but are separated by the extended patrol duty demanded of soldiers. The soldier's mission is to protect homesteaders from raids by small bands of Indians who have vowed to never give up. Native Americans wage a last ditch war of survival by harassing any and all Anglos who keep coming in ever increasing numbers from the east. The Indians steal livestock, raid and kill. The soldier's duty is to guard the frontier. The town banker, Rafe Knutson helps Sofiya, a hardened black widow survivor of a Buffalo soldier killed in action on the frontier to operate a restaurant and boarding house. She befriends Abby and offers her home to Abby in exchange for helping out in the boarding house. The town sheriff rapes Abby. After she recovers from the violent attack, Sofiya and Abby with the banker's help, operate a saloon and bordello for black soldiers from Fort Dodge which is a cut above the sordid establishments that fleece the cowboys, Irish rail workers, and buffalo hunters in Dodge City. Their business is burned out in a racist riot. The two women flee the town and find refuge in a winter blizzard with a gypsy woman, Bertuska, very sick with either cholera or typhoid. Abby does not know which. In spite of nursing the two women, both Sofiya and the gypsy die becauseof lack of medical attention. At Fort Hayes Abby becomes a laundress for the army and migrates with a troop of cavalry to Camp Supply in Indian Territory where Native Americans are restrained on the reservation after being defeated in the Red River War of 1874. Ben Able is wounded on patrol protecting a cattle drive from Texas. Abby and her lover are re-united at Camp Supply in a field hospital. Working as a laundress she nurses Ben back to health and in doing so comes to the attention of an Army Surgeon who recommends that she be hired to manage th