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Bubbles of Love
Have you ever sat and wondered how much love there is to give? Have you ever asked the questions: "Does love run out or is it limitless? And if I'm a jerk, then how does love work? And if I love Dad, will Mommy get mad?" Fret not and read this story and these answers you will know, as well as how to let love grow and grow and grow. Bubbles of Love follows a little boy who is distraught because he may not have enough love to give, and his Nanny, who illustrates that love is infinite through the magic of bubbles. A beautiful and touching story designed to encourage children of all ages to allow their love to grow. Perfect for everyone ... on Valentine's Day and every day. Valerie Smith, a personal-development and self-help connoisseur, writes fun, colorful, joyful stories featuring easy-to-digest and entertaining life lessons covering topics such as releasing negative emotions and self-appreciation via Emotional Freedom Technique, the beauty of difference and equality, the power of choice, and love as an infinite resource.
Not Just Race, Not Just Gender
From the nineteenth century articulations of Sojourner Truth to contemporary thinkers like Patricia J. Williams, Black feminists have always recognized the mutual dependence of race and gender. Detailing these connections, Not Just Race, Not Just Gender explores the myriad ways race and gender shape lives and social practices. Resisting essentialist tendencies, Valerie Smith identifies black feminist theorizing as a strategy of reading rather than located in a particular subjective experience. Her intent is not to deny the validity of black women's lived experience, but rather to resist deploying a uniform model of black women's lives that actually undermines the power of black feminist thought. Whether reading race or gender in the Central Park jogger case or in contemporary media, like Livin' Large, Smith displays critical rigor that promises to change the way we think about race and gender.
Everything Is a Choice
"I used to get angry and throw my favorite toys. I used to think 'I have to' and thought I had no choice. And then I learned some lessons that changed the way I think, and when I started using them, removed my suffering. Sit back and read along as I sing my 'Everything is a Choice' song!"The human brain loves choice. So much so that when we remove choice, our brains immediately respond, "But I don't want to!" Sound familiar? The good news is everything is a choice. Can you feel your brain smiling just reading those words?!This full-color picture book, with accompanying scan-and-play song, is a rockin' journey about choice-from choosing to feel emotions in a constructive way, to choosing how to respond when you're told, "You have to!" Everything is a Choice will have the whole family singing, "I have a voice . . . I make a choice . . . It's all a choice!"
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Same, Same, and Different!
A full-color picture book + accompanying song, for children ages 3 to 7, that illustrates the diversity of our planet, from animals to food to humans-while explaining how variety leads to our preferences, tastes, judgments, and choices. A fun read designed to remind us all that, without diversity, we wouldn't have anything to choose!
Toni Morrison
This compelling study explores the inextricable links between the Nobel laureate’s aesthetic practice and her political vision, through an analysis of the key texts as well as her lesser-studied works, books for children, and most recent novels. Offers provocative new insights and a refreshingly original contribution to the scholarship of one of the most important contemporary American writers Analyzes the celebrated fiction of Morrison in relation to her critical writing about the process of reading and writing literature, the relationship between readers and writers, and the cultural contributions of African-American literature Features extended analyses of Morrison’s lesser-known works, most recent novels, and books for children as well as the key texts
Self-discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative
It is by telling the stories of their lives that black writers--from the authors of nineteenth-century slave narratives to contemporary novelists--affirm and legitimize their psychological autonomy. So Valerie Smith argues in this perceptive exploration of the relationship between autobiography and fiction in Afro-American writing. Smith sees the processes of plot construction and characterization as providing these narrators with a measure of authority unknown in their lives. Focusing on autobiographies by Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs and the fiction of James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, she demonstrates the ways in which the act of narrating constitutes an act of self-fashioning that must be understood in the context of the Afro-American experience. Hers is a fertile investigation, attuned to the differences in male and female sensibilities, and attentive to the importance of oral traditions.
Dear Dodie
Honest, funny, unorthodox, liberated and quintessentially English, Dodie Smith, playwright and novelist, was the author of the immortal classics, The Hundred and One Dalmatians and I Capture the Castle. One of the most successful playwrights of her generation, she spent the war years in the U.S. where she befriended Christopher Isherwood, and through Walt Disney’s film, became a household name.
Valerie
Because Valerie Ford is tall with lion-like eyes and hair, her aunt chooses her to come to Troy Fenners to act as model for Aunt Loo’s latest heroine, Gloria. Valerie is expected to accomplish amazing feats—and to attend séances with a distant French cousin and a handsome, though poor, scholar. Why does her rich aunt seem so poor? Valerie finds the mysteries piling up… Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett Coventry
Double-consciousness/double Bind
"'It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others.' For Adell, W. E. B. Du Bois's famous articulation of the 'twoness' of black Americans is the key to understanding the 'double bind' which afflicts contemporary African-American literary theory. . . . The book] demands and deserves recognition as a cogent intervention." -- Yearbook of English Studies
