On a chill and stormy day, a man slips and plunges over a cliff into an experience that will change his life forever. But Helio Cara's fall from a cliff is not merely a fall that results in horrific disfigurement. It is a fall from grace. The fabric of his daily existence comes unraveled as jobless, penniless, deserted by lover and friends; he is driven from his home by horrified neighbors. At last, using needle, thread, and razor blades, he determines to reconstruct his own face and to rebuild a place for himself in the world. Face is the story of a man at the limit of existence who finds the patience and courage to change himself. With power, intensity and sparseness of poetry, it voices the predicament of all people who partake of a culture, which separates the individual's notion of self from his sense of community.

Face

Pineda, Cecile

Pineda

Literature & Fiction

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Expelled from her demure convent school for swimming nude, led kicking and screaming to the alter, Ana Magdalena Figueroa is kidnapped on her wedding night only to escape and find refuge in the arms of the man of her savagely hot adolescent fantasies. Her marriage to the patrician but penniless writer, Federico Orgaz y Orgaz leads her to even more colorful adventures, from her blissful initiation into the flourishing bordello of her Aunt Ofelia to her apotheosis as the Madam extraordinaire of the legendary Confiteria. Meanwhile, Federico takes his cue from the subversively wicked stories his wife tells him to find his writing suddenly taking off at a new and flourishing pace. Exploring the nature of romance, deceit, and female desire, Cecile Pineda blends social and political satire with magic realism in a tour-de-force of stunning originality.

The Love Queen of the Amazon

Set in ninth-century Java, Frieze chronicles the life of Gopal, a stone carver imported from the stone yards of India to design and execute 120 friezes depicting the life of the Buddha. The site is the first gallery of the temple/stupa of Borobudur, a vast monument that required some 80 years and tens of thousands of people to construct, most of them indentured as slaves. Borrowing from the actual images found at Borobudur in Jogjakarta, Pineda narrates Gopal's story in 120 successive images, moving from his early apprenticeship, his marriage to two women, the wife of his heart, and the keeper of his household, to the privations of his life in exile, and the terrible price extracted for his pride. Shaping the splendor of a new world with his chisel, blow by blow, just as painstakingly, he learns the meaning of love.

Frieze

Poetry

A quick-witted, take-no-stuff hilariously sassy sistah from the 'hood, Sanderella Coffee is nobody's Private Benjamin. An "around the way" girl who has taken a few wrong turns down the back alleys of life, Sandie finds herself employed by her favorite uncle as the ultimate bullet-stopper: An enlisted soldier in the U.S. Army. Finer than an Iron Mike statue dipped in deep dark chocolate, Drill Sergeant Romulus Caesar is an honest to goodness do-right man. The keeper of his castle and a self-proclaimed king, Rom provides an irresistible passion and tenderness that pacifies Sandie's cravings for true love. But there is one problem: Rom is married. Married with children. While battling sexism, self-doubt, and the powers-that-be, Sandie fights an uphill battle to attend the Army's prestigious Officer Candidate School. With spirited determination and a married lover who professes his everlasting support, she marches through the ranks to take on Uncle Sam, but the military'' tough policy on fraternization and adultery threaten to rip apart Sandie's future and she sees her carefully orchestrated career, like sand in the breeze, slipping away. Will Sandie's king prove to be an asset? Or will her love for him become the stumbling block upon which she must abandon her hopes and dreams?

Black Coffee

Price-Thompson, TRACY

Harlem Redux

Persia Walker

Genre Fiction

The Mystery of the Poison Arrow Tree (Rhino Tales Series #4)

Shel Arensen

Teen & Young Adult

" another missing piece of our rich history and profound contribution to western civilization. For history buffs please put this book on your must read list... "George C. Fraser, Author of Race For Success andSuccess Runs In Our Race"[Mitchell] believes that the entire future of blacks in the field of architecture is in jeopardy He then discusses the impact of the Harlem Renaissance on black architecture and the subsequent emergence of Howard University as the center of the black architectural universe..."The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education" seminal " Architecture MagazineIn this long overdue book, aimed at Black America and her allies, Melvin Mitchell poses the question "why haven't black architects developed a Black Architecture that complements modernist black culture that is rooted in world-class blues, jazz, hip-hop music, and other black aesthetic forms?" His provocative thesis, inspired by Harold Cruse's landmark book, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, exposes the roots of an eighty-year-old estrangement between black architects and Black America.Along the way he provides interesting details about the politics of downtown development in the Marion Barry era of Washington, DC. Mitchell calls for a bold and inclusive "New (Black) Urbanism." He sees the radical reform and "re-missioning" of the handful of accredited HBCU based architecture schools as a critical tool in refashioning a rapprochement between black architects and Black America.

The Crisis of the African-American Architect: Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and (Black) Power

History

Melvin L. Mitchell

Americas

Dark Horizon (The Fractured Time Trilogy)

<p>For now, I'll settle for the abbreviated version. What's going on? "All right. We're involved in an intergalacticwar and it's not going too well." Why didn't you mention that before? "We have ignored your world for centuriesbecause of your barbaric ways. Billy and his friends must work with Xerxesand other members of the Council of Guardians. Their mission is to stop Pendragon, the alien leader, from dispersing a new secret weaponnamed Dark Horizon. Penny's handling of the shape-shifter traitsshe received from Seneca has disastrous results on her relationship with Billy. Things will never be the same as either victoryor defeat will come at a devastating price for all.</p>

Dark Horizon: Book Three of the Fractured Time Trilogy

Science Fiction & Fantasy

D'Ambrosio, Michael

Science Fiction

Faithful

Anita-Louise Johnson

Prince A Life In Music

Matthew Carcieri

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