The Black God's Drums

2018-08-21 Fiction

Author : P. Djèlí Clark
Release : 2018-08-21
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 703/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Black God's Drums written by P. Djèlí Clark. This book was released on 2018-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising science fiction and fantasy star P. Djèlí Clark brings an alternate New Orleans of orisha, airships, and adventure to life in his immersive debut novella The Black God's Drums. Alex Award Winner! In an alternate New Orleans caught in the tangle of the American Civil War, the wall-scaling girl named Creeper yearns to escape the streets for the air--in particular, by earning a spot on-board the airship Midnight Robber. Creeper plans to earn Captain Ann-Marie’s trust with information she discovers about a Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls The Black God’s Drums. But Creeper also has a secret herself: Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, speaks inside her head, and may have her own ulterior motivations. Soon, Creeper, Oya, and the crew of the Midnight Robber are pulled into a perilous mission aimed to stop the Black God’s Drums from being unleashed and wiping out the entirety of New Orleans. “A sinewy mosaic of Haitian sky pirates, wily street urchins, and orisha magic. Beguiling and bombastic!”—New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The New Black Gods

2009-04-23 Religion

Author : Edward E. Curtis IV
Release : 2009-04-23
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 08X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The New Black Gods written by Edward E. Curtis IV. This book was released on 2009-04-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the influential work of Arthur Huff Fauset as a starting point to break down the false dichotomy that exists between mainstream and marginal, a new generation of scholars offers fresh ideas for understanding the religious expressions of African Americans in the United States. Fauset's 1944 classic, Black Gods of the Metropolis, launched original methods and theories for thinking about African American religions as modern, cosmopolitan, and democratic. The essays in this collection show the diversity of African American religion in the wake of the Great Migration and consider the full field of African American religion from Pentecostalism to Black Judaism, Black Islam, and Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement. As a whole, they create a dynamic, humanistic, and thoroughly interdisciplinary understanding of African American religious history and life. This book is essential reading for anyone who studies the African American experience.

Black Gods, Green Islands

2018-12-01 History

Author : Geoffrey Holder
Release : 2018-12-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 816/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Black Gods, Green Islands written by Geoffrey Holder. This book was released on 2018-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of folk tales from the exotic island of Trinidad, woven out of the vivid legends that live in the minds of the island’s handsome inhabitants. Witchcraft and curses that spell death hang in the air, with happiness always just a step away from disaster. The distinctions between man, nature, and the animal world blur and recede when a hunter shakes off the evil of the city and glides lithely into the forest, when a boa constrictor comes to the aid of a young married couple, or when a servant girl hears the beckoning call of the sea god. There is about these tales a dream quality—of women in white lace dresses, men in bright shirts and pantaloons, their sudden joys, and their no less sudden griefs. Moving in a rhythm of their own, streaked by the wild logic of pagan lore, these stories of a place in the Caribbean where fact and fancy entwine are enchanting. In an article in Esquire Magazine entitled “The Renaissance Man/1957” Helen Lawrenson wrote of Geoffrey Holder: Every once in a while there comes along a man so multi-talented in the arts that no one specific field can satisfy his creative energy... Newest and most promising of this type of exuberant virtuoso is an extraordinary young man named Geoffrey Holder, who...since he came to this country from his native Trinidad, has achieved recognition as a painter, actor, creative dancer, singer, choreographer, composer, librettist, costume designer, scenic designer, writer and photographer. Michael Myerberg, the theatrical entrepreneur...calls him “the greatest talent that; has appeared in recent years, with a fantastic intelligence...one of the truly great ones!” Assisted by Tom Harshman, a well-traveled freelance writer, Mr. Holder claims a permanent place in the world of writing with BLACK GODS, GREEN ISLANDS.

Red Shadows

2022-09-15 Fiction

Author : Robert E.Howard
Release : 2022-09-15
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book Red Shadows written by Robert E.Howard. This book was released on 2022-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Shadows is a dark adventure story by Robert E.Howard. Howard was an American writer known for his pulp fiction stories. Our protagonist, Solomon Kane, is a somber-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in all its forms.

Black Heroes

1989 Drama

Author : Errol Hill
Release : 1989
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 272/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Black Heroes written by Errol Hill. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes plays by Langston Hughes, Randolph Edmonds, May Miller, William Branch, Edgar White, Phillip Hayes Dean, and Ron Milner

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