I Didn't Come Here to Tap Dance

 

 I Didn't Come Here to Tap Dance

( A Poetic Memoir)

Book Review:

I Didn't Come Here to Tap Dance

5.0 out of 5 stars This Collection is a Universe of Storied Truth-Telling

“I Didn’t Come Here to Tap Dance” is a self-portrait painted in poetry. And like a photomosaic, the larger picture derives the brilliance of its clarity from a carefully crafted tapestry of smaller images. Each one, a voyage to a world all its own. To experience, to explore, to savor. This collection is a universe of storied truth-telling about identity, freedom, war, religion, politics, music, and faith, starting in the Jim Crow South and ending at the Corona Virus question mark. Individually, these poems are blueprints for critical thinking in a world of hypocrisy and illusion. Paradigm shifting history lessons that provoke and connect the unaware to the unafraid. But together, they comprise a face so warm, a voice so strong, a sensation in my stomach so familiar, I recognize the messenger as my friend. In the lake of life, some choose to hurl heavy rocks with all their might, reveling in the size of a short-lived splash. Others aim and complain before skipping their turn, blaming the fear to let go on a frozen shoulder or limp wrist. But Ngoma Hill was born with a slingshot for a sidearm, and he’s been skipping stones for seventy-five years. Why would someone spend their life making waves? Because only the ripples reach the other shore.

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PIT

PIT: A Genetics Investigation Team Thriller 

 Watching six friends get slaughtered gives you nightmares.

Jake Jessup thought the nightmares were over, that the secret government program to weaponize animals was just a horrible memory, until a new breed of monsters shows up in Memphis, his hometown, and it was again time to fight.

After a raging mutant kills one cop and wounds another, Jake Jessup and April Flowers reunite to stop the monsters before they can kill again, and to confront the government organization that will go to any lengths to create the perfect biological weapon—and keep it a secret.

Any lengths at all...

Ready for a new kind of monster? Read PIT, because the murder rate in Memphis is about to go higher!

“Cujo on steroids!” says Larry Hoy, author of the “Hit World” thriller series.

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A North Lawndale Journey of Faith:

The Testimony of an Ex-Offender

A North Lawndale Journey of Faith: The Testimony of an Ex-Offender is story about a gifted man who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and was incarcerated for a crime he did not commit. Even more, it is the inspiring story of a man whose steadfast faith showed itself early and how it propelled him into a life of commitment and service to a community that many would have abandoned upon achieving the success that he did.

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Pride

 

PRIDE

What do men have to be proud of? James has always known pride to be the biggest of sins, but going on a hunting safari might just be what he needed to experience real humility. A pride of lions is a force to be reckoned with. They are free, ferocious, feral. Forever committed to protecting one another. Perhaps humans should take notes.

When James ends up exposed and hunted in the wilderness, he decides he better start. In nature, there is no time to draw comparisons, worry about being masculine enough, or show off whatever power you may think you hold over others. When you hear a roar, you better start running. When you stumble, you better get back up. When the lion catches up to you, you better show you are not a threat.

That pride you thought was well-deserved? That superiority you sharpened like a knife? They’re not weapons you can use. They’re ropes that tie you down. As James forms a strong bond with the others in the lion camp, he realises society has always spun tales about men that no man can live up to.

Now that those rules don’t apply to him anymore, what is left of his identity? Can he roam free by putting behind that sin? And what does being a man truly even mean? James is only sure of one thing... When you enter a lion pride, you leave your own pride behind.

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Juvenile Tribulations:

An Epic Fantasy Adventure !

(Isthariun's dreams)

Two hundred years have passed since the last great war of the five peoples. Peace reigns, in appearance, on the vast world of Isthariun.

In Valendas, the human capital, Eskalys, a young boy, and his childhood friends, Firnaël, the fishing elf, and Gugnir, the forest dwarf, live a golden and happy youth, hardly disturbed by their numerous pranks.

But their last joke during the warm-season party was not to everyone's taste, especially their respective families, who decided to separate them as soon as possible.

Embarked in spite of themselves in epic adventures, will they manage to find their way? Will they discover the origin of the strange elements that could call into question the very existence of their universe?

Follow the adventures of the three friends and other heroes as singular in a fantastic adventure, where they will meet amazing creatures, where magic will be omnipresent and fights... often deadly!

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Life at Loon Lake:

A Children's Mystery Adventure Chapter Book

Ages 8-11 years

Author: Ashley Lovette

Illustrator: Dorothy Chapp

With the end of fifth grade here, Sam and her friends can hardly wait for summer to begin. They are looking forward to sunny days filled with fishing and adventures on Loon Lake. Little did they know that a mystery would fall directly into their laps. When they notice Old Man Starn dragging a tarp into the woods with what appears to be a body in it, the kids are determined to figure out exactly what is going on. What is OMS up to? Is their lake neighborhood safe? Sam and her friends are resolved to get to the bottom of things, no matter the cost.

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The Assassin's Beauty

The Assassin's Beauty 

Love By A Change Encounter

 Finding your soulmate doesn’t always mean it’s the person you expected.

Riku Hiroshi spends his days in the shadow. A skilled and lethal ninja, he is at the top of his game. The one thing, he is missing is that special someone to share his life with, but how can he when danger lurks around every corner? His carefully manicured life is thrown into chaos the day his path crosses Natasha Smith, and he saves her life.

A young teacher visiting Japan, she is taken off guard when Riku sweeps in to protect her from a gang of street thugs. Feeling obligated, she invites him to dinner to show her appreciation. It should have ended there, but a sinister man wants Riku dead and will stop at nothing to achieve this. 

He deploys his best people to hunt Riku, and now Natasha, down. It is a deadly game of cat and mouse neither is sure they can survive. Somewhere along the way, they discover hidden truths and come to understand that the heart wants what it wants. 

Can love win through the cultural differences before danger finds them?

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