Daddy Sharpe

Author : Fred W. Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daddy Sharpe written by Fred W. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daddy Sharpe is a unique work of Caribbean fiction. It is the result of five years of historical research, details of which have been used to recreate a narrative of the life of one of Jamaica's National Heroes, Samuel Sharpe. Locked in prison, awaiting a sentence of certain execution, Samuel Sharpe retells the story of his life in the first person narrative, beginning with his boyhood days at Cooper's Hill in St James and ending with his surrender to the authorities after his defeat in the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831. These flashbacks are interwoven with present time musings while he is in prison. The reader becomes immediately engaged in the character of the hero and his struggles for spiritual and physical freedom but is also fascinated by the descriptions and historical details of life in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century.

Author : Matthew Sharpe
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 193236000X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sleeping Father written by Matthew Sharpe and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2003-09-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sleeping Father begins with a divorced dad who inadvertently combines two incompatible anti-depressant medications, goes into a coma, has a stroke, and emerges with brain damage. His teenage son—the protagonist of the book, Chris—and his teenage daughter—Cathy—inherit money from their grandfather and decide to rehabilitate him on their own. decide to make one. Absent an adequate father, the children decide to make one, bringing with it a host of difficulties and opportunities. Chris tries everything from sex to capitalism in his search for guidance on the path to adulthood and Cathy, believing her secular Jewishness inadequate in the provision of a benign & divine Father, looks to Catholicism for solace and meaning. The Sleeping Father explores the shift in the way Americans think about mental health: away from regarding ourselves as being shaped by our upbringings and toward regarding ourselves as being shaped by the chemicals in our bloodstreams. The American family, in this novel, emerges as a microcosm of larger social institutions; Moms and Dads as in-home teachers, priests, presidents, and CEOs. In focusing on the Schwartz family in crisis, Sharpe addresses the larger crisis in faith and authority in contemporary American life.

Author : Rosemarie Davidson
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334065488
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sam Sharpe Lectures written by Rosemarie Davidson and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating ten years of the annual Sam Sharpe Lectures, this text is a collection of a decade's contribution from scholars, thinkers, activists, and ministers responding to the legacy of Sam Sharpe, a Jamaican National Hero. This text documents these moving, insightful and mobilising contributions and seeks to capture how Sharpe's legacy inspires action for justice in the 21st century. Rooted in a radical Jamaican narrative, The Sam Sharpe Lectures collectively demonstrate how Sharpe's legacy can inspire all people to be game-changers despite life's challenges. Sam Sharpe was enslaved, yet through a grounding in Christian faith, compassion, justice, and self-determination became an agent for transformation, and these lectures translate his legacy into tools for today's injustices.

Author : Tess Sharpe
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538744104
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbed Wire Heart written by Tess Sharpe and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful debut thriller from "a major new talent" (Kirkus) set in a poor, rural community where loyalty is everything, "packs an emotional punch" (Lisa Gardner) as the daughter of a meth kingpin is forced to choose between family, or freedom. Never cut the drugs--leave them pure. Guns are meant to be shot--keep them loaded. Family is everything--betray them and die. Harley McKenna is the only child of North County's biggest criminal. Duke McKenna's run more guns, cooked more meth, and killed more men than anyone around. Harley's been working for him since she was sixteen, dreading the day he'd deem her ready to rule the rural drug empire he's built. Her time's run out. The Springfields, her family's biggest rivals, are moving in. And they're coming for Duke's only weak spot: his daughter. Duke's raised her to be deadly -- he never counted on her being disloyal. But if Harley wants to survive and protect the people she loves, she's got to take out both Duke's operation and the Springfields. Blowing up meth labs is dangerous business, and getting caught will be the end of her, but Harley has one advantage: She is her father's daughter. And McKennas always win.

Author : Alice Sharpe
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 142684140X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agent Daddy written by Alice Sharpe and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All hell broke loose when word spread that a vengeful serial killer was headed for the Triple T ranch. Fearing the worst, former FBI agent Luke Tripper entrusted his orphaned niece and nephew to Faith Bishop's tender loving care while he hunted down his prey. Their smoldering attraction chased away the winter chill, but the fiercely independent schoolteacher bristled when the brusque cattleman ordered round-the-clock protection. Despite the looming danger, Faith's unflinching courage stirred Trip's deepest emotions… and he hungered to hold her close. Now with the body count rising and his loved ones in peril, would this hometown hero lay his heart on the line?

Author : David Scott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509551182
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paradox of Freedom written by David Scott and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paradox of Freedom is an exploration of the life and work of Orlando Patterson, probing the relationship between the circumstances of his life from their beginnings in rural Jamaica to the present and the complex development of his intellectual work. A novelist and historical sociologist with an orientation toward public engagement, Patterson exemplifies one way of being a Jamaican and Black Atlantic intellectual. At the generative center of Patterson’s work has been a fundamental inquiry into the internal dynamics of slavery as a mode of social and existential domination. What is most provocatively significant in his work on slavery is the way it yields a paradoxical insight into the problem of freedom – namely, that freedom was born existentially and historically from the degradation and parasitic inhumanity of slavery and was as much the creation of the enslaved as of their enslavers. The Paradox of Freedom elucidates the pathways by which Patterson has both uncovered the relationship between domination and freedom and engaged intellectually and publicly with the struggles for equality and decolonization among descendants of the enslaved. It will be of great interest to students and scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences and to anyone interested in the work of one of the most important public intellectuals of our time.

Author : Clarence Ogans
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 791 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book COMIN' TO THE AMERICAS written by Clarence Ogans and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is never complete, for it is created every day. The people, places, and events presented in this episodical manuscript will demonstrate how important history is to a nation. In retrospect, a nation cannot move constructively forward into the future unless it is understood. Thus, the future can benefit from the past and gain from it knowledge.

Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1788689933
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lonely Planet Jamaica written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dan Pratt
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334061296
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery-Free Communities written by Dan Pratt and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking (MSHT) are global crimes impacting local communities. Vulnerable people are exploited through labour, sex and forced criminality. Churches and Communities are increasingly encountering these victims and survivors, and consequently need to develop more effective engagement. The book will highlight that Churches and Communities are in a unique position to partner towards slavery-free communities. Beginning with the narratives of survivors who experienced three different forms of MSHT, including labour exploitation, sexual exploitation and domestic exploitation, the book then shows how practitioners and theologians respond to these narratives through exploring theologies of suffering, ecology, missiology, restorative justice, trinitarian theology and liberation theology. Offering faith responses from organisaions such The Salvation Army, The Clewer Initiative, BMS World Mission and Rene Cassinhe the volume also includes a final resource section with prayers and liturgy for survivors and victims as well as for church and community responses. The book includes a forward by the Rt Hon Theresa May MP and an opening prayer by the Most Revd Justin Welby

Author : Diana Paton
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478013095
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jamaica Reader written by Diana Paton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most important historical, cultural, and political events and aspects are largely unknown beyond the island. The Jamaica Reader presents a panoramic history of the country, from its precontact indigenous origins to the present. Combining more than one hundred classic and lesser-known texts that include journalism, lyrics, memoir, and poetry, the Reader showcases myriad voices from over the centuries: the earliest published black writer in the English-speaking world; contemporary dancehall artists; Marcus Garvey; and anonymous migrant workers. It illuminates the complexities of Jamaica's past, addressing topics such as resistance to slavery, the modern tourist industry, the realities of urban life, and the struggle to find a national identity following independence in 1962. Throughout, it sketches how its residents and visitors have experienced and shaped its place in the world. Providing an unparalleled look at Jamaica's history, culture, and politics, this volume is an ideal companion for anyone interested in learning about this magnetic and dynamic nation.