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Someone once asked me how I'd want to be remembered. I said, 'As the
boy who grew.'
Love is a gift, isn't it? From our early childhood years to growing up
and pairing off, it's a feeling we chase knowing we're better off with
it. But what if love is claustrophobic and conflicting? And what if at
the same time we're chasing addictions to drugs, drink, sex and chaos?
Diagnosed twice with ADHD, Jordan Stephens found his teens and twenties
a whirl of career success and nurturing friendships but also a brutal
pattern of self-harm, hedonism, destructive coping mechanisms and
heartbreak. When he tried to live up to his own damaged expectations
and his world exploded, he stepped away from his previous existence
completely and allowed himself to explore the pain he'd repressed his
entire life.
Unsparingly digging into the fear, tenderness and trauma he carried in
his body and mind, and the confusing assumptions of what a young man
should be, Jordan Stephens discovers what it means to be a modern man,
why we should all open ourselves up to life, and how the price we pay
for love in all its forms is worth it.
A heart-warming, fresh and original story about family and
friendship from brand-new picture book author, writer and performer
Jordan Stephens. Sunny loves jigsaw puzzles - the bigger the
better. When she completes one, she gets a warm, happy honeybee
buzz. One day, her Gran gives her a ONE-THOUSAND-PIECE puzzle.
Piece after piece, all by herself, she puts together the picture,
until ... DISASTER! The final piece is missing. Sunny may be small,
but she is very determined - so she sets off to find it. As the day
whizzes by in a whirl of new places and friends, Sunny discovers
that looking for something is every bit as fun as finding it, and
that perhaps the missing piece was there all along ...
A heart-warming, fresh and original story about family and
friendship from brand-new picture book author, writer and performer
Jordan Stephens. Sunny loves jigsaw puzzles - the bigger the
better. When she completes one, she gets a warm, happy honeybee
buzz. One day, her Gran gives her a ONE-THOUSAND-PIECE puzzle.
Piece after piece, all by herself, she puts together the picture,
until ... DISASTER! The final piece is missing. Sunny may be small,
but she is very determined - so she sets off to find it. As the day
whizzes by in a whirl of new places and friends, Sunny discovers
that looking for something is every bit as fun as finding it, and
that perhaps the missing piece was there all along ...
Wimbledon Football Club was founded in 1889, and from then until
now it has had a history like no other in football. From being the
only team to have won both the FA Cup and FA Amateur Cup, to having
the club controversially snatched away from its fans, only for them
to reform the club, and for AFC Wimbledon to rise again through the
leagues and re-establish itself as a Football League side. Vinny
Jones, John Fashanu and Dennis Wise ... the Crazy Gang of the 1980s
was an intimidating team that used its physicality to overcome
opponents, but it could play as well, under the leadership of Dave
'Harry' Bassett. When you dig deeper you realise there was more to
this side than the sensationalist headlines. In AFC Wimbledon On
This Day, you'll find facts and figures, famous games, managers and
players who have made an indelible mark on the club's legacy. Even
under the current guise of AFC Wimbledon, the team continues to
write new chapters in its illustrious history.
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MANDEM (Hardcover)
Iggy Ldn; Iggy Ldn, Various; Contributions by Christian Adofo, Ashley Hickson-Lovence, …
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R588
R476
Discovery Miles 4 760
Save R112 (19%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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"So to the person that broke my heart in 2021 by way of a casual
voice-note. Thank you." Told from the perspective of some of the
finest contemporary Black writers and thinkers, MANDEM is an ode to
the moments in our pasts that shape us, and gratitude at being able
to appreciate these lessons in the present. In a beautiful blend of
prose and lyricism, each essay sees its author tap into their most
vulnerable place - engaging honestly in conversations often
silently grappled with by Black British men because of socially
enforced beliefs around Black masculinity. The themes in this essay
collection range from the importance of male role-models, and the
unique relationship between mother and son to the sexual pressure
placed on young heterosexual men, while also asking the question:
"what does contemporary Black queerness actually look like?" Edited
by award-winning artist Iggy London and featuring essays from Yomi
Sode, Jeffrey Boakye, Christian Adofo, Ashley Hickson-Lovence,
Athian Akec, Dipo Faloyin, Okechukwu Nzelu, Phil Samba, Sope
Soetan, and Jordan Stephens, MANDEM is an unmissable, thoughtful
anthology of Black male expression.
Contributing Authors Clyde Eagleton, Howard Becker, K. J. Deacon
And Many Others.
In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S.
law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury
yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred
survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was
the first successful documented slave landing in the United States
in about four decades and shocked a nation already on the path to
civil war. In 1886 the North American Review published excerpts
from thirty of Lamar's letters from the 1850s, reportedly taken
from his letter book, which describe his criminal activities.
However, the authenticity of the letters was in doubt until very
recently. In 2009, researcher Jim Jordan found a cache of private
papers belonging to Charles Lamar's father, stored for decades in
an attic in New Jersey. Among the documents was Charles Lamar's
letter book, confirming him as the author. The Lamar documents,
including the Slave-Trader's Letter Book, are now at the Georgia
Historical Society and are available for research. This book has
two parts. The first recounts the flamboyant and reckless life of
Lamar himself, including Lamar's involvement in southern secession,
the slave trade, and a plot to overthrow the government of Cuba. A
portrait emerges at odds with Lamar's previous image as a savvy
entrepreneur and principled rebel. Instead, we see a man who was
often broke and whose volatility sabotaged him at every turn. His
involvement in the slave trade was driven more by financial
desperation than southern defiance. The second part presents the
"Slave-Trader's Letter-Book." Together with annotations, these
seventy long-lost letters shed light on the lead-up to the Civil
War from the remarkable perspective of a troubled, and troubling,
figure.
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