A three-part fantasy novella about the life of domestically troubled eleven-year-old Dolena, who encounters violence head-on in the town of Missaki.

PDF of THEY WON'T BELIEVE YOU-combines novelistic poetry, prose and short narratives in an adult-oriented book that exposes the theme of violent family toleration through the character of eleven-year-old Dolena who discloses painful family experiences from 1961-1963 through her invention of fantasy. The fantastical metaphors highlight domestic unrest and violation in characters Dolena, Velma, and Vernon, leaving permanent stains on one family in the city of Louisgrove, Missaki in the sixties.

A myriad of written stems and shapes about kin with family photos in a lively poetry memoir.

As Cormac McCarthy said, “books are made from books." The family-oriented read ”Skin Folk" is inspired by the writings of Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Sapphire, Maya Angelou and my life...family.

Designed to inspire, this book includes a focus on building creativity through intrinsic tools and visual art exercises. (JP5584)

A text focusing on the two essential elements of melody and rhythm. (JP5582)

If you have bats in your belfry, this book will help more fly in. (JP43437)

Not just a literal translation of the voice, vernacular language is used to designate characters. Meet hip insiders Melvin and Terrence of bebop counter-cultural intellectual movement in their stories of the sixties through gendered, racial, and cultural identity.

Domestic abuse survivor embraces her role as mother with dignity despite emotional and physical damage.

For every successful artist comes a mixture of success and sacrifice. A career memoir, this book chronicles challenges facing an unconventional African American female jazz singer who emerged in the 90s. Her first of a two-book memoir celebrates her artistic contributions and performance life spent with A-list musicians and members of the music industry from 1974-1989.

Professor Emeritus Jeri Brown holds degrees in Journalism, Music, and English from Dalhousie University, University of King’s College, Kent State University and Westmar University. An experienced music educator, her research has been published by The Society of Ethnomusicology, Canada International Conference on Education (CICE), Salford University Rhythm Changes II: Rethinking Jazz Cultures Conference, Georgia State University Improvising Brain Symposium, International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM), and Concordia University (Quebec) Faculty of Fine Arts. She has presented innumerable workshops for music educators throughout Canada, Europe and the United States. This treatment sheds light on the significance of the African American spiritual in a global society of freedom songs that emerged from Africa via the slave trade to America, then to Canada via the United Empire Loyalist migration and the Underground Railroad.

Professor Emeritus Jeri Brown holds degrees in Journalism, Music, and English from Dalhousie University, University of King’s College, Kent State University and Westmar University. An experienced music educator, her research has been published by The Society of Ethnomusicology, Canada International Conference on Education (CICE), Salford University Rhythm Changes II: Rethinking Jazz Cultures Conference, Georgia State University Improvising Brain Symposium, International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM), and Concordia University (Quebec) Faculty of Fine Arts. She has presented innumerable workshops for music educators throughout Canada, Europe and the United States. This treatment sheds light on the significance of lyric narrative poetry. Included are cultural linguistic formats used in the oral tradition of storytelling, expressed through performance art in spiritual, classical, gospel, and urban vocal music realms.

Professor Emeritus Jeri Brown holds degrees in Journalism, Music, and English from Dalhousie University, University of King’s College, Kent State University and Westmar University. An experienced music educator, her research has been published by The Society of Ethnomusicology, Canada International Conference on Education (CICE), Salford University Rhythm Changes II: Rethinking Jazz Cultures Conference, Georgia State University Improvising Brain Symposium, International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM), and Concordia University (Quebec) Faculty of Fine Arts. She has presented innumerable workshops for music educators throughout Canada, Europe and the United States. Jeri’s latest research combines orality of West Africa as a vital communication force in New World cultural societal development. Included are cultural linguistic formats used in the oral tradition of storytelling expressed through performance art in West African New World folklore.