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 DESCRIPTION: Hardback with colorful dust jacket. A photo album
poetry book of Black Detroit from the 1930’s to 1950’s when "Paradise
Valley" was one of the most prosperous Black business and entertainment districts in
the country. This poetry book takes a nostalgic look back into Detroit’s past at a
time when showgirls, tap dancers, and jazz greats took center stage. This book features
more than 200 timeless photographs and the work of 56 poets.
AUTHOR: Detroit Black Writer’s Guild
Editor
Herbert Metoyer
Cover
design: Herbert Metoyer
Produced by Cane River Media
ISBN: 1-888754-02-8
Price $35.00 + ($3.00 Shipping)
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Natchitoches and Louisiana’s Timeless Cane River
Photographs by Philip Gould
Text by Richard Seale, Robert DeBlieux, and
Harlan Mark Guidry
Introduction by Robert Harling
Nestled on the banks of
Louisiana’s Cane River and founded in 1714 as a French colonial settlement,
Natchitoches (pronounced NAK-i-tush) boasts brick streets, venerable
architecture, and a charming ambiance that draw visitors from around the
world. Nearby, a magnificent plantation country and the Creole community of
Isle Brevelle amplify the area’s allure. This stunning gallery of
photographs by Philip Gould, along with edifying articles, documents the
varying cultures of the Cane River region, one of the state’s oldest and
most historically French areas.
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 Food
For The Spirit / A Black History CookbookThe title says it
all. This cookbook contain recipes passed down from the parents of the
Writers Guild members. Intersperse are Black History tidbits of of well and
lesser known persons who have helped to shape our culture.
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Price: $10.00
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 Conant
Gardens
Another nostalgic
look back into Detroit past. It contains old photographs, history and
memoirs of persons who once comprised this affluent community.
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River Media
Cover design:
Herbert Metoyer
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 “Punkin
& The Praying Mantis” Written by Minnie A.
Straughn, this book is a novel based on the story of the author’s childhood
while living in the backwoods of Alabama in the “Iron Fists” of her
step-father, a debauched country preacher, who abuses her and
uses her for his own sexual gratification after accidentally killing her
mother. It embodies the gamut of emotions, suspense, sex, sadness, joy,
humor and triumph.
It is a macabre story of her life from age five to age
eleven. It involves a number of burning issues
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domestic violence, murder, incest, and child abuse. She survived not one but
all of these traumatizing ordeals before she was ten years old.
Many will wonder how she survived these unspeakable horrors.
Others will wonder why she didn’t run away or seek help. Yet, you must
realize that a seven-year-old child is not in control of its own life. They
are only helpless beings; ill equipped, and yet shackled with the task of
dealing with whatever hand fate has dealt to them. Before her mother was
killed, she was raised to respect and obey adults without question, and
without contest. As a result, she was condemned to bear her cross alone.
Her main purpose for telling her story is out of concern for
today’s abused children and for the benefit of others who may have had to
endure similar atrocities and have not yet overcome the after effects of
their ordeal.
Although this book is a story about a child, it is ironic
that it is not fit for a child to read. Because of the sadism and the
explicit descriptions of sexual perversions that it contains, its contents
are definitely for “adults only.”
Co-written by Herbert Metoyer Cover design y
Herbert Metoyer ISBN:
1-4134-3230-1 (Trade Paperback)
Pages: 263.. Price: $18.69
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Days Dawn
An Anthology of Short Stories written by members of the
Detroit Writer's Guild and published in 1996 during a time when it was
difficult for budding Black authors to get published.
Reviews:
...Opulent, filled
with inspirational magic. From compelling historical accounts and romances
to the mystical and the humorous, Days Dawn is a testament to the grassroot
efforts to promote literacy and literary talent. Many of its writers are
future stars waiting to be discovered.
Quite simply, It's a good read. Steve Holsey,
Entertainment Editor, The Michigan Chronicle (Detroit, MI)
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.... A "Feast For
The Soul." Impossible task to name a favorite or best story from among the
32 works. Each is unique. A powerful, enlightening look into the lives of
ordinary and extraordinary people... filled with hope and a strong
undercurrent of family love and support. This anthology should stir pride in
its Black readers and plant seeds of understanding in its White readers.
Joan Dyer Zinner, Managing Editor, Michigan Community
Newspapers (Inkster, MI)
ISBN:
1-888754-03-6
Edited by
Herbert Metoyer
Price $10.00 + $2 shipping
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Coming soon. The saga of a Tuskegee
P-51 pilot who was shot down over Germany during WorldWar II
Cover by Herbert R.
Metoyer
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