In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa  Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous  Village Voice column, "Skin Trade,"  to a much larger audience. Chock full of the  "fierce black girl humor" that has made her  column so popular, this provocative collection of  essays and observations on race, sex, identity, and  the politics of style speaks to a young generation  of blacks who were raised in an integrated society  and are now waiting for America to deliver on its  promises of equality. The thirty-seven short  pieces and six long essays in Bulletproof  Diva cover a wide range of topics, many of them  extremely controversial. Jones moves smoothly from  issues of ethnicity in a changing America,  challenging viewpoints on African-American  and mixed race identity, to "butt theory"  and the roller-coaster politics of black hair.  Written in a style that is as appealing as it is  unapologetic, Bulletproof Diva  marks the debut of a genuinely gifted young writer  with a distinctive voice and a fresh perspective on  the black cultural scene.

Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex and Hair

Jones, Lisa

Reference

Penguin Books, Ltd.

A collection of essays speaks to the needs of the post-civil-rights movement African Americans on issues of race, sexual politics, identity, popular culture, ethnic icons, and more

BULLETPROOF DIVA

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

DOUBLEDAY

In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, "Skin Trade," to a much larger audience. Chock full of the "fierce black girl humor" that has made her column so popular, this provocative collection of essays and observations on race, sex, identity, and the politics of style speaks to a young generation of blacks who were raised in an integrated society and are now waiting for America to deliver on its promises of equality. The thirty-seven short pieces and six long essays in Bulletproof Diva cover a wide range of topics, many of them extremely controversial. Jones moves smoothly from issues of ethnicity in a changing America, challenging viewpoints on African-American and mixed race identity, to "butt theory" and the roller-coaster politics of black hair. Written in a style that is as appealing as it is unapologetic, Bulletproof Diva marks the debut of a genuinely gifted young writer with a distinctive voice and a fresh perspective on the black cultural scene.

Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair

Anchor

At 30, Lisa Jones has a dream life–an adoring husband, two beautiful children and a lovely home in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Four months later, it all begins to unravel when her husband is diagnosed with lymphoma. During a chance encounter with an angel reader, Lisa discovers she has the ability to directly connect to the angelic realm. Although the messages she receives sustain her on the heart-breaking path of caring for her dying husband and young children, she also keeps them a secret. Asleep at the moment of her husband’s death, Lisa is transported to “heaven,” a place of such bliss it changes the way she lives and thinks forever. What follows are years of transformation. She meets and marries the second love of her life, ends her accounting career, and finds herself thrust into a world of profound spirituality. She realizes that she can no longer keep these divinely guided messages hidden, and little-by-little shares her gifts with individuals, small groups and finally with large audiences. In this book, Lisa details her difficulties on the path, her bouts with depression, and her struggle with her biggest skeptic and critic–herself.

Art of Living Happy: After the Loss of a Loved One: A Real-Life Awakening

Religion & Spirituality

Living Happy Productions

Up is a comic novel about car sales and love.

Sticky Pr

Just out of college, Becky Pine wants a job, a girlfriend, and a manifesto. She wants a life -- her own real life. Southland Auto Acres, a car lot in Los Angeles, becomes her bootcamp for learning about love, relationships, and the real world. Originally published as Up: A Novel in 2002, the book was reissued under the title Southland Auto Acres in 2010.

Southland Auto Acres

Literary

Verbal Construction

A botched homicide investigation unfolds in Long Beach, California in a climate of lies and cover-ups. Police reports, emergency-call transcripts and surveillance videos show evidence of murder. But homicide detectives claim the victim died in a freak yoga accident. They allow the harvesting of her vital organs at the expense of justice.

Blunt Force Yoga: True Crime Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Did Riva Pine die from yoga? Or was her death the result of something more likely, and more bizarre? In search of answers, Riva's sister Becky is drawn into a true-crime supernatural thriller that takes her from Long Beach, California to the Languedoc region of southern France with a group of mysterious nuns.

Renegade Nuns: Sisterhood is Powerful

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Diamonds Climbing To The Top

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Independently published

Writer Lisa Jones went to Wyoming for a four-day magazine assignment and came home four years later with a new life. 
 At a dusty corral on the Wind River Indian Reservation, she met Stanford Addison, a Northern Arapaho who seemed to transform everything around him. He gentled horses rather than breaking them by force. It was said that he could heal people of everything from cancer toÊbipolar disorder. He did all this from a wheelchair; he had been a quadriplegic for more than twenty years. 
 Intrigued, Lisa sat at Stanford's kitchen table and watched. She saw neighbors from the reservation and visitors from as far away as Holland bump up the dirt road to his battered modular home, seeking guidance and healing for what had broken in their lives. She followed him into the sweat lodge -- a framework of willow limbs covered with quilts -- where he used prayer and heat to shrink tumors and soothe agitated souls. Standing on his sun-blasted porch, pit bulls padding past her, she felt the vibration from thundering bands of Arabian horses that Stanford's young nephews brought to the ring to train. 
 And she listened to his story. Stanford spent his teenage years busting broncs, seducing girls, and dealing drugs. At twenty, he left the house for another night of partying. By morning, a violent accident had robbed him of his physical prowess and left in its place unwelcome spiritual powers -- an exchange so shocking that Stanford spent several years trying to kill himself. But eventually he surrendered to his new life and mysterious gifts. 
 Over the years Lisa was a frequent visitor to Stanford's place, the reservation and its people worked on her, exposing and healing the places where she, too, was broken. 
 Broken entwines her story with Stanford's, exploring powerful spirits, material poverty, spiritual wealth, friendship, violence, confusion, death, and above all else,"a love that comes before and after and above and below romantic love."

Broken: A Love Story - Horses, Humans, and Redemption on the Wind River Indian Reservation

Community & Culture

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