About Alexis Brooks de Vita: Born in the Watts Projects a few years before the Riots, Alexis Brooks de Vita lived in Uganda under Idi Amin Dada and was sent to school in Switzerland to escape his coup, traveling through France, Italy, Hungary, and Russia while it was still the Soviet Union. She has two daughters and two sons who have traveled with her in Europe and Uganda. Her degrees are in the Comparative Literature of women of African descent in English, French, Italian, and Spanish. She is the author of Mythatypes: Signatures and Signs of African/Diaspora and Black Goddesses; The 1855 Murder Case of Missouri versus Celia, an Enslaved Woman: An Exercise in Historical Imagination. Her publications with Fiction4All include Left Hand of the Moon, Dante's Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell, and the Books of Joy Trilogy: Burning Streams, Blood of Angels and Chain Dance. She is the contributing editor of two anthologies: Love and Darker Passions and Tales in Firelight and Shadow.
| | | The Alexis Brooks de Vita Library | | | | | Alexis Brooks de Vita Tales In Firelight And Shadow Alexis Brooks de Vita Click For Book Page and Excerpt Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction Available Formats to Download: MOBI EPUB MS Word PDF MS Reader RTF Also available as a paperback Tales in Firelight and Shadow is a collection of short stories by well-known and fresh new writers of fantasy, speculative and science fiction, retelling folktales from many lands and cultures. Award-winning authors present challenging new twists on familiar tales: James Morrow’s museum curator and his university professor daughter discover the ultimate answer to the human condition; Mary Turzillo’s talking cat rats on a legendary illusionist; and Tenea D. Johnson’s fairies deal with the dream dolls of nightmare. Words: 38800 Purchase from our site Ebook Price: $5.99 
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More By This Author | Alexis Brooks de Vita Tales In Firelight And Shadow Alexis Brooks de Vita Click For Book Page and Excerpt Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tales in Firelight and Shadow is a collection of short stories by well-known and fresh new writers of fantasy, speculative and science fiction, retelling folktales from many lands and cultures. Award-winning authors present challenging new twists on familiar tales: James Morrow’s museum curator and his university professor daughter discover the ultimate answer to the human condition; Mary Turzillo’s talking cat rats on a legendary illusionist; and Tenea D. Johnson’s fairies deal with the dream dolls of nightmare. Words: 38800 Purchase from our site Ebook Price: $5.99
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| Alexis Brooks de Vita Dante's Inferno A Wanderer In Hell Alexis Brooks de Vita Click For Book Page and Excerpt Genres: Dark Fantasy, Speculative Fiction Available Formats to Download: MOBI EPUB MS Word PDF MS Reader RTF Also available as a paperback For an urban English-speaker in the twenty-first century, the original language of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, the first act of his trilogy, the Comedy, would read like a shockingly accurate critique of today’s globalized society, if we could understand it. Dante’s Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell gives second-millennial English-language readers a chance to share the pathos, the humor, and the raw political aggression of Dante’s vision of Hell.
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More By This Author | Alexis Brooks de Vita Dante's Inferno A Wanderer In Hell Alexis Brooks de Vita Click For Book Page and Excerpt Genres: Dark Fantasy, Speculative Fiction For an urban English-speaker in the twenty-first century, the original language of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, the first act of his trilogy, the Comedy, would read like a shockingly accurate critique of today’s globalized society, if we could understand it. Dante’s Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell gives second-millennial English-language readers a chance to share the pathos, the humor, and the raw political aggression of Dante’s vision of Hell.
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| Alexis Brooks de Vita Chain Dance The Third Book Of Joy Alexis Brooks de Vita Click For Book Page and Excerpt Genres: Thrillers/Suspense, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction Available Formats to Download: MOBI EPUB MS Word PDF MS Reader RTF Also available as a paperback The Third Book of Joy: Chain Dance is the second notebook of family lore, the collection of Joy’s magical stories about her enslaved ancestors, researched by Professor Bo Wolfson in Burning Streams; the first notebook was published in Blood of Angels. When Heaven’s heartbroken death in childbirth and Whip Man’s torture at her father’s hands lead her to resurrect herself as a death dancer, magic and terror drive the plantation’s owner off of his land. Most of the men and women who labor on the haunted plantation flee, following Heaven’s brother to his Louisiana swampland. Words: 62000 Purchase from our site Ebook Price: $5.99
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More By This Author | Alexis Brooks de Vita Chain Dance The Third Book Of Joy Alexis Brooks de Vita Click For Book Page and Excerpt Genres: Thrillers/Suspense, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction The Third Book of Joy: Chain Dance is the second notebook of family lore, the collection of Joy’s magical stories about her enslaved ancestors, researched by Professor Bo Wolfson in Burning Streams; the first notebook was published in Blood of Angels. When Heaven’s heartbroken death in childbirth and Whip Man’s torture at her father’s hands lead her to resurrect herself as a death dancer, magic and terror drive the plantation’s owner off of his land. Most of the men and women who labor on the haunted plantation flee, following Heaven’s brother to his Louisiana swampland. Words: 62000 Purchase from our site Ebook Price: $5.99
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| Alexis Brooks de Vita Left Hand Of The Moon Alexis Brooks de Vita Click For Book Page and Excerpt Genres: Fantasy, Romance - general, Speculative Fiction Available Formats to Download: MOBI EPUB MS Word PDF MS Reader RTF Also available as a paperback Left Hand of the Moon is an American Romeo and Juliet story about doomed love between the very young. In the early 1800s, as the fledgling United States completes the Louisiana Purchase and marches troops through the newly acquired state, executing by firing squad the freed adult children of enslaved women and their owners, an enslaved teen and her owner’s youngest son run away to live together. They have grown up together and have always trusted and loved each other. Words: 45600 Purchase from our site Ebook Price: $5.99
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More By This Author | Alexis Brooks de Vita Left Hand Of The Moon Alexis Brooks de Vita Click For Book Page and Excerpt Genres: Fantasy, Romance - general, Speculative Fiction Left Hand of the Moon is an American Romeo and Juliet story about doomed love between the very young. In the early 1800s, as the fledgling United States completes the Louisiana Purchase and marches troops through the newly acquired state, executing by firing squad the freed adult children of enslaved women and their owners, an enslaved teen and her owner’s youngest son run away to live together. They have grown up together and have always trusted and loved each other. Words: 45600 Purchase from our site Ebook Price: $5.99
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| Blood Of Angels The Second Book Of Joy Alexis Brooks de Vita Click For Book Page and Excerpt Genres: Thrillers/Suspense, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction Available Formats to Download: MOBI EPUB MS Word PDF MS Reader RTF Also available as a paperback The Second Book of Joy: Blood of Angels is the first notebook of family lore that Professor Bo Wolfson researched in The Books of Joy: Burning Streams. These are the magical tales about their enslaved ancestors that his lover Eva Dennison fought with him to destroy.
In their collected memoirs, nine enslaved women tell how they freed themselves and took over their owners’ Mississippi breeding plantation, using African, African American, and European folktales to describe the magic and willpower that set them free. Words: 58000 Purchase from our site Ebook Price: $5.99
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More By This Author | Blood Of Angels The Second Book Of Joy Alexis Brooks de Vita Click For Book Page and Excerpt Genres: Thrillers/Suspense, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction The Second Book of Joy: Blood of Angels is the first notebook of family lore that Professor Bo Wolfson researched in The Books of Joy: Burning Streams. These are the magical tales about their enslaved ancestors that his lover Eva Dennison fought with him to destroy.
In their collected memoirs, nine enslaved women tell how they freed themselves and took over their owners’ Mississippi breeding plantation, using African, African American, and European folktales to describe the magic and willpower that set them free. Words: 58000 Purchase from our site Ebook Price: $5.99
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| Burning Streams The First Book Of Joy Alexis Brooks de Vita Click For Book Page and Excerpt Genres: Thrillers/Suspense, Dark Fantasy, Speculative Fiction Available Formats to Download: MOBI EPUB MS Word PDF MS Reader RTF Also available as a paperback When Eva Dennison learns that she has inherited the fallow sharecropping plantation in Mississippi that her parents fled to make a new life in L.A., she is eager to escape the big city and explore her historical roots. Eva abandons her dissertation about ancestral memory in African American literature and myth and takes with her Anastasia, her college-age daughter, and Charley, her investment broker cousin. Together, they plan to restore the old mansion and grounds and open a retreat and think-tank for activist women of the hard-hit Gulf region. Words: 50800 Purchase from our site Ebook Price: $5.99
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More By This Author | Burning Streams The First Book Of Joy Alexis Brooks de Vita Click For Book Page and Excerpt Genres: Thrillers/Suspense, Dark Fantasy, Speculative Fiction When Eva Dennison learns that she has inherited the fallow sharecropping plantation in Mississippi that her parents fled to make a new life in L.A., she is eager to escape the big city and explore her historical roots. Eva abandons her dissertation about ancestral memory in African American literature and myth and takes with her Anastasia, her college-age daughter, and Charley, her investment broker cousin. Together, they plan to restore the old mansion and grounds and open a retreat and think-tank for activist women of the hard-hit Gulf region. Words: 50800 Purchase from our site Ebook Price: $5.99
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