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The Kingfisher
Remember the breath. Follow the breath in the quietness of mind. You won’t die of the racism this time. It’s trying to kill us, all us over the history of time since slavery at once. We are writing this book together. We will make sure no one forgets.
Breathe.
And the Kingfisher breathes a deep breath of warmth into your cold lungs. Its cold scales protect with bird feathers and life like a mother, but wisdom of a Black father in the darkness. In the Black. You know, it’s the Black wisdom and truth that will later saves you.
Radio Interview The Kingfisher
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Beyond the Black Spectacles: Lies the Quilting of Stars
There’s a hush in the quiet Black dark secrets of Princeton’s Place. It’s a secret that goes beyond the shackles of space time hidden beyond the spectacles of the librarians here tending to the night desk of the Firestone Library at Princeton University.
YOU are headed in the space beyond the librarian’s Black spectacles, a Black space of knowledge and understanding filled with the surprise outside the void suspicious called, Black.
The librarian’s eyes mirror those of a mole buried in the moss of brown dirt. She lies in the smell of fresh rain water and curated soil called, words. It is magical space and only opens one’s eyes through the magnification beyond marginalized vocabulary called, books.
It’s a magnification of another adventure. But YOU have to get your hands on the black specs first.
The Kingfisher
The twilight is legendary. It is the first blue moon since 1944 and it arrives at Princeton University on October 31, 2020. And in this moment, you realize, I take you to a place where your mind becomes a book. It is the story of Kingfisher, a savior for Black mankind and Mama, the voice of the lullaby that cries to save him from the knee of the police like George Floyd. Mama cries to protect his life and his breath… And YOU the reader participate in a special quest…
21 Days in Quarantine
Two hundred thousand Americans are dead today, September 20, 2020. And in the lives of ordinary people, COVID is not tired of making us sick, although you might be sick and tired. People spew the virus, breathing their cause in the unprecedented time of pandemic social unrest.
And this interior space seals us off into quarantine quiet as a somber place where we are compelled to turn our minds into a journey of infernos in the night coming face to face with the unknown — A thrilling, suspenseful tale told through the eyes of an adolescent girl in isolation of the coronavirus.
The South of Black Forgiveness
In a bustling New York scene, a young African American journalist who survives her darkest moment alone, becomes the target of a heinous crime.
Just a Book in the Library
“I have a 2020 vision. I have a dream with the release of my new YA novel, Just a Book in the Library and the #Power of a Shared Story on 1/20/2020.” – Dr. Donna Clovis
“And If we could give every library one book, we would make the world rich with literacy.”
Join us in the campaign for literacy as an act of resistance and persistence for libraries all over the world. Donate a copy of “Just a Book in the Library” and help a child or adult read.
“Literacy is an act of resistance.”
– Dr. Donna Clovis
FALLING BEDROOMS
Falling Bedrooms: Our Lives in the Quantum Field is the fifth installment of the author’s series all centered in Princeton. It examines themes of racism, media manipulation and time-travelling via the subconscious.
The author enters a restaurant of white linens and walls, filled with white patrons who stop eating to stare at the sole dark-skinned diner – this is just one of the emotionally moving scenes in the book. Short chapters and stories tackle about the prevalence of racism and media-related killings and incidents today.
Quantum Leaps in Princeton’s Place
Award-winning journalist, Dr. Donna Clovis, recounts the stories of Princeton, New Jersey, in the early 1900s through the late 1950s through the eyes of two of the oldest citizens by means of interviews, diaries, and articles. The synchronicity of being at the right place at the right time for the interviews, locations, and journals plays a major role in the construction of the book.
Six Doors Down – A Journey Through Synchronicity
In this sequel, award-winning journalist Dr. Donna Clovis recounts the stories of Princeton,
New Jersey, from the 1960s to the present, through the eyes of its oldest citizens by means of
interviews, diaries, and articles. The synchronicity of being at the right place at the right time
for the interviews, locations, and journals plays a major role in the construction of the book.
The Future is My Past . . . The End of a Trilogy
I sit in Einstein’s lecture hall at Princeton University and write on a regular basis. This novel is the last of the trilogy series and explores the notion of time travel in Princeton…
Time Is the Length to Forever – A Back Door Opens . . .
A backdoor suddenly opens, a descent down the rabbit hole—a book within a book within a book.
