Member Since:
Sep. 30, 2020
Alexis Brooks de Vita
Books
The 1855 Murder Case of Missouri versus Celia, an Enslaved Woman
by Alexis Brooks de Vita
Price:
$6.95 USD.
Words: 103,220.
Language:
English.
Published: September 2, 2023
by
Fiction4All.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Literacy » Composition & creative writing, Nonfiction » Children's Books » History / United States / 19th Century
The 1855 Murder Case of Missouri versus Celia sets in motion the possible dynamics of a rushed court case founded on the forced confession of a teenager bought and raped by a middle-aged farmer, rebuilding her world as tensions exploded in a horrific murder and historic miscarriage of justice.
Love and Darker Passions
by Alexis Brooks de Vita & Lee Barwood
Price:
$5.95 USD.
Words: 83,110.
Language:
English.
Published: September 23, 2022
by
Fiction4All.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author
Love and Darker Passions is a collection of provocative short stories by today's up-and-coming authors of dark, urban and Gothic fantasy. One man falls in love with an ancient monster, another becomes enchanted by a voice that drives him to a frenzy of self-punishment, and there is more...
Tales in Firelight and Shadow
by Alexis Brooks de Vita
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 66,970.
Language:
English.
Published: October 12, 2021
by
Fiction4All.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author
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.
Dante's Inferno - A Wanderer in Hell
by Alexis Brooks de Vita
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 33,510.
Language:
English.
Published: July 31, 2021
by
Fiction4All.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
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 more.
Chain Dance - The Third Book of Joy
by Alexis Brooks de Vita
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 111,430.
Language:
English.
Published: July 16, 2021
by
Fiction4All.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
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.
Left Hand of the Moon
by Alexis Brooks de Vita
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 81,120.
Language:
English.
Published: July 16, 2021
by
Fiction4All.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Fantasy
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, a beautiful teen and her owner’s youngest son run away to live together.
Blood of Angels - The Second Book of Joy
by Alexis Brooks de Vita
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 104,860.
Language:
English.
Published: December 13, 2020
by
Fiction4All.
Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Fantasy » General
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...
Burning Streams - The First Book of Joy
by Alexis Brooks de Vita
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 83,260.
Language:
English.
Published: September 30, 2020
by
Fiction4All.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Dark, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
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...