Love the artwork on your book cover, with the dangerous looking senorita along with freaky birds and trees you're known for.
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Matt Wake | mwake@al.com,
al,
19 Dec. 2019
Football managers reared their boogie heads once again this term when a video surfaced of Pep Guardiola doing his best at courting the attentions of a Spanish senorita.
As Winifred assimilates into life at Ensor House, staff members begin to inexplicably disappear, and the owners of the estate begin to wonder if there is something amiss about their new governess.
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Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
16 May 2025
Set in 1858, the story centers on a governess named Winifred Notty, hiding her psychopathic tendencies while arriving to work at a remote gothic manor.
But few American cities offer an in-depth look at the lives of pre-Civil War Southerners like Natchez, formerly the home of the native Natchez Indians, Civil War soldiers, Southern belles, enslaved Africans and civil rights pioneers.
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Amy Bentley,
Oc Register,
7 May 2025
And some of the most remarkable too, as the Dynamic was the belle of the Art Deco ball with its Streamline Moderne design.
The mammy stereotype, which desexualized both dark skinned enslaved and free women (who were often in domestic roles), made muting Black beauty the norm.
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Brooklyn White,
Essence,
30 Nov. 2022
Toxic archetypes of Black womanhood—the mammy, the Black matriarch, the jezebel (or the Scraggle Daggle, in SYSBM parlance), and the welfare mother—are all alive and well in the Black Manosphere.
The movie revolves around 10 year old time-traveling rainbow-child Arco, who lives in the distant future of 2932, but gets trapped in 2075 when his maiden flight does not go to plan.
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Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
6 June 2025
Sinner, 15 years younger than Djokovic, still has not lost a set in the tournament while advancing to his maiden Roland Garros final.
There are maids on the farm where Alma (Hanna Heckt), one of the quartet of main characters in Sound of Falling, is growing up — women in uniform who bustle around the house and the grounds.
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Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
14 May 2025
And then, with their faces covered and heads bowed, the ‘maids walk to the church and file into the pews for Serena’s wedding to High Commander Wharton.
In 1946, right after World War II, former San Francisco madam Sally Sanford bought the by-then vacant buildings and reopened it as the Valhalla.
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Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
21 May 2025
That thing might have a statue of Elvis in it, gold bathroom fixtures and thick dark draperies tied off in braided silk that suggest a madam’s place of business.
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