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 rocket's maiden voyage, designated TestFlight1, will be the first of several for the launch vehicle, as Gilmour Space qualifies its systems and propulsion technology.
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Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
14 May 2025
That includes its two new cruise ships set for their maiden voyages later this year.
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Kevin Stankiewicz,Matthew J. Belvedere,
CNBC,
12 May 2025
His clothing choices can sometimes be as provocative as his opinions: On a recent trip to Japan, Mr. Piker wore a tight French maid’s outfit, a pair of fuzzy cat ears and a demure string of pearls while streaming from one of the country’s maid cafes.
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Jack Crosbie,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
Snow White gets a much more meaningful backstory The original Disney film begins with a few short sentences about how Snow White was forced to work as a scullery maid for her vile stepmother, the Queen.
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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