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Cult victims and those who have experienced abusive relationships often suffer from fear, confusion, low self-esteem, and post-traumatic stress. Take Back Your Life explains the seductive draw that leads people into such situations, provides insightful information for assessing what happened, and hands-on tools for getting back on track.

In 2018, Myisha T. Hill created the @ckyourprivilege handle on Instagram to undo the harm created between White women and women of the global majority. After years of living in the micro- and macro-aggressions of White culture, Myisha was tired of staying silent. But she wanted to do more than fight back—she wanted to heal forward. Heal Your Way Forward: The Co-Conspirator's Guide to an Antiracist Future is the trumpet call to White and White-identifying folks, guiding them to recognize their antiracism work as intergenerational healing.

Has the joy of the holiday season become painfully dissonant with the hard edges of life? Do you feel weary from the way Christmas has become a polished, predictable brand? You aren't alone. For too many of us, Christmas has lost its wonder. What if we stopped treating the Christmas story as something that happened a long time ago and started believing that it's a story that's still happening today?

This audiobook includes the two thrilling halves of Fiona Zedde’s lesbian superhero book series that come together in The Mercy Chronicles: The Power of Mercy and A Lover's Mercy.

Naomi Jackson never thought her life would come to this. She'd been abandoned by the father of her two children. Stranded during the last days of 1809 in a ramshackle stream-side home in rural Tennessee. But here she was. The Devil Bill Williams had vanished. Now it was up to her to care for her two innocent, beautiful children.

When Nora landed an editorial assistant role at Parsons Press she thought it would be The Dream Job. But after five years of admin and taking lunch orders, Nora has come to the conclusion: Dream Jobs do not exist. With her life spiralling and unable to afford her rent, Nora does the only thing she can think of and starts freelancing for a rival publisher. But when Andrew Santos, a bestselling author (who also happens to be quite attractive), is thrown into Nora’s life, she must decide where her loyalties lie, and whether she’s ready to choose herself and her future over her job.

When Annette, the editor of a survivalist magazine, embarks on a weekend getaway up Minnesota's north shore with her boyfriend Sebastion, events spiral out of control when a gang of rowdy bikers starts to show up at their every stop and pay her more attention than she feels comfortable with.

With the tools provided in this book, you will feel empowered to take action and begin to write your own success story. This book is written for those aspiring entrepreneurs chained to their "comfort zone" and tormented with self-imposed limiting believes. This book is written through the eyes of a young girl as she witnesses her mother overcome poverty, physical abuse, scarcity of essential resources, and societal suppression. Based on true stories which took place over two decades, starting in the 1980s between Mexico City and the province of Mexico.

Friends are like a family that brings a bond of growth that lasts a lifetime. My friends are my sisters and my family. We are all a part of an extended family. My name is Lola, and I would like to introduce you to mine. The story you are about to hear is all about love experiences in one month—December 1985. December was a month of fairytales, clandestine destinies, and of course, unbelievable twists and unimaginable surprises for some, all in the name of love. You are about to meet four extraordinary women who all share a common bond—all are close friends of Lola Mystique Bridges.

The first step in problem-solving is properly identifying the problem. Often, we attempt to resolve symptoms of the real true problem. Often, we attempt to solve related or resulting problems. Often, we undertake the easiest solution, without ever solving the real true problem. Then we wonder why the problem keeps returning. Race issues, office politics, personal relationships, male chauvinism, female catty/pettiness, and jealousy all stem from one source. In this book, I will tell you what is the properly identified problem.

Uncle Sam’s Plantation is an incisive look at how government manipulates, controls, and ultimately devastates the lives of the poor—and what Americans must do to stop it. Once a hustler and welfare addict who was chewed up and spit out by the ruthless welfare system, Star Parker sheds much needed light on the bungled bureaucratic attempts to end poverty and reveals the insidious deceptions perpetrated by self-serving politicians.

How to get your power back? How LiShey pushed forward after losing her faith. I lost myself up under the bleachers on October 1, 2017, the Las Vegas massive shooting. Fifty-eight innocent people were killed that night. My life would never be the same. I felt like I died up under the bleachers. The real struggles of learning the new you after such a horrific ordeal. PTSD got the best of me.

In Jaxon and Kevin’s Black History Trip Downtown, the second book in this educational book series, Jaxon shares his magical adventure with his cousin Kevin. They venture into town to meet Black inventors and scientists who are responsible for many of the things we encounter every day.

Prince and His Mother's Crown: Tales Within My Mother's Hair is a whimsical fairy tale about a little boy named Prince, who is fascinated with his mother's magical crown of hair. It is a story that portrays a bond between a graceful mother and a loving son. Every minute showcases a graceful, loving queen mother engaging in the activities of her son’s wild imagination, showing their precious familial relationship.

From the pulpit to the parking lot, anger has become a debilitating cancer to the souls of Christians. A cancer that stunts the spiritual maturation and matriculation of Christians every day. However, the Bible still suggests that Christians possess the ability to be angry and do no harm. I then propose that anger is not the problem. Rather, it is our learned response to anger and untreated emotions that lead to challenges in life and the sin that may follow. This begs the questions, what is anger, what is its origin, and how do we manage it?

"My child would never do that!" - this is what many parents and grandparents think or say about their children. To their surprise and disbelief, they are shocked when they are confronted with the actions of their children. Some things children do are shocking in a positive way and some are shocking in a breath-taking negative way - you can only gasp! You just don’t know what to say or what to do! See what the Bible has to say about our children and how we can apply teachings in today’s challenging times in training up a child!

God gave me the scripture 1 Peter 4:12-13 to write about 13 years of struggle for justice against the state of Mississippi's largest employer Ingalls Shipbuilding. He later gave me the title of my book. I've tried to change the name of my book at least five times. Every time I have tried to change the title, I had to go back to my original title.

Zuri has the perfect life—a beautiful home on the Hillstead, a loving family, and a powerful job keeping the LA Basin’s grid humming. If only she didn’t see the ghost of her dead twin in the mirror. Her grief-counselor husband understands too much, Aunties Cora and Vivian smother her to excess, and her mother can’t look at her daughter without seeing the half that’s missing. Zuri can’t begin to face her sister’s little daughter—to Ruby, Zuri is the ghost. Which is why she’s running away to work, again, on the anniversary of her sister’s death.

In Jaxon and Kevin’s Black History Trip Downtown, the second book in this educational book series, Jaxon shares his magical adventure with his cousin Kevin. They venture into town to meet Black inventors and scientists who are responsible for many of the things we encounter every day.

A blend of social commentary, biography, and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights movement as we grapple with contemporary concerns around race, inequality, and social justice.