She’s been chosen by prophecy. But can she prevail after coming face-to-face with destiny? Gwen Findlay is no longer on her own. With her half-human-half-orc mentor and their trusted companions, the orphaned young woman is growing more accustomed to the realm of Faelaw and her own magical abilities. And though she still has much to learn, she journeys into a hostile land to find the ruthless Fey-King’s crystal heart… and crush it. Determined to destroy the villain’s source of power despite the deadly risk, Gwen arrives at an acid lake with no way to get to the other side. And as she and her friends hunt for a way to continue their dangerous quest, she fears endless monstrous obstacles stand between her and any chance at vanquishing the great evil. Can she claim her fate before it demands a lethal price? Fey-King is the atmospheric second book in the Faelaw Chronicles epic fantasy series. If you like strong female characters, mystical worlds, and slow-burning romance, then you’ll love Autumn Stevens’s wondrous adventure. Buy Fey-King to defeat shadowy forces today!
Vietnam is a nation with a long and storied history, but this novel touches upon one of its most horrifying chapters: the war between North and South Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s. Life before that time was quiet for most people in the South, who lived on the riches of the land in peace with their neighbors. Sadly, that changed as the war spread across the countryside. Innocents were killed by landmines, “traitors” to the revolution were brutally murdered, and fear spread like a terrible disease. Despite that, life went on for River Ha, an innocent young girl whose determination got her through high school in Saigon. That same determination propelled her into Law University in hopes of protecting women and the poor. In the midst of the atrocities of a brutal war, River Ha found love with a young American soldier, Steven. Can their love survive the horrors of war? Will they be reunited, or will fate keep them apart? Vietnam Paradox is a novel of love, family, hope and survival through a brutal and horrifying war and into the ensuing years after the war ended in 1975. When the communist government took control of the country in 1975, they confiscated the homes and savings of many South Vietnamese and sent large numbers of the educated population and former military officers to ‘education camps’ in the North. The conflict between North and South Vietnam claimed more than a million lives, and the changes it wrought made life infinitely more difficult for the survivors. This novel, based on the experiences of author Hong Thu Thi Vo (Rose Thu) and her friends and family, offers a heart-wrenching look at life in a country torn apart by war.
Mel Ellis knows that her eating disorder is ruining her life. Everyone tells her rehab is her best option, but she can't bring herself to go. Broken and empty in more ways than one, Mel makes one last-ditch effort to make hers a story worth telling. She will walk her own road to recovery along the lesser-known trails of the North American wilderness. Though she is physically and mentally unprepared to face the difficulties that lay ahead, she sets off on foot from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and heads toward Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State. During the long journey, she meets strangers with their own stories, as well as ghosts from her past who can no longer be ignored. But though the land she travels threatens her success at every turn, it's her own dark thoughts she'll have to overcome in order to find peace in the life and the body she has been given. With pitch-perfect timing and delightfully witty self-awareness, debut author Autumn Lytle masterfully leads readers on a journey down the hard path toward healing. *** "All That Fills Us is a compelling drama of the complex battle with the debilitating longing for perfection as enacted through a severe eating disorder. Told in an equally raw and wry first-person narration, this tale bears powerful witness to how the individual's quest for wellness is necessary groundwork for collective healing."--Booklist "Lytle draws on her own experience with eating disorders to take readers inside Mel's mind and misguided thinking about her own worth and health."--Library Journal
Between 1980 and 2005, 45 states were involved in lawsuits around equity of funding and adequacy of education provided to all students in the state. Indeed, this investigation could have included any cities in America, and the themes likely would have been the same: Lower funding and resources, disproportionate numbers of teachers and school leaders who do not look like the students they serve, debates over the public’s responsibility to provide fair and equitable education for all students in the jurisdiction, implicit biases from the top to the bottom and a resegregation of schools in America. Integration for Black families was never about an idea that Black students were better off if they could be around White students, it was about the idea that Black students would be better off if they could have access to the same education that White students had — but residential segregation still enables de facto school segregation, when it isn’t coded into policy. For the overwhelming majority of Black students, they’re stuck in segregated, underperforming schools. Schools where the teachers are dedicated to the mission, but where the cities and districts and states have failed to uphold their basic responsibility to maintain the upkeep of the schools and provide enough desks for each child and current textbooks.
The Darkness surrounds us. Everywhere. Travel down twisted paths lined with danger, heart-wrenching moments, and the heroics of self-sacrifice through these three proven riveting novels readers have sworn never to forget. Over 500 Five star reviews across venues and Goodreads. “INTENSE THRILLER…The characters created for this story are dynamic; strong willed and survivors.” Reader review for Seized By Darkness “I very much enjoyed this spooky psychological thriller.” Reader review for Obsessed by Darkness “Autumn Jordon has written another edge of your seat thriller.” Reader review for Loved By Darkness SEIZED BY DARKNESS (Book 1) Innocence lost in a heartbeat. Killing to save her child would never be an issue for a mother. For eight long years, hostage Nicole Carson lived a nightmare as the mistress of a mafia lord. When her captor brings home another kidnapped victim, she seizes the first opportunity to save herself, her son, and the young girl, leaving the Russian for dead. In order to stay alive and save the family she hasn’t seen in years from the mafia’s wrath, she must disappear as if she’s never existed. Captured by the U.S. Marshals with the kidnapped girl, Nicole, who is known as the kingpin’s woman, quickly strikes a bargain with the Marshal’s team leader, William Haus. She agrees to secure evidence against the mafia and in return she’ll earn a new life for herself and her son. But when Haus learns Nicole’s true identity, he wants to call the operation off. Nicole and her son become the prize neither the U.S. Marshall or the ruthless mobster will give up. OBSESSED BY DARKNESS (Book2) Innocence collides with hard reality. Chase Hunter, the youngest member of the elite U.S. Marshal C.U. F. F. Team, heads an operation on a college campus where a new drug is sweeping the campus, costing young lives. Chase’s own demons surface and he fights to determine when to trust his gut and when to obey orders, especially when it comes to their number one person of interest, chemistry graduate student Emma Lewis. A murderer’s plan changes as the heat on campus rises and Emma becomes the target of the psychopath. Then she goes missing. LOVED BY DARKNESS (Book 3) Innocence must be protected. A two-year-old child is found adrift on the Atlantic. It’s the job of the Cape James Police Chief, Norris Stiles, to learn who left the girl to die. New to the area, and the job as chief, he might be out of his depth. Fortunately help has arrived. Unfortunately, the feisty and beautiful U.S. Marshal could distract him from his obligations. Burnt out by grueling covert missions, U.S. Marshal Jolene Martinez heads home to the Virginia Coast for a much-needed vacation, only to become embroiled in a heart-breaking child abandonment case. When she saves the child, the case becomes personal for Jolene, and she’s determined to solve the mystery with or without the chief’s support. As the clock ticks on, both the sweet girl and the charismatic chief pluck at heart strings Jolene believed severed years ago. Duty and desire mix while she and Norris race to eliminate suspects and expose the perpetrator of the sinister act before the tides wash away all evidence and he attempts to harm the child again.
Thomas Walling, a man with Multiple Personality Disorder, learns to balance his mental illness and unconditional love after one of his other personalities fathers a child and he is forced to raise her. They say it takes a village to raise a child, unfortunately Thomas Walling has the whole village in his head and they all want to lend a hand! ,
Mortina, a young girl, and her talking Rottweiler, Gabe, unknowingly, become mere victims of a practical joke played on them by the fairy-like creatures called Snippets. They wind up on the Island of Kumlani in fantasy world of Intrepedda. She and her dog enter the be...autiful, yet dangerous island where they are attacked by more Snippets, all packing weapons. She and her dog befriend these vicious little women and get introduced to King Tazahzar and his group of fierce looking Gargryphons when the travel to Castle Yelrah Nos Divada. She falls in love with her new friends and her new found paradise. BUT. Turmoil happens when Mortinas curiosity takes her to the shore where she meets the dwarf-like creatures, the Maramids. While out in the ocean, she enjoys the ride on a Maramids back but the huge and very scary loch ness monster, Heathusala, torments them relentlessly, bringing their little game of water ball to a drastic end. Mortina gets separated from the group and winds up, alone, on the center Island where she gets kidnapped by two of the evil Pig King, Alvator Sinsissero, men. She becomes his prisoner and is to be stuffed away in a cell in the cruel harsh Island of Draxxonia, forever. Yet, the race is on to rescue Mortina, for she and her dog must be sent back to earth. Intrepedda is no place for a human child.
17 year old Saryn found her strength, from one simple dream were a world of mystery and fantasy comes to life. In this new found world Tristan, a lowly farm boy, and a fierce dragon by the name of Naquila join forces to save the kidnapped princess Melody from the mysterious Gavin who lives high in the mountains. The truth however is the real mystery. Is love the only way to save this world from itself? Can Tristan, Naquila, Melody and Gavin correct the mistakes made long ago by the king?
Explores the origins of the Native Americans and profiles key figures in the Americas before Columbus, including Deganawida, Hyonwatha, and others who have had a mystical and spiritual impact on The People.
The Native American Book of Wisdom The Circle of Life is an American Indian symbol for the Four Directions. The four colors represent the four stages of life, from childhood to old age; the cycle of seasons, from spring to winter; and the four races of people. Each of the Four Directions symbolizes a certain power. In this circle, East is knowledge, South is life, West is the power of change, and North is wisdom. The Native American Book of Wisdom examines the belief systems of several American Indian tribes and the power that these beliefs continue to hold for the People. ''From the Great Mystery: Wakan-Tanka'' investigates the complex spirituality of the People from the concept of the Great Mystery, or Wakan-Tanka, to the belief that all life is sacred and interrelated. ''Medicine Man'' is the story of a tribal healer who visits an elementary school. The children are amazed by what he tells them about the traditions and the power of the People. Other titles in the series: The Native American Book of Knowledge, The Native American Book of Life, The Native American Book of Change
What did the "Negro problem," as it was called at the turn of the twentieth century, look like? Autumn Womack's study examines efforts to visualize Black social life through new technologies and disciplines-from photography and film to statistics-in the decades between 1880 and 1930. Womack describes nothing less than a "racial data revolution," one in which social scientists, reformers, and theorists rendered Black life an inanimate object of inquiry. At the very same time, Black cultural producers staged their own kind of revolution, undisciplining racial data in ways that challenged normative visual regimes and capturing the dynamism of Black social life. Womack focuses on figures like W.E.B DuBois, Kelly Miller, Sutton Griggs, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as lesser-known editors, social reformers, and performers. She shows how they harnessed media as diverse as the social survey, the novel, the stage, and early motion pictures to reform visual practices and recalibrate the relationship between data and black life"--
The Cool Cats are students from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth who assembled during a creative writing class in the Fall of 2016. Every Thursday night, they gathered to work on personal writing pieces and spent countless hours laughing, sharing, and growing as writers. This book is a collection of short stories from the Cool Cats. We hope you enjoy!
With no family of her own, Casey had worked hard to save for this dream vacation, but now Erik's presence threatened to destroy her stay in Greece. Her former fiance believes he still has some claim to her and her time. Wrong! Casey might be small, but she can be a spitfire and she will do whatever it takes to get rid of this bothersome man.Wealthy Nick Santos rushes to Casey's rescue at the airport in Athens. Not only that, but he rushes her into a fake engagement and carries her off to his home to meet his family. It seems that everyone but the bride believes the engagement and wedding, set for next Friday, are for real.Casey is outraged by Nick's proprietary manner but cannot deny her growing attraction or love for this huge bear of a man. But she could never consider marriage to someone like him, could she? What would his reaction be if he found out about her background? And the secret she'd never divulged to anyone else?
Born of a Nez Perce mother and a white father in the second half of the twentieth century, Phoenix Stargazer has always struggled to find his place in two worlds. Called a half-breed by many, Phoenix is struggling to find his place in humankind when he falls in love with a white woman who sees past his mixed heritage and his anger to offer him her love and her God. Aerielle Buchanan, having delved past the wall Phoenix has built, has fallen in love. Yet without warning, Phoenix is torn from her life, and the two are left to live their own lives apart from each other. What will happen in 14 years when God reunites them? Bound by love and faith, but torn apart by time and circumstance, will their reunion be enough to bring them back together? Are they truly destined for each other, or was what they had only an illusion from their youth?
A delightful collection of 150 profiles of women who refused to confine themselves to the nineteenth-century Victorian model for proper womanhood. During the Victorian era, a woman’s pedestal was her prison . . . “Women should not be expected to write, or fight, or build, or compose scores. She does all by inspiring man to do all.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson “There is nothing more dangerous for a young woman than to rely chiefly upon her intellectual powers, her wit, her imagination, her fancy.” —Godey’s Lady’s Book magazine But, scores of nineteenth-century American women chose to live life on their terms. In this book you will meet women who refused to remain on a Victorian pedestal. In San Francisco, a courtesan appeared as a plaintiff in court, suing her clients for fraud. In Montana, a laundress in her seventies decked a gentleman who refused to pay his bill. A forty-three-year-old schoolteacher plunged down Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. A frail lighthouse keeper pulled twenty-two sinking sailors out of the ocean off Rhode Island. A pair of Colorado madams fought a public pistol duel over their mutual beau. Two lady lovebirds were legally wed in Michigan. An ad hoc abolitionist spirited away scores of slaves on the Underground Railroad. A Secessionist spy swallowed a secret message as she was arrested, claiming that no one could capture her soul. Featuring fifty black-and-white photos from the era. Perfect for fans of Women Who Run with the Wolves or Badass Affirmations. Praise for Wild Women “A fantastic read with unforgettable woman from across the world. I love this groundbreaking and fascinating book of wonderful women!” —Becca Anderson, author of The Book of Awesome Women
A new danger. A hidden enemy. Will she finally lose her heart to darkness? Gwen Findlay has come into her own. After defeating the Fey-King, the former coffee shop manager accepts blessings and leadership powers from her adopted home of Faelaw. But she finds no time to rest when a devastating earthquake levels an entire city. Traveling to her half-orc partner’s hometown to give aid, Gwen’s instincts are triggered by the village fool’s ramblings of an undead skeletal troop causing the destruction. But when she’s the only one who believes the Abyss could exist, her distrust in her magical abilities may condemn them to the ambition of a sinister queen. Can she conquer her final challenge without losing all she’s come to love? Fyre is the bold third book in the Faelaw Chronicles epic fantasy series. If you like courageous heroines, arduous journeys, and wholesome fun, then you’ll adore Autumn Stevens’s satisfying conclusion. Buy Fyre to unlock destiny today!
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