Containing over 150 poems, A Few More Minutes explores themes of memory, time, relationships, loss, and travel. Brenda Livingston Bradley’s poems isolate an image or expression and through vivid language, these few minutes in time poignantly connect us to the human experience. Brenda has had a life-long love affair with poetry. After writing her first poems in junior high school, she continued writing through her 20’s followed by nearly two decades of silence. She resumed writing poetry in 2011 when visiting Kenya for the third time. What she discovered was a new poetic voice that was more in tune with her surroundings, a seasoned dialect cultivated through life’s joys and pains, and a distinct tone that resonated with those who read her work. After being diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer in April 2019, Brenda committed to making one of her life’s dreams reality – this book of poetry.
Food can be a weapon for the body or against the body. During "The 21-Day Vegan Challenge," each author explored and experienced the healthy benefits of the plant-based lifestyle. This anthology-I Feel Good- is a compilation of real-life testimonies from people who used food as medicine. Throughout each chapter, you will find stories of strength, determination, and sacrifices that you or someone you may know can identify with. Everyone who shared their stories here have two common denominators: They allowed food to be their medicine, and now THEY FEEL GOOD! Read their inspiring stories and discover how you, too, can create a much healthier lifestyle...regardless of your current status.
This novella has romance, suspense and humor. Jocelyn has worked in the financial sector since graduating from college. To her dismay after ten years of working for the same company, she is laid off. The marriage to her gorgeous “Mr. Right” has failed miserably. After her marriage fails, she had vowed to never love again and to remain celibate.Ramon is the owner of Holliday Paints. He is tired of women wanting him for what he can provide for them. Jocelyn makes him laugh and is fun. She has one flaw though; she is the worst dressed woman he has ever met. Yet she fascinates him. The harder Ramon tries to get her into his bed; the harder Jocelyn avoids his advances.Someone is out to destroy Holliday Paints. Why? Who has it in for Thomas? Read this funny, suspenseful, romantic novel to find the answers
It's not easy to know where to find clothes that fit your figure, to feel confident in your image, or to edit your wardrobe. Using the DRES System's scientific approach, Margaret Spencer's national network of Certified Personal Stylists can help every woman learn to love her unique body shape and finally find what fits! In this book, we show you how to realize your greatest potential and use your best features to the fullest while creating a wardrobe you love. Discover confidence in balance, realize the gem that you are, and have fun getting dressed again with The Power of DRES! "The Power of DRES is a brilliant collection of short stories that teaches women how to feel confident and look beautiful." -Barbara Corcoran, real estate mogul, business expert and investor on NBC's Shark Tank. "Margaret has a professional, pulled-together style that radiates with confidence. Learn her secrets in this book packed with down-to-earth advice." -Lynn Baldwin-Rhoades, Founder of Power Chicks "Margaret Spencer and her network of stylists have created something original and empowering." -Melody Biringer, Founder of The CRAVE Company After reading this book, you will want to join the DRES System's DRES Club!
A second chance doesn't mean second best! Elizabeth O'Connell has survived one of the worst betrayals a wife can imagine. Finding out that she wasn't the only woman in her husband's life meant the end of her marriage and a year of personal hell. Now she's focusing on her new business and raising her two kids. Carter Hudson isn't part of her plan. When he's introduced to Liz by well-meaning friends, her dislike is instant. But as she spends time with him, Liz realizes she likes having Carter in her life—more than likes it. However, Carter has secrets in his past that he can't seem to escape, secrets that apparently involve a woman. Liz is sure of one thing—she'll never be "the other woman" again!
Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! #2701 DUTY OR DESIRE The Westmoreland Legacy by Brenda Jackson Becoming guardian of his young niece is tough for Westmoreland neighbor Pete Higgins. But Myra Hollister, the irresistible new nanny with a dangerous past, pushes him to the brink. Will desire for the nanny distract him from duty to his niece? #2703 THE RIVAL Dynasties: Mesa Falls by Joanne Rock Media mogul Devon Salazar is suspicious of the seductive new tour guide at Mesa Falls ranch. Sure enough, Regina Flores wants to take him down after his father destroyed her family. But attraction to her target might take her down first… #2704 RED CARPET REDEMPTION The Stewart Heirs by Yahrah St. John Dane Stewart is a Hollywood heartthrob with a devilish reputation. When a sperm bank mishap reveals he has a secret child with the beautiful but guarded Iris Turner, their intense chemistry surprises them both. Can this made-for-the-movies romance last? Look for Harlequin® Desire’s December 2019 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes!
Michael is twelve years old and has never known anything but foster homes in inner-city Detroit. When relatives are located in a small Tennessee town, he is sent to live with them. Hurt and angry, feeling that no one wants him, Michael strikes out at a lonely horse in a back pasture. Little did he know that it was a champion barrel-racing horse. Sparks Twister Doc was the kind of barrel horse all barrel racers hoped to have, yet he was hated by his owner and sentenced to a far back pasture to live out his days. Running for Home is a horse story for the whole family. A homeless boy and a forgotten horse are brought together by an act of anger. Though wary of each other at first, they form a bond of love and trust that yields miraculous results. Join them as they go on a journey that is filled with fun, compelling characters, both animal and human, to complete a quest only a homeless boy and a hopeless horse can accomplish.
She was called the Belle of the Southwest. Beautiful Candice Carter enjoyed the attentions of every eligible man in the New Mexico Territory, until her reckless heart led her to near death in the desert. But rescue came from Jack Savage, the hard-muscled Indian warrior who both terrified and fascinated her. Suddenly she was at the mercy of an arrogant outsider whose forbidden passion she dared not admit she wanted to taste. He was called Savage. From the moment he saw her, Jack branded Candice his woman. No matter that he could hang for touching her. Nothing could stop him from making her his reluctant bride. Vowing to teach her every sensual pleasure, he set out to tame the fiery spirit of the blond beauty who had stolen his soul. But as war raged between the white man and the Apache, he found himself torn between duty to his people and a forbidden love he could not resist and could not live without.
Psychiatrist Rachel Julian has what many dream ofa booming career, an enviable relationship, a joy-filled lifeuntil a bloody premonition warns her that she is in danger. As terrifying threats unfold, her perfect life tailspins out of control. Armed with nothing but her intuition and determination to stay alive, Dr. Julian steps into unknown realms and meets a succession of otherworldly teachers who tell her that beyond the human threats, she has been lured into a spiritual war. To survive, Rachel must fight an enemy she can't even see in a reality many wish did not exist. Awards: Grip of the Hawk Gold Winner: 2017 Human Relations Indie Book Award- Life Passage Realistic Fiction Honorable Mention Winner: 2017 Human Relations Indie Book Awards-Life Journey Fiction The Human Relations Indie Book Awards recognizes authors who have written books with a creative human relations focus in both fiction and non-fiction. Winners are from diverse backgrounds whose story demonstrates the value of human relationships whether in a work, cultural, or personal life setting. Silver Award Winner: 2018 IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards)-Visionary Fiction The 2018 Annual IPPY medal-winning book awards was celebrated on May 29th during the annual Book Expo publishing convention in New York City. This year's contest drew 4500 entries, and medals went to authors from 43 states, 6 Canadian provinces and 12 countries abroad. The awards, conceived in 1996, reward those who exhibit courage, innovation, and creativity to bring about change in the world of publishing. Silver Award Winner: 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards-Inspirational Fiction The 2018 Indie Book Awards was held in New Orleans in June during the National Library Conference. Referred to as the 'Sundance of the publishing world', this award draws leaders from both traditional and independent publishing and is the largest not-for-profit book award program recognizing and honoring the top international independently published books of the year.
American War Stories asks readers to contemplate what traditionally constitutes a “war story” and how that constitution obscures the normalization of militarism in American culture. The book claims the traditionally narrow scope of “war story,” as by a combatant about his wartime experience, compartmentalizes war, casting armed violence as distinct from everyday American life. Broadening “war story” beyond the specific genres of war narratives such as “war films,” “war fiction,” or “war memoirs,” American War Stories exposes how ingrained militarism is in everyday American life, a condition that challenges the very democratic principles the United States is touted as exemplifying.
Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from something deeper than a single incident. In The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, Brenda Stevenson tells the dramatic story of an earlier trial, a turning point on the road to the 1992 riot. On March 16, 1991, fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins, an African American who lived locally, entered the Empire Liquor Market at 9172 South Figueroa Street in South Central Los Angeles. Behind the counter was a Korean woman named Soon Ja Du. Latasha walked to the refrigerator cases in the back, took a bottle of orange juice, put it in her backpack, and approached the cash register with two dollar bills in her hand-the price of the juice. Moments later she was face-down on the floor with a bullet hole in the back of her head, shot dead by Du. Joyce Karlin, a Jewish Superior Court judge appointed by Republican Governor Pete Wilson, presided over the resulting manslaughter trial. A jury convicted Du, but Karlin sentenced her only to probation, community service, and a $500 fine. The author meticulously reconstructs these events and their aftermath, showing how they set the stage for the explosion in 1992. An accomplished historian at UCLA, Stevenson explores the lives of each of these three women-Harlins, Du, and Karlin-and their very different worlds in rich detail. Through the three women, she not only reveals the human reality and social repercussions of this triangular collision, she also provides a deep history of immigration, ethnicity, and gender in modern America. Massively researched, deftly written, The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins will reshape our understanding of race, ethnicity, gender, and-above all-justice in modern America.
A Victorian heiress weds for duty but falls prey to forbidden desire in this compelling family saga—first in the Barforth Trilogy. At sixteen Verity Barforth becomes sole heiress to a fortune founded on the wool mills of Yorkshire. But women—whether heiress or mill hand in the Barforth weaving sheds—do not control their own destinies. Obedient to the conventions of the Victorian age, she accepts a marriage of convenience and cloaks her proud spirit in the silks and satins of a society hostess. But for Verity, convention is not enough. When at last she falls in love it is not with her husband, and she becomes the center of a powerful drama of infidelity, jealousy and revenge, played out against the magnificent landscapes of the Yorkshire moors and the brutal poverty of the mills. The first novel in the Barforth Trilogy, this gripping family saga is perfect for fans of Sandy Taylor, Katie Flynn, and Josephine Cox.
Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. This box set includes: PINECRAFT REFUGE (A Pinecraft Seasons novel) by New York Times Bestselling Author Lenora Worth Grieving widower Tanner Dawson has no intentions of ever marrying again, but when he meets Eva Miller, sparks fly. Giving her a job at his store is the last thing he wants, but he needs the help. As they get closer, can he keep his secrets to protect his daughter? REUNITED BY THE BABY (A Sunset Ridge romance) by Brenda Minton After finding a baby abandoned on the back of his truck, Matthew Rivers enlists the help of RN Parker Smythe, the woman whose love he once rejected. When their feelings start to blossom, could it lead them on a path to something more? A HOME FOR THE TWINS by Danielle Thorne The struggling Azalea Inn is the perfect spot for chef Lindsey Judd to raise her twin boys. But things get complicated when lawyer Donovan Ainsworth comes to stay. Love is the last thing either of them want, but two little matchmakers might feel differently… For more stories filled with love and faith, look for Love Inspired March 2023 Box Set – 2 of 2
In How Like a God, Rob Lewis gave his friend Edwin Barbarossa the Pearl of Immortality that had once belonged to Gilgamesh. Seven years later, the space shuttle ferrying Edwin home from a stint on the new moon colony catches fire. Everyone dies except Edwin. First he's hailed as a hero. Then he disappears. It's up to Rob to rescue him from the man who will stop at nothing to take the secret of immortality for himself. Part political thriller, part fantasy, part near-future SF, part family drama, Doors of Death and Life is both exciting and thoughtful, a literate excursion into X-Files territory. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes Not Quite Married by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Christine Rimmer, A Forever Kind of Family by Brenda Harlen and From Best Friend to Bride by Jules Bennett. Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Special Edition!
Part of the four-book Queens of the Resistance series, saluting some of the most beloved boss ladies in Congress: a celebration of Representative Maxine Waters, who reclaimed her time and led the first calls for impeachment Maxine Waters is an icon for a generation of women powerbrokers in politics. She is an “unbought and unbossed” acolyte of all the legendary firebrands, like Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Tupac, and Malcolm X. The daughter of a single mom from St. Louis, she’s smart, sassy, and an outright firecracker. She is the first woman of color, and the first person of color, to regulate the boyz at the big banks as the powerful chair of the House Financial Services Committee. Auntie Maxine called out the crimes and corruption of this Oval Office with precision before anyone else dared to take a stand. Make no mistake, she is coming for the “king,” and whenever she aims, Maxine Waters doesn’t miss. With illustrations, deep research, and writing as endlessly quotable as she is, Queens of the Resistance pays tribute to this phenomenal woman. About the series: Each book of the Queens of the Resistance series will be a celebration of the rebellion against the oppression of women and an embracement of the new in the United States government. The series is adorned with sass, discernment, and the badassery of the present and future leadership. The Doomsday Clock is at a minute to midnight, and the patriarchal power grid that lights “the shining city on a Hill” is about to black out. It’s time to yield to the alternative—the power of women.
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