It is written that the firstborn must take their seat on the throne in the case of death among the king or queen. But what happens if you are twins? After the sudden death of their mother, twins Cassius and Ivy must battle for the throne in order to see who will rule over Morkaia. But when they must put their differences aside during the war against the kingdom's enemies, they may lose more than just the throne in battle.
When you inadvertently give relationship advice to the owner of a top magazine in a cramped elevator, you can expect some turned heads. Anthony Barker is a journalist whose career is anything but prolific, that is until he is lucky enough to run into Lacey Kipper, the head of Los Angeles’s top blogging company. A series of events lands him his own advice column at Los Angeles’s top magazine. As Anthony gets comfortable in his job, he starts to receive letters from an anonymous fan who is looking for a little more than just guidance. Dear Anthony is a romantic comedy that gives you the male’s perspective on relationships and digs deep into the world of he said, she said.
When the parachute doesn't open, what happens when you fall?Will you think about everything you accomplished or everything you haven't done?This collection of poems is derived from just this. What could have happened and what you can do about it.When you fall, Make sure you have no stone unturned and nothing to wish you never did.When the parachute doesn't open
Allergic to air.The mental illnesses you don't always hear about but are still there.Fighting to stay alive inside your own mind.Nellie is a 23-year-old online English teachers whose life is anything but adventurous. After having a severe panic attack while covering a women's march for her job, she has converted to her home and is now the neighbourhood hermit, but they don't know the worst of it.Now that her broken family is trying to reconnect and her brother is going off to business school, Nellie finds herself in more trouble then she ever has before.The only thing that can save her now is the safety of her own mind.Nellie suffers with Agoraphobia and finds herself trapped in an open room, uncomfortable around people and perceives the world around her as unsafe. This is her story.
When you inadvertently give relationship advice to the owner of a top magazine in a cramped elevator, you can expect some turned heads. Anthony Barker is a journalist whose career is anything but prolific, that is until he is lucky enough to run into Lacey Kipper, the head of Los Angeles’s top blogging company. A series of events lands him his own advice column at Los Angeles’s top magazine. As Anthony gets comfortable in his job, he starts to receive letters from an anonymous fan who is looking for a little more than just guidance. Dear Anthony is a romantic comedy that gives you the male’s perspective on relationships and digs deep into the world of he said, she said.
It is written that the firstborn must take their seat on the throne in the case of death among the king or queen. But what happens if you are twins? After the sudden death of their mother, twins Cassius and Ivy must battle for the throne in order to see who will rule over Morkaia. But when they must put their differences aside during the war against the kingdom's enemies, they may lose more than just the throne in battle.
Only Human is the third installement of the Unspoken Agreement poetry series. Described as heart-wrenching, beyond realistic and beautiful, Only Human touches on loving yourself while battling your mental health.
Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What transpired was a war of swords and of pens, waged in newspapers and periodicals, in literature, broadsheets, and fliers. In her analysis of Haitian writing that followed independence, Stieber composes a new literary history of Haiti, that challenges our interpretations of both freedom struggles and the postcolonial. By examining internal dissent during the revolution, Stieber reveals that the very concept of freedom was itself hotly contested in the public sphere, and it was this inherent tension that became the central battleground for the guerre de plume—the paper war—that vied to shape public sentiment and the very idea of Haiti. Stieber’s reading of post-independence Haitian writing reveals key insights into the nature of literature, its relation to freedom and politics, and how fraught and politically loaded the concepts of “literature” and “civilization” really are. The competing ideas of liberté, writing, and civilization at work within postcolonial Haiti have consequences for the way we think about Haiti’s role—as an idea and a discursive interlocutor—in the elaboration of black radicalism and black Atlantic, anticolonial, and decolonial thought. In so doing, Stieber reorders our previously homogeneous view of Haiti, teasing out warring conceptions of the new nation that continued to play out deep into the twentieth century.
By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed significantly different cultural idioms for and understandings of poison. Europeans considered poison a gendered “weapon of the weak” while Africans viewed it as an abuse by the powerful. Though distinct, both idioms centered on fraught power relationships. When translated to the slave societies of the Americas, these understandings sometimes clashed in conflicting interpretations of alleged poisoning events. In Poisoned Relations, Chelsea Berry illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic World. Poison was connected to central concerns of life: to the well-being in this world for oneself and one’s relatives; to the morality and use of power; and to the fraught relationships that bound people together. The social and relational nature of ideas about poison meant that the power struggles that emerged in poison cases, while unfolding in the extreme context of slavery, were not solely between enslavers and the enslaved—they also involved social conflict within enslaved communities. Poisoned Relations examines more than five hundred investigations and trials in four colonial contexts—British Virginia, French Martinique, Portuguese Bahia, and the Dutch Guianas—bringing a groundbreaking application of historical linguistics to bear on the study of the African diaspora in the Americas. Illuminating competing understandings of poison and power in this way, Berry opens new avenues of evidence through which to navigate the violence of colonial archival silences.
Islathon is the second book of the Twisted Dream, Dead Moon series, the continuation of a story about Isla Michelle Van Burren, a twenty-one-year-old creative hairstylist finally living for the first time with an unusual thirst for life. Isla’s wrapped in debauchery; that tears at her flesh and heart as she falls apart and watches her own life slip away. There’s nothing that she can say or do to stop the torture she must endure. Isla pushes the dark clouds away and is enlightened by the silver lining of a new world and a mission on which she must embark. She’s finally living, all because of her undying love for Johnathon Daine, a beautiful, goodhearted man, who happens to be a vampire with a conscience. Isla wants to give him her life, her heart, her soul, and her blood. But he won’t succumb to his thirst. He would spare Isla the pain of becoming what he is. Isla would do anything to become a vampire and be with him forever.
In the majestic mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, where fantasy and reality collide. Where myths and tall tales are brought into a different light. A young woman, Isla Michelle Van Burren still living at home waiting for life to begin, is faced with a decision of extraordinary circumstances. A night out with her girlfriends brings her face to face with an intriguingly spellbinding man. He introduces himself as Bill, the owner of a dark, obscure night club. She's very quickly drawn to him. However, she soon discovers there is an unfathomable explanation to his mysterious insight into who she is. Out of curiosity, she engages in a tarot card reading. One card warns: You could lose your soul but gain so much more in return. These cryptic words puzzle Isla. She is entranced by a phenomenal and overwhelming urge to give herself to Bill in every way. He yearns to have her, but he can't decipher if his desire is of passion or thirst.
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