Join the wellness revolution by Black women, for Black women. Take Care prioritises Black women and their experiences and encourages them to take care of themselves in order to bring their best self into the world. A space for Black women to cultivate their joy is truly a necessity at a time when Black lives are at the forefront of discussions online and in the media, and Take Care is the book to ensure that. Chloe Pierre, founder of thy.self, the brand making self-care inclusive, wants to inspire Black women to take time to care for themselves. In this book she consults experts to create an inspiring and practical guide that offers ways to help you: - Be your authentic self - Embrace your beauty and feel body positive - Deal with grief, loss and mental health issues - Create a supportive and uplifting community - Practice self-love every day Take Care is a book of warmth, happiness and light, and will help you to refocus and put yourself first.
Looking for entertaining stories of drama, glamour and passion featuring sophisticated and sensual African American and multicultural heroes and heroines? Harlequin Kimani Romance brings you all this and more with these four new full-length books for one great price! UNDENIABLE ATTRACTION Burkes of Sheridan Falls Kayla Perrin When a family wedding reunites Melissa Conwell with Aaron Burke, she’s determined to prove she’s over the gorgeous soccer star who broke her heart years before. Newly single Aaron wants another chance with Melissa and engineers a full-throttle seduction. Will Melissa risk heartbreak again for an elusive happily-ever-after? FRENCH QUARTER KISSES Love in the Big Easy Zuri Day Pierre LeBlanc is a triple threat: celebrated chef, food-network star and owner of the Big Easy’s hottest restaurant. Journalist Rosalyn Arnaud sees only a spoiled playboy not worthy of front-page news. Their attraction tells another story. But when she uncovers his secret, their love affair could end in shattering betrayal… GUARDING HIS HEART Scoring for Love Synithia Williams Basketball star Kevin Koucky plans to end his career by posing naked in a magazine feature. When photographer Jasmin Hook agrees to take the assignment, she never expects a sensual slam dunk. But he comes with emotional baggage. Little does she know that Kevin always plays to win… A TASTE OF PLEASURE Deliciously Dechamps Chloe Blake Italy is the perfect place for new beginnings—that’s what chef Danica Nillson hopes. But one look at Antonio Dante Lorenzetti, and her plan to keep romance out of her kitchen goes up in flames. The millionaire restaurateur wants stability. Not unbridled passion. Is she who he’s been waiting for?
“Lyrical and haunting . . . A beautiful portrait of urban loneliness, and the pursuit of meaning amid the barbed comforts of solitude.” —The Economist Marie’s job as a security guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But through the hushed corridors of England’s largest art museum surge currents of history and violence. For in this hall filled with paintings whose power belies their own fragility, there also lingers the legacy of Marie’s great-grandfather Ted, himself a museum guard. Decades earlier, he slipped and fell moments before reaching the suffragette Mary Richardson as she took a blade to one of the gallery’s masterpieces on the eve of the First World War. After nine years on the job, Marie begins to feel the tug of restlessness. A decisive change comes in the form of a winter trip to Paris—where, with the arrival of an uninvited guest and an unexpected encounter, her carefully contained world will be torn open . . . The follow-up to Chloe Aridjis’s “charming and unconventional debut, Book of Clouds” (The Independent), Asunder is a “captivating, cerebral novel” (Booklist) of beguiling depths and beautiful strangeness, exploring the delicate balance between creation and destruction, control and surrender. “[An] oddly compelling tale . . . Dark and peculiar, simultaneously sinister and playful, Aridjis’ modern gothic vision will charm those prepared to linger in her cabinet of curiosities.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Dramatic and affecting, completely coherent and oddly irresistible. It is a brilliant book.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
He steals for the French crown. She heals for the Catholic church. Will he heal her heart...or will she steal his? Will he betray her to save her life? Drago's final mission from the king of France is to bring back religious relics from a New Orleans cathedral. Trouble begins when he's forced by a mysterious, novitiate nun to swear to protect the very items he has to steal. Why does she hide behind a veil? The convent has been her safe haven since she crawled, beaten and bloody, to its door nine years ago. Old enemies resurface... bringing her past back with them. When the British attack New Orleans, both must make hard choices. 4,000 ragtag Americans against 15,000 trained British soldiers fresh from a victory at Waterloo... How can an unredeemable spy and a reformed street rat help defeat the greatest military force in the world? What readers have to say: “Start the coffee.” ”Set against the backdrop of the famous Battle of New Orleans, This story will have you turning pages into the wee hours of the night. If you love pirates, history, humor, and a bit of romance you will love this newly released book by Chloe Flowers because the author has a way with historical fiction that enthralls and entertains.” “Dramatic, engrossing, suspenseful, exciting.”
Shipped off to France for Easter for some continental 'culture', Hannah finds herself staying with her mother's best friend. And her mother's best friend's daughter. Who happens to be tall, horribly stylish and has that irritating way of turning a scarf into the latest fashion accessory. To make matters worse (if possible) the daughter's friend is coming to stay with them. Doubly bad for the ego, twice the competition for the bathroom. But then 'Michel' turns out to be a boy . . . Cue rivalry with a continental flavour in a fantastically scandal-rich and brilliantly compelling teen coming-of-age drama.
Scenic Driving Atlantic Canada features nearly thirty separate drives through the beautiful Canadian coastline, from Nova Scotia up to Newfoundland. An indispensable highway companion, Scenic Driving Atlantic Canada includes route maps and in-depth descriptions of attractions.
Six decades after the defeat of National Socialism, commemoration and mourning are ongoing, open-ended projects in Germany and Austria, and continue to generate a steady stream of literature and film about the Nazi past that, while comparatively modest in volume, is often disproportionately influential in public debates. At the same time, new museums and memorials are being established all the time in what Andreas Huyssen has called a 'memory boom', while what is remembered and how it is remembered is subject to continuous change. Scholars have to keep pace with each new development in this culture of commemoration. Rather than add to the growing body of surveys of literature and film about the Third Reich, this study instead puts scholars' critical approaches under the microscope. Chloe Paver considers how far the object of the study is not just analysed but also constructed by the scholar's approach and identifies the criteria by which academics judge the values of works that deal with the Third Reich. This book brings aspects of film, fiction, and memorial culture together in a single study that pays as much attention to images (and in the case of film to sound) as it does to text. The study of film, historical exhibitions, and sites of memory also demands consideration of social contexts and practices. A case study of memory at two of Austria's sites of terror demonstrates the methods used in the study of memorials and museums and considers the ways in which memory attaches itself to place.
Drawing on the work of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological liberation of the confessing subject. Instead, confessional desire is argued to be contingent and constraining, and alternatives to confessional subjectivity are explored.
When it comes to talking about the activity of directing the church, the language of leadership and leaders is increasingly popular. Yet what is leadership – and how might theological narratives better resource the discourse and practice of leadership in ecclesial contexts? In identifying and critiquing managerialism as a dominant narrative of leadership in the Western church, this book calls for an alternative approach founded on the concept of friendship. Engaging with the wider field of leadership studies, the book establishes an understanding of leadership activity and brings it into conversation with an incarnational ecclesiology. The result is a prophetic reimagining of ecclesial leadership in terms of a relational, kenotic praxis. This praxis of mutuality and love is framed here in the rich language of Christian friendship. The book also wrestles deeply with the embodiment of such a praxis, making explicit the power behaviours typical of friendship-leadership and offering constructive guidance for practitioners in the task of implementation within a complex and fractured world. This book offers a new vision of the centrality of friendship to leadership of a healthy church community. As such, it will be of great use to scholars of practical theology, ecclesiology and leadership, as well as practitioners in church ministry.
To hold something and turn it round in your hand, knowing that someone else, long ago, has run their fingers along these same curves and edges. It makes you wonder who they were, what their lives were like and what became of them. When Julia found objects lost or hidden or buried in her French manoir, they set her on a quest to learn their stories. The facts she uncovered changed her own life in a way she could hardly have envisaged.
For anyone insane enough to want to embark on forming an opera company, or anyone who is fanatic about opera, 'How to Knit an Opera' is a compelling and enormously funny read.
A shocking and engrossing exposâe of the US meat industry, the devastating failures of the country's food system, and the growing disappointment of alternative meat producers claiming to revolutionize the future of food by the head of Forbes's Food, Drink, and Agriculture division, Chloe Sorvino"--
A timely and defiant manifesto unpacking the past, present and future of women's sport, from the Olympic gold medal-winning founder of The [Female] Athlete Project. 'Enthralling'—Ellyse Perry 'A must-read'—Laura Henshaw A brilliant argument in favour of the case for women's sport'—Liz Ellis When Chloe Dalton was eight years old, she would practise her goal kicks in the half-time break of her brothers' rugby matches, all the while telling impressed onlookers: 'Girls don't play rugby.' Sixteen years later, Chloe Dalton won Olympic gold playing rugby sevens for Australia and is now a fixture in the AFLW. In 2020, she started her own news platform, The [Female] Athlete Project, because while she was surrounded by women achieving incredible things in sport, nobody was hearing about them. This book shines a light on the interlinked quagmires of respect, opportunity, representation and pay that continue to stall the progress of women's teams around the world. Girls Don't Play Sport is a fierce manifesto advocating for female athletes at all levels. It explores how we got to this point and asks where we need to go next to embrace the untapped potential of women's sport. 'Captivating, empowering and relatable . . . a must-read.'—Ellie Cole 'Chloe's tireless commitment to sharing female athletes' unique stories and struggles is inspiring.'—Tayla Harris 'For too long, female sport has been undervalued and under-resourced. But the tide is turning, and the message this book presents is clear: ignore us at your own peril.'—Cate Campbell
Your daily fashion Q may be: What's a girl to wear? But at Couture magazine in Manhattan, four glittering interns have even bigger things to worry about. Someone's leaking Couture's trendsetting secrets—and the in-style intrigue doesn't end there. Hot new designer Callie is feeling the haute couture heat. Aynsley is fashion's new It Girl . . . and too cool to care. Nadine has a jaw-dropping look—but she's on the edge of out. Ava is hiding much more than a few knockoffs in her closet! Sounds like the interns need fashion therapy! Lucky for them, the Fashionista blog is serving up some mind-blowing style potions, with a sweet supply of garment-industry gossip. Get ready for some knockdown drama in Prada.
Can Zoey dazzle at the school dance AND as a guest judge on her favorite reality show? Includes “Sew Zoey” blog posts and fashion illustrations! Zoey’s school is having a dance, and everyone is talking about whom to ask (and what to wear!). Zoey gets to work sewing special dresses for her friends Kate and Priti, and the girls make a pact to ask their crushes. Things seem all zipped up…until Zoey gets a phone call from her favorite reality show, Fashion Showdown! The producer is a fan of the Sew Zoey blog and wants Zoey to be a guest judge on an upcoming episode. It’s shaping up to be a fashion fairy tale, but then reality hits: the reality TV show taping is on the same day as the school dance! What will Zoey choose, the dance or the dream?
Looking for entertaining stories of drama, glamour and passion featuring sophisticated and sensual African American and multicultural heroes and heroines? Harlequin Kimani Romance brings you all this and more with these four new full-length books for one great price! UNDENIABLE ATTRACTION Burkes of Sheridan Falls Kayla Perrin When a family wedding reunites Melissa Conwell with Aaron Burke, she’s determined to prove she’s over the gorgeous soccer star who broke her heart years before. Newly single Aaron wants another chance with Melissa and engineers a full-throttle seduction. Will Melissa risk heartbreak again for an elusive happily-ever-after? FRENCH QUARTER KISSES Love in the Big Easy Zuri Day Pierre LeBlanc is a triple threat: celebrated chef, food-network star and owner of the Big Easy’s hottest restaurant. Journalist Rosalyn Arnaud sees only a spoiled playboy not worthy of front-page news. Their attraction tells another story. But when she uncovers his secret, their love affair could end in shattering betrayal… GUARDING HIS HEART Scoring for Love Synithia Williams Basketball star Kevin Koucky plans to end his career by posing naked in a magazine feature. When photographer Jasmin Hook agrees to take the assignment, she never expects a sensual slam dunk. But he comes with emotional baggage. Little does she know that Kevin always plays to win… A TASTE OF PLEASURE Deliciously Dechamps Chloe Blake Italy is the perfect place for new beginnings—that’s what chef Danica Nillson hopes. But one look at Antonio Dante Lorenzetti, and her plan to keep romance out of her kitchen goes up in flames. The millionaire restaurateur wants stability. Not unbridled passion. Is she who he’s been waiting for?
Marie's job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the quiet life she always wanted. But amid the hushed corridors of the Gallery surge currents of history and violence. After nine years there, Marie begins to feel the tug of restlessness. A decisive change comes in the form of a winter trip to Paris, where, with the arrival of an uninvited guest and an unexpected encounter, her carefully contained world is torn apart.
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