Beverly Hills police detective Lynn Franklin is a legend of his time. The most decorated cop on the force. What happened when the President ordered the Attorney General to murder Marilyn Monroe? An explosive true story of political corruption at the top.
Health aficionados and kale devotees will appreciate having great recipes and information on kale's nutritional benefits all in one book. A phenomenal source of antioxidants, rich in minerals and essential vitamins, and high in complete protein, it's no wonder this cruciferous veggie is high on everyone's grocery list. Author Beverly Lynn Bennett shows how incredibly easy it is to deliciously incorporate kale into your daily diet and reap its numerous health benefits. From breakfast smoothies and scrambles and luncheon burgers and soups to dinner stews or pasta, dips and chips for snacks and brownies and cupcakes for dessert, let this versatile veggie become your nutritional best friend.
An estimated one in five people worldwide have elevated levels of a type of cholesterol called lipoprotein(a) which can increase the risk for cardiovascular disease, including blocked arteries, blood clots, and stroke. Cardiologist Joel Kahn explains how this condition is a factor of genetics rather than poor lifestyle choices, and the best ways to test effectively for these levels. He shares research that shows plant-based diets in general provide the best defense against heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular disease and can play an important role in protecting individuals with elevated lipoprotein(a) levels. He has partnered with vegan expert Beverly Lynn Bennett who provides dozens of delicious oil-free, heart-healthy recipes that provide delicious options for boosting heart health.
Known as Peruvian ginseng, maca is a tuber grown high in the Andes. It's been widely praised as a superfood and is credited with boosting stamina, energy, libido, and fertility. Maca also functions as an adaptogen that stimulates the body to heal whatever is out of balance. Maca has been recommended for decades by both conventional and alternative health care practitioners worldwide. Beverly Lynn Bennett reviews maca's nutritional and healing properties and all its available forms. She thoroughly covers how to incorporate powdered maca into daily meals and provides 32 scrumptious recipes, including beverages, morning meals, snacks, sides, main dishes, and treats. Incan Maca Hot Chocolate, Garden Guaca-Maca-Mole, and Maca-Miso Dressing are just a few of her delicious offerings. This booklet is part of the Live Healthy Now series.
Almond flour has taken the culinary world by storm! Because it's made from a nut, not a grain, almond flour is gluten-free and has become a popular alternative to wheat flour and other grain-based flours, particularly among followers of specialty eating plans, including paleo, gluten-free, grain-free, specific-carbohydrate, low-carbohydrate, and high-protein diets. Popular vegan cookbook author Beverly Lynn Bennett shares more than 80 recipes that feature almond flour, along with helpful tips and essential information for how to incorporate it into your favorite dishes, from sweet to savory. Readers will learn the differences between blanched almond flour, natural almond flour, and almond meal, and discover when they can be interchanged. In addition to offerings for breakfast, brunch, snacks, and main dishes, there's a wealth of recipes for baked goods of every kind, including breads, biscuits, scones, bars, pies, tarts, and cakes. As a bonus, using almond flour rather than wheat flour or other flours increases the protein content of recipes while simultaneously decreasing their carbohydrate content. And almond flour's smooth texture and rich, buttery taste boost the flavor and moisture content of baked goods and other dishes. All the recipes are vegan and gluten-free.
Up Was Never for Everyone! Move up or move out. When those two options appear to be the only ones, dissatisfaction grows and engagement suffers. In decades of studying careers around the globe, Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams, and Lynn Cowart have found that, in fact, there are more options. And rethinking career mobility can lead you to them! The authors show how managers, coaches, and employees can partner to determine what's best and what's next. Keep the same job but discover new ways to learn and grow? Explore moving to a position that could be a better fit? Step back without getting derailed? This book encourages readers to take a “kaleidoscope” view—to be open to ever-shifting patterns of opportunities and possibilities—so they can create a unique, personalized path to a truly rewarding career.
Emily Weatherspoon has come to the day that most people loathe. It is time to say good-bye to her old life of independence and move into an assisted nursing home. Through all of the packing, her faithful granddaughter, Megan, has been there to soothe her fears and collect her memories. Yet, there is one memory that Emily thought would never be conjured up again. When Megan stumbles across an old picture frame lying in a box, she takes it to her grandmother and asks her who the man is. Emily is stunned at first to see the handsome face smiling back at her. Megan will not let her pass it off as nothing. She wants to know the story behind those eyes and the scars on his face. So, Emily begins to tell her the story, a story from her youth, a story of when first love burned bright.
Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: HER FAVORITE WYOMING SHERIFF The Blackwells of Eagle Springs by USA TODAY bestselling author Cari Lynn Webb Widower and single mom Adele Blackwell Kane must reopen the once-renowned Blackwell Auction Barn—if she can get Sheriff Grady McMillan to stop arresting her on town ordinances long enough to save her ranch. Can love prevail in county jail? THE SERGEANT’S CHRISTMAS GIFT by New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray While manning the NORAD Santa hotline, Sergeant Graham Hopkins gets a call from a boy who steals his heart. When he meets the boy’s mother, Vivian Parnell, will he make room in his heart for both of them? THE SEAL’S CHRISTMAS DILEMMA Big Sky Navy Heroes by Julianna Morris Navy SEAL Dakota Maxwell is skipping Christmas—and not just because his career-ending injuries have left him bitter. But Dr. Noelle Bannerman lives to heal. And she’ll do that with physical therapy…and a dose of holiday magic. AN ALASKAN FAMILY THANKSGIVING A Northern Lights Novel by Beth Carpenter Single mom Sunny Galloway loves her job as activities director of a seniors’ home—then Adam Lloyd shows up, tasked with resolving financial woes. They have until Thanksgiving to save the home. Can working together mean saving each other, too? Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!
Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. HIDDEN IN AMISH COUNTRY Amish Country Justice by Dana R. Lynn There’s a bull’s-eye on her back, and Sadie Standings can’t remember why…yet she trusts Amish widower Ben Mast to protect her. But when hiding the Englischer endangers the single dad and his young son, Ben and Sadie must rely on each other and her murky memory to catch a murderer. COVERT CHRISTMAS TWIN Twins Separated at Birth by Heather Woodhaven After discovering she’s a twin, FBI special agent Kendra Parker tracks down her birth mother—and faces a barrage of bullets. Now armed with the knowledge that her mother’s a spy, Kendra must work with FBI analyst Joe Rose to find the government mole threatening her family…before they all end up dead. ALASKAN CHRISTMAS COLD CASE by Sarah Varland For years, a serial killer has eluded authorities—and now Alaska state trooper Erynn Cooper is in his sights. With help from small-town police chief Noah Dawson, can she finally stop the murders before Christmas…or will Erynn become the next victim?
Firefighter Ashton Blaise is brave, handsome, kind, and can cook both on the stove and in the bedroom. He routinely saves animals from the flames. Women want him, all except Leah Allain, new director of the local animal shelter, not even after he saves a kitten found in her burning house. Her resistance intrigues him as does the fact that her home was intentionally set afire. Not totally immune to Ash's charms, Leah is determined not to get involved with another guy out of her league like the married man who took advantage of her. Responsible for her senile grandmother, this time she cannot pull up roots and run. Though she picks on Ash's few faults to drive him away, he keeps finding excuses to be part of her life. Can Ash start a fire in Leah's heart and keep it blazing?
Winner of the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Awards Winner of the 2017 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice “Valuable . . . [like Michelle] Alexander's The New Jim Crow.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Susan Burton is a national treasure . . . her life story is testimony to the human capacity for resilience and recovery . . . [Becoming Ms. Burton is] a stunning memoir.” —Nicholas Kristof, in The New York Times Winner of the prestigious NAACP Image Award, a uniquely American story of trauma, incarceration, and "the breathtaking resilience of the human spirit" (Michelle Alexander) Widely hailed as a stunning memoir, Becoming Ms. Burton is the remarkable life story of the renowned activist Susan Burton. In this "stirring and moving tour-de-force" (John Legend), Susan Burton movingly recounts her own journey through the criminal justice system and her transformation into a life of advocacy. After a childhood of immense pain, poverty, and abuse in Los Angeles, the tragic loss of her son led her into addiction, which in turn led to arrests and incarceration. During the War on Drugs, Burton was arrested and would cycle in and out of prison for more than fifteen years. When, by chance, she finally received treatment, her political awakening began and she became a powerful advocate for "a more humane justice system guided by compassion and dignity" (Booklist, starred review). Her award-winning organization, A New Way of Life, has transformed the lives of more than one thousand formerly incarcerated women and is an international model for a less punitive and more effective approach to rehabilitation and reentry. Winner of an NAACP Image Award and named a "Best Book of 2017" by the Chicago Public Library, here is an unforgettable book about "the breathtaking resilience of the human spirit" (Michelle Alexander).
Life at Fashionista magazine can be a real bitch. Especially when you work for one. Vig Morgan finally worked her way out of the assistant-for-the-bitch-from-hell trenches only to get stuck in a sea of editors. But Vig isn't like the other associate editors at the aggressively hip and overwhelmingly current Fashionista magazine. For one thing, she couldn't care less which star wore which designer to which party. Sure, she's clever and witty—and just as ambitious as the next overqualified underpaid underling, but she would never get drawn into a plot to depose the evil editor-in-chief. Or would she? Jump with Vig into the choppy waters of scheming, backstabbing, free speech, flirtation and fashion, as the lackeys at the bottom of the masthead band together to take down the queen at the top, with some unexpected—but not necessarily unpleasant—results.
Expanding the boundaries of both genre and gender, contemporary American women are writing long poems in a variety of styles that repossess history, reconceive female subjectivity, and revitalize poetry itself. In the first book devoted to long poems by women, Lynn Keller explores this rich and evolving body of work, offering revealing discussions of the diverse traditions and feminist concerns addressed by poets ranging from Rita Dove and Sharon Doubiago to Judy Grahn, Marilyn Hacker, and Susan Howe. Arguing that women poets no longer feel intimidated by the traditional associations of long poems with the heroic, public realm or with great artistic ambition, Keller shows how the long poem's openness to sociological, anthropological, and historical material makes it an ideal mode for exploring women's roles in history and culture. In addition, the varied forms of long poems—from sprawling free verse epics to regular sonnet sequences to highly disjunctive experimental collages—make this hybrid genre easily adaptable to diverse visions of feminism and of contemporary poetics.
Evelyn Brent's life and career were going quite well in 1928. She was happily living with writer Dorothy Herzog following her divorce from producer Bernard Fineman, and the tiny brunette had wowed fans and critics in the silent films The Underworld and The Last Command. She'd also been a sensation in Paramount's first dialogue film, Interference. But by the end of that year Brent was headed for a quick, downward spiral ending in bankruptcy and occasional work as an extra. What happened is a complicated story laced with bad luck, poor decisions, and treachery detailed in this first and only full-length biography.
After the remarriage of her mother to a Black man and moving to South Carolina during the 1960s, Lynn Markovich Bryant comes face to face with the shocking reality of two worlds--a "White World" and a "Black World." She learns rapidly the unwritten, yet understood, rules that govern the separation of these worlds.
Gender, Race, and Class is a critical overview of these three well-known dimensions of the social world. The study of gender, race and class as a combined topic has evolved over the years, and this concise, accessible volume shows why the subject continues to resonate both in and outside the academy. Examines recent scholarship to how one’s gender, with the added dimension of race and class, can impact one’s experiences in society. Probes deeper under the surface of different biases to see whether common elements of discrimination may also be at work. Includes a conceptual “vocabulary” that describes how gender, race and class interrelate.
Joshua Samuelson continues his journey through life in this second book. He has a birthmark on his right palm that symbolizes his ancestorial relationship to Judas Iscariot. Jesus, the Prince of Light, protects the family as he promised Judas's wife. This birthmark causes money to fall easily into the palm of any family member who wears the mark. Having lost his wife in childbirth he needs to reorganize his life and help his children adjust to living without a mother. He hires a nanny from England to help fill the gap, giving him time to mourn and adjust to being a single parent. Strangely, at a party it becomes known that the Nanny is from an aristocratic family in England. Slowly a relationship blossoms and a wedding relaxes the family. But as life continues, evil raises it's head with problems in Joshua's businesses. Then his new wife's family causes trouble, and finally the world creates havoc with terrorists and the threat of World War III. Joshua has always feared that something would happen to his family with the world in turmoil, so he builds bomb shelters and eventually converts a cave into a massive shelter to withstand a nuclear bomb. He will use his money for loans to people in need during the coming Tribulation, which he has read about in the Bible. Barbara is Joshua's Guardian Angel and she has watched over him since his birth. She has contacted him once to warn of future events. She also watches Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, who covets all the family's souls. He is aware of what is happening and waits in the shadows.
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