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Phillis Wheatley was a little girl of seven or eight years old when she was captured in Africa and brought to America as a slave. But, she didn’t let her circumstances keep her down. She learned to read and write in English and Latin, and showed a natural gift for poetry. By the time she was 12, her elegy at the death of the great pastor George Whitefield brought her worldwide acclaim. Phillis became known to heads of state, including George Washington himself, speaking out for American independence and the end of slavery.

* AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * INDIE BESTSELLER * JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION * KIDS' INDIE NEXT LIST PICK * NPR BEST PICK * KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America’s history and legacy of racism...

Lee Buchanan is a hot mess. Turning one’s father in to the feds can do that to a man. He had nothing to do with his father’s Ponzi scheme, but he’s blacklisted from commercial real estate all the same. Which is how he ends up in Asheville, working at the brewery he inherited with his siblings. He’s salty as hell, and he doesn’t care who knows it.

In a modern-day manifestation of the healing miracle Jesus performed on the paralyzed beggar at the gate called Beautiful in Acts 3, Joy Smith Griffin likewise jumped to her feet, walking and leaping and praising God! Called to tell the world about the Lord who healed her in every way, Jumping for Joy is a compilation of the missionary journeys of Joy Smith Griffin over a span of three decades to 75 nations.

''You’re there for him. I’m there for you.” - God. This is more than just a statement. It’s a promise. A covenant that God made to me one night in a dream that awakened my spirit with hope for the future and an unexplainable drive to tell our story to the world. This book is my personal testimony about how my faith and nutrition knowledge kept my husband, Gary, from experiencing many of the side effects of chemotherapy (chemo) and radiation after he was diagnosed with Stage 4 throat cancer.

Los Angeles, 1962. Jimmy Dean, bit part actor befriends famed actress Marilyn Monroe. When Marilyn is found dead in her LA home, the ruling is suicide, but Jimmy thinks otherwise. As he starts digging, he comes up against those who wish to stop him from uncovering the truth. Realizing that he's in over his head, Jimmy calls former business partner, Mississippi truck driver Elvis Presley. As Jimmy and Elvis search deeper, they uncover a potential link between Marilyn's death and the highest office in the land.

In this literary thriller, a young man descends into the Los Angeles underworld to find his family’s killer—aided by a group of strangers with their own shadowy pasts. When Marty returns to Pennsylvania after living in California for ten years, he’s happily welcomed by his father and older...

A “propulsive thriller about secret organizations, hidden agendas, and the lengths one woman will go to reclaim her life” (Laura Dave, author of Reese’s Book Club Pick The Last Thing He Told Me) from USA TODAY bestselling author Catherine McKenzie. At thirty-nine, Nicole Mueller’s life...

James Maloneys start in life was rooted in abuse, rejection, and fear. As a teenager, facing thoughts of suicide, he cried out to God, "If you're real, you're going to have to reveal yourself to me." Jesus Christ appeared to James in a cloud of glory and told him, "I have heard your cry for acceptance. I have heard your cry for reality, and I love you just the way you are."

So the cover picture is how our household scene was layout of house: our fur family, cozy love sofa, Dave’s computer cave, Mom’s comfy recliner, and my kitchen, a.k.a. crying/sipping station. Cheers! In advance! Sip, sip. Have your favorite drink ready for this Tipsy Caregiver’s tale. Dementia, a.k.a. the d-word, put all the sadness and heartbreak aside for a moment.

This book marks a major milestone in my life that I have truly lived an American Dream through my 30-year odyssey. Meanwhile, this book also marks the beginning of another chapter in my life. I will continue to contribute and give back to this great nation that has changed my life and my children’s lives for generations to come.

The Prohibition Movement has succeeded at persuading local areas to establish dry counties. Private institutions have also gone dry. What can these dry victories teach alternative parties? How can alternative parties leverage the lessons of these dry victories? This booklet encourages alternative parties to analyze the Dry Movement and to emulate the Dry Movement's successes.

Following the death of her husband, Kathryn Ellis becomes the new housekeeper at Hodder Hall, keen to embark on a bright new future...only, her past won’t let her go just yet, and the ghosts that stalk the village threaten to cut her future short.

Former investigative journalist and now full-time mother Tina Thomas is longing for some excitement when she and the other stay-at-home moms of Hamlin Park are jarred out of their mind-numbing boredom by a strange sequence of events in their upscale Chicago suburb. Tina's reporter-radar kicks in when, suddenly, an ill-tempered man buys a house across the street, a secretive Israeli family moves into the neighborhood, and a creepy dentist with an eye for strippers rents the home next door.

High above Earth the young angels of the Cloud Land of Glade are preparing for another school year. For Cadin and his best friend Lep, this means leaving middle school and entering Commons High School, where they must choose a Path. In a year where they already have to worry about homework and their Auras emerging, a challenge for Warrior Path angels opens to new students for the first time in the history of the Games. Follow Cadin’s journey through this vivid new land as he gathers an unorthodox team of young angels who must earn challenging arm badges.

Mt. Clemens, Michigan, 1887. Seventeen and headstrong, with marriage on her mind, Maggie is sure she has found her one true love. But when she collides head-on with betrayal, overwhelming loss, and ill-treatment, her life unravels. In a time when women had few rights, Maggie rises above adversity through rare determination and grit, becoming an independent woman ahead of her time. Yet before she can truly find peace, one heartbreaking, life-altering decision remains.

Are you a codependent man or woman, and are you looking for help to overcome it and reshape your life? If addiction (yours or someone else’s), violence, depression, or toxic shaming has affected your life, you might also be dealing with another invisible issue - codependency. It has created additional life-long challenges such as endless shame, anxiety, perfectionism, need for power, depression, a history of unhealthy relationships, and much more without you even being conscious of the link to the above problems.

In this moving memoir, Joy Clausen Soto vividly brings us into her world. We see her go from her dream job to fighting for her life, and how she is able to come back from it all. You can't avoid falling in love with her quirks, indomitable spirit, and wry sense of humor. Soto takes listeners on a compelling journey as she faces cancer and the challenges she encounters while re-entering "normal" life.

Twenty years of America’s Global War on Terror produced little tangible success while exacting enormous harm. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States sustained tens of thousands of casualties, expended trillions of dollars, and inflicted massive suffering on the very populations that we sought to “liberate.” Now the inclination to forget it all and move on is palpable. But there is much to be learned from the immense debacle. And those who served and fought in these wars are best positioned to teach us.

Do you know who you are - really? Evelyn is a 17-year-old high school student living in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has never been popular - always the social enigma, in spite of her stellar academic and athletic abilities. It’s not because she hasn't tried. Something else is up, and it all comes to a head when her parents are mysteriously gunned down by a man in black. Evelyn is the only witness to the crime, but she can't tell anyone what happened. She has become invisible. Worse, it's is like she doesn't even exist. Nobody can see her, nobody can hear her.