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Award-winning Black authors and artists come together to create a moving anthology collection celebrating Black love, Black creativity, Black resistance, and Black life.

My story gives the background of how Albert the Gorilla made his way to the North Pole and his idea of how to help Santa make sure kids with split families have an extra-special Christmas. This story gives children with split families something that is uniquely theirs.

Whether it’s a martini or a hot Tinder hookup, Amy Landry likes all things dirty. She abhors the dating game, but when her eyes land on Jon Logan, her blind date, she’s willing to play as long as it ends dirty.

Hearing the news that his mother is leaving their family home without explanation, the life of young Marcellous Thompson begins to unravel. As Marcellous progresses from adolescence into young adulthood, for each traumatic event he overcomes another is awaiting perilously around the corner. Betrayal, heartbreak, depression, and love are a handful of emotions Marcellous must master in order to grow into the man he has always envisioned within himself. Does he has the perseverance and fortitude to survive, or will he succumb to the pressures of his life?

When the American government was founded, the Founders and Framers assumed a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. That government is dying. It is under the authority of not we, the people, but rather a small elite that is trying to snuff out the great experiment of man ruling himself - the common man - the man that within the right system of government can attain his purpose to achieve happiness.

This practical, How to Get It Done sequel takes us from joining The Great Workplace Revolution (Book One), the revolution where everybody wins, to a positive workplace transformation. A must-listen for all employees, and a learning tool for organizations that have been stalled in the "my-way-or-the-highway" management style of generations past.

It Begs the Question is about dramatically improving team and personal performance, exerting less effort than you're investing today, and ensuring the sustainability of the improvements you make. Utilize the power of questions to develop the critical-thinking skills of your team so they are less dependent on you as the manager.

Create another revenue stream from your current client base and attract new clients by helping them with their commercial real estate needs.

Author Tom Klobucher introduces listeners to 37 secrets to a happy life and explains the many benefits of what he calls The Gentle Life.

Free speech lies at the heart of our American identity. The Founding Fathers enshrined this right in the first 45 words of the Bill of Rights. But what does the First Amendment really mean? How have views of its provisions evolved since 1791? In this 12-lecture audio course, First Amendment expert Professor David L. Hudson, Jr., leads you on a gripping tour of free speech law in the United States.

One crumbling grand manor house, a family in decline, five generations of women and an attic full of beautiful clothes with secrets and lies hidden in their folds.... Failed fashion designer Sylvie Dearlove is coming home to England - broke, ashamed and in disgrace - only to be told her parents are finally selling their once grand, now crumbling country house, Bledesford, the ancestral home of the Dearlove family for countless generations.

Tales of Gratitude is a collection of positive short stories with happy endings that will inspire thankfulness in the young and the young at heart. Tom Klobucher's stories are a touching and optimistic take on the American Dream. Each of his heroes confronts towering obstacles and overwhelming odds with little more than the support of their families, their sheer determination, and their ever-grateful spirits.

Letters From Rebecca is a play for two actors reading selected letters from a 12 year correspondence between Rebecca Bruns, a New Orleans writer, and Michael Corrigan from San Francisco. The letters were written before email and the Internet exploded, and concern love, art, writing, travel, and relationships. The letters take a dark turn when Rebecca is diagnosed with cancer. The play opened in Ketchum, Idaho and was subsequently broadcast by NPR Playhouse. Rebecca was a dear friend and a wonderful writer. This play is meant to celebrate Rebecca's memory and give her a voice, once more, through her eloquent yet earthy letters.

Wendy Markham. Gentle. Compassionate. Loyal. Stepmother to five headstrong children, longtime partner of the cantankerous ex-president of the Black Shamrocks MC, and the woman everyone turns to in a crisis. Patrick "Beast" O'Brien. Brutal. Merciless. Duplicitous. A father in name only, traitor to his own club, and a man living on borrowed time. He's broken all of the rules, hurt the one's closest to him, and then run away like a coward. She's been left behind to clean up his mess.

Laney Alberts should be enjoying her senior year of high school. Instead, she's mourning the death of her beloved father - her hero. Even after a year without him, she still feels directionless. Things take a complete 180 when she literally walks into Jason Magnus, the hot new guy at school. He's different from anyone she has ever met and intrigues her in ways she never guessed possible. But there's more to Jason than Laney realizes.

As you may have noticed, marriage is in crisis! Experts tell us that 50% or more of marriages in the US end in divorce. Living together prior to getting married, increases the likelihood of getting divorced by 40%. 43% of American children are being raised without their fathers. What really matters, Tom says, isn't what you expect to get out of the relationship, but what you expect to bring into it. The best marriage doesn't start with you looking outward at your spouse. Instead, Tom invites you to look inward, at yourself.

When a young, pretty woman interviews for the cashier position at his tackle shop, Trevor Dawber rethinks his prayer request. Mae was not what he had in mind when he asked four elderly women to pray for him in hiring his first employee. She was just the kind of lure he didn't need in his fishing store.

The metal horned unicorns are doomed! That's what Lauda Lead Horn wailed when she first saw the tribe's new savior. OK, so his horn was not metal...and he did not have a magic power...and he was really a puny little runt. But doomed? Were things really that bad?

Can you redeem your life in a corrupt world? That's the question for Callie Byrne, a street savvy Iraq vet recently out of drug rehab for heroin addiction, trying to reignite her life and regain custody of her son. Bartending in Philadelphia when a friend gets entangled with her ex-dealer, Callie must navigate the underground world of drug and sex trafficking between the jungles of Guatemala and a shady Manhattan leather import business.

Trace the trajectory of this resilient young man's harrowing transition from foreigner to fixture - from day laborer to successful entrepreneur - in his new country. Experience this moving account of the founding of a Slovenian-American family, as John woos and wins the love of his life, sets up his tailor shop in small-town America, and raises five children with his beloved bride in their modest home behind the shop.