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So Laeya--the Canaanite goddess Athirat masked in human form--asks after a crucial battle. Situated in the interimperial turmoil of the Late Bronze Age, Canaad follows this heroine's journey as it dovetails with that of Aqhat, a refugee from the Levantine coast. After tragedy casts Aqhat into the desert, a prophecy affords him the opportunity to slay three deities before the year's end and thereby become divine himself.

In the late ’60s, Ntozake Shange was a student at Barnard College discovering her budding talent as a writer, publishing in her school’s literary journal, and finding her unique voice. By the time she left us in 2018, Shange had scorched blazing trails across countless pages and stages, redefining genre and form as we know them, each verse, dance, and song a love letter to Black women and girls, and the community at large.

We live in uncertain times when a crisis like critical illness in the family does not come as a staccato. Traversing through any such crisis requires personal rituals that leverage our full entelechy. Nothing transforms until you move. Don’t let caregiver burnout beat you. When Things Change helps you devise those positive constructs in any such crisis that empower you to sculpt the best version of yourself and fight the adversity with mindfulness widening your impact radius.

In the spirit of Stephen King, the natural becomes supernatural in Isla Chillido—a true tale of terror. Isla Chillido is a luxury Caribbean island resort that is largely populated during the summer season by the grown children of uber-rich parents who feel entitled, empowered, and carefree to a fault. Their only parameters in life seem to be an abject worry of being ridiculed by their peers or appearing “uncool” at any moment in time. These pretentious young adults fear nothing and no one until…until they are faced with a horror beyond imagination.

Weaving together extensive interviews with victims, law enforcement officers, lawyers, and judges, Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros Lawyers Are Destroying America's Communities offers a searing portrait of the devastation caused by the policies of these hand-picked activists, how their hands-off approach to prosecution has encouraged lawlessness and eviscerated the relationship with law enforcement, and why minorities have suffered the most in cities with “progressive prosecutors.”

Augustus 'Gus' Martin is an embattled LAPD negotiator. Evelyn 'Lynn' Kennedy is the new Police Commissioner hired under curious circumstances. Thrust into an explosive terrorist crisis, they must trust one another to save the lives of over thirty hostages. But as the bodies drop, what they are faced with is a chess match against the most formidable criminal mind either has ever faced. What is really happening and why? Will any hostages survive?

Nora Woods was a quick-tempered teen who caused havoc on the streets of Brooklyn. Despite her upbringing, she became a rising detective with the Buffalo Police Department. She is now living the American dream with her husband and two daughters. Unexpectedly, her shady past comes back to haunt her. Now framed for murder, she must take matters into her own hands to clear her name. You know what they say, a secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.