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This dynamic collection of Black voices, performed by Tony and Grammy Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Daveed Diggs and Emmy Award-winning writer, creator, producer, and actor Lena Waithe, works like an incantation of origin, healing, and imagination. Born from a series of conceptual art exhibitions, the perspectives gathered here are nowhere near monochromatic.

No one suspects that straight-laced witch Aurora Rhonelle comes from a family of powerful necromancers-a fact they never let her forget. So what if she prefers Anne Klein over Anne Rice and pastels over shades of black? That shouldn't make her any less respectable. Unfortunately, never having raised a dead human does damage her street cred.

Captain Matthew Flinders, returning from a voyage of discovery in 1803, was imprisoned on the Isle of France until 1810. This book tells the story of his exile there, and of the men and women who befriended him. The Napoleonic wars were raging in Europe, yet on this remote French colony, encircled by a blockading English naval squadron, threatening their safety and their very subsistence, a small group of inhabitants – and their prisoners – provided a lesson in mutual tolerance and esteem, and showed that nobility of spirit can transcend cultural and national divides.

One of the most powerful tools revealed in the book is how to recognize a lie or a scam quickly. If you’re sick of being misled and feeling lost TAKE A LOOK INSIDE!!! There is so much misinformation out on the interwebs, how do you know what to believe or who to trust? TAKE A LOOK INSIDE to get started now. When Marina “The Trader Chick” got into day trading a decade ago, she immediately smelled a rat. But it took her nearly 2 years to get the REAL deal of what is actually going on. . . Now, she’s cracked the code and this industry expert is spilling the beans. TAKE A LOOK INSIDE to...

Beneath the Willow’s Embrace A Novel by Marin Belle After a shattering betrayal in London’s classical music world, cellist Juliette Hastings retreats to the quiet village of Willowmere, seeking solitude and healing. There, beneath the whispering branches of her family orchard, she hopes to rebuild her life in silence. But Willowmere has its own rhythms—and its own way of coaxing hearts back to life. When Juliette meets Rose Llewellyn, a gifted sculptor whose art pulses with emotion, their connection is immediate, if unexpected. Rose is everything Juliette fears and longs for: open, ...

More than one hundred species of kingfishers brighten every continent but Antarctica. Not all are fishing birds. They range in size from the African dwarf kingfisher to the laughing kookaburra of Australia. This first book to feature North America's belted kingfisher is a lyrical story of observation, revelation, and curiosity in the presence of flowing waters.

Shards of a Broken Mystery: Restoring Hekate and Our Divine Feminine Soul records the real-time unfolding of the relationship between the author and an ancient Titan Greek goddess, Hekate: denigrated, discarded, and all but forgotten during the rise of the patriarchy in millennia past. The work could be called a psychoactive memoir as minute after minute seeds and grows a sense of inner process.

Una despedida de soltera reúne en una isla exclusiva del Caribe a varias amigas de la adolescencia. Una fiesta de ensueño que acabará como la peor pesadilla. Annabel, Esther, Tanya y Chloe son las mejores amigas, o al menos lo habían sido durante la adolescencia. Después, sus vidas tomaron caminos distintos, pero los secretos que comparten mantienen vivo su pasado en común. Hasta que un día reciben la inesperada invitación de Poppy Greer a su despedida de soltera: tres días en una exclusiva isla de las Bahamas.

Levin Crowdley is engaged to the man of her dreams, or so she thought. That is, until a stranger appears on her doorstep to suggest Alec, her adoring fiancé, is anything but. No one has ever left Alec. More precisely; no one has ever left Alec and lived to tell about it. Levin's life is now about survival, a game of cat and mouse as Alec pursues her. And the second he catches her, he’s never letting go. ’Til death do them part.

Time may heal all wounds, but time stands still for the dead. Twenty years have passed since the horrific night in the Whispering House. Now, Abigail lives a relatively normal life as an independent bookstore owner while her sister, Constance, struggles to navigate crippling physical and psychological damage. But when Abigail inherits the house, old memories and childhood traumas are awoken.

Starting An Etsy Business: A How-To Guide is the definitive guide to getting a new Etsy business up and running. Whether you create your own items, or curate vintage or digital items, this book has what you need. From setting up shop to extensive photography tips to choosing what inventory to carry, this book guides you through the steps that lead to success.

When I was ten, my mom bought me a pumpkin for Halloween. A year later, it transformed into a bizarre animal that I ended up raising as my dog. Except that it isn't a dog at all. My lazy, lovable pet Pumpkin turns out to be an extremely dangerous fighting machine that never should've been created. Now, those who made him steal him back, taking me along by mistake. I find myself on a haunted spaceship with no crew, hurtling through space with a destination unknown.

Ally doesn't want to have anything to do with werewolves. Kade is a werewolf who wants to do everything to Ally. Just because Ally Rose can turn into a wolf doesn't mean that she's happy about her status as a shape-shifting, occasionally howling, never-butt-sniffing werewolf. As a result, she has only two rules in life: 1) avoid werewolf packs at all costs and 2) stay the hell away from the man who turned her against her will. Packs are evil, violent, and deadly. And the wolf who turned her is the worst of the worst.

When Ruth Miller returns a dropped scarf to Elena Shilkov, she is whisked from a dreary shared house to a world of unimagined luxury. The super-rich Russian wants a new personal assistant and won't take no for an answer. Ruth gets accommodation, a credit card and a complete wardrobe makeover. And she's good at the job; distributing gifts, attending galas, dealing with the high-society movers and shakers fighting for Elena's attention. Then the sinister truth begins to reveal itself, that nothing is quite what it seems in Elena's dangerous, deceptive world.

Charlotte Holden, Sugar's favorite pediatrician, knows better than anyone that love only leads to heartbreak. Instead she's focused on creating the Grow Clinic, an outpatient center for children. All she has to do now is host the best Founder's Day parade in the history of Sugar, Georgia, to win over a big-city donor. Easy as peach pie. Then sexy Jace McGraw blows back into town and utters those three words every woman dreads: We're still married.

SINOPSIS: Laura acaba de cumplir cincuenta años, divorciada y madre de una hija adolescente, no se siente satisfecha con su vida. Elena, mujer fuerte y vehemente, es su más intima amiga desde la infancia y su contrapunto. Gloria no tiene nada en común con ninguna de las dos: es superficial y esclava de las apariencias; sin embargo, las tres acabarán siendo grandes amigas. También Teresa, una mujer humilde y trabajadora, dispuesta a hacer cualquier sacrificio por realizar el sueño de su hija, y Ruth, una jovencita idealista y rebelde, forman parte de este mosaico de mujeres actuales y ...

Ellie “Scaredy Bat” Spark would give her fangs to prove herself and become a real detective. So when she learns the new theme park rides are mysteriously breaking, she jumps at the chance to solve the riddle. But if Ellie's fear of heights stalls the case, the park will close and her sister's birthday will be ruined. With only a few hours to solve the puzzle, Ellie recruits her friends to uncover the twisted truth and stop the theme park sabotage. Suspecting everyone from nasty neighbors to monstrous competitors, their only clue is a cluster of sticky holes.

Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get an education, feed ourselves, and generally go about our lives.

As far as Piper Lewis is concerned, happily ever after was about as realistic as finding Prince Charming riding a unicorn, but since street art doesn't pay the bills, she accepts a job as the resident photographer for Portland's most popular historic wedding venue. Her role as the Ansel Adams of Love is nearly cut short when she has car troubles and her tall, dark, and delicious driver-for-hire takes one look at her mud-soaked clothes and tries to flee.

La vida de las infantas Pilar y Margarita ha sido la de dos mujeres en busca de su lugar. Nacidas en el exilio, la primera en Cannes y la segunda en Roma, crecieron educadas en el amor a una patria que no conocían, entre los desvelos de un padre que soñaba con regresar a España como rey. Al igual que toda su familia, sufrieron las consecuencias de los deseos de Franco, quien alimentaba en vano las esperanzas de don Juan.