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Starting as a way to cope through the struggles of working in an underfunded system and the second hand trauma from her students, Katie Doehrmann shares her poetry in a raw and open memoir about her time working for a residential mental health facility.

Web designer Sam inadvertently stumbles onto a mystery when women—expectant mothers—go missing throughout the neighborhood. Bright lights seen in the sky are the only harbingers and then they are gone without a trace. But then the danger hits too close to home when Sam's next-door neighbor is caught in the mystery. Even Sam has experienced changes connected to all the strange events. As the mystery begins to spread, Sam and his friends begin to see the pattern and the otherworldly danger posed by those responsible. But the question remains: Why is this happening?

In a small but exclusive subdivision of Chattanooga, a devastating house fire leaves a family of five in ruins. The blaze claimed two victims leaving behind a shattered community and a lot of unanswered questions. As Captain Kate Gazzara and her team of dedicated investigators delve into the case, they uncover shocking secrets about the family and their troubled past. With each twist and turn, the evidence points more and more towards foul play, and it becomes clear that someone wanted this family dead.

For quiet, reserved, and focused 15-year-old Annie Mackey, school was a sanctuary. But when her bubbly and beautiful neighborhood best friend joins her at Willow Point High for freshmen year, her world is turned upside down.

From 1955 to 1975, Vera Pigee (1924-2007) put her life and livelihood on the line with grassroots efforts for social change in Mississippi, principally through her years of leadership in Coahoma County's NAACP. Known as the "Lady of Hats," coined by NAACP executive secretary Roy Wilkins, Pigee was a businesswoman, mother, and leader. Her book, The Struggle of Struggles, offers a detailed view of the daily grind of organizing for years to open the state's closed society.

Sparks fly when Molly Prince's puppy Ursula constantly disrupts the beachfront area where new-in-town marine biologist Max Miller is studying sea-turtle mating habits. Max and Molly are instantly attracted to each other, but Molly dismisses Max out of hand. As for Max, he refuses to take Molly seriously when her job is to play the aquarium's mermaid. But when Ursula won't stop digging in Max's beachfront yard and reveals her unique ability to sniff out sea-turtle nests, she might bring these two opposites close enough to help save the turtles, and maybe even save the aquarium.

Noël approche, et les petits géants préparent leur lettre au père Noël ! Très rapidement, Nestor, Anicée et Marion réalisent que la magie des fêtes réside en des choses bien plus importantes que les cadeaux… Découvrez avec eux Florian, un jeune garçon souriant et résilient. Sa force, son entourage ainsi qu’un immense sapin brillant de mille feux adouciront son long séjour à l’hôpital !

Evan Scruggs made his millions pretending to be someone he's not: A sweet grandma with an affinity for writing America's favorite cookbooks. While executives love his food, it was very clear from the beginning that his prickly personality and people skills were not going to sell anything to the public.

TJ Young spent last summer fighting to unlock the secrets behind his sister's mysterious death but found himself battling the magic of the ancient Orishas instead. And some of the answers he sought came with a promise he may not be able to keep: to dismantle new human construction on the coastline of Lagos, Nigeria, by the start of spring. But how does a teenager do away with decades of infrastructure in only half a year? He’ll need to enlist the help of new allies, mortal and immortal alike.

The Adventures of Carmelo is a series of children’s learning stories. These stories help children understand new adventures, teaching respect, listening, following instructions, understanding responsibilities, keeping a promise, being brave, and knowing that it’s okay to be scared when facing a new adventure.

Marion a très hâte de commencer cette nouvelle session de cours de natation. Elle est loin de s’imaginer que certains de ses compagnons se moqueront de son joli bedon rond. Forte et fière, épaulée par sa famille et ses amis, elle brillera du tremplin le plus haut et transmettra de belles valeurs aux autres futurs champions nageurs.

Social worker Sharee Jones has enough to think about - anonymous phone calls, an attack on her life, and uneasiness about her relationship with missionary pilot John Jergenson. The last thing she wants is a marriage proposal. But she's about to get one. Commitment to God was easy in the jungles of Indonesia, but when John Jergenson returns home, Sharee refuses his marriage proposal, someone tries to kill them, and a personal tragedy hits. As Easter approaches, will love prevail and their faith survive?

Red contacts? Lookin’ good. Fake blood? Spattered everywhere. Dance shoes? Tied tight. Coerced by a co-worker, Karen steps out of her comfort zone and takes her first swing dance lesson. While she steps on toes and twirls into pool tables, two handsome men dance into Karen’s life. Chatting with Lowan makes her smile but dancing with Ben sends her heart skittering. The makeup layers of her Halloween costume give Karen the confidence to ask them both to dance but will it give her the courage to ask one of the men on a date? And if so, which one?

God is equipping a company of modern-day Sarahs who will step outside every box of insecurity, intimidation, and inferiority to make a global impact for His kingdom and contend for the fulfillment of His plans and purposes.

“Written with grace and emotional honesty, Sit, Stay, Heal will live with you long after the last page.”— John Grogan, bestselling author of Marley & Me For more than two decades, esteemed veterinary oncologist Dr. Renee Alsarraf treated cancer in her beloved canine patients. Then, at age...

Willow has never felt like she belonged anywhere and is convinced that the only way to find a true home is to travel the world. But her plans to act on her dream are put on hold when her aloof and often absent mother drags Willow to Salem, Massachusetts, to wrap up the affairs of an aunt Willow didn’t even know she had. An aunt who may or may not have been a witch. There, she meets Mason, a loner who’s always felt out of place and has been in and out of foster homes his entire life.

Jabari Brooks falls into a spiraling depression fueled by anguish and regret after his daughter Eden mysteriously disappears without a trace in the woods behind their home. Something calls him to go into the forest to find his daughter's whereabouts. Once within, Jabari realizes his fate is tied to something much more sinister. A father’s worst nightmare. An unforgiving forest plagued by perpetual night. A connection unbroken.

Raven Alby is graduating from her first year at Fowler Academy. There are parties and dates with William and a long summer with friends, just like any other teenager with a large dragon. But then a letter arrives from her grandfather. Magic is returning to Brighton, but not everyone is ready to handle it. It’s a race against the fear spreading through Lomberdoon. Can Raven and her friends keep their people safe as they wait for help from the capital that might not come? Will Raven and Connor find what they need in the Valley of the Keepers before magic tears the kingdom apart?

In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how Black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds - the intertwinement of the mental and the physical - in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging Black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations.

Thanks to her blog, Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah has spent decades talking openly and intimately to African women around the world about sex. For this book, she spoke to more than 30 African women across the globe while chronicling her own journey toward sexual freedom.