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Thought-provoking and inspiring, Manifested Dreams offers a touching family story of several generations of African-Americans living in a radically divisive America. Nowadays, many people claim that we're living in a post-racist society. But racism is still alive and well all over the world; it is just more sophisticated and insidious than before, making people think it has disappeared.

When he rescues a large number of people after an explosion at Ohio Stadium, lawyer Franklin Whitestone becomes a national hero. On a famous call-in show, he's asked if God helped him out but denies any such aid, identifying himself as an atheist who doesn't have an "imaginary friend". All hell breaks loose immediately. He fears losing the woman he loves as well as his job, his family is attacked, and a religious extremist vows to track Franklin Whitestone down and make him choose between conversion to a belief in God or a truly ugly death.

The unsolved and brutal deaths of the Rhodes’ family deep in the Guatemalan rainforest in May 94 and the emergence of a mysterious being in Trenton, New Jersey 28 years later, form the backdrop to this fast paced science fiction. Fifteen Days in May, by the author Graham McQuade, is the second in the Johnson trilogy and follows the emotional and physical challenges Johnson and Wallis endure as they battle both time and forces beyond their imagination. An epic journey that takes them from Trenton, New Jersey, to the rainforests of Mexico and Guatemala.

What happens when money is created from thin air, with no economic backing and activity to support it? Inflation....

In this book, you will get a glimpse at Wall Street Bets, the subreddit that costs two of the largest hedge funds hundreds of millions of dollars. This will show you a David and Goliath story about a short squeezed that took the GameStop stock to the moon and made traditional Wall Street look and think about the little guys before thinking about squeezing a company backed by real-life trolls.

After Del Larouche defeats the Gris-gris man, she struggles to find her place in the adult world. She just wants a normal life. But her horrible "gift" means her life will never be normal. When six-year-old Clara goes missing from the St. Augustine Orphanage - the third child in two weeks - a frantic search begins and Del agrees to use her gift to help find the girl. As the dark layers of New Orleans are peeled back, a terrible truth is exposed. What she finds lurking in the shadows of the old city is unimaginable. But it’s what the lurking shadows find…that is truly deadly.

As the Dark Witch's most valued and gifted dressmaker, 16-year-old Rosanna Mapleven knows all there is to know about the finest silks, the best stitches, and the most flattering patterns. What she doesn't know is how to evict the evil fairy that possesses her or how to stop seeing the ghostly apparitions of long-ago murdered girls. But Rosanna must find a way to succeed in both areas; else she will die, and the curse of the Winged Wight will never be broken.

At the heart of Harriet E. Wilson’s autobiographical novel is Frado, the young daughter of a mixed-race couple, who is exploited first by a middle-class New England white family and then by an opportunistic husband on the abolitionist lecture circuit. In adopting the nineteenth-century conventions of both the sentimental novel and the narratives of enslaved people, Wilson delivered a scathing and ironic indictment of the racism of the antebellum North.

If you are willing to get started with meditation and discard anxiety, panic, and stress from your daily life, you can take the help of Meditation Guide for Beginners. In this guidebook, you will find how meditation can help relax your mind, reduce stress, and enhance your focus. As you get started with meditation, you can easily have more control over all your thoughts. You can be the master of your mind. You will be able to discard all your restless nights because of stress and anxiety. Meditation will allow you to discover a pathway to a peaceful and calmer you.

Kit Nelson was thrown into the world of demons and cults as a child. He’s learned to depend on no one, and to do all he can to keep himself safe from dark forces. He also knows he can’t trust anyone else with his life. He knows what the demons who hunt him have in mind for him, and he’ll fight it every step of the way. Tommy Smythe and his sister Lola have been fighting what they know is a rising tide of evil for years. They’re prepared with all their paranormal weaponry, including the assistance of an ancient god who has fought demons his whole existence.

Paul Westhead was teaching high school in his native Philadelphia when he was named La Salle University’s men’s basketball coach in 1970. By 1980 he was a Los Angeles Lakers assistant, soon to be hired as head coach, winning an NBA title with Hall of Fame center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and rookie guard Magic Johnson.

You can learn to change your dietary lifestyle step by step until you are fully on the vegan ketogenic diet, and then you will never want to go back again. You will come to enjoy this lifestyle, the energy it provides, the weight loss it promotes, and the health benefits it delivers.

The book depicts the relationship between science, religion, and spirituality. How the scientific laws coincide with the religious doctrines and spiritual teachings is being elaborated in this book. This book is one of it's kind. Anybody passionate about spirituality and inquisitive about religion would find this interesting and informative.

When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train station, but quickly deduce that The Lucky Day is no ordinary locomotive. Their trip on this former tea-smuggling train has been curated beyond their wildest imaginations, complete with mysterious and welcoming touches, like ingredients for their favourite breakfast.

In a world that's both more connected and more isolating than ever before, we’re often tempted to do life alone, whether because we’re so busy or because relationships feel risky and hard. But science confirms that consistent, meaningful connection with others has a powerful impact on our well-being. We are meant to live known and loved. But so many are hiding behind emotional walls that we’re experiencing an epidemic of loneliness. In Find Your People, you’ll discover exactly how to dive into the deep end and experience the full wonder of community.

Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Mark Twain’s reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to national and international fame. In the late 1860s, Mark Twain became the exemplar of a school of humor that was thought to be uniquely American.

Television anchorman, John Boorman, has everything a man could want. He drives a Bentley, lives in a multi-million-pound house, and has a closet full of...skeletons. A secret he thought was buried in his past comes back to haunt him with dramatic consequences, because some skeletons just won't stay dead.

As she travels to Arizona, Bella hopes for a better life. The rancher she is to marry needs someone to care for his three children. Bella knows this will only be a marriage of convenience and is grateful for a new start. Shane's ranch is what has kept him going since his wife passed four years ago. He tends to his children as best he can, vowing never to marry again. When Bella arrives, Shane's life unravels and is turned upside down. Not wanting her there, Shane plans to send her back home. But Bella has no home to go back to.

Have you ever wanted to eat healthy, exercise, stimulate your mind, and become a better person? The people who do all of this every day may seem like they have some quality that everyone else lacks - but their secret is simple. They’ve developed good habits. This kind of life is available to anyone if they work hard and take the right steps. Once you start building a habit, it’s far easier to maintain it.

DeShawn Watts has always followed the rules and obeyed law enforcement for as long as he could remember. But why does a life in the suburbs with a loving wife, a beautiful daughter, and a nice job feel so hollow whenever DeShawn talks to his jailbird brother, Darnell? Respectability is a short story detailing the lives of Black men and asking what it really means to be free today in America.