Felicia's Folks


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Grace After Midnight


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Pearson, who plays Snoop on the HBO hit series "The Wire," reveals her incredible, hard-knock life story, one that dramatically parallels the life of her character on TV.




Earth Medicines


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Winner of the 2022 Eating the West Award! Winner of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Book Award! An accessible guide to time-honored Indigenous wisdom, healing recipes, and wellness rituals for modern life from an experienced curandera. In Earth Medicines, Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz, a curandera (or traditional healer) who is a Xicana with Tewa ancestry, combines Indigenous wisdom from many traditions with the power of the four elements. This modern guide is designed to support readers on their path to wellness with lifestyle practices and recipes perfected by Ruiz in her twenty-five years of training and working as a curandera. Ruiz teaches readers to be their own healers by discovering their own ancestral practices and cultivating a personal connection to the elements. These healing recipes and rituals draw on the power of Water, Air, Earth, and Fire—a reminder that the natural elements are the origins of everything and can heal not only our bodies, but the mind and spirit as well. In chapters organized by each element, readers will first find recipes and advice for: Promoting inner harmony through Hydrotherapy for Headache Relief, Mayan Tea to Calm the Mind, or Ginger Fire Honey Chews Nurturing beauty inside and out with Tepezcohuite Honey Mask, Salt of the Earth Deodorant, or Sweetwater Herbal Mouth Rinse Taking care of the spirit by creating an ancestral altar, making loose incense, or performing a Mayan Bajo Steaming Ritual




THE GIRL UNDER SIX PAIRS OF EYES


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This book is a true story and studies the desires of a teenager in love with her sister`s husband, and the tragic outcome. The book explores her desires and why after the demise of her lover her five marriages never held.




New York Folks


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NEW YORK FOLKS narrates the saga of Sure-Lite Brands Corporation, a producer of matches founded in 1893 by Hiram Ryder, a blacksmith's apprentice. Sure-Lite evolves, after a public offering in 1965, into a Fortune 200 NYSE listed corporation with CARSON'S a high growth retailer in the Home Center industry developing into Sure-Lite's principal business. A major power struggle erupts between the Ryder brothers for control of the company. Their struggle attracts predators, ambitious operating executives, slippery investment bankers, and corporate knaves, along with easy and hard ladies sporting high heels and sharp elbows. The narrative is brim with board of directors meeting conflicts, and self minded men and women who occasionally find themselves in foreign bedrooms. They are New York folks. Dwight Foster is also the author of Shattered Covenants, a seven book cycle narrating the formation, rise, decline, and fall of a major management consulting firm.




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Just Keep Praying:


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Fourteen years in the making, Just Keep Praying: A Journey about Life, Death, and Living will take you on a journey that could forever change how you look at life and death. Susan started the journey more than forty years ago. Have you ever felt that God has abandoned you? Susan did; however, she was able to reconnect to God in a very special way. Just Keep Praying will take you on Susans journey, but it may not be so different than your own journey. As you read through the journey, you may see yourself in the anger, fear, happiness, and other emotions that Susan shares with raw honesty. You will come away from this experience with renewed hope and understanding that prayer can help you through your journey of life. Yes you can survive tragedybut more than that, you can learn to thrive after a tragedy.




Love All Year


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Because holiday romance happens all year long . . .Three Stars in the Sky by Stacey Agdern: Singer Zack Weisler needs a song. Songwriter Lisa Kaminsky wants a chance. They have three days in upstate New York to make Sukkot magic. . . and maybe memories that will override the past.It Happened One Yule by Celestine Martin: Reluctant to face yet another Yule party alone, a bubbly witch Matilda casts an attraction spell to catch herself a temporary date but instead catches her best friend grumpy, smoldering Duncan. High spirits and hijinks take place over the longest night of the year as two long time friends fall for each other.Queen Esther, Unmasked by Hallie Alexander: In all her life, Freida Soronsohn had only made one grand mistake--she jilted her ex before the Purim spiel, leaving her vulnerable to the acid-tongued yentas and their unsolicited opinions. Felix 'Six Points' Ginzburg hasn't stopped making mistakes since his come up on the rough streets of Manhattan, and the celebrated prizefighter is ready for change. But when these two strangers meet on the stage, neither is prepared for the no holds barred attraction that instantly hooks them.Legacy of Love by Savannah J. Frierson: Gabriel must convince his best friend Gloria she's essential to his family's legacy, and not just because she's organized his grandmother's Juneteenth celebration and carries his child.Making up with Eid Bae by Farah Heron: Nafissa is in town to drum up business for her new indie makeup line, not go to an Eid fair that would remind her of the one ten years ago with the sweet boy who broke her teenage heart. Nope. But she can't give up the networking opportunity--there's little she wouldn't sacrifice for her dream. Seeing him again brings it all back--no one has made her feel like Khizar does. Can she risk her heart now when her business needs to be her focus? Or could it be that making up with Khizar isn't sacrificing anything at all?A Bridge of Magpies by Ekaterine Xia: Verity usually enjoys what ifs... from the safety of structure and routine, her relationship with Yùlán both safe harbor and base camp for adventure. But what if Yùlán isn't content with their story as-is? What if their happiness together was a little more like their reimaginings of old stories than anticipated?The Sweet Spot by Felicia Grossman: Rabbi Alana Berg is not excited for the High Holidays. Her contract is up for renewal, and the board is clear: impress the congregation with her Rosh Hashanah sermon or she'll be replaced. Worse, golden-boy Cantor Jeremy Hirsch already has his contract signed and sealed. When an after-hours run-in leads to a kiss, the two decide that some sweet exploration of their mutual attraction is in order. As the New Year draws near, the two must decide if there is a personal and professional future for them both.




To Live and Defy in LA


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How gangsta rap shocked America, made millions, and pulled back the curtain on an urban crisis. How is it that gangsta rap—so dystopian that it struck aspiring Brooklyn rapper and future superstar Jay-Z as “over the top”—was born in Los Angeles, the home of Hollywood, surf, and sun? In the Reagan era, hip-hop was understood to be the music of the inner city and, with rare exception, of New York. Rap was considered the poetry of the street, and it was thought to breed in close quarters, the product of dilapidated tenements, crime-infested housing projects, and graffiti-covered subway cars. To many in the industry, LA was certainly not hard-edged and urban enough to generate authentic hip-hop; a new brand of black rebel music could never come from La-La Land. But it did. In To Live and Defy in LA, Felicia Viator tells the story of the young black men who built gangsta rap and changed LA and the world. She takes readers into South Central, Compton, Long Beach, and Watts two decades after the long hot summer of 1965. This was the world of crack cocaine, street gangs, and Daryl Gates, and it was the environment in which rappers such as Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E came of age. By the end of the 1980s, these self-styled “ghetto reporters” had fought their way onto the nation’s radio and TV stations and thus into America’s consciousness, mocking law-and-order crusaders, exposing police brutality, outraging both feminists and traditionalists with their often retrograde treatment of sex and gender, and demanding that America confront an urban crisis too often ignored.