The Streets Don't Love You Back


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The Streets Don't Love You Back, A Story of Strength, Prayer, and Perseverance by Robert D. Boyd Jr. Rob grew up in an eastside ghetto of Detroit Michigan. His father a prominent Reverend and well known Author chose not to be a part of his life. His stepfather was a good man and treated him and siblings as his own. One day when Rob was nine years old he watched his grandfather stab his stepfather to death and that changed his life forever. By the age of 10 he was involved in the gang, drug and violent street life. Rob eventually became a Boss and Drug Kingpin, he spent time in and out of jail and watched many friends get killed and many friends go to prison. This manuscript is definitely a story of Hope, Change, Healing and Forgiveness. After reading this book you will see that crime doesn't pay and "The Streets Don't Love You Back"".




The Streets Don't Love You Back Lifeskills Intervention Program


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You can become anyone you want to be! It doesn't matter what happened to you or what you've done! What matters is what you do next! The choices you make today and tomorrow will determine your future! The Streets Don't Love You Back Lifeskills Intervention Program includes education and discussions on Substance Abuse Dependency, Making Decisions, Anger Management, Attitude, Behaviors, Problem Solving, Self-Improvement, Setting Goals, Identifying Strengths, Weaknesses and Skills.




Work Won't Love You Back


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A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor treatment in the name of "being part of the family," all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love. In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myth—the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries—from the unpaid intern, to the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete—Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work. As Jaffe argues, understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. And once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.




These Streets Don't Love You Like I Do


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How far would you go to protect the one you love? Fabion is trying to make a name for himself in the drug game instead of having a come up based off of who his father is. Ahnesty feels that when Fabion starts making more money their relationship will start to change and not in a good way. Their relationship may not be perfect but their love for each other runs deep. When Ahnesty overhears a plot about someone trying to take everything Fabion worked so hard for and possibly his life, she comes up with a plan of her own. She is willing to do whatever she has to do to protect her man by any means necessary. Will Ahnesty end up losing her own life when her plan starts to back fire on her? Faizon and Chaisty have a relationship that people envy. To the world they seem like the perfect happy couple but Faizon is hiding a secret that could lead to Chasity leaving him. When his secrets come to the light, will Chaisty be that down chick Faizon knows and loves her for? Or will she throw in the towel and end their relationship?




NEVER HIT A WOMAN


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Never Hit A Woman is about Domestic Violence and Abuse... NO EXCUSES!!! This book discusses the different types of abuse and how to recognize the warning signs. There are amazing stories of women in various abusive situations and how they survived them. The book has many suggestions on what to do when you need to leave an abusive relationship and how to do it safely. NO ONE DESERVES TO BE ABUSED!!!This book is meant to help women and men live safer and healthier lives and respect each other without killing each other or having bad blood with each other. It is my hope is that through this book, those in a violent relationship, and those seeking help for others will learn how to move away from a bad relationship, gain strength and to move on with your life.




Finding My Way Back to Love 2


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“One of the secrets, Mustafa didn’t even know about, because if he did, I’m pretty sure that I would have already been dead by now. The way skeletons like to pop out the closet around here, I’m pretty sure that that secret will resurface one day, although I was hoping that it never had to.” Kennedy spoke those words in part one of Finding my Way Back to Love, but what was she talking about? What is this secret that Kennedy’s speaking of that Paris is the only one to know about? Along with that, we left off with Mustafa leaving Logan at the altar. The drama doesn’t just end there. He will have to eventually face Logan, and they have to somehow come to some sort of agreement. Mustafa has made it clear that he wants his family back, but sometimes, it’s just not that easy. If Mustafa and Kennedy can get it right, they can actually be one of the best couples around, but the secret that she’s been holding in won’t stay buried much longer. Everyone wants nothing more but for Mustafa Strong and Kennedy Strong to become one again, but do they really have what it takes to cross that line and become a family again?




Everybody, Always


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What if we stopped avoiding the difficult people in our lives and committed to simply loving everybody? What happens when we give away love like we're made of it? In Everybody, Always, Bob Goff's joyful New York Times bestselling follow-up to Love Does, you'll discover the secret to living without fear, constraint, or worry. Bob teaches us that the path toward the outsized, unfettered, liberated existence we all long for is found in one simple truth: love people, even the difficult ones, without distinction and without limits. In Everybody, Always, Bob shows us the simple truths about life that have the power to shift our mindset forever: Jesus uses our blind spots to reveal himself to us It's easy to love kind, lovely, humble people, but you have to tackle fear in order to love people who are difficult What we do with our love will become the conversations we have with God Dark and scary places are filled with beautiful people who need our unconditional love Extravagant love has extraordinary power to change lives, including our own Driven by Bob's trademark storytelling, this book reveals the wisdom Bob learned--often the hard way--about what it means to love without inhibition, insecurity, or restriction. From finding the right friends to discovering the upside of failure, Everybody, Always points the way to embodying love by doing the unexpected, the intimidating, the seemingly impossible. Whether losing his shoes while skydiving solo or befriending a Ugandan witch doctor, Bob steps into life with a no-limits embrace of others that is as infectious as it is extraordinarily ordinary. Everybody, Always reveals how we can do the same.




Have You Ever Loved Someone Who Didn't Love You Back?


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Why dont you love me? 7 years of tribulation The murder of Jesus Christ Take another look at God Tear down them walls I dont want you anymore The laughing, mocking God Chance after Chance




SECOND CHANCE RUNAWAY


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I started running at the age of 14 and soon the streets became my life. I was sexually abused and became consumed with drug addiction which ultimately led to me to stabbing my boyfriend 54 times in self-defense. I was facing the death penalty. As I stood up to face my charges the noise in the courtroom faded away and I felt detached as the judge read the charge of 2nd degree murder. I couldn't hear what the judge was saying because the blood was pounding in my head and my life was flashing before my eyes. I was asking myself how did I get to this point in my life, how did it get so out of control? The answer was simple but yet not so simple......




A Peculiar People


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2023 The Black Caucus of the American Library Association - Poetry Winner 2022 Heartland Bookseller Awards Finalist A Peculiar People creates an entire microcosm within these poems. Steven Willis crafts a cast of characters, showcasing their struggles, identities, & underlying emotions. Willis champions the art of storytelling: weaving pop-culture and screenwriting elements to allow the reader to view this social commentary with a fresh lens. This collection examines the author's life experience; the pain of being Black and facing systemic racism.