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It all began in the tranquil town of Cold Spring, a place far removed from the life I knew in Baltimore. At nine years old, I never expected to find a friend like Sophie Brown, a girl with a laugh as loud as the summer sun and dreams as big as the clear night sky. We grew up together, inseparable, sharing every high and low life threw our way. Our friendship was the one sure thing I could count on. But time has a way of changing the game. Prom night marked the start of something new, something deeper between us.

This is a fascinating and thoroughly researched exploration of the best-selling gospel album of all time. For two days in January 1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles while tape recorders and film cameras rolled. Everyone there knew the event had the potential to be historic: five years after ascending to soul royalty and commercial success, Franklin was publicly returning to her religious roots.

Lannah grew up in the Outback in Australia. Her life was filled with the usual and sometimes not so usual childhood joys, frustrations and adventures. The difficulties and challenges made her what she is today, an accomplished professional and mother of 2 wonderful daughters. This is her story. Lannah says: To acknowledge anyone for the writing of this book is something I am unsure about. I don’t really know who to acknowledge, or, indeed, if anyone should be.

Eighteen months ago, I walked away from DJ, convinced it was for the best. Now, with a thriving career in Hollywood, I should be on top of the world. But amidst the glitz and glamour, I can't shake the feeling that something is missing—and that something is DJ. I know I hurt him, but I'm determined to make things right.

What happens when a desperate plea for help reunites old flames under the shadow of a murder accusation? Unexpectedly... a chance to rekindle a love that never truly died.

Using Open and Relational Theology, Unblaming God presents alternative in- terpretations to four Old Testament stories—Noah and the Flood, God “telling” Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, Canaanite genocide, and the book of Job. These new interpretations better reflect God as love, not as a God of control.

Myths! Lies! Secrets! Uncover the hidden truth about the Salem Witch Trials in the hit History Smashers nonfiction series. Perfect for fans of the I Survived books and Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales. A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1692, a few paranoid Puritans accused their...

Her baby stolen, Fancy Dalton will move heaven and earth to get him back. Selling everything she owns; she buys a one-way train ticket to Denver. In a mad dash to board the train, she collides with Jack Coltrain. The rugged cowboy, on a mission of his own, sits next to her. Experience has taught her to be wary of men. But when her bag is stolen, Jack gets it back and earns a small piece of her trust.

Liliana Elison lives a life of tragedy. Her only love died young; taken from her before they had even married. A romantic at heart, she truly believes she will never be able to move past her tragic past and find love again. Her guardian, Aunt Hester, has other notions. Ruthlessly puncturing Lili’s romantic ideals, Aunt Hester signs her up with a matrimonial agency, and before Lili knows it, she’s a mail order bride for a rancher in Culver’s Creek, Colorado.

On Earth, Grover Baines (a NASA scientist) is murdered in 1979 when he stumbles upon a secret third Voyager flight. Unlike the two other probes, Voyager 3 was a small manned craft loaded with reproductive material in hopes of finding a suitable planet for habitation on Alpha Centauri. Years later, in 2001, a fourth Voyager is sent on the same mission. Though technology has advanced dramatically in the 24 years since the first three Voyagers were launched, this mission manages to remain secret amid the attacks on the Twin Towers.

The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous—and under-examined—biracial murders in American history. On August 3, 1952, African American housewife Ruby McCollum drove to the office of Dr. C. LeRoy Adams, beloved white physician in the segregated small town of Live Oak, Florida. With her two young children in tow, McCollum calmly gunned down the doctor during "an argument over a medical bill." Soon, a very different motive emerged, with McCollum alleging horrific mental and physical abuse at Adams's hand.

Celebrating the beauty, power, and joy of female friendship Wingman: a pilot who flies behind and outside the leader of a flying formation. While researching her first book, That’s What She Said, Kimothy Joy discovered that the famous women she was profiling were not alone in their success...

Reckless but effective conflict photojournalist Ella Dawson is on a mission to show the world the truth and help end the bloodshed. But while in a war-torn city, she witnesses a totally-not-legal package exchange.

Reluctant Race Men traces a history of the disparate challenges Black American reformers lodged against race across the long nineteenth century. It factors their opposition into the nation's history of race and reconstructs a reform tradition largely ignored in accounts of Black activism. Black-controlled newspapers, societies, churches, and conventions provided the principal loci and resources for questioning race. In these contexts, people of African descent generated a lexicon for refuting race, debated its logic, and, ultimately, reinterpreted it.

Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt. Pre-traumatic stress disorder. Solastalgia. The study of environmental emotions and related mental health impacts is a rapidly growing field, but most researchers overlook a closely related concern: reproductive anxiety. Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question is the first comprehensive study of how environmental emotions influence whether, when, and why people today decide to become parents—or not.

Deanna Rossi wrote No Justificuses via talk-to-text while in a dark room recovering from an occipital stroke at 43-years-old that left her partially blind. Her infectious "No Justificuses" mentality encourages listeners to overcome their own adversities. Personal stories, anecdotes, and Deanna’s no-nonsense approach to life, parenting, business, and relationships are as refreshing as they are entertaining.

The Healing Tree celebrates the forest: its powers, spirits, magic, medicine, and mysteries. Author Stephanie Rose Bird shares how trees have provided her with personal healing, then allows us to share in that process for our own benefit and, by extension, provide healing for Earth's beleaguered forests.

How to Navigate Grief and Loss as a Child is a heartfelt and practical guide designed to help children process grief with compassion and understanding. Perfect for parents, caregivers, teachers, and counselors, this book offers expert advice, age-appropriate tools, and creative activities to create a safe environment for healing.

In 1950 Gerald Frank, a determined Black man, arrived in Seattle at the age of eighteen. Fleeing the violence of Detroit and the suffocating grip of Jim Crow Laws, Gerald carried nothing but dreams and drumsticks in his heart. His unwavering belief that he could carve out a better life set the stage for an incredible journey. Today, over seventy years later, the real estate empire forged by Gerald and his wife, Theresa, continues to flourish under the guidance of the third generation of the Frank family. But theirs was not a journey paved with silver spoons.

A fierce and galvanizing reminder that resistance is everywhere in the fight for abortion and reproductive justice in the United States. Fighting Mad is a book about what "reproductive justice" means and what it looks like to fight for it. Editors Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger bring together many of the strongest, most resistant voices in the country to describe the impacts of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision on abortion access and care.