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What does it mean to be white? Beyond just a skin colour, is it also a way of thinking? If so, how did it come about, and why? Drawing on history, personal experience and activist literature, Lilian Thuram looks at the origins and workings of white thinking, how it divides us and how it has become ubiquitous and accepted without challenge. He demonstrates how centuries of white bias and denial justified slavery and colonialism, and have reinforced norms and structures of oppression, limiting the roles and horizons of both non-whites and whites alike.

The Cairn Terrier is an intelligent, tenacious, headstrong, and happy dog that can become an integral part of the family. Made famous by Toto in the movie The Wizard of Oz, this dog can be quite a handful, but they will always be small enough to fit in your lap once they are done romping. This book is designed to help you know what to expect when you adopt a Cairn Terrier. It will help you make sure that you are prepared for the large personality that comes in such a small package. It will also help you care for your little companion to live a long, healthy life.

This gold gleamed green in the low light. Kenneth recognized it as sinister from the moment he saw it, shortly before he and fellow soldiers took it from its place of origin. Against his better judgment, he now helps his comrades and the temperate Captain Hiram load the treasure onto their ship so they can offer it to the mercenaries they need to tip the scale in the American Revolution; only then can everyone go home. Though they escape unscathed, a great storm and swift-sailing pirate ship await them at sea.

Zoey Delford had everything going for her. She had landed her dream job at a publishing house, was in a great relationship with musician Luke Collins, and had the best friends she could ask for. However, her world is turned upside down when a mystery person finds out about Zoey's dark past and begins to share her secret with the world. Zoey receives notes and strange packages at her job and her home letting her know that her secret is out. Zoey is humiliated and some of her friends turn their backs on her for what she did years ago. Who could this mystery person be?

Before beginning a muscle-building program, it is critical to understand its purpose. Muscle is simply the tissue in our body that provides us with the necessary power to move in various directions. As bodybuilders, our primary focus is on skeletal muscle. What exercises can we perform to improve our bodies and increase muscle? It is critical to remember that each individual has a unique body mass. Muscles must be exercised to be strengthened. This necessitates weight training. You can begin with modest weights and gradually increase them.

The tides of fate are shifting. The banished have returned, and they have set their eyes on the walls of solitude. Zanna Alpenwood, a powerful mage, and 200 aged and forgotten sparkers are all that stand between the banished and the nation of Haltveldt. With time running out, Zanna is forced to reach out to her estranged daughter, Calene, and set her on an impossible quest. In doing so, Calene must decide between her masters and her own conscience as she teams up with unlikely allies to forge their way over land and sea. Will they arrive in time to save the fortress of solitude?

Petra is a pencil with flaws who spends her days alone in the pencil box waiting for the day she can draw. One day, the pencil box gets knocked over and she finds herself on paper for the first time drawing her love, pizza! Suddenly plump, the other pencils think she is even more useless than before. Then one day a little boy with learning needs joins the class and a special friendship develops.

Letters to Freedom: From Fear to Love to Grace is a love letter to hope, surviving, and thriving after loss. Dr. Patti Ashley shares her own love story about healing from the deep grief that accompanies the risk inherent in loving someone. Having lost both her father early in life and her fiancé much later in life to sudden heart attacks, Patti shares her journey of overcoming fear, embracing love, and finding grace in her grief. She initially wrote this story for her personal healing. She later decided to share it with others in the hopes it will help you find grace.

Unlocking the Fruit of the Spirit contains nine sections, one for each of the nine fruit. In this audiobook the realization that all nine fruit build upon each other will be discovered and how to ask for the fruit of the Spirit will also be unveiled. Also, you will see the importance of knowing that God’s Holy Spirit grows the fruit of the Spirit in believers when they read and study the Bible. Each section of Unlocking the Fruit of the Spirit has application questions for review and for Bible study groups.

Welton Blake has done it! He's asked out Carmella McKenzie—the best-looking girl in school—and she's only gone and said yes! But just as he thinks his luck is starting to change, Welton's phone breaks, kick-starting a series of unfortunate and humiliating events. With bullies to avoid, girls ready to knock him out and all the drama with his mum and dad, life for Welton is about to go very, very wrong.

In this sequel to Queen T’s drama-filled debut novel, identical twin sisters Karma and Konsious, and the rest of the crew, battle past demons, hindering them from exploring the new, exciting challenges the future holds. These past ghosts, some good and some evil, test relationships, and break up the foundation of some of our favorite characters' relationships. Can the indiscretions of the past become the stepping stones to secure relationships that were broken before? Karma is a bitch, and Konscious is no better in this riveting, secret-revealing sequel.

As any listener of desire and romance can appreciate, this is a collection of sensual poetry. Written from the mind and heart of a African-American Woman artist exploring what intimacy, body, and sex-positivity means in relationships and society. Come explore the crevices of what it means to love and be loved.

The demon who scarred my face is dead. But my nightmare lives on. I’m back in Portland, the city of my attack, and things just keep getting weirder. And not in the quirky way this place is known for. My mentor is sensing strange energies, and when we investigate, demons appear. And my scars react too. I’m convinced the reaction is all in my mind, PTSD from coming face-to-face with a general of Hell. With the help of my friends, I do my best to work through it. Because what I should really be concerned about is how demons are crossing into the human realm more frequently.

Now that I’m participating in the Spy Games - a dangerous competition between magical spy academies - I’ve increased the risk of the queen’s minions finding and dragging me to the depths of the underworld. In fact, with each passing Spy Game event, it becomes more obvious exactly why the queen wants me. Most of the time my studies, relationships, and the tournament keep the looming threat of abduction out my mind. But when someone I love is taken by the demons, I must act. And face the powerful queen of Hell.

A collection of the year’s top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth. Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles published in 2021 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting...

Just as unsettling news is revealed, Mattie Jackson is drawn back into a salacious merger that attempts to suppress her intensely stimulating relationship with her lover Kyle Bruno. During this unwelcome merger, Kyle may find escaping the drug cartel’s fixation on him an impossibility. Joining with his most hated enemy may be his only means to an end. Mattie begins to feel her blissful elation with Kyle is being threatened, and there’s only one certain course to follow.

Ashley M. Ratcliff got a crash course in collecting the broken pieces of her once easygoing life and building something beautiful with them when her health suddenly declined. At the age of 33, in the middle of her Jesus Year, Ashley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis-an autoimmune disorder for which there is no cure. In the year that followed, depression and anxiety, on top of the grueling symptoms of her MS, sought to sideline Ashley, and she found herself clinging to God closer than ever before.

Jude is dragged out of alt-country obscurity, out of the dismal loop of booze and sadness baths and the boundless, insatiable loneliness, to scrub up and fly to Australia for a last, desperate comeback tour. Hardly worth getting out of bed for - and he wouldn't, if it weren't for Coreen. But Coreen is dead. And, worse than that, she's married. Jude's swan song tour becomes instead a terminal descent into the sordid past, into the meaning hidden in forgotten songs, and into Coreen's madness diary, there to awaken something far worse than her ghost.

Tormented by his emotions and reeling from a shocking discovery, Drew is more determined than ever to uncover all of Hannah’s secrets. It’s been two long months since Hannah left Baton Timide to concentrate on purchasing the business of her dreams. Dreams that are haunted every night by memories of Drew’s touch, his kiss, his insatiable hunger, and the choice she made to walk away from him. When Drew surprises Hannah one early morning at her shop, demanding answers, they both discover that while the truth may set you free, sometimes even love may not be enough.

Dagon has been summoned. The dead have risen from their graves. And whilst cultists, researchers, and the might of the military try to oppose him, Dagon’s power proves to be formidable. However, there is one final, slim opportunity to save the world from being eaten by Innsmouth’s returning elder god. A dwindling band of heroes fights against the inevitable apocalypse in this concluding story from Ashley Lister’s series of dark tales from Innsmouth.