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Is your family geographically scattered? Has globalisation made your family a distance family? This audiobook tells the candid story of how distance parents and distance grandparents struggle - and succeed - to adapt to their new reality. This isn’t family life as they had imagined it. If you are a distance parent or distance grandparent, all those how, why, and what-if questions will find answers in these sections. You’ll realise, perhaps for the first time, that you’re not alone on your journey.

Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions provides a multidisciplinary exploration of the contemporary university's entanglement with the history of slavery and settler colonialism in the United States. Inspired by more than a hundred student-led protests during the Movement for Black Lives, contributors examine how campus rebellions - and university responses to them - expose the racialized inequities at the core of higher education.

In 2015, high on the side of Mount Everest, I experienced the darkest days of my life to date. Little did I realize that the darkest day was still to come four years later. But this also led to me discovering the truth about who I was, and what I wanted out of life. It took a life of Misadventure to discover the answers.

Jim French, the producer-director of Imagination Theatre, kept the tradition of great radio drama alive for nearly 40 years. He combined old-time skills with new-time production values - and here are 17 thought-provoking thrillers to prove it! In this collection, you'll hear favorites from his stock company, actors from radio's "Golden Age", and performers better known for their television work. You'll even hear a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who guest stars as a writer of horror novels!

A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this novel set in a fictional city in the American South. Though they all united in their search for the healing properties of salt, some of them are centered, some are off-balance; some are frightened, and some are daring. From the men who live off welfare women to the mud mothers who carry their children in their hides, the novel brilliantly explores the narcissistic aspect of despair and the tremendous responsibility that comes with physical, spiritual, and mental well-being.

In The History and Future of HBCUs, Professor Crystal R. Sanders and Professor Reginald Ellis take you back to the pre-Civil War origins of some of the earliest HBCUs and walk you through the complex history of these institutions. As you witness their growth - and the power struggles that often came with the fraught political and racial landscape of the US in the 19th and 20th centuries - you will meet some of the great minds they produced. Uncover the indelible mark they have left on American education, the fight for Black liberation, and the Civil Rights movement.

This novel comes at precisely the right moment as we figure out what 2020 means for the future. The Antifan Girlfriend shows you what will happen after the left has used the pandemic to destroy freedom: Political polarization erupts into civil war, the Green New Deal is used by elites to grab stuff for themselves, pagan Earth Mother religion replaces Judeo-Christian traditions, and the US surrenders its status as a world power.

Routed from the Seat of Darkness, Kevon and his allies must regroup and gather more strength to withstand the forces that march against them. Martin, now commander of the twisted armies, brings new horrors against the heroes as other agents of the Dark work in secret to fulfill an ancient prophecy. Can Kevon and the others find the wisdom and strength to unite the inhabitants of the Plane of Enchantment against the rising darkness before Death itself comes calling?

Twenty years have come and gone since Nereiel has taken a life. The former Battlemage has settled in the secluded town of Timberline, and helped rebuild it with toil and magic. He's even taken on an apprentice in recent years, passing along some of his knowledge to a local orphan. When old friends and new enemies appear on the same day, Nereiel is drawn into a mission with his old squad, led by his old commander, and accompanied by Raine, his former partner - both on and off the battlefield.

Did you know that there is a molecule that may be a key to increasing human lifespans? Learn about this interesting research and more scientific advances powering the future of technology, interstellar exploration, and the human body.

Restorative justice represents "a paradigm shift in the way Americans conceptualize and administer punishment," says author Maisha T. Winn, from a focus on crime to a focus on harm, including the needs of both those who were harmed and those who caused it.

In Sister Style, Nadia E. Brown and Danielle Casarez Lemi argue that Black women's political experience and the way that voters evaluate them is shaped overtly by their skin tone and hair texture, with hair being a particular point of scrutiny....

When 13-year-old Julian Daniels’ mother abandons him in 1928, he leaves his small town in Missouri, running away from a past full of enemies and broken promises. Hundreds of miles away in Cheyenne, Wyoming, schoolteacher Catherine takes him in to her home, unaware of his troubled past. When alone in her house, Julian makes a discovery that will allow him to leave behind his troubled life - and his time - forever. Unable to leave behind his criminal habits, he steals something valuable to her and makes his escape to the future.

For listeners who have experienced the thrill and passion of the discovery of self. Whether it's the fulfillment of introspection or the heart-wrenching pain of losing yourself to desire, you will discover the shock of recognition on reading the sensitive, finely wrought poems contained in this book. In his first collection of verses, Tyreak Jones captures all of the moments of his life journey and presents them to us, here, for all of us to share, contemplate, and reach a state of emergence.

By the age of 10, Lone Crow carried many scars as a result of the beatings he’d endured at the hands of Father Silas. In an effort to save his adopted sister from another "disciplining", he was compelled to commit an unthinkable act, an act so heinous he had to run away from the small town and into the unforgiving woods alone. Faith was born into the church and was the daughter of Father Silas. Many years later, with Faith forced to accompany her husband on a missionary trip to spread the word to the natives, they were fated to meet again.

Welcome to Barksdale, where all the dogs strive for perfection. Every shopkeeper claims to be the “best groomer” or sell the “best biscuits.” And at Barksdale Academy, the pressure is on for one pup to be named Best in Show. Duke’s cousin Coco, a French bulldog from Paris, is visiting for the K-2 loyalty exam. During this exam, the Underdogs and their classmates will participate in a field day event against a rival school.

After their master Olaf goes on a mission trip to a different planet, the dogs Bjorn, Max, and Aelf decide to have a sword fight with sticks. Bjorn and Max are Norwegian Elkhounds experienced in adventures. In their last adventure Olaf Vavold, the Norwegian mechanic, took the two dogs to far off planets. Now these adventurous creatures and their friend, Aelf the Beagle, find themselves on another planet. This planet orbits a huge black hole called the Great Attractor.

This book was inspired by God. It brings God's activities on behalf of Earth's citizens from the shadows of history into illumination. God's mastery over the universe is brought to life from the Big Bang to modern times. A plausible theory is put forth regarding how God has employed his tools (only recently discovered but little understood by scientists), dark matter and dark energy, to create and sustain the universe as we know it.

Kai Cooke comes to the Volcano House for his strangest case yet - protecting the CEO of a geothermal venture from the wrath of Pele, legendary goddess of volcanoes. Rex Ransom is here in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park to attend the funeral for his second employee to die mysteriously in Pele’s domain. His wife sees a pattern and fears that Rex, having offended Pele by drilling in her sacred rainforest, is next. Kai is not so sure.

Learn all about the Apollo Program, black holes, space exploration, and more in The Seeker Space Collection! Includes The Apollo Program, Everything You Wanted to Know About Black Holes (Without Actually Having to Go into One), and Everything You Wanted to Know About Black Holes (Without Actually Having to Go into One).