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After fourteen years in prison, Gerald “Stew Pot” Reeves, age thirty-one, returns home to live with his mom in Parkland, a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. The residents are in a tailspin, dreading the arrival of the man they remember as a frightening delinquent. The anxiety only grows when Stew Pot announces that he experienced a religious awakening in prison.

This book addresses and helps with solutions for many of the key, urgent aims of the Black Lives Matter #BLM movement. Timms shows how all teachers, regardless of their own cultural heritage, can make a difference to African American children, their confidence, their futures from within the education system. Not just in terms of curriculum delivery and lesson-planning (all of which are covered), but also in terms of understanding key cultural and historical issues that affect the students' outlooks and expectations.

Nitara has spent her life waiting for Jinn to return to her, but when he finally does, it's far too late. Daegal, the evil warlock who cursed the pair and turned them to djinn, has been defeated, but the effects of his dirty work are far from gone. Now she has to return to a place that holds her heart hostage. Things aren't what they seem. Her time away has weakened her position and now she is faced with a choice: Fight or flee. However, fleeing just isn't an option.

Garrett wants to get patched fast and he knows the fastest way they will allow it is if he kills an enemy in law enforcement. So it goes to a vote that if he kills Bobby, a corrupt DEA agent targeting the MC, he can get his patch fast tracked. Garrett needs more motivation then that so he looks into the DEA agent and finds he was convicted of assaulting a woman but only got probation. But when he starts talking to the woman it changes everything and not only puts his life in danger but her's too.

The Iron Cobras MC needs more security and so Clyde is tasked with making a deal with another club nearby. He is stunned to find out that the President is not only a woman but smoking hot. He quickly falls for. When members of her own club try to kill her, he will do anything to protect her. So he becomes her security.

Gemma “Gem” Jackson is the youngest and the last of the Jackson women to fall in love, but the man that is trying to win her heart, she can’t stand. Although she thinks he is attractive enough, his arrogant attitude is a huge turn off for her, and no way will she give in to his advances, so she thinks. Raphael “Royal” Wilkerson is the baby of the Wilkerson clan, and he is used to getting whatever he wants. When he meets feisty and fiery Gemma, he is immediately turned on, but he plays it cool.

Despite a long-standing commitment to diversity and inclusion, creating a more diverse bar has been challenging for the legal profession. And this begs the question "why"? Does the profession find itself in the precarious position of having self-imposed barriers in place that work against its best efforts? Are outside factors beyond the profession's control inhibiting progress?

I believe that people have much to gain from making sure that authors, artists, publishers and promoters are compensated, while using and getting works like songs, books, audiobooks and so on. I wish to convey how it feels being an author nowadays, how people are becoming aware of their impact on the creative ecosystem, and how we are all interdependent, connected and part of the same society.

This audiobook is meant to help people not acquainted with listening to audiobooks. One day, I got really fed up with having little time to read during the day and with making little progress on my ever growing reading list. But, what if books could read themselves to us? I started to use audiobooks more and more, and I can say it deeply changed my life. I also describe a few special audiobooks that helped me along the way.

Grace “Gracie” Jackson is a talented and creative woman but has always found herself in the shadows of her sisters Gabby and Gemma. Timid and less outgoing than her two sisters, Grace is almost 30 and is still a virgin and never been in love. When she meets Malice, it was love at first sight, but will her insecurities ruin any chances for her to finally have a love of her own?

Trying to put her abusive past behind her, Chasity “Chas” Woods struggles with rebuilding her life. She is only focused on getting back on her feet and reopening her salon. Love, relationships, and finding a man to share her life with isn’t in her plans, and all she wanted from a man was purely physical. Uriel “Rel” Wilkerson is enjoying the single life and has a strict rule of no sleepovers. Successful, creative, and most of all, handsome, he has no trouble bedding any woman he wants. Anything other than casual sex wasn’t in his plans until he lays eyes on Chas.

It’s that time of year again, and Zuriah Price is excited to go home to celebrate the holidays with her family. A native of Houston, Texas, Zuriah now lives in Chicago and is in her third year of internship to become an anesthesiologist, and things are going perfect. Great loft, an awesome career, and a doctor boyfriend, Zuriah has all she needs, and falling for another man is not on her Christmas wish list.

Perennial student Elliot James has racked up many degrees and is contemplating another to continue postponing life. When his roommate forced Elliot to find a job, he applied for the secretarial position at Bethel Community Church. But, in a case of mistaken identity, the ranking church officer thought Elliot was the perfect candidate for the open pastoral position. He must become a pastor in a hurry because the church is falling apart. The church needed a jolt and Elliot needed a job.

Kwen Phifer planned to spend the last few weeks of college chumming it up with the career counselor and winding down once finals were over, but, unfortunately for him, those plans fail to come to fruition. He's been approached by someone who explains how he had been chosen to halt an oncoming cataclysm. He lacks skill, experience, and grit.

Fresh from living in the Bronx, Ca’Shon Taylor, aka Chaos, touched down in Chicago, his childhood home, ready to make his presence known. Linking up with his cousin Nicco so they can expand their business money was the name of the game. After only a few weeks, he has managed to find new hos, terrorize the town, and threaten most of his cousin's workers. And experiencing the one thing that wasn’t a part of the plan, falling for a girl named Cayane.

After all the drama and heartache, Anika, Mia, and Legacy try to move on with their lives, but relationship woes stick to the three of them like glue. Anika finds the strength to leave Reynard for good and move on with Jaxson, but she has a hard time trusting again, and Jaxson's soon to be ex-wife, Michelle, doesn't make it any easier for her. Will Anika learn to trust again, or will she become a bitter woman and push Jaxson away?

Don't all women wish men came with a warning label or a caution sign? That would be ideal and save a lot of heartache and pain. Meet Anika, Mia, and Legacy, three friends going through the trials and tribulations of love and heartache. Young and deep in love, they can't seem to let go of the men they've fallen madly in love with. When Anika is forced to face the truth she was so determined to find, her world comes crumbling down, and she has to decide whether to love herself first or stay in a relationship that could destroy her.

Lina Vandark isn't human. She's an artificial intelligence, and right now she's as smart as a four-year-old child. The engineering team at Vandark Software is gearing up for a major release. Optimism is wild. But there's also fear.

The Drew Smith Series features the dark gritty urban capers of a District of Columbia trial attorney. Material Witness is the third in the series. He works to free an innocent man detained in a murder investigation enlisting the help of fellow attorney Edward Miller and TV news reporter Stephanie Gilchrist. The three become ensnared in a love triangle while Smith wrestles with his post-traumatic stress disorder. The team penetrates the Chinese underground human smuggling network and when their lives are threatened, Smith races against time to save them. Material Witness establishes Drew Smith as a seasoned attorney.

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