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In the title story a husband struggles with the grief and confusion of losing two children, and forms an odd bond with the infant spectrals that visit him in the night. "Dancing Men" depicts one of the creepiest rites of passage in recent memory when a boy visits his deranged grandfather in the New Mexico desert.

In the summer of 1966, crammed into a DC hotel suite and passing paper cups of liquor, twenty-eight women hatched a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the civil rights movement, had quietly pulled away attendees from the State Womens’ Commissions annual conference. Frustrated with government inertia, they laid out a vision for an organization to unite and advocate for all women. Inspired, challenged, skeptical, they debated the idea late into the night and the next day.

What if a room carried the whispers and stories of a certain type of town folk from a little place called Social Circle, Georgia? What would these walls say if they could talk? They would tell a story about a witch with a bad attitude, so sassy and unpredictable that only her lover would enjoy. They would sigh with sweet sorrow as they mourned for the defiant lover’s defeat when she must heel to her assignment.

Seattle, 1942. News of the war is interrupted by the kidnapping of young Max Ellis, heir to the wealthiest banking family on the west coast. When the boy’s parents comply with the ransom demands, the kidnapper is found dead and their son remains missing. For newlywed Vera Chandler, the story hits close to home—her husband Hugh is just six months into his job as the Ellis’s private pilot.

Embark on an extraordinary journey through the segregated South of 1957 with Drunetta Brown, a woman determined to rewrite her story of struggle and heartbreak. Fleeing her shattered dreams and an alcoholic husband, Drunetta takes her children to New York City for a fresh start. There, she finds unexpected allies in Raycie, a talented bar singer, and Rose, a devoted church secretary. As Drunetta navigates the challenges of her new life, her friendships become her lifeline, offering the strength she needs to carve her own path in a changing world.

¡Hay tantos tipos diferentes de clima: soleado, nublado, lluvioso, con nieve y más! ¿Cuál es tu favorito y qué actividades te gusta hacer? Desde andar en trineo cuando está nevando hasta hacer un picnic en un día nublado, los jóvenes estudiantes disfrutarán de las palabras repetitivas y la fabulosa narración. El libro perfecto para el meteorólogo aspirante. Aprende palabras y frases sencillas en español con la versión correspondiente What Is The Weather Like?

Long before women across the globe were given a welcomed voice to speak, they were busy. Consistently giving, creating, and nurturing from the bedroom to the boardroom. Now more than ever, today’s busy woman is in need of solid instructions on how to balance the nuances of each day without losing her personal identity in the midst of it. Volume one of The Busy Woman’s Guide to Holistic Health & Wellness will highlight simple yet efficient steps on how you can make changes to your surroundings to ignite your power as a valued woman equipped to care for self.

Homosexuality is a highlighted topic surrounded by stigma. The controversy behind the subject can cause extreme violence and even suicide, especially in youths. Homophobia, like any irrational fear, can be medicated with knowledge. Through education, lives can be saved. This book serves as a quick lesson, where questioning individuals can open the door to understanding and self-esteem. Chicken Caesar Salad for the Gay Soul is an emotional and informative guide that exposes overlooked truths about gay culture.

A central feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is its pronouncement that there are living prophets. Though a central doctrine, it is nevertheless not unusual to have questions. Packed with stories, explanations, important statements, and sacred experiences, The Last Safe Place shares seven core principles that correct misconceptions about prophets. Understanding these, we are in a better position than ever to teach our children about prophets and why they can trust them. We also find ourselves better able to address questions about living prophets.

With Out of the Ashes: A Story of Recovery and Hope, Sallie Crotty offers a profoundly moving memoir told with unflinching bravery and insight. Her compelling story explores a topic that affects us all: mental health. Detailing a mid-life descent into debilitating despair, she brings the listener on a deeply personal journey. She reveals her struggles, time spent in a psychiatric ward, and how lacking a clear diagnosis almost led to her death. She also describes how proper care and receiving the right diagnosis and treatment can provide hope, stability, and a path to happiness.

Andrea Hoffman is an overeducated, underemployed, and unmotivated recent college graduate until a harrowing robbery blasts her out of her funk and into a job in the finance world of early 1980s Chicago. At first, it seems like a bad fit. But the world of finance has its own weird charm, and she grows increasingly fascinated by the strange language of trading, the complexity of the stock market, and her colleagues, who navigate it all with ruthless confidence. Even though she has two strikes against her—Jewish and female—Andrea’s quick wit and strong work ethic propels her.

There's no story without struggle. My visible world may scream loss, but the victory cannot and will not be held back. God sent disruption so that the transformation process can begin in your life.

Life is a journey that leaves scars on our hearts until we take our last breath. This saying rings true for both Kat and Fred as they attempt to pick up the pieces of their lives after Juanita's murder by the Sinville Police Department. Unfortunately for them and the rest of the town, capitalism waits for no one, especially when the greedy and power-hungry Mayor James seeks to put his multibillion-dollar jail plan in motion. What makes him dangerous is not only his political power, but also his ties to Kareem and Pastor Thomas, who are also willing to build more jails throughout town.

Sixteen-year-old Maggie Scott is a little dramatic. Life is just more fun when you’re always putting on a show! But apparently her boyfriend, Theo, disagrees, because he unexpectedly dumps her. She’s so distressed she breaks her foot, has to be rescued by the most obnoxious boy in school, Carson, and can no longer star in the school play. Now everything is terrible and Maggie doesn’t understand where it all went wrong. So when she gets a mysterious text from an unknown number offering her a chance to relive the day when she and Theo met, Maggie can’t help clicking.

A county government in the state of Maryland doesn't want a chitlin market in their area, declaring chitlins a "negative racial stereotype". All Shauna Anderson wants is a restaurant where she can greet and serve her loyal following. While fighting off her enemies, Shauna becomes a close friend with her young, handsome restaurant contractor. They quickly discover multiple personality disorders in one another, brought on for both by childhood traumas. Together, the two of them fight vandals, crooked inspectors, doubting friends, and shady neighbors.

In the wild, ghetto streets of poverty, drugs, and violence grew a little, dainty girl called Mya. Living smack-dab in the trenches of a firestorm between two rival street mobs, Gangster Disciples and Vice Lords, along with the invading police, this 17-year-old of innocence is pulled into the street game’s grasp.

In the wild, ghetto streets of poverty, drugs, and violence grew a little, dainty girl called Mya. Living smack-dab in the trenches of a firestorm between two rival street mobs, Gangster Disciples and Vice Lords, along with the invading police, this 17-year-old of innocence is pulled into the street game's grasp.

In Thin Line, the police code of silence is tested when officer Rita Sanchez’s eight-year-old son, Shareef, witnesses the murder of his grandmother and other family members. The next day, he is hauled off to the precinct and questioned inappropriately by the police after he’s involved in a riot at school. At the precinct, he recognizes a cop as one of the assailants from the murder scene, which begins this gripping tale of deception, graft, and murder—and a young boy's loss of innocence and coming of age.

While some people escape into books or music, Liv Spyers escapes through her camera’s lens, which inspires her to jump into things she might otherwise have no business tackling—like moving to New York City. Hustling to make her dreams come true as a portrait photographer, she runs a studio below her grandparents’ brownstone and key shop, where she also lives and works. Everything changes in a flash, however, when elite events photographer Regina Montague invites Liv to shoot with her at New York City’s most exclusive socialite event of the year—the Holiday Debutante Ball!

Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness? At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had used her talents for diabolical purposes?