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Yasmean Haley has left her hometown hoping to get some new perspective, and to escape a toxic relationship with an ex who has betrayed her in more ways than she actually knows. But what's a girl to do when the place she's escaped to–that being the all black school Hughmoore College–throws her right into the middle of a risky and forbidden love triangle?

I boarded the plane, planning to enjoy a glass of champagne while up in the air.I didn’t plan on landing on an alien planet. But here I am, on a planet called Rakesh. Here on Rakesh, their women are gone, their species is dying, and for some reason, human women like me are suddenly very important. I don’t know why I’m here. I don’t know what they want. But I do know one thing—I need to find a way home.

Myles Burton was a former Army Rancher serving on the Columbia SWAT team. He had mastered the art of working under extreme pressure. Each day he fought alongside his brothers in blue to fight crime and had no time for distractions. No matter how sexy she looked handling a gun. Roxxy Sutton was sent to audit the SWAT team. Her company was hired due to the influx of accusations of police brutality across the nation. Pouring through procedure manuals just wasn't as exciting as the tall, dark, and handsome cop.

The divine feminine is an energy living within us all, ready to be awakened. This queen will give you her story and remind you about energies calling in when you least expect it but most need it. Just allow yourself to tune in.

Serenity Wheeler’s Supper Club is all about getting together with great friends, incredible food, and a whole lot of dishing—not for hooking up. Still, Serenity knows inviting her friend’s brother to one of her dinners is just good manners, but the ultra-fine, hazel-eyed Gabriel Cunningham has a gift for saying the wrong thing at the really wrong time. Especially when it comes to her cooking. Though refreshments and camaraderie may be the supper club’s mantra, Serenity and Gabriel know there’s more between them than just sharing delicious meals.

In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the Black church and in Black popular culture, showing how it is pivotal to reinforcing men's cultural and institutional power to discipline and define Black girlhood and womanhood. Drawing on writing by medieval thinkers and travelers, Enlightenment theories of race, the commodification of women's bodies under slavery, and the work of Tyler Perry and Bishop T. D. Jakes, Lomax shows how Black women are written into religious and cultural history as sites of sexual deviation.

In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal - an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea - as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies. King conceptualizes the shoal as a space where Black and Native literary traditions, politics, theory, critique, and art meet in productive, shifting, and contentious ways.

Sixteen-year-old Alexandra Degambia is the daughter of a wealthy African American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for White. Balancing on the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave the way to her success. Her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by prejudiced officials eager to seize the plantation.

A relationship with a SWAT officer would never work out - or could it? A band of brothers. Dangerous missions. These are the men and women of the Columbia SWAT team. With their clear focus on cleaning up the streets and protecting their town, it left no room for love. Or so they thought. If you love nail-biting, intense, romantic suspense listens with plenty of heat, then this collection is for you!

When Bronwyn Scott finds herself way over her head as the first-time business owner of a personal concierge service, she’s not about to fall for a rich mystery man trying to test her professionalism at every turn. Determined to make her business a great success to find and show the mother who left her at birth that she made something of herself, Bronwyn has no time for games or entitled, gorgeous rich dudes. MacMillan “Mac” Kelnar is at that time in his life where his business can run itself, he’s successful, powerful, and a mature Dragon who’s paid his dues.

Billionaire dragon, Asher Princeton is a single dad and secret dragon-shifter. He just wants to get away from it all to spend time with his young son over the summer. Its time he showed the boy how to deal with being a dragonling. Daryl Livingston is squatting in his guest house. The young woman makes his dragon come alive. The last thing he expected was to find his true mate living in his guest house. Only problem...it’s going to take everything in Asher’s power to convince her of that.

If you sometimes feel like you are running on a hamster wheel and there is not enough time in the day to fulfill your goals, this book will help you discover how to take our time back. Misty explains the fascinating science behind negative thoughts and offers strategies for turning them into positive thoughts.

Brody: I’ll die for me clan. Though, I never met a woman worth a single bullet - until I set eyes on Justice Flowers. Justice’s in trouble, but won’t ask for clan protection. I give it anyway. Justice: I’m living for me now. Although Brody MacKenzie’s tropical blue eyes pierce through me, the rest of him is rugged, deadly. Brody paid my debt without my consent. I never intended to trade in a lunatic, to be chained to the devil. He’ll realize that I won’t submit. And I never will.

Ashton Fraser dedicated his life to the protection of the public. As a member of the elite Columbia SWAT team, he loved the intensity of taking down the bad guys. When not hunting down criminals, he volunteered with the local youth as a D.A.R.E Officer. Deanna Dawson was an elementary school teacher who had a crush on the handsome cop who came and spent time with her students. His crooked grin and charm drew her to him. The innocent flirting was turning serious, but he had yet to ask her out.

This book chronicles how the illegal gambling game of bolita, from its birth in segregationist Suwannee County in the 1930s to its death in the 1950s, led to Blood on the Suwannee. These three stories take readers down memory lane, portraying a time in history when law enforcement originated in slave patrols formed to return "property" to plantation owners. The book foreshadows how the past continues to reflect in the present and the unfortunate decay of the justice system - especially as it affects African Americans.

Working in an environment that often stereotypes or attempts to “universalize” experiences, it’s more important than ever that actors consider how culture, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and ability are inseparable and important parts of their identity that should not be minimized and can instead enhance their work. In Breaking It Down: Audition Techniques for Actors of the Global Majority, Nicole Hodges Persley and Monica White Ndounou share real-world audition strategies that center the experiences of actors of color.

Aidan Thomas is staying at his brother’s apartment while his own home is being remodeled, but the apartment isn’t as vacant as he was led to believe. Pushed out of her own place by a rent increase, Letty Garcia, his sister’s gorgeous best friend, is staying there, too. The involuntary cohabitation is a temporary solution, one they can both endure unscathed. Maybe. The intense attraction that’s long lingered between them sure is making things hard.

This is the unflinching memoir of a female African American advertising executive’s unprecedented and unlikely success, which began in the Mad Men era. It follows her journey from the projects of Motown-era Michigan to the skyscrapers of Madison Avenue and beyond.

Courtesy of my controlling father, Marshall and I have been living together for the last couple of years. Because of his profession, we’d managed to stay out of each other’s way. His age and respect for my father is what kept him from giving in to my flirtatious advances. Over the years, we’d managed not to cross that line, until that one slightly drunken night.

Many musicians, music students, and general music lovers are curious about the field of music therapy - the who, what, where, and how. This book provides a general overview of the profession, and it includes 26 audition essays, written by former students, confirming their motivation to "do good in the world through music". A career in music therapy combines their love of music with the desire to be of service to others. This book offers both the pragmatic reasons and "feel good" aspects that inspire people to enter this fulfilling profession.