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From the birth of hip-hop in the 1970s to today, women have been just as integral to the growth and development of the rap game as their male counterparts. Nonetheless, they’re consistently shortchanged as artists, creators, renegades, and cultural visionaries in prevailing histories of the genre. The Motherlode changes that.

Cooper Krenshaw knows what it's like to feel the bright lights upon him, the sound of the crowd roaring when he walks on stage; after all, he happens to be one of the biggest names in country music at the moment. And he has knowingly just dropped off the grid; the first decision he has made on his own in quite some time. Cooper only thought he was looking for a challenge when he walked off of that concert stage in Chicago. After finding himself in Devil's Bend, Texas, he soon realizes that the dream he's been chasing might not be the one he was after all along.

She strikes a simple deal to save her grandfather. But dragons don’t make deals—they claim. And this one is fated to ruin her. Allie: I was supposed to escape the shadiest district of Avari after graduation and start fresh. Instead, my mom was murdered. My grandfather is in prison. Our home’s about to be foreclosed. And now I’ve made a deal with a dragon. A savage, tattooed, seven-foot-tall dragon shifter, imprisoned in the same hellhole as Grandpa.

Thirty diverse, award-winning authors and illustrators - including Renee Watson (Piecing Me Together), Grace Lin (Where the Mountain Meets the Moon), Meg Medina (Merci Suarez Changes Gears), and Adam Gidwitz (The Inquisitor's Tale) - engage young people in frank discussions about racism, identity, and self-esteem. Featuring stories filled with love, acceptance, truth, peace, and an assurance that there can be hope for a better tomorrow, The Talk is an inspiring anthology and must-have resource published in partnership with Just Us Books.

When our sun suddenly goes supernova, scorching the Earth and driving humanity to the brink of extinction, the only hope for surviving "The Burning" seems to be the totalitarian Under-Law Nations, or ULN, which forces its citizens into lifelong servitude for the slim chance at a seat on their Lifeboats, generational ships launched annually toward Alpha, the nearest star with potentially habitable worlds.

La dieta cetogénica se basa en aprovechar los procesos naturales de quema de grasa de su cuerpo para perder esas libras en un abrir y cerrar de ojos. Si usted necesita perder peso, verse bien, reducir la inflamación, aumentar su inmunidad, o una miríada de otros beneficios, entonces usted debe considerar uno de los varios métodos de ayuno intermitente! La dieta mediterránea es diferente, ya que se basa en hechos duros y fríos basados en datos sorprendentes que los científicos descubrieron.

After his wife’s death, retired cop Walter "Pops" Washington has made a home for his ex-felon son in his sprawling, rent-controlled, Riverside Drive apartment. Will a long-simmering feud with the NYPD cause him to lose his home and the family he’s built there?

Sonia, a Cuban exiled during Castro's rise to power, is forced to relive her tumultuous childhood when her only son enlists in the military following 9/11. Using humor and sensitivity, Sonia Flew paints a lyrical portrait of two families in two countries over a 40-year span.