From the soul of the streets comes a voice you can't ignore.GHETTONOMICS: A Poetic Therapy is a powerful collection of spoken-word style poetry that brings raw emotion, unfiltered truth, and spiritual resilience from the heart of urban America.Melvin Smith shares his journey through pain, poverty, fatherhood, injustice, faith, addiction, love, and survival in the ghettos of New York. These poems are a mirror held up to society-bold, unapologetic, and brimming with ...

Valentina is the gripping origin story of Valentina Rossi, daughter of Newark New Jersey's feared crime boss, Don Giuseppe Rossi. Spanning from 1988 to 2024, Valentina traces the rise of a teenage tactician into the Donna of a modern criminal empire. A fierce, layered, and unrelenting crime saga, it explores legacy, loyalty, and the cost of building power that lasts.Set in motion in April 1988, the novel introduces seventeen-year-old Val as she navigates a brutal dual legacy: her f...

You're trying to help—but is it working?Helping others is a good thing. Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. But even the most well-intentioned efforts to help others can be undermined by a simple truth: We almost always focus on trying to "fix" people, correcting problems or filling the gaps between where they are and where we think they should be. Unfortunately, this doesn't work well, if at all, to inspire sustained l...

Wall Street Journal bestseller“A welcome revelation.” --The Financial TimesAward-winning Wharton Professor and Choiceology podcast host Katy Milkman has devoted her career to the study of behavior change. In this ground-breaking book, Milkman reveals a proven path that can take you from where you are to where you want to be, with a foreword from psychologist Angela Duckworth, the best-selling author of Grit

An epic mafia romance trilogy that sets a new bar for just how dark a hero can get, from New York Times bestselling author CD Reiss.Some girls dream of marrying a prince, but I never imagined I'd be sold to a king.Santino DiLustro.The king.The monster.The keeper of secrets.When he forced me to marry him, I cried for love I'd never know.When he locked me away, I cried for the freedom I lost forever.Every o...

What doesn’t kill you makes you a killer.Santino DiLustro changed me. You can’t spend time in bed with the devil without getting addicted to the heat.Before him, I was a girl. Innocent and weak.Now, I’m a woman. A fighter. A killer.I’ll burn the world down for him. Shatter the sky. But I will not break.No. I will rise up and destroy whoever dares to threaten what my king has built, because I am forever his queen.Book...

Today the world mourns the life of a talented beautiful person known as Prince. He will forever be in our hearts as one of the most talented, musician, singer, and songwriter. Prince is really one of the best performers the world has ever seen.This book is a collection of rare footage of Prince live in concert as he sings some of his greatest hits to audiences around the world. Beautifully colored, this book also includes some of Princes' most famous quotes."This book truly...

The Dark Kings are the best combination of alpha heroes and romantic suspense. Each book is a roller coaster ride of emotion, danger and sizzling, sexy fun. - Carly Phillips, NY Times bestselling author.One minute I’m discharging from the marines, the next I’m undercover in the Baldassare mafia searching for my kidnapped cousin, thanks to fellow marine and billionaire Connor Barrett. He found me a way in.Her name is Gianna Baldassare.Do I c...

Four old friends confront their darkest secrets in this fantasy steeped in nostalgia, folklore, religion, and the seductive landscape of Southern Italy—by the Italian Neil Gaiman.**“A tale of adventure, mystery, friendship and heart-wrenching beauty that will make you re-examine what is holy, what is true, and what is beyond the realm of possibility.” —**BookPageFour old school friends have a pact: to meet up every year in the smal...

This book was written in 2011. Some of the poems and songs date back to 2003. Some of the poems and songs have not been inserted in this book due to original book and papers being lost. A view on emotions looking out and looking within.

The epic retelling of a real Sicilian peasant family's rise & fall—the basis for the Disney-produced Hulu Original Series The Lions of Sicily ."Beautifully written, impossible to put down, the powerful Florios of Sicily are alive on every page." —Peter Golden, author of Nothing Is ForgottenIn this sweeping saga inspired by the real lives of history-making titans, interna...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A heartfelt novel of the power of love across three generations of an Italian-American family, from the author of the Big Stone Gap series“[An] epic of small-town life . . . A personal saga of American history and a romance woven together with warmth and good humor.”—The OregonianIn the late 1800s, the residents of a small village in coastal Italy migrated to the promised land of America. They e...