Nara Aziza Smith (@naraaziza), the best-dressed culinary creator in digital media, brings her signature style to 80 delicious, homemade family-friendly recipes for slowing down, cooking with love, and finding the whimsy in the everyday.You may think you know Nara Smith—the glamorous outfits, the soothing ASMR voice, the seemingly effortless approach to making food from scratch—but behind it all is a busy mom trying to do her best, while cherishing her time cooking ...

Detective Masaki Shiiba must work the dangerous streets of Kabukicho, Japan's largest red light district. When an increase in gun crimes forces Shiiba to work undercover, he must forge an alliance with an "S" or spy, who turns out to be an influential man from the Matsukura Group. But when Shiiba gets a call warning him about his S-seeds of doubt are planted. If he can't trust his S, who can he trust?

IN THERAPEUTIC CHRONICLES, THE AUTHOR SHARES AN INSPIRING JOURNEY OF SELFTRANSFORMATION, REVEALING HOW EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES (EFT) AND OTHER INTEGRATIVE PRACTICES CAN WARM THE HEART AND GUIDE THE READER TOWARD A FULLER, MORE CONSCIOUS LIFE. THIS BOOK IS A CALL TO ACTION, MOTIVATING YOU TO REVISIT EMOTIONAL WOUNDS, TRAUMAS, AND LIMITING BELIEFS THAT BLOCK THE FLOW OF LIFE. THROUGH DEEP PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND CLIENT SESSION ACCOUNTS, THE AUTHOR ILLUSTRATES THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EFT I...

From Ashes She Rose is an inspiring memoir of survival, faith, and transformation. It follows SaTiya Nara from childhood instability and prison to single motherhood and spiritual healing as she learns to rise with purpose and resilience.

"Queens of Flint" is an urban fiction novel centered around the King family, led by Latasha "Tasha" King, an African American queenpin running a drug empire in Flint, Michigan. The story follows Tasha and her three daughters Raven, Destiny, and Jada as they navigate the treacherous world of crime and power struggles after Tasha is betrayed by her husband, Jerome, who becomes an informant for the FBI.

Why do economic models often fail in their predictions? Why do economists and financial market professionals make foolish decisions even though they know they may be harmful in the future? Why do many competent people in their financial professional life make wrong decisions in their personal finances? Why does economics today seem to us to have the characteristics of an exact science? These are some of the questions that Philosophy of Economic Behavior aims to answer. This is a new field ...

National lampoon meets Star Trek meets hitchhikers guide meets Monty Python meets, well, Francis Flattener.Francis Flattener, twenty-five, unmarried, unemployed, and a burden on her family. And Royalty (with a capital R). Having, among other things, bankrupted planets, caused wars, poached endangered species to near extinction, and (allegedly) caused the great sewage backup of '43, the royal court of the planet Kodargan and Supreme Council have decided that Something Must Be Done. ...

Detective Masaki Shiiba's informant or "S," Keigo Munechika, has proven himself to be an excellent source of information. But the payment of sex for every lead given is taking its toll on Shiiba. But with his new assignment as back-up to a fellow undercover detective, Shiiba learns that there are far worse things than having sex with your male S—falling helplessly in love with him, for example. S volume 2 continues the drama and passion between a detective and his spy set in the highly-cha...

For almost a year now, Shiiba has been using Keigo Munechika as his “S,” his spy, to get information on the gun dealings of the Yakuza world. Shiiba uses his body in exchange for Munechika’s sensitive information...and only his body as far as Shiiba is concerned. Shiiba vows their relationship will not go beyond that. But when a rowdy young man with a penchant for piercing and an enigmatic Yakuza leader cross paths with the young detective, sins of the past are unearthed once more-sins tha...

Our twenty-sixth issue is haunted, alcohol-soaked, possibly delusional, bathed in moonlight, wandering through forests and caverns, and inflamed by all-manner of approaching catastrophes.Featuring new short fiction, poetry, CNF, and translations from Alberto Ortiz De Zarate (translated by Whitni Battle), Darlene Eliot, Nara Vidal (translated by Emyr Humphreys), Luna Sicat-Cleto (translated by Bernard Capinpin), Suzana Stojanović, Siamak Vossoughi, Marshall Moore, Farhad Pirbal (tra...

Our bodies are resilient. Still, many of us are dependent upon daily medications for chronic diseases that mask symptoms and often come with troublesome side effects. Thankfully, there is good news. It truly is possible to reduce health ailments by eliminating processed foods and incorporating a whole foods, plant-based diet that fuels our bodies with proper nutrition and sets us on a path to living life without medication, pain, or depression.In an authentic, self-disclosing style...

The Chile Reader makes available a rich variety of documents spanning more than five hundred years of Chilean history. Most of the selections are by Chileans; many have never before appeared in English. The history of Chile is rendered from diverse perspectives, including those of Mapuche Indians and Spanish colonists, peasants and aristocrats, feminists and military strongmen, entrepreneurs and workers, and priests and poets. Among the many selections are interviews, travel diari...