Facing Inward is a memoir that weaves together stories of resilience, love, and self-discovery. At the heart of it is a candid reflection on a life shaped by chronic illness, Southern family dynamics, and an unshakable sense of feeling different.Moving through pivotal phases of her life—childhood, a life-saving kidney transplant, and the Covid-19 pandemic—Melissa opens a window into her experiences as a lesbian, media personality, and someone who had to constantly reckon w...

In The Art of Letting Go: How to Release Stress and Find Inner Peace, discover the transformative power of releasing what no longer serves you and cultivating a life of calm and clarity. This guide offers practical tools and gentle guidance to help you let go of stress, worry, and past burdens, allowing you to embrace a more peaceful and balanced state of mind. Drawing from mindfulness practices, psychology, and relaxation techniques, The Art of Letting Go empowers you to free yourself fro...

Shy, practical Emma Billings has the life only told in fairy tales, a devoted husband, a beautiful home and a loving family. After years of trying for a baby of her own through natural and medical measures, she is resigned to stop trying and accept her life as it is. Then fate steps in to shake up her life when she becomes pregnant. As her pregnancy progresses, she is plagued with unusual pregnancy problems, and a medical anomaly is found. Now, she must keep this secret and deal with the m...

When seventeen year old Abby Moore goes with her best friend to visit the local university, little did she know that a chance encounter with the lead singer in a band, would change her life forever. But would a terrible secret from his past ruin her new fairy tale life, or the deep seeded tragic events of her past be the one thing that could make her Prince Charming leave her forever.

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children wh...

Mentoring While White: Culturally Responsive Practices for Sustaining the Lives of Black College Students provides a provocative and illuminating account of the mentoring experiences of Black college and university students based on their racialized and marginalized identities. Bettie Ray Butler, Abiola Farinde-Wu, and Melissa Winchell bring together a diverse group of well-respected leading and emerging scholars to present new and compelling arguments pointing to what white facul...

He needs to save his farm. She needs a client who respects her mind, not just her pretty face.With everything on the line, Carter Quinn will do whatever is necessary to take Quinn Organics to the next level. That includes risking his hard-earned savings to gamble on a business consultant. But Carter gets more than he bargained for when Avery Scott arrives, and keeping things strictly professional suddenly becomes his biggest challenge.Avery loves helping he...

Christopher Carter's wife Melissa goes undercover to avenge police misconduct and prevent further abuse. Her plan is to convince the offending officer that he's been recruited to lucrative private-retainer work. But she's actually setting him up to appear to have had a psychotic break. Will Melissa's true identity be discovered to her peril or will she be able to carry off the ruse? Will the drugs she gives the officer work as planned? Will he be taken to the right hospital? Will he be tre...

Higher Education Implications for Teaching and Learning during COVID-19 provides different perspectives regarding the impact of COVID-19 on college teaching and learning and on students, both collectively and individually. Contributors argue that the pandemic forced a higher education reckoning as institutions around the world were forced to shut their physical doors and open up their online platforms in a wider capacity. While these concerns are linked to a certain point in time, there is...

It's spring-cleaning time and Melissa is rooting through her boxes of memories, reliving past romance, past sex. The napkin from the bar where she'd met Chris Carter and how she'd had sex with him within hours. The casino chip where they'd snorted cocaine and Chris had spun her against the wall, lifted her dress, pushed her panty aside and fucked her—rough, brutal and quick. And how'd she'd loved every moment.She lifts out the first necklace Chris had given her. Next is the bracele...

SHORTLISTED FOR CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2022'Thank you for being the baddest in the literary game, knowing and loving us Black girls' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of Queenie'Such a loving and warm guide and ode to black girls, I am so happy the younger generation have this in their lives' BOLU BABALOLA, author of Love in ColourYour big sis in boo...

Agreements between nations constitute the fundamental framework for the ordering of international affairs; and their successes and failures have led to some of the great turning points in modern history. The result of a unique collaboration by historians and political scientists, this book delineates, defines and assesses the idea of pacts and alliances as a key model of political organisation. Anchored by leading academics in the field, it presents numerous case studies covering a broad c...