What is the value of an object once a person no longer uses it — that thing they once needed but now cannot seem to make space for? What makes a person relegate their belongings to a storage unit? Is it tragedy? Loss? Neurosis? Love? Maybe they are collectors who find themselves out of room at home. Maybe they need a place to keep the bits and pieces they end up with after their marriage falls apart. Or maybe they have a secret. In Storage Storeys, you’ll peek into seven units in a downtow...

The shocking and affecting memoir from a gold-star widow searching for the truth behind her Green Beret husband's death, this book bears witness to the true sacrifices made by military families.When Green Beret Bryan Black was killed in an ambush in Niger in 2017, his wife Michelle saw her worst nightmare become a reality. She was left alone with her grief and with two young sons to raise. But what followed Bryan's death was an even more difficult journey for the y...

In the American West of 1880, Leadville, Colorado, is the wealthiest mining district on earth and by far its richest mine is the Eye Dazzler.When Lucinda Ridenour, the notorious widow-heiress to the Dazzler, chooses young Kit Randall to be her lover, Kit thinks he has the world at his feet. But when their affair sinks into depravity, he must rediscover himself and find out if he has the character to survive in a society that has more money than morals.After waking up from a...

A forbidden friendship turns to love amidst the social and economic turmoil that would lead to the Populist Uprising. As women seek political equality with men, an unlikely herione steps forward to make history. When her father's death forces Laurel McBryde to leave her beloved childhood home in the Flint Hills to live with the Hartmoors, a prosperous banking family, she feels like a lonely outcast among the prim and proper Victorians of Chisholm, Kansas. Soon a growing attraction to radic...

The shocking and affecting memoir from a gold-star widow searching for the truth behind her Green Beret husband's death, this book bears witness to the true sacrifices made by military families.When Green Beret Bryan Black was killed in an ambush in Niger in 2017, his wife Michelle saw her worst nightmare become a reality. She was left alone with her grief and with two young sons to raise. But what followed Bryan's death was an even more difficult journey for the y...

Ellie and the Sunflowers is for children to ignite imagination, build confidence, and facilitate positive experiences when situations or environments may prompt anxiety or fear, experienced as fight, freeze, or flight. Imagination is enlivened through the story of Ellie and the metaphor of the sunflowers to help her experience a new setting. Underpinning the story is the science—neurology, biology, and psychology of emotions. It is science that informs the actions to counter unpleasant fee...

"There is no word in the Cheyenne language for forgiveness." On the day after Thanksgiving, 1868, George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry attack a sleeping Cheyenne village on the banks of the Washita. Ironically, it later becomes known that the village attacked was that of Black Kettle, the foremost peace chief of the Cheyenne Nation. Amidst the heartless and senseless slaughter of men, women, and children, the Seventh Cavalry discovers a white woman living among the Cheyenne. Her...

Dare to embrace your wild side as five of the brightest imaginations in black literature today—Michelle Cuttino, Shakir Rashaan, Anna Black, Jada Pearl, and N’Tyse—come together to weave an unforgettable exploration of female liberation and self-gratifying sexual healing. These risqué tales of steamy passion bloom from illicit affairs, secret fetishes, romantic flings, and pure unadulterated happenstance.

Self-acceptance is the ability to unconditionally value all parts of yourself. This means that you value the good parts as well as the parts that you think need improvement. The process of self-acceptance starts with acknowledging judgements against yourself and softening those judgments, so that every part of yourself can be valued.Additionally, it is important to commit yourself to shifting your focus from judgement and blame to tolerance and compassion. Join me on the journey o...

Grungy and queer, Michelle is a grrrl hung up on a city in riot. It's San Francisco and it's 1999. Determined to quell her addictions to heroin, catastrophic romance, and the city itself, she heads south for LA, just as the news hits: in one year the world is Officially Over. The suicides have begun. And it's here that Black Wave breaks itself open, splitting into every possible story, questioning who has the right to write about whom. People begin to dream the lovers they will never have,...

This Volume is my 4th in a series of Blackwork embroidery, easy - good for beginners, border numbers 1 to 30. I have created this book so that you may build your own library of border designs to use within your own Blackwork creations and over time I hope to do a complete library of the following: Fillers, Borders, Corners, Alphabets, Patterns & Charts. To create your own special Blackwork piece, there is also a FREE 'Busy Bee 2' design for you to complete.

This Volume is my second in a series of filler designs, easy - good for beginners, filler numbers 51 to 100. I have created this book so that you may build your own library of filler designs to use within your own Blackwork creations and over time I hope to do a complete library of the following: Fillers, Borders, Corners, Alphabets, Patterns & Charts. To create your own special Blackwork piece, there is also a FREE Sampler template to try out some of your new filler designs.