if you have been hoping that happiness will come from anywhere other than within yourself, then you should read this book. if somehow you have lost hope in who you are or can become, you also should read this book. battling low self-confidence or depression? you definitely should read this book!this book is a tell-al nonfiction that takes the reader through certain stages of the author's life; how she went from having high hopes about her future, to facing different forms of mental...

The book is an effervescent tool to heal, with love. A fragrant parfum, that envelopes the room, as you read. Little by little you digest the words, to encompass thought, therfore enjoying each wave of momentus freedom. It is about, yearning for love, having it, losing it, being in the pit without it, wishing to have it once again,a glimpse of hope, dreaming about it, then remembering it was always there… Love is such a powerful emotion. It is cosmic! It unites human kind. To believe or to...

Themes of identity, tradition, and belonging blend together in this collection of five plays celebrating South Africa's vibrancy and diversity.Delving into African mythology to uncover a rich tapestry of history, spirit, and ancestry, **Staging Black, Queer South Africa: *Plays for the Gods!***offers profound insights into the contemporary Black queer experience, shedding light on the complex interplay between identity and tradition in modern South Africa....

Focusing on Southern African perspectives, this groundbreaking book explores how digital spaces offer alternative avenues for queer and trans visual cultures in Africa as manifested and shared through popular social media platforms.In its analysis of the dynamic intersection of queerness/transness, African identities, and social media, this book sheds light on the complexities, challenges and transformative potential of these emerging digital platforms and cultures...

Sacred Reola Johnson is the eldest child born to a young couple named Essie Mae and Abraham Johnson. Both still teenagers at the time of her birth. Essie and Abraham gave Sacred away to Abrahams sister, Jackie Lewis, who took the role of a mother in Sacreds life. As Sacred grew up, she came to love the life she had with her Aunt Jackie. Despite her alcoholism demostrated the kind of love that Sacred never received from her absent mother. There were, however other women who filled the role ...

Being raised by her mother, with her father leaving at an early age to live his life with his other family, Angel has been through her share of ups and downs. With her girls by her side, Angel finds it fun living outside her perfect little world. She is a pretty, intelligent young woman. When a young man named Darnell comes along and sweeps her off her feet, she discovers a whole different part of life she never knew about. With her beautiful looks and peoples jealous ways, trouble is sure...

Why we need to manage our money wisely?Why do you think we need to work hard every day? Why do you think we made our own businesses, why we have our side lines for extra income?There's only one reason, and the reason is we need money. We need money to live, right? In order for us to live, we need our basic necessities and we need money to have those basic needs.We also need money to help others. Sharing is important and to do this, we need the help of our money....

'A powerful translation' The Telegraph'As narrative verse, this Gilgamesh entrances and enthrals.' Independent'Stephen Mitchell's Gilgamesh is a wonderful version' Harold BloomDiscover the foundational work of world literature - the world's oldest epic poem, vividly translated by Stephen Mitchell.Gilgamesh is a born leader, the king of Uruk. But he is arrogant. To control Gi...

Inspired as I am by a deep conviction, springing from a long line of experimental elucidations and deductions pointing to the conclusion that, if a man desires sincerely and seriously, and out of no mere curiosity, to attain to the knowledge of the way leading to Real Being, and if he fulfils to this end all that is requested of him and begins, in fact, among Other things to aid indirectly, and from his very first step, the attainment of this by Others, he will, by this act alone, become a...

A nerdy girl, opposites attract, fish out of water, military protector romance from New York Times Bestselling Author Lynn Raye Harris.Garrett “Iceman” Spencer didn’t join the Army’s elite Hostile Operations Team to babysit a spoiled rich girl, but when his superiors insist on assigning him to a senator’s daughter as her security detail, he has no choice.Scientist Grace Campbell doesn’t want a bodyguard, especially not the growly, handsome-as-sin specimen s...

In his thrillingly contemporary retelling of the world’s oldest epic, award-winning poet Derrek Hines brings us as close as we may ever come to re-creating the power it had over its original listeners more than four thousand years ago in the ancient Near East.Gilgamesh, the semi-divine ruler of Uruk, is a larger-than-life bully and abuser of his people. In order to tame the arrogant king, the gods create the wild and handsome Enkidu. But after Enkidu and Gilgamesh become fast frien...

New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter is acclaimed for her novels of heart-stopping suspense, edge-of-your-seat intrigue, and richly imagined characters. And when Slaughter created detective Will Trent she broke the mold. While displaying an uncanny knack for reading people, solving puzzles, and cracking cases at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Detective Trent navigates the varied relationships with the women in his life: vice cop Angie Polaski, supervisor Amanda ...