This bookexamines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequities even in the most advanced society of the world. This volume, while articulating health disparities in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area, including East St. Louis, Illinois, seeks to move beyond deficit models to focus on health equity. As cancer disparities continue to persist for low-income and women of color, the promotion and attainment of health equity becomes a matter of paramou...

Passion and compassion for low income women of color is not an issue of lacking empathy, scientific or medical care. It is a social issue. Health care providers do their best to support, encourage, treat, and motivate those living with cancer; but many do not have the resources, training, or preparation to work as effectively as possible with patients from marginalized groups in a relatable and non-judgmental way. Cancer Navigation: Charting the Path Forward for Low Income Women of Col...

I'd give my life for my family… but I won't give hers.LukaMy family is everything, and the Bratva I help run is all I care about. Until I meet her.One look and I know she's mine, the only woman I'll ever want, and the only one I'll ever have. My little kisa belongs to me, and I won't let anything come between us… not even my own family.LaraI've been taught since birth to hate the Melnikovs. ...

She's everything I was never supposed to want.DominicEighteen years old, a Bratva princess, and Lev Melnikov's daughter.That should be enough to keep me away, but the second I see Natalya all grown up, I know she's mine.I try to fight what I feel for her, but my principessa is determined to bring me to my knees, and she's willing to do whatever it takes to get me there.NatalyaHe's the head of...

She saved my life… and she's never going to let me forget it.VityaIf I ever lay my hands on Svetlana Melnikov, her dad has made it abundantly clear what will happen to me. It involves a dull blade and the loss of my favorite body part. Even with that threat hanging over me, I want her.I want her more than I've ever wanted anything, and now I'm in a mess and need her help. I swore I'd never cross the line with her, but she's determin...

Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction 2022 — ShortlistedA neurotic party girl's coming-of-age memoir about learning to live before getting ready to die.Tara has it pretty good: a nice job, a writing career, a forgiving boyfriend. She should be happy. Yet Tara can’t stay sober. She’s terrible at monogamy. Even her psychiatrist grows sick of her and stops returning her calls. She spends most of her time putting out social fires, barely pu...

Discover The DI Barton Crime Series from top 50 bestselling author, Ross GreenwoodPerfect for fans of Lee Child and Ian Rankin.This boxset contains the first 3 books in the gripping DI Barton crime series:The Snow KillerThe Soul KillerThe Ice KillerThe Snow KillerA family is gunned down in the snow but one of the children survives. Three years on, that child takes revenge and the Sn...

There's never been a time when I haven't been in love with Yelena Melnikov.ValentinShe was a temptation that I was powerless to resist. I gave her my heart when we were kids, knowing we'd have to hide our love. We hid it for years until one night of careless passion led to a pregnancy.For me, this changes nothing. Yelena as my wife, Yelena as the mother of my children… that was always the plan.I thought telling our family wo...

She signed away her freedomStarved for affection, young Piper Delaney surrenders her life to a Master. But there is no love—only abuse. She’s told she can’t leave; she signed the slave contract. Years later, beaten and starving, she hears an English Dom say the contract’s illegal. Unenforceable. And she runs.She reclaims her life and rises above the nightmare that was her past.But her enslavement left scars. She longs for love, but ...

From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, an evergreen treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all.Feminist writing did not tell us about the deep inner misery of men.Everyone needs to love and be loved—including men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways in which patriarchal culture keeps them from understanding themselves. In The Will to...

Have you ever wanted to on a backpacking trip in the woods but found yourself to afraid of the unknown? As fun as it sounds, your mind can’t help but contemplate all of the unknown variables such a trip could bring. Many would love to embark on such an experience but find they just can’t stop thinking about all of the things that they don’t know about wilderness technique. They find themselves completely unconfident in making the leap without the right of knowledge to lead them al...

'Bravely challenging the Establishment consensus … forensically argued' - Mail on SundayThe British government has embarked on an ambitious and legally-binding climate change target: reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2050. The Net Zero policy was subject to almost no parliamentary or public scrutiny, and is universally approved by our political class. But what will its consequences be?Ross Clark argues that it is a terrib...