It's the year 2138. The government has automated the marriage process, reserving the full rights to choose for each citizen his soulmate. Resistance to the mating system is a punishable crime.Camilla has been struggling with memories of how her father sexually abused her for eight years of her life, just after she lost her mother to suicide. As though this isn't enough to make her life a living hell, the man the government has mated her with is a sexual predator and a drug dealer.

How young women can make it after heartbreak, and how they can take the limes of life and make lemonade and sip it in the afternoon like tea!

Denise has the perfect relationship with her boyfriend Keshawn until he starts keeping late nights. Although he makes her believe he has to either work overtime or attend very important meetings, she grows suspicious about how he spends his time and who he might be hanging out with. Thus, she hires a private detective to spy on him. She is shattered to discover he's cheating on her and decides to get back at him. Soon, Keshawn turns away from his dirty ways, but this doesn't soften her res...

Nora and James Brown are black, accomplished, and living the American Dream. She’s a doctor and he’s a lawyer. Together, they’re raising three young children in an affluent neighborhood in Maryland.But when James receives a significant career opportunity in Denver – the decision to uproot the family means big changes for everyone. All the while, Nora, a career-driven woman, wrestles with being a supportive wife.Ultimately, the family makes the journey. But they soon discove...

When First Lady Flawless' parents and in-laws simultaneously decide to spend a few days at her matrimonial home, she expects anything but a peaceful coexistence between both parties. While her mother makes it her business to always counter the racist comments from her husband's side of the family, her father, Pastor Al Tunner, is bent on being peaceable, as the Lord requires of him. The two families are startled to learn that Flawless and her husband Prince run a church, and Pastor Al Tunn...

Cinnamon Lyles's used to looking for love in all the wrong places. As a survivor of an abusive childhood and a strained relationship with a mother who refused to believe her claims, she's endured a lingering struggle with self-esteem. After years in an abusive marriage, she's determined to make a better life. One day, she and her young children, Daniella and Will, flee North Carolina and set out for California where she leaps full-force into the world of investigative reporting. But when h...

Cinnamon Lyles's used to looking for love in all the wrong places. As a survivor of an abusive childhood and a strained relationship with a mother who refused to believe her claims, she's endured a lingering struggle with self-esteem. After years in an abusive marriage, she's determined to make a better life. One day, she and her young children, Daniella and Will, flee North Carolina and set out for California where she leaps full-force into the world of investigative reporting. But when h...

One Bead at a Time is the oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in vast areas of both the United States and Canada. Transcribed and edited by two-spirit Métis writer Sharron Proulx-Turner, Little Thunder’s narrative is told verbatim, her melodious voice and keen sense of humour almost audible overtop of the text on the page. Early in her story, Little Thunder reco...

Cultural neuroscience and global mental health is an interdisciplinary field of study that integrates theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches in cultural neuroscience to address the major challenges in global mental health. The field is concerned with identifying the root causes, risks, and preventative factors in global mental health, with a view to improving and achieving health equity for all people across the world. The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience and Glo...

"Beverly Hills Beauty Secrets takes the mystery—but not the magic—out of all the modern miracle cures that help you put your best face forward. From page one, these doctors share their wisdom, take you behind the curtain, and reveal the true colors you can choose from to paint a prettier picture!"—Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H., BeverLy Hills psychiatrist, author, and talk show hostLearn the beauty and skin care secrets of the stars!The complete insider guid...

Twenty years of silence. No one talked about it. No one wanted to. The public was shocked by ghastly televised images of an uncontrollable inferno and of the endless views of twisted, charred remains of what had been billed as The Showplace of the Nation,” now reduced to smoldering rubble with 167 of its guests dead. How could this happen? From its notorious early years of illegal gambling, glamorous night life, and organized crime to its reborn reputation as one of the finest entertainme...

One Bead at a Time is the oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in vast areas of both the United States and Canada. Transcribed and edited by two-spirit Métis writer Sharron Proulx-Turner, Little Thunder’s narrative is told verbatim, her melodious voice and keen sense of humour almost audible overtop of the text on the page. Early in her story, Little Thu...