VOICES: a sacred sisterscape, spearheaded by Grammy-nominated poet aja monet (When The Poems Do What They Do), is an audio experience of stories written by, narrated by, and centering Black women across the diaspora. It encourages radical listening for the sake of connection, compassion, and community and celebrates the interior lives Black women embody. “We seek to encourage and establish a culture that fosters radical truth-telling love & solidarity,” —aja monet, Artist...

"Through Her Eyes" is a coming-of-age memoir told through the eyes of Susie Arlington-a bold, curious, and emotionally perceptive girl navigating life from kindergarten to senior year.From barefoot mornings in rural Anthony, Florida, to high school hallways echoing with uncertainty, Susie's journey is one of resilience, imagination, and quiet strength. As a tall five-year-old who runs faster than most boys and climbs higher than anyone else, Susie embraces life wit...

**If you adore Tracy Bloom, Cathy Bramley, Holly Martin and Lindsey Kelk, then this delighfully fun and flirty book is for you.At this wonderfully wacky wedding, you'll be treated to stolen kisses, saucy secrets, and happy endings when you least expect them...**A perfectionist wedding planner and a troublemaking uncle end up in a sticky situation, and more than sparks fly...Two lifelong best friends are accidentally trapped in a wine cellar, and resort to sampling t...

Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these shifts—addressing more expansive understandings of where, how, and with whom we research, teach, and partner. This book examines these shifts, locating them within socio-economic trends within a...

Thirty years ago, Chuck Berry starred in the seminal music documentary Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, which profiled the legend during a star-studded concert celebrating his sixtieth birthday. Now, on the heels of Berry's death, comes the complete story behind one of America's most enduring and embattled icons.Compiled as an oral history by the film's producer, Stephanie Bennett, Johnny B. Bad combines interviews from the film's participants, including it...

This highly readable edited collection focuses on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. Each contributor to this volume explores a different facet of Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, regional environments, and local economies in her writing. Covering all of her novels and short story collections, scholars from the United States, Canada, and abroad engage in critical analyses of Proulx's new regionalism, use of geographical settings, and themes o...

You are cordially invited to the Wedding Disaster of the Year: Graham and Tessa’s wedding...where true love awaits, except for the bride and groom...The Wedding Planner: Flirting with DisasterA troublemaking uncle and a perfectionist wedding planner end up butting heads, and more than sparks fly..The Best Man: Sex, Lies and Karmic CatastropheAfter years of covering the groom's many misdeeds, the best man must choose between loyalty and the love of a w...

"Je m'appelle Constant. Constant Bancelin. Ni homme, ni femme, PDG. Ce soir, je mets un terme à ma vie telle que je la connais depuis bientôt dix ans." Constance est ambitieuse et dévouée corps et âme à son entreprise. Lorsqu'on lui refuse une promotion sous prétexte qu'elle est une femme, son monde s'écroule. Elle a alors une idée complètement folle : se faire passer pour un homme afin de lever définitivement les obstacles à sa carrière. À force de coaching, de séances de phoniatre et de ...

Eleven-year-old Juniper Berry lives in a cabin with her family deep in the wild woods. Living off the grid is usually exciting, like the time she chased off three growling raccoons with a tree branch and some acorns, or when she thought she glimpsed the legendary Bigfoot. But her happy life in the wild ends abruptly when her younger brother gets sick, and the family moves to the city to be closer to the hospital.Juniper and her older sister are sent to live with cousins they hardly...

In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core terrain of struggle between slaveholders and the enslaved. These essays explore consensual sexua...

From the bestselling author of The Best of Friends comes a fast-paced thriller about how one woman’s murder unravels the tangled web of lies and deceit connecting a group of Hollywood elite.When Kiersten McCann, president of the West Hollywood Moms’ Club, turns up dead in her own pool, it quickly becomes clear this wasn’t an accident. And the party guests—all members of the exclusive club—are now key suspects in her murder.Accusations fly, and thre...

Breath in Action looks at the significance of breath to human life - not just the simple fact that if we stop breathing, we die, but also the more subtle ways in which our breath interacts with our voice and our being. Written by experts in vocal and holistic practice, the book is divided into four sections: Breath and the Body; Breath and the Mind; Breath and Holistic Practice; Breath and Performance.It offers the latest theories from a variety of disciplines on how we can be taug...