Nara Aziza Smith (@naraaziza), the best-dressed culinary creator in digital media, brings her signature style to 80 delicious, homemade family-friendly recipes for slowing down, cooking with love, and finding the whimsy in the everyday.You may think you know Nara Smith—the glamorous outfits, the soothing ASMR voice, the seemingly effortless approach to making food from scratch—but behind it all is a busy mom trying to do her best, while cherishing her time cooking ...

Detective Masaki Shiiba must work the dangerous streets of Kabukicho, Japan's largest red light district. When an increase in gun crimes forces Shiiba to work undercover, he must forge an alliance with an "S" or spy, who turns out to be an influential man from the Matsukura Group. But when Shiiba gets a call warning him about his S-seeds of doubt are planted. If he can't trust his S, who can he trust?

IN THERAPEUTIC CHRONICLES, THE AUTHOR SHARES AN INSPIRING JOURNEY OF SELFTRANSFORMATION, REVEALING HOW EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES (EFT) AND OTHER INTEGRATIVE PRACTICES CAN WARM THE HEART AND GUIDE THE READER TOWARD A FULLER, MORE CONSCIOUS LIFE. THIS BOOK IS A CALL TO ACTION, MOTIVATING YOU TO REVISIT EMOTIONAL WOUNDS, TRAUMAS, AND LIMITING BELIEFS THAT BLOCK THE FLOW OF LIFE. THROUGH DEEP PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND CLIENT SESSION ACCOUNTS, THE AUTHOR ILLUSTRATES THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EFT I...

There are moments in life, aren't there, when we find ourselves standing at a crossroads, presented with choices that seem to hold the keys to everything we desire? For Elias Thorne, that moment arrived on the sun-drenched quad of his university, a place usually filled with the bright promise of the future. He was a student, like so many others, ambitious and eager, but also keenly aware of the fierce competition that lay ahead. It was then that the whispers began, hushed conversations abo...

From Ashes She Rose is an inspiring memoir of survival, faith, and transformation. It follows SaTiya Nara from childhood instability and prison to single motherhood and spiritual healing as she learns to rise with purpose and resilience.

"Queens of Flint" is an urban fiction novel centered around the King family, led by Latasha "Tasha" King, an African American queenpin running a drug empire in Flint, Michigan. The story follows Tasha and her three daughters Raven, Destiny, and Jada as they navigate the treacherous world of crime and power struggles after Tasha is betrayed by her husband, Jerome, who becomes an informant for the FBI.

Why do economic models often fail in their predictions? Why do economists and financial market professionals make foolish decisions even though they know they may be harmful in the future? Why do many competent people in their financial professional life make wrong decisions in their personal finances? Why does economics today seem to us to have the characteristics of an exact science? These are some of the questions that Philosophy of Economic Behavior aims to answer. This is a new field ...

National lampoon meets Star Trek meets hitchhikers guide meets Monty Python meets, well, Francis Flattener.Francis Flattener, twenty-five, unmarried, unemployed, and a burden on her family. And Royalty (with a capital R). Having, among other things, bankrupted planets, caused wars, poached endangered species to near extinction, and (allegedly) caused the great sewage backup of '43, the royal court of the planet Kodargan and Supreme Council have decided that Something Must Be Done. ...

"Nice to meet you," my perfect match says, smiling as if he already knows me. I take his hand, steadying myself, trying to ignore how quickly everything about him puts me at ease. This is what I've spent my life preparing for. Saving. Sacrificing. Believing. And now that I'm finally here, I can feel it—that quiet certainty that everything is about to fall into place. But I'll soon learn that even though I waited my whole life for him, I should've kept waiting.For a...

Our twenty-sixth issue is haunted, alcohol-soaked, possibly delusional, bathed in moonlight, wandering through forests and caverns, and inflamed by all-manner of approaching catastrophes.Featuring new short fiction, poetry, CNF, and translations from Alberto Ortiz De Zarate (translated by Whitni Battle), Darlene Eliot, Nara Vidal (translated by Emyr Humphreys), Luna Sicat-Cleto (translated by Bernard Capinpin), Suzana Stojanović, Siamak Vossoughi, Marshall Moore, Farhad Pirbal (tra...

They say I'm lucky. Married to a handsome, wealthy man. Living in a high-rise apartment with city views. Always smiling. Always in love… But they don't know why.I never dreamed of a fairy-tale ending. Not when I grew up hungry, invisible, and utterly unchosen. So when my rich, handsome, and powerful husband offered me love, safety, and a way out, I said yes.After we were married, he suggested we be chipped with an experimental neural implant designed to loc...

Detective Masaki Shiiba's informant or "S," Keigo Munechika, has proven himself to be an excellent source of information. But the payment of sex for every lead given is taking its toll on Shiiba. But with his new assignment as back-up to a fellow undercover detective, Shiiba learns that there are far worse things than having sex with your male S—falling helplessly in love with him, for example. S volume 2 continues the drama and passion between a detective and his spy set in the highly-cha...