In the highlands of the North West Region of Cameroon, two neighboring communities — Oku and Mbessa — share the same hills, markets, and history. But when inter-communal conflict erupts, that shared history fractures. And the deepest fracture runs through the hearts of a forgotten group: the children of both.They are Oku by father, Mbessa by mother. Or Mbessa by father, Oku by mother. In peace, they are bridges. In war, they become questions with no answer. Their own communities te...

Towards What Hurt is a debut poetry collection structured as a ceremony.In three movements - The Portal Opens, The Wildfire, and The Return - Detroit writer adria moses takes the reader from preparation, through fire, and into return.Drawing on 15 years of writing through chronic illness, major surgery, domestic violence, and childhood abuse, these poems treat the body as archive and altar. They refuse the demand that healing be soft, wort...

This file includes 11 books: Medieval Hebrew (featuring The Midrash and medieval collections of Jewish biblical lore and legend), Hebraic Literature (translations from the Talmud, Midrashim, and KabbalaTales and Maxims from the Midrash by Samuel Rapaport, The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirke Abot), Kitab al Khazari by Judah Hallevi, the Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, Philo-Judaeus of alexandria by Norman Bentwich, The guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides, The Ethics by B...

Lynn is in her mid 30's. After a bad marriage, a period of discovery, and the finding, and loosing of the man of her dreams, she is working on herself. She is back to school for a new career, taking care of herself and casually dating a woman. She is at a place of satisfied balance. She meets Paul. He is younger, driven and also in school. This is the story of their meeting and first "date".

Some nights change everything.At exactly midnight, Mara Cole receives a message that makes no sense: someone is watching her, and the person she trusts most may know more than they are saying.What begins as a frightening message quickly becomes a trail of hidden records, secret photographs, unanswered questions, and a truth that someone desperately wants to keep buried.Then there is Eli. The boy Mara has started to trust may be connected to the mystery, forcing her ...

I had everything money could buy and build. Skyscrapers, armed security, power..everything you could think of—except the one thing keeping me alive: time. Behind high walls and electric fences, my spine was calcifying into shattered glass, a grinding fire that no doctor could extinguish.Then came the desperation. In a moment of raw agony, I prayed not for wealth, but for more years. The answer didn't come from a physician or a miracle. It arrived through encrypted ...

She knows the truth. He knows he should stay away. Neither of them knows how to stop what is happening between them.Mara Bennett has spent years protecting a secret tied to an old school scandal. When strange messages begin appearing and someone starts watching her, she decides to uncover the truth before the past destroys her future.Then she meets someone who refuses to let her face it alone.What begins as a quiet investigation becomes something neither of them exp...

March 1895. London suffocates in fog and apathy, until a baffling "locked-room" mystery awakens the matchless intellect of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Thomas Egerton, the pillar of British commerce in the Canary Islands, has been found dead at his estate in Santa Brígida with an inexplicable grimace of terror on his face, showing no signs of violence nor any trace of known poisons. Hired urgently by the shipping company, Holmes and his faithful chronicler, Dr. John H. Watson, tra...

Wren Callahan sees everything. The lie behind a smile. The crack in a story that doesn't quite add up. The thing you're trying hardest to hide. It's why the whole town whispers about her eyes, one gold, one brown, like she's looking straight through you. It's also why, two years ago, she saw something that could destroy the most powerful family in Marrow Lake, and why she's been drowning in silence ever since.Then Eli Cardenas sits down beside her on a set of bleachers and refuses ...

Marcie and Emory are business neighbors and casual friends, both attracted to the other, but afraid to reveal it.

Maya Reed thought the hardest part of senior year would be choosing what came next. She was wrong.Two years ago, Maya and Ethan Cole made a promise beside the river. They had seen something they were never supposed to see, and they agreed to keep it secret until they understood the truth. Then a message appears, proving that someone else knows what happened that night.As old evidence resurfaces, Maya and Ethan are pulled into a mystery that reaches into their families, thei...

Zara Daniels has one rule: never let anyone get close enough to discover what her family has been hiding.Then she meets Caleb Rowe.He is charming, guarded, and carrying secrets of his own. What begins as an unexpected connection soon pulls Zara into a mystery surrounding an old fire, a missing witness, and a truth their families have spent years trying to bury.The closer Zara and Caleb become, the more dangerous the questions become. Someone is watching them. Someon...