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This comparative case study utilized oral histories to illuminate the life stories of three Black men who navigated their way through trauma. The goal of the study was to better understand how they navigated education and life experiences to eventually earn doctoral degrees. The findings affirm and illuminate that despite their academic success, they suffer from residual unresolved emotional scars due to unhealed trauma.

Achim Jeffers had no illusions of being a hero or some savior. He was once again faced with another a covert mission. This one, involving dangerous and lawless cops. Achim's shadowy bosses needed him to expose the cop's secrets and obtain justice for the beleaguered black citizens of New Orleans. This was the very profession Achim left his Sunday pulpit to pursue. Now as a ruthless hitman, he enjoyed these types of missions and dedicated the rebirth of his new life towards fulfilling them.

It's been eight years since Colodian won its independence from Emerlia. Yael, like thousands of children after the war, has bounced from foster home to foster home. She has never found a real family, and now with skirmishes along the northern border, the country feels on the brink of war once more. When she hears rumors of a girl with the same distinct eyes as hers in the capital, she sets out on an adventure with a band of four young boys who, like her, lost everything in the last fight but through the chaos managed to find each other.

Meet our hero Bini: a clever cub from the Town of Big Paw. When his town is attacked by a giant red dragon it's up to him to use his wits to save his people! This story is intended to remind us to be brave, help others, and seek out good advice from elders and those more experienced than us.

Author Leah M. Forney provides practical steps to help you keep the faith and ignite the winner within. She uses her personal stories, along with biblical scriptures and practical steps, in order to bring hope, faith, and inspiration to her listeners. Courage to Win will help you to discover that your pain has a purpose.

Cutting herself helped her to feel better inside. It took that anxiety away that made her want to kill herself. Sure, her arms looked like "backroad" maps, but as long as she covered them no one would ever know. Did they hurt? Oh yes, every day.

This is an exciting educational and enjoyable audiobook for children between the ages of two to five years old. This audiobook will teach children how to count from one to 10 in a fun and electrifying way with their character Ray who loves to count.

Three decades after returning home from the adventure that made him famous, the legendary dwarf treasure hunter O’balin Undur has gone missing. Many have presumed O’balin to be dead, including his old friend Bindle, the aged and worn mayor of Mountainside Village. After receiving an urgent letter addressed specifically to him, Bindle sneaks out of town to visit the home of an old friend. There he is greeted by a surprising guest who claims to have seen O’balin alive, searching for a mysterious stone called the Summoner’s Gem.

Put an end to the inconsistent and no limits eating habits that are not contributing to your training and performing your best. Taking the next step up involves doing your best consistently. Blow past the competition and lower your risk for illness. That happens by not only being available but by placing your body in the best possible position to do what you want it to do, repeatedly and with no delay.

When a young journalist disappears after a meeting with the galaxy’s most notorious criminal in a max-lock facility, Dekker Knight and his crew are called to investigate. What they find might very well unravel the political fabric of the core worlds, and the government and its corps of mind readers are committed to keeping their secrets at all costs.

Markus has been thrown into a world he never knew existed. Now he’s faced with training for seven weeks to help a secret organization prepare for The Coming. Teaming up with a crew of demon hunters, Markus hopes to find closure with his past while he fights to save his future. The world is in peril, and less than 1 percent of the population even knows it.

Stuck on Earth in the 17th century with his ship broken and venting radiation, Eric—a former military engineer—seeks a lost item that has fallen into the hands of his enemies. He needs to fix the damage to the space-time continuum before he can return to the future, otherwise there may be no home waiting for him. When he meets a mysteriously familiar woman, he's certain that he's met her before, even though he's never seen her face. He'll have to keep her close if he doesn't want to make things worse.

The CO-D4 virus rages the globe, leaving weary survivors and infected who roam the streets. In the aftermath of the pandemic, Doctor James Ung finds himself in a new type of world. A quiet one. Almost as if everything is put on pause. The global distribution of the vaccine breeds a different outcome other than hope. Those who receive it fall into a deep coma. Ung along with Major Tom find an ally in Ella Hoffman, a displaced survivor from another camp. Time is running out and they are clueless as to what will happen when the inoculated survivors wake.

It is not a war that mankind ever expects to face - one against the undead. In the fourth and final book of the Rectify Series, the battle has begun. After the rescue attempt of Sanctum, James Ung and the others make their way to Moundsville, West Virginia, where Clay Owens leads a group of survivors. They make a long term sanctuary our of an old prison. It is to be home, instead, they face using the prison as a fortress. Hope burns out quickly when they learn the world is far worse and the CO-D4 virus has only begun its evolution of humanity.

Frank Savage's is an unlikely success story. Raised in segregated Washington, DC, by his mother, a hairdresser and entrepreneur with little formal education, Savage's career has taken him around the world as a globetrotting financier. From his first banking job at Citibank to his current position as Chairman Emeritus of Howard University, The Savage Way shares the life and business lessons he learned along the way.

You can be an A - an architect, a B - a biochemist, a C - a computer software developer, and so much more! It's all about doing what you love and putting your heart into everything that you do. In this alphabet book of careers, the options run from A to Z! And six-year-old social media sensation Sam White and his dad, Bobby, want every kid out there to know that they can reach for the stars and make their dreams come true, whatever they want to become. Just don't be a Z - a zombie and let the world pass you by.

The poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living pays tribute to all Black women by focusing on visionaries and leaders who are making history right now, including Ava DuVernay, Janelle Monae, Kamala Harris, Misty Copeland, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Robin Roberts, Roxane Gay, and Simone Biles—with this compilation of celebratory odes.

Comedy and calamity are interlaced throughout the stories of a WW II war baby finding his place in the world. His foibles and adventures are told with a dry sense of humor as he bounces off the walls of good and bad behavior throughout his youth and into adulthood. A mischievous nature and an innate disrespect for authority cause a clash with the rigidity of serving in the military. The tales of his year in Vietnam are both hilarious and harrowing.

Caliente II gives a further humorous and provocative view of a luxury, clothing optional resort through the eyes of a wheelchair bound resident and his beautiful, sexy wife.

This audiobook of poetry, by Hans De Cuyper, zooms in and out of extremely raw, needing, and wanting feelings, in an elegant and eloquent style, all his own. In the near distance we hear his voice, which has been shaped, in patches by great masters of writing, that have inspired him - musically too. The dark and light reflections, old and new mystical reverences and song sung always in his voice, with always the delicateness of talking directly as well as with insight and respect to the listener.