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...

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".

The Secret to 10X Growth Isn’t Strategy—It’s You.In Built to Win BIG, renowned CEO coach Mark Moses reveals what the most successful entrepreneurs and executives already know: the key to building extraordinary companies is the courage to be coached.Drawing on stories of CEOs who scaled from near-bankruptcy to billion-dollar exits, Lead BIGGER shows how top leaders:Think 10x bigger and reinvent their industries

There are 13 districts in Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games triology. This book covers the 12 that have participated in President Snow's Hunger Games.

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...

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 ...

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 ...

This carefully crafted ebook: "Slavery: Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Memoirs Narrative of Frederick Douglass 12 Years a Slave The Underground Railroad Up From Slavery Willie Lynch Letter Confessions of Nat Turner Narrative of Sojourner Truth Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl History of Mary Prince Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Thirty Years a Slave Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green The Life of Ol...

“Before the sun of Eli had set the sun of Samuel had risen.” Before the voice of the prophets had ceased to guide the people, the Interpreters of the Law, the Doctors of the Talmud, had commenced their labours, and before the Academies of Sura and of Pumbadita were closed, centres of Jewish thought and learning were already flourishing in the far West. The circumstances which led to the transference of the head-quarters of Jewish learning from the East to the West in the tenth century are ...

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