A Body That Remembered is a deeply personal journey through the unseen impact of untreated complex trauma and the ways survival can shape the body, mind, and nervous system.This is the story of a very personal experience living with complex PTSD, where years of unprocessed trauma and prolonged survival responses eventually led to adrenal gland dysfunction and a body pushed beyond its limits.Through exhaustion, confusion, fear, and the search for answers, this book ...

Powers will collide. Secrets will surface. Loyalties will erode.And one impossible choice will decide the fate of Uretha.In the next explosive chapter of The Affinity Saga, the Elite Defenders Unit faces a truth that shatters everything they believed about their leader. Malcolm Bennett-the man they trusted as mentor, brother, and protector-is not who they thought he was. His buried past is directly tied to Uri City's greatest threat: The Collector. Now the Elite ar...

Who are you, really?That's the question Jada never expected to answer-until she found the journal under Nana's quilt.At 13, Jada is just trying to stay invisible, survive middle school, and make sense of life without the grandmother who understood her best. But when she discovers Nana's journal-and a mysterious map tucked inside-it leads her on a journey she didn't see coming.From hallway whispers to classroom spotlights, from secret fears to unexpe...

Dee Williams’s life changed in an instant, with a near-death experience in the aisle of her local grocery store. Diagnosed with a heart condition at age forty-one, she was all too suddenly reminded that life is short, time is precious, and she wanted to be spending hers with the people and things she truly loved. That included the beautiful sprawling house in the Pacific Northwest she had painstakingly restored—but, increasingly, it did not include the mortgage payments, constant repairs, ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, from Brian’s Song to Lando in the Star Wars universe—unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed.“Effortlessly charming. . . [Williams] writes with clarity and intimacy, revealing the person behind the persona.” —Maya S. Cade, The New York Times Boo...

WHAT HAVE WE HERE? follows Billy Dee Williams from his childhood growing up in Harlem to his days on Broadway and in Hollywood before landing the role in George Lucas' space opera that would win him everlasting fame.Over a 60-year career spanning Broadway, music, movies, and television, Billy's tales and travels include Lawrence Olivier, Marlon Brando, James Baldwin, Henry Fonda, Duke Ellington, Berry Gordy, Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Sylvester Stallone, Diahann Ca...

In a family blighted by the terrible effects of the First World War, can Ruby Jenkins dare to dream of happiness?A Rare Ruby, from much-loved author Dee Williams, is a moving saga of a young woman facing battles in life and love at the close of the Great War. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Cathy Sharp.'A cosy chair and a Dee Williams book is a little bit of heaven' - Lesley PearseWhen Ruby's father returns, sh...

It's X-Men meets True Blood meets Captain America: Civil War in the sequel to the breakout novel The Affinity Theory by Eddie Dee Williams.The Elite Defenders Unit of the Uri City Division of the Company faces off against its most cataclysmic opponent yet in an epic battle for the soul of a nation.After a night of lavish revelry to celebrate Symone's successful completion of her mentorship program, a rogue political facti...

It's X-Men meets True Blood meets Captain America: Civil War in the sequel to the breakout novel The Affinity Theory by Eddie Dee Williams.The Elite Defenders Unit of the Uri City Division of the Company faces off against its most cataclysmic opponent yet in an epic battle for the soul of a nation.After a night of lavish revelry to celebrate Symone's successful completion of her mentorship program, a rogue political facti...

In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy. Drawing on oral histories and previously sealed Church records, Williams demonstrates how master narratives of women’s religious life and Catholic commitments to racial and gender justice fundamentally change when the lives and experiences of African American nuns are taken seriously. For Black ...

During the course of our lives, trials, challenges, and tribulations will come despite the fact that we do not have a desire for them to manifest. Most of us would prefer to live a problem-free life. However, life is not designed that way. We learn valuable lessons from situations and circumstances that occur. It is left up to us to learn the lesson well and swiftly move forward to the next one. Genuine, Godly characteristics are built on some of our experiences in life. My desire is that ...

A bond this powerful can never be broken...Dee Williams writes a heart-wrenching tale of a young mother's search for a long-lost daughter, in Wishes and Tears. Perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Dilly Court.When a naive encounter at a Coronation party leaves sixteen-year-old Janet Slater pregnant there's no question in her scandalised parents' mind of her keeping the baby. Bundled off to a home for unmarried mothers in South Lon...