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2024.
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"When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don't use their correct pronouns, and hordes of "well-meaning" but patronizing people offering unsolicited advice as they navigate rocky personal relationships and share their story online. But this experience also deepens their relationship to their ancestors, providing added support from...
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2023
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This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse as she grapples with how to reclaim her story, her anger, and her body in a world that seems determined to punish her for the sin of surviving.
"This is more than a story about sexual violence—this book is about race, sexuality, love, and how anger can be a catalyst for healing."
—Gabrielle Union, bestselling author, actress, and...
"This is more than a story about sexual violence—this book is about race, sexuality, love, and how anger can be a catalyst for healing."
—Gabrielle Union, bestselling author, actress, and...
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The monsoon rains come to our desert in the summer, when the temperature is highest. The winds shift to the SE, bringing moisture from both the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of California. The rains come as huge, black, thunder storms over the mountains, driven by vivid lightning and high winds. It also provides a magical drop in temperature. The magnificent odor of the desert after a rain is a rich, organic experience. After the storm I sit on my patio,...
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Life is an enigma, and the journey of living is dedicated to unravelling its intricate mysteries. Think of yourself as an unexplored diamond mine, hidden beneath layers of gravel, rocks, and sand. Your life's purpose is to dig deep, uncovering the invaluable gem that is your true self, and then meticulously shape it until it radiates with brilliance.
Proceed with caution, patience, and above all, courage. Only through persistent exploration can you...
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A collection by the author of twenty one, "easy to read" pieces of poetry for all ages, although aimed primarily at the younger reader.While the majority of the work is written in a simple and traditional style, ie. there is rhyme and rhythm in each stanza, while a few only embody other recognised formats but are, none-the-less, still very easy to read. It is the author's intention that his work is found to be entertaining, so please read on and enjoy....
6) Moonshadows
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In Moonshadows, the poems beckon to the elusive whispers of inner dreams, akin to tender 'moonbeams' lighting the dark corners of the soul. Each piece oscillates between delicate tenderness and a raw, abrasive spirit, offering a spiritual balm one moment, and presenting a playful or challenging muse the next. As you traverse through the pages, you'll encounter a tapestry of characters – elusive, amusing, spiritual, or grim – each adding a unique...
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Synopsis This is a very much beautiful book about various poems. Here words can fly with wings and takes you far away in my imagination. Words are not just the words but imagination and feelings. Words has powers to tell various stories of life. So, this book is also like that game of words. Here you can read poems of various themes like as from love to sadness. As well as many others. I have wrote about life and it's truth in some poems as well...
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Siguiendo su propósito de vida, transformar el miedo en amor, Yolanda Rescalvo (Éibar, 1970) nos invita a enfocarnos en nuestros sentimientos para entenderlos y crecer emocionalmente.
Con frases potenciadoras, poesías, expresivas ilustraciones y reflexiones personales, Tatuajes del alma nos lleva por el camino del reconocimiento y la validación personal, y también hacia la revisión de nuestras perspectivas.
Con esta lectura, comprenderás la...
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Like the ever-changing sky, our emotions are a vivid spectrum. From joy to sorrow, from youth to age, from dawn to dusk and the moments in between – our feelings paint a canvas as varied as the sky itself. We feel the warmth of love, the chill of indifference, the solitude of loneliness, and the comfort of companionship. From fiery reds to calming blues, vibrant orchids to muted lavenders, we embody every hue and shade. We are the brilliant sunrise,...
11) Lady Moon
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Living abroad, travelling the world, dreaming, exploring, discovering,
Learning and seizing life,
Too independent, too much of a dreamer,
A hopeless wanderer.
Closing my eyes, I feel anything is possible,
I feel powerful I can do anything,
I can be anyone.
But I am just a wandering soul,
A dim moon in a bright world.
12) Magic Seed
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Synopsis This book is a full of poems. The words and feelings are not only the feelings. But the sounds of the heart, mind and soul. There is no friends and family for forever with us to share our happiness and sadness with them. So this expression of the ideas through poetry gives a lots of happiness in our life. Life is not perfect and not stable. It changes and becomes different according to the time. Poems are your friends and your feelings when...
13) Cat Lady
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To any tourist in Rome, Old Maria may seem to be an eccentric soul who feeds stray cats and thinks she can talk with them. Things are rarely as they seem. In fact, she can. A dying cardinal has given Maria a final, urgent wish. His time is running short. On the surface, it seems impossible to grant. Things are rarely as they seem. Especially with Maria and her cats at work. And for those who truly love, the impossible is only an illusion. What you...
14) Romance Dawn
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Over 200 poems within this book. In my new apartmentI'd bring youI can't wait until NovemberWatch me, bring you...The moonlight on your backWhere did heaven drop you off at?I'm so in love, you didn't evenTake your clothes off, yetBring tonight, into tomorrow.Please stay with meI won't let you cry over meMy mentality, tells on meI'm easy going...In my new apartmentI'd bring youI can't wait until NovemberWatch me, bring you...The moonlight on your backWhere...
18) Reflexiones
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La mente humana vive atrapada en un mundo de preguntas milenarias. La vida y la muerte, el amor y el desamor. Las creencias, la familia y la esperanza, son temas que hacen de la obra un reflejo de nuestro andar cotidiano en busca de respuestas.
20) Dark Absence
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Luis Enrique García Amezcua was born in Pihuamo, Jalisco, Mexico. He studied literary workshops at the University of Colima. Since childhood, he has been writing verses and has published poetry in Mexico and the United States. Two remarkable poetic works from his vast literary production are Perdido en el Silencio and EVOCACIÓN. Luis Enrique is known for his tenacity, innovation, and enthusiasm. There is always room for learning, remarks the author...
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