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SNAP JUDGMENT: Overcoming Racial Bias to Buy My First Home

by Roger L. Edwards, Jr.

Roger, an African-American, shares a memorable moment during his “homeownership” journey when he encountered racial bias. Not only does he reveal six important lessons he learned about racial bias along the way, he also shares how his faith—and the “still, small voice” — helped him overcome unconscious bias when buying his first home. This journey interweaves such a wide range of topics like "The Talk" (and its importance in the Black community), housing discrimination, child sponsorship, and th... more

Maktub- Based on a True Story

by Marwa Schoch

Maktub is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. This book focuses on a young girl's quest to uncover the lessons hidden in her challenging circumstances. She navigates through emotional and physical abuse and trauma to determine her purpose in life, facing several trials and tribulations along the way. This is not just a story of survival, it's a story that focuses on growth, understanding, and courage. It's the story of a woman who refused to be the person she was told to be and wh... more

Move Over, Viola

by Christopher Dainton

“Bell is committed to engaging Canadians in a conversation about racism and social injustice. It’s uncomfortable conversations that lead to action.” -\tRandy Lennox, President, Bell Media Trendy words today, but when a Black woman took maternity leave from the corporation that she spent eleven years working for, they refused to take her back. Discrimination, or employer discretion? Move over, Viola is a sardonic look back at her nine-year fight for justice against Bell Canada, culminating ... more

My Song, Unleashed

by Marnie Dachis Marmet

As a child, Marnie’s unique voice earned her the nickname “The Rasp” from her dad. When other adults told her she’d never be a singer or that she talked too much, not only did Marnie start silencing herself, but she also began questioning her internal voice. She knew when she shared her truth—the way she’d done during a schoolwide presentation as a teen—it was life- changing. But more often, like many young women trying to make their way in the world, she muted and molded herself to accommodate ... more

You Ruined My Life and You Stole My Bra: a Mother/Daughter Love Story

by Anita Finlay

YOU RUINED MY LIFE AND YOU STOLE MY BRA is the moving and hilarious story of a woman who found a most unlikely way to heal her relationship with her mercurial mother. A riveting, insightful touchstone not only for dealing with—and honoring—an elderly parent, but for digging deep to find forgiveness, empowerment and closure.

It Was a Privilege to Care for Her

by Keith Khlafehn

Some persons who get breast cancer do not survive. Muriel Klafehn is one of those people. This book chronicles her life from the time of diagnosis of cancer in her right breast until her death. Every day was lived to be as normal as it could be. And so it began, removing a breast on Friday, eating dinner out and attending a concert on Saturday, and directing the Chorale in church on Sunday. In this forthright manner, she became an inspiration to me and to all those who were touched by her life. ... more

Offshore Riches, A Guide to Recession-proofing Your Business

by Raymond Hopkins

Genre: Non-fiction Word Count: approximately 27.500 Published on Amazon at: https://mybook.to/FUxYA Synopsis: Encourages business owners and aspiring global entrepreneurs to expand their business offshore

Unemployable

by Alysia Silberg

It all started with a pair of pretty pink roller skates. I was just a little girl, living in Johannesburg, South Africa, my heart set on them. But I knew my parents couldn’t afford them. So I formulated a plan. I started my first “small business,” selling old suits on the street until I’d made enough dough for the purchase. The start of my life as an entrepreneur. A life that would rescue me from years of childhood trauma—from abuse, and turmoil, and even a gunshot wound—and eventually bring ... more

The Man Behind the Curtain

by Jessica Renee with Valerie Dimino

Jessica Renee survived years of sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather only to then face years of another kind of abuse in the wake of reporting it, when her mother, brother, and church community chose to believe her rapist and attempted to shame her into continued silence. She has now chosen to use her voice to speak these difficult truths and provide a guiding light to other survivors who are still searching for hope.

What's Wrong with Grandma?: ¿Qué Le Pasa a Abuelita?

by Niurka Ozuna

Have you ever met someone who sees things that aren’t there; thinks you can feel their pain; hears voices when it’s silent; says things that didn’t really happen or thinks people are following them, when they are not? This children's story reveals grandma's strange behavior associated with schizophrenia that slowly regresses during a visit. Day by day the siblings witness grandma's progression from baseline to decompensation leading up to grandma going to the hospital. They are then given a ... more

A Black Man's Existence as a White Jew

by Eric B. Willis

In this memoir, A Black Man's Existence as a White Jew, award-winning author, genealogist, and historian Eric B. Willis uncovers a mysterious part of his family's history relating to the ongoing racial discriminatory practices against Black Americans and the perceived advantages and challenges of racial passing. In 2003, Willis began a genealogical exploration which would forever impact the lives and lineages of two American families--his black family and his maternal cousin's white family. A... more

My Other Left: a wicked pissah memoir on finding your way

by charlene alofs

Charlene is a joy to have in class, but she lacks confidence and needs constant reassurance.” ~Mrs. McCarthy, Charlene’s 3rd-grade teacher comment section of her report card

“Kids are so resilient. She will be just fine.”

I am

a doubter ✔️

a loser ✔️

not worthy ✔️

Words to live by growing up fatherless with a struggling single parent. Words to live by while maintaining my “resiliency.”

He walked out when I was ... more

Cosmo and Me

by Jim Willis

Theologian, educator, musician, and retired minister Jim Willis takes readers on a personal journey from the 1950s to the present day, relating stories of his life in concert with his observations of a changing America. His personal religious and spiritual growth offers many parallels with the changes experienced in American society as he seeks spiritual balance and peace of mind while entertaining readers with stories of his professional and personal life along the way.

Wood Like Iron, An American Home

by Michael Boyajian

Join the author and his late wife Jeri, both history buffs, as they discover their dream house a salt box like those that they fell in love with in Quincy Mass., the adjacent saltbox homes of father and son John Adams and John Quincy Adams and their wives Abagail or Portia if you will whose words to her husband at the Continental Congress on the cusp of the Declaration of Independence, Remember the Ladies, still rings true almost 250 years later and of course Louisa JQA’s iron. The hist... more

The Lucky Seven

by Norman W. Holden

During the early afternoon hours of April 24, 1944, Second Lieutenant James J. Goebel, Jr. finds himself floating alone toward the war-torn Belgian landscape below. What was his safe passage home, his B-24 Liberator, is now engulfed in flames and hurls to the ground only to report back with a distant thud upon the earth. Just moments earlier, the B-24 and its crew of ten were en route back to England after their inaugural bombing mission and the successful pounding of the Nazi war machine. At... more

Journals, Volume 2: 2002-2022

by Matt Cardin

In this second volume of his journals, Matt Cardin continues his ruminations on the subjects he has made his own—the theory and practice of weird fiction, the complexities of religious belief, and the relation between these two seemingly disparate realms. We find fascinating synopses of stories written and unwritten; reflections on films ranging from Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious to Chariots of Fire; accounts of bizarre dreams that have plagued the author; analyses of such writers ... more

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