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1) So done
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"When best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and looming auditions for a potentially life-changing new talented-and-gifted program"--
2) Dough boys
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Deontae "Simp" Wright has big plans for his future. Plans that involve basketball, his best friend, Rollie, and making enough money to get his mom and four younger brothers out of the Cove, their low-income housing project. Long term, this means the NBA. Short term, it means being a dough boy, getting paid to play lookout and eventually moving up the rungs of the neighborhood drug operation with Rollie as his partner. Roland "Rollie" Matthews used...
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In this accessible "keep-it-real" guide, Marley explores activism, social justice, volunteerism, equity and inclusion, and using social media for good. Drawing from her experience, Marley shows kids how they can galvanize their strengths to make positive changes in their communities, while getting support from parents, teachers, and friends to turn dreams into reality.
Marley Dias, the powerhouse girl-wonder who started the #1000blackgirlbooks campaign,...
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"A Practical Guide with Activities to Help You Break Out of Depression and Anxiety Are you feeling stressed out, anxious, and alone? Do you stay up at night wondering if it will all work out? And how will you handle it when it doesn't? Do you double down on your efforts to be smart enough, cool enough, able enough, only to make everything worse? Is anxiety sucking the life out of you? If you are familiar with these feelings-and want a way out-this...
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This book is intended to introduce life situations which many of us experience. Some are very serious and others are more lighthearted. But all of them are intended to induce the reader to think about what they might do in these circumstances and how to apply the Christian guiding principles to them. This book is intended to help the reader to read, think and grow into a more mature Christian.
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In 2021, author Kevin B. Jones was diagnosed with cancer. His friend Billy told him, "Let the medical team take care of the cancer; you take care of Kevin." Kevin runs ultra-marathons. Could he run through cancer? This is the tale of Kevin doing what Kevin does–living each day, running each day, as cancer and the treatment wrought their changes. This celebrates those who shared their lives and love with him in the most brutal race he ever attempted....
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This book provides you with 101 excellent tips for increasing your productivity at work, home, and in general. You need this book. It will show you, step by step, how to get things done and increase your productivity. With increased productivity you can accomplish tasks sooner and more efficiently. Why wouldn't you want that? The goal is to increase your productivity so that you will be able to Work Less and Live More!! Read this book and apply the...
8) You Can't Get It Done by Doing What You Shouldn't Do: How to Stop Working So Hard at Getting What
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When was, the last time you purchased something on your credit card, knowing you didn't have the money to cover it? Or, ate the entire pint of ice cream in one setting? And, exactly how much damage did you inflict on your spouse, or worse your kids, the last time you let those mean words fly out of your mouth?
Changing your circumstances and improving relationships means changing yourself and that takes work, if you aren't willing to look at yourself...
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Over half of our children read at a basic level and few become highly proficient. Many American children and adults are not functionally literate, with serious consequences. Poor readers are more likely to drop out of the educational system and as adults are unable to fully participate in the workforce, adequately manage their own health care, or advance their children's education. In this book, cognitive scientist Mark Seidenberg reveals the underexplored...
10) The voting booth
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The first year they are eligible to vote, Marva and Duke meet at their polling place and, over the course of one crazy day, fall in love.--
Marva Sheridan has always been driven to make a difference in the world, and what better way than to vote in her first election? Duke Crenshaw is so done with this election; he just wants to get voting over with so he can prepare for his band's first paying gig tonight. Only problem? Duke can't vote. When Marva...
11) Turning point
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Middle schoolers and best friends Rasheeda Tate and Monique Jenkins are good girls. For Sheeda, that means keeping her friends close and following Auntie D's every rule--especially when it comes to church and boys. But when her secret relationship with Mo's older brother Lennie goes from texting to something more, the line between good and bad decisions gets blurry. For Mo, that means learning to go with the flow at the prestigious and mostly White...
12) Keeping it real
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Fourteen-year-old Marigold's family owns Flexx Unlimited, a hip-hop lifestyle company, and she attends the elite school Flowered Arms Academy, but she has never felt entirely comfortable in the mostly White school, and she prefers to hang out with Justice, relatively new to the school, but a star basketball player; so enrolling in Style High with him, a trainee program funded by Mari's family, seems like a good way to spend the summer--until she meets...
14) Camera Shy
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Never assume……that your uber competent personal assistant will get it when you announce your (fake) engagement to him during a live on-air interview with your archnemesis. Never waver……from your plan to punish your arrogant celebrity boss for his presumption by turning your (fake) wedding into a reality competition for event planners. Never admit……that the feelings blossoming between the two of you through seven (fake) engagement celebrations,...
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They have everything their parents' mega-celebrity can give-but when the Pampered Princesses of Hollywood High take aim at each other, the last girl standing will have everything to lose.
London Phillips needs a time-out from her mother's rules, and from her crazy clandestine romance with hottie Justice Banks. To keep her cool, and keep her secrets, she turns to her parent-approved billionaire fake boyfriend. But unexpected romantic sparks ignite...
16) Highballer
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What happens when the man is as tempting as the money? Remy Delacour's family doesn't believe in mainstream medicine, and when Remy's boyfriend reveals that Remy is majoring in nursing, they cut him off. He has to find money to finish his education-fast. And he is so done with boyfriends. Levi Aronson met the guy of his dreams and followed him to Australia. He knew the chances for a lasting romance were slim-and boy, was he right. Now he's back in...
17) Wolf's Clothing
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Winner of the 2017 Rainbow Award for Best Bisexual Paranormal Romance Running from the past. Trent Pielmeyer is so done with legend tripping. Hauntings? Nope. Cryptid sightings? Hard pass. Dimensional portals? Not just no but oh, hell no. Because after seven years' captivity in a whacked-out alternate reality, he's been there and done that and done that and done that. No more supernatural shenanigans for him. Ever. Full stop. Wrestling with the past....
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The women in the Bible asked the same three questions we all still ask today: How does everyone else see me? How do I see myself? How does God see me?
Naomi's story, found in the book of Ruth, is a story of lost identity. She lost her husband and her sons, which in her culture left her completely without a home or a means to support herself. She was a Hebrew woman in Moabite territory, alone among strangers. She reacted by letting her circumstances...
19) Date with a Diva
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She's so done with relationships... until her libido wakes up when hockey player Nico Cesare arrives in her life!Lainie Reynolds, legal mastermind behind South Beach's Club Paradise, is known for her impeccable control. Reigning over a sexy singles resort, she's sworn off relationships after her ex betrayed her on every level. So what if they call her the ice diva? She's in control of her life now. Until her slumbering desires awaken and it's all...
20) Last Resort Love
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He's all work, and she's been burned…yet sparks fly with his hometown return.
These opposites may attract but will they risk it all for love?
She's eager for a fresh start…
Krissa Courtland is so done with bad luck. Bye-bye cheating exes and downsizing jobs. Hello fresh start in the Colorado mountains. With fingers crossed, she rolls into Wescott Springs only to get hit with a fresh disaster. Her rental cabin is flattened by a wild storm, and...
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