Author: Deziana Torres
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578972336
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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This paperback poetry book creatively highlights the traumas that have shaped Deziana Torres today. Through the use of poetry, pictures, & personal journal entries, she captures the attention of unspoken adversities faced in home, institutions, and in our hoods.In this book, Deziana also challenges her readers to utilize the writing activities to reflect on the thoughts, feelings, and emotions that arise from her poems. Followed by this activity, are breathing exercises to assist readers with emotion regulation skills.This book is authentic in style, real in experience, and vulnerable in truth.
Author: Michelle Obama
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 1524763144
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Now in paperback—the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States, featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare. In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.
Author: Una
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 1551526549
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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This extraordinary graphic novel is a powerful denunciation of sexual violence against women. As seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl named Una, it takes place in northern England in 1977, as the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer of prostitutes, is on the loose and creating panic among the townspeople. As the police struggle in their clumsy attempts to find the killer, and the headlines in the local paper become more urgent, a once self-confident Una teaches herself to "lower her gaze" in order to deflect attention from boys. After she is "slut-shamed" at school for having birth control pills, Una herself is the subject of violent acts for which she comes to blame herself. But as the police finally catch up and identify the killer, Una grapples with the patterns of behavior that led her to believe she was to blame. Becoming Unbecoming combines various styles, press clippings, photo-based illustrations, and splashes of color to convey Una's sense of confusion and rage, as well as sobering statistics on sexual violence against women. The book is a no-holds-barred indictment of sexual violence against women and the shame and blame of its victims that also celebrates the empowerment of those able to gain control over their selves and their bodies. Una (a pseudonym) is an artist, academic, and comics creator. Becoming Unbecoming, which took seven years to create, is her first book. She lives in the United Kingdom.
Author: Tash Jasmine
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780578899596
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Becoming Her is a seven-day affirmation book for girls around the world. In this book, readers are introduced to Monica Lashell and her mother. Monica Lashell, a relatively fearless girl with everyday struggles - like most girls her age - has those struggles supported by her mother. As the story is told, readers have the opportunity to recite daily affirmations along with Monica Lashell and apply them to their lives. Becoming Her is a guide that will help build healthy self-esteem, boost confidence, and create healthy verbiage for growing girls.
Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816527977
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Celebrates a young girl's transitions through birth, childhood, and young adulthood, with advice on remaining connected to loved ones and nature.
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250272718
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 461
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A new epic of love and war among gods and humans, from Nora Roberts—the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Awakening. The world of magick and the world of man have long been estranged from one another. But some can walk between the two—including Breen Siobhan Kelly. She has just returned to Talamh, with her friend, Marco, who’s dazzled and disoriented by this realm—a place filled with dragons and faeries and mermaids (but no WiFi, to his chagrin). In Talamh, Breen is not the ordinary young schoolteacher he knew her as. Here she is learning to embrace the powers of her true identity. Marco is welcomed kindly by her people—and by Keegan, leader of the Fey. Keegan has trained Breen as a warrior, and his yearning for her has grown along with his admiration of her strength and skills. But one member of Breen’s bloodline is not there to embrace her. Her grandfather, the outcast god Odran, plots to destroy Talamh—and now all must unite to defeat his dark forces. There will be losses and sorrows, betrayal and bloodshed. But through it, Breen Siobhan Kelly will take the next step on the journey to becoming all that she was born to be.
Author: Angenette Wright
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1664225188
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Angenette Wright’s life journey hasn’t been easy, but her experiences have prepared her for ministry. She knows what it’s like to feel the punches of rejection, abandonment, and grief. At first, she didn’t understand why God allowed his people to endure such atrocities. Now, she knows; God has a far greater plan than we can imagine. Without a test, there is no testimony. God will bring you through the fire and the rain. In Becoming Her, Wright offers an inspirational journal to encourage you to write your prayers and goals as a strategy to look back and see where God has brought you from. This serves as an opportunity to reflect on how God answers prayer and guides you through your circumstances. Becoming Her provides encouragement to look past imperfections that discourage you from reaching your goals. Wright reminds you that God has given you everything you need to accomplish what you desire. Take your faith walk; you have the faith that can conquer anything.
Author: K Webster
Publisher: K Webster
ISBN: 1514623609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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This box set contains all three books in the Becoming Her series: Becoming Lady Thomas, Becoming Countess Dumont, and Becoming Mrs. Benedict. Three beautiful sisters. Three sinfully handsome men. Three sensual tales of... Love, Lust, & Betrayal. Will these women get their happily ever afters? Or are fairy tales for the faint of heart?
Author: Renaada Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781524855673
Category : Emotions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"A ... debut collection of poetry centering around themes of feminism, sexuality, race, and mental health. Renaada Williams's 100+ poems are short, personal, emotional tributes to the things that make us different and a celebration of all the things that make us the same. A journey through life, love, and loss, [it] reminds the reader that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel"--
Author: Sheleana Aiyana
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1797211692
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Spiritual writer and founder of Rising Woman, Sheleana Aiyana takes you on a transformational inner-work journey to heal life-long relationship pattens and reclaim power over your life. Romantic relationships have the ability to infuse our lives with the magic of intimacy and connection. But for many of us, that magic is fleeting–over and over, our relationships don't last, or if they do, they fail to make us happy. We find ourselves chasing unavailable love, sublimating our needs in service to others, or trying to save our partners from themselves, all the while abandoning the one who needs us most–ourselves. If you find yourself struggling to let go after a relationship ends, or you keep hitting the same wall in dating and relationships with emotionally unavailable people, this is not a sign that you are broken. It is a sign that somewhere along the way, you learned to sacrifice yourself in order to be loved. In Becoming the One, spiritual leader and visionary founder of the Rising Woman community Sheleana Aiyana offers a roadmap for transforming your relationship patterns to end the cycle of self-abandonment and move into the light of self-discovery. You'll learn to: • build a secure, loving relationship with yourself. • connect with your inner child. • challenge your core beliefs about love. • set self-affirming boundaries. • discover and celebrate your true desires. • recognize red and green flags. Sheleana's revolutionary lessons, based on wisdom from the traumas of her past and years of guiding thousands of women around the world in her internationally acclaimed "Becoming the One" program of spiritual and therapeutic healing practices, teach you to embody the qualities you are seeking in others so that you can become "the one" for yourself. You'll learn how to trust your body, make peace with your past, and clear the path for healthy, conscious love–one that returns the authority to you to choose how to live and whom to love. The desire for love is wired into the very fibers of our being, but before you can create rewarding bonds with others, first you must stand wholeheartedly in self-acceptance. Becoming the One is an invitation to find your way home to yourself.
