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“When a peregrine falcon dives, it can reach speeds of over 200 miles per hour,” Miles once told me. Two hundred miles per hour is about how fast my heart was beating when Miles finally told me the truth. He has schizophrenia. “Can you imagine the kind of courage that takes? To make a dive like that?” he had asked. Courage. Courage was exactly what I needed.

Lisa is 11 years old, loves guinea pigs, and is shy - and not just a little bit shy. She's so shy that her heart practically pounds out of her chest whenever her teacher calls on her in class. Lisa will do anything she can to avoid being noticed. When a pair of glasses with incredible abilities falls into her life, her whole world is turned upside down. For the first time in her life she's motivated to get out of her shell.

Sisters in Loss podcast spotlights faith filled black women who share their grief and loss stories and testimonies. Black women experience miscarriage and stillbirth four times more than white women according to the NIH and CDC. Whether you have experienced a miscarriage, infant loss, stillbirth, are trying to conceive or have an infertility diagnosis, you will learn about resources and strategies to heal, gain clarity, peace, hope, and find an empowering path forward after loss. Join Erica M. Freeman weekly as she interviews Sisters in Loss who have healed from such a painful and traumatic ...

Empire of Vines details the ways would-be gentlemen farmers, ambitious speculators, horticulturalists, and writers of all kinds deployed the animating myths of American wine culture, including the classical myth of Bacchus, the cult of terroir, and the fantasy of pastoral republicanism. Promoted by figures as varied as horticulturalist Andrew Jackson Downing, novelist Charles Chesnutt, railroad baron Leland Stanford, and Cincinnati land speculator Nicholas Longworth.

When a genie is summoned from the lamp to grant three wishes, she didn't realize her master would be so kind and beautiful. But a dark and mysterious figure lurks in the shadows. Will this dark figure get the lamp before the third wish is up? What will the princess wish for? And is there any way to save the genie from a life of solitude?

When a girl is murdered at a factory in London, Sergeant Thaddeus Knight of the Metropolitan Police comes in to investigate. But it's not just the factory owners that Thaddeus wants information on. The devilishly intriguing Poppy O'Reilly is a puzzle he'd like nothing more than to solve.

Erica Davies knows that clothes can make you feel your best, but what happens when life throws your style off course? In Style Chapters, Erica reveals how to dress the changing you - from creating wardrobe building blocks to dressing for a changing body, from how to find your identity after major life upheaval to practical buying and styling tips. Erica takes you through essential wardrobe suggestions, from what to wear on the school run and how to dress from boardroom to the bar, to different types of wedding guest outfits and the best companies for good jackets.

Linston End on the Norfolk Broads has been the holiday home to three families for many years. The memories of their time there are ingrained in their hearts: picnics on the river, gin and tonics in the pavilion at dusk, hours spent seeking out the local swallowtail butterflies. Everyone together. But widower Alastair has been faced with a few of life's surprises recently. Now, he is about to shock his circle of friends with the decisions he has made - and the changes it will mean for them all. For some, it feels like the end. For others, it might just be the beginning....

In this podcast, i’ll be sharing my personal experiences and current situations about growing up in the hood. Along with co-host and guest appearances, I’m trying to show our younger generation , that just because you come from poverty,low income, ghetto, etc, it does not make you a product of your environment. You can accomplish anything you set your mind on. I stand out in every environment that I'm in or have been and yet I have overcome many obstacles in and out of the hood. Here on this podcast I want to help anyone going through LIFE PERIOD, so kick back and enjoy.

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Three college friends from the 50s blaze their own path in love and work, braving the stifling conventions of the age, and anticipating the social thaw that would arrive ten years later. These “wild girls” pay heavy penalties for living against the grain, but, over the years, rebound and re-set their course, drawing strength from their friendship.

Four women. Three movies. One Ring. One Podcast.Listen in as four best friends break down each of the LOTR movies, one for the very first time. With each movie getting two different episodes, this podcast will break down what happens when three long time lovers of the movies and one never before viewer get together and make the quest to Mordor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From the Rez to the Mountaintop: Becoming Who We're Meant to Be is the hopeful journey of an Indigenous woman on her path to healing, self-love and self-mastery. Told in three parts: love, work, and grow, this narrative nonfiction story provides listeners the space to consider their own story and capacity to pursue self-mastery and become the person they were meant to be.

Every summer, Jessie and Emma leave their suburban home in the Central Valley of California and fly north to Baymont. Nestled among Mendocino's golden hills, with ponies to love and endless acres to explore, Baymont should be a child's paradise. But Baymont belongs to Laurel, the girls' birth mother, whose heedless parenting and tainted judgement cast a long shadow over the sisters' summers - and their lives. Caught in a web of allegiances, the girls learn again and again that every loyalty has its price, and that even forgiveness can take unexpected turns.

This book is written in the form of a poem that follows a young narrator as she experiences a wide array of feelings, fears and memories while processing the loss of her beloved uncle.

Packed with concrete tips, Money Like You Mean It covers all the bases: from debt to investing and retirement, plus renting versus buying, and even how to tell whether a side gig is really worth the effort. It’s the essential road map you need to make it in the current economy.

A Guide for Aging Heroes is a groundbreaking work that crushes stereotypes about growing older, overrides traditional societal expectations, and redefines the second half of life as a renaissance. While it engages readers in strategies for cultivating transformative life skills, A Guide for Aging Heroes reaches beyond the borders of the typical self-help book.

Welcome to The Cove With heavy iron gates, two security stations, and a groundskeeper's cottage, The Cove has everything a billionaire could ask for in a home. Dubbed Billionaire Bachelor Cove because of the resident's single status and income portfolios, The Cove is the perfect place to hide away from the world. But, as the residents soon find out, they can't hide from love. Her Counterfeit Wedding to the Billionaire When Koven Kent, self-made billionaire, discovers a bumped and bruised car in The Cove and learns that Jamon’s distant cousin from Texas has arrived to mooch off her ...

Two people who never meant to find love, stumble upon it. Will they grab hold or let it slip away? Waylon West needs redemption. Ready to rise above the addiction that plagued him for years, Seattle will be his salvation, a place of restitution and a chance to repair a damaged relationship with his brother. A rescue mission and a case of mistaken identity bring Waylon and Billionaire Tayla Wells together long enough to tear them apart. Waylon doesn’t want Tayla’s pity, but soon discovers he wants her heart. Both haunted by irrevocable consequences of the past, Tayla and Waylon’s ...

Painfully Beautiful a light worker's journey is a story about a misunderstood child. One who was very in touch with nature and their intuition. One that was born into a toxic environment and expected to find her way through life to safety. Painfully beautiful sheds light on how as a child we are curious and open to receiving information intuitively through nature and somehow heavily pressured and programmed away from our intuition in order to survive socially and physically in society.