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While there are a few short articles and guides addressing the challenges and complexities of leading white affinity groups, there has never been a detailed handbook exclusively for white racial affinity group facilitators. This book is the first in-depth guide for educators, mediators, workplace consultants and trainers, workplace diversity groups, community organizers, conference organizers, members of faith communities, and members of racial and social justice groups.

Savannah James is no stranger to heartache and loss. It wasn’t enough to lose two sets of parents: now she’s losing the only person she has left, Cash Coleman. Escorting him back to Magnolia Sound so he can say goodbye to his family is a no-brainer if it means she gets to spend whatever time he has left with him. Once he’s gone, it’s back to her lonely life in Seattle. At least, that’s what she thought would happen, until she met Cash’s family—and his youngest son.

For the four years Kaitlyn has been at Archibald Reynolds College, she has been watched over and cared for without question by each and every member of Delta Omega Gamma. Most don't even know why and they never ask. Now, she's about to graduate and leave the safe haven they've created for her. She can't go back home. She's not sure she can survive on her own in the human world. But it's time she stands on her own two feet. Scared and alone, Kaitlyn must face her life head on if she is ever going to rise above the demons of her past.

In 16 short stories and a novella, Anne Leigh Parrish explores the magic of life, love, and the soft boundary between fact and fantasy. The wife of an artist disappears under mysterious circumstances, a woman has the gift of taking away sorrow, another finds inner strength through writing poetry, and a great-grandmother spends the day sitting on a folding chair in a grocery store parking lot, contemplating the nature of the human heart. What Nell Dreams is Parrish's eighth book of fiction.

In a world where emotions are sold rather than felt, two artificial humans bred to produce this precious commodity must escape their bonds and discover what it means to truly feel or be overwhelmed by the flood of new sensations this world brings, with only the glassy manufactured memories of a lighthouse to guide them.

Collecting pieces written for the New Yorker and the Paris Review between 1978 and 1982, including the seminal ‘Girl’, these stunning works announced a fully-formed, generational talent and firmly established the themes that Kincaid would continue to return to in her later work: the loss of childhood, the fractious nature of mother–daughter relationships, the intangible beauty of the natural world and the striving for independence in a colonial landscape.

Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. At first glance Lewis and Mariah are a blessed couple—handsome, rich and seemingly happy. Almost at once, however, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With a mixture of anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the privileged, facile world of her employers while comparing it to the vivid realities of her home in the Caribbean.

An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the very centre of the little girl’s existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother’s shadow. When she turns twelve, however, Annie’s life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her.

Paulette and Fred Baldwin find themselves wading through a new season of life in Hickory Grove, North Carolina. Their only son, McKinley, now works hundreds of miles away, and the distance between the husband and wife feels even farther. When their son returns home, his visit dredges up even more conflict between Fred and Paulette.

In Thyras Blut fließen besondere und magische Kräfte. Sie ist die Wächterin der Hexen. Ihr Zuhause ist eine Welt neben unserer, bevölkert von magischen Wesen. Tristan verlor seine Mutter durch die Hand einer Hexe. Geblendet von dem Gedanken an Rache, fristet er sein Dasein als Hexenjäger, auf der Suche nach der Mörderin. Ihr gemeinsames Ziel: Die magische Welt Morac, um einen Krieg zu beenden und Tristans Mutter zu rächen. Doch eine uralte Prophezeiung sagt ihr Scheitern voraus.

Farry and Kammy are two little sisters who love cooking and baking delicious treats with their mom. One Christmas Eve they decide to surprise their parents and bake a magical rainbow cake for them. Once they have all the ingredients they need, Farry and Kammy set to work. But when they put a little too much magic into their cake something amazing happens.

Five years have passed since Darcy Eberhardt left Raub for dead on Ulream. Darcy and her ragtag multispecies crew have used those years well, searching for her lost love, Adam, throughout the disreputable fringes of galactic society—though the odds are stacked against them. Along the way, they liberate the vulnerable and accumulate allies, some of them dubious.

GSI (Gettnor Space Industries) is beginning to investigate our solar system and mine the asteroids. Aircraft and automobile companies are beginning to switch over to thrusters from their more traditional products. New uses for thrusters are popping up in the healthcare and sports industries. However, at Epsilon Eridani, a race of aliens has so overpopulated their own solar system that they must move many tens of billions of their people to another system before overcrowding destroys them.

Many people have a set of runes lurking around on a bookshelf, but not many people truly know how to use them…or the rich history behind them. Perhaps you’re unsure of how to prepare your runes for a reading, or perhaps you need a little help with interpretation.

To find out who was claiming ownership of the only place he’d ever called home, Harry Maxwell knew he’d have to do some investigating. So the wounded lieutenant changed his name a little. Altered a few facts. All for a good cause—get in, get the truth, get out. But then he met the Bramblebery House heir presumptive, Anna Galvez. An easy connection had Harry questioning his priorities, but he knew he still wanted the house more than ever—though he might be willing to share…

When Millie Spencer first meets Dr. Jake Travers, he's a mess. The handsome single dad desperately needs help with his newfound daughter. Perfect timing: Millie is trying to find her place in the world…and Crimson might be it! An ideal match! Until Millie realizes that little Brooke's daddy makes her feel more than just butterflies…

Das können nur Männer verstehen. Sind Sie einer der "Lonesome Cowboys", von denen andere nur erahnen können, was in ihnen vorgeht? Spricht Ihr Mann selten über sich? Mannsein stellt heute besondere Anforderungen, vieles ist im Umbruch. Gesellschaftlicher Druck wächst ebenso wie der innere Anspruch vieler Männer an sich selbst. Viele Männer fühlen sich allein gelassen, sind unzufrieden und wollen in ihrem Leben etwas verändern, wissen aber nicht wie und vertrauen sich niemandem an.

Dramatisches Artensterben, Corona, brennende Regenwälder, verseuchte Gewässer, Niedergang der kleinbäuerlichen Landwirtschaft - wir befinden uns inmitten einer Zeitenwende. Was können wir tun? Mit einem Steak essen wir den brandgerodeten Regenwald, genmanipuliertes Kraftfutter, Stress und Leid der Tiere. Das Billig-Schnitzel erzeugt einen gewaltigen Schuldenberg, von dem wir nichts erfahren. Konzerne reden uns ein, durch teure Lebensmittel die Welt gerecht kaufen zu können. Doch billig ist nicht automatisch schlecht und teuer nicht immer gut.

Fake-News, Hassreden, Verbalattacken: So knacken Sie die Mechanismen aggressiver Kommunikation! Hasskommentare in Onlineforen, polemische Reden von Politikern, verbale Übergriffe auf der Straße und Demütigungen in den Medien. Der Umgangston in unserer Gesellschaft verschärft sich rasant. Härte in der Redeweise und manipulative Sprachmuster haben längst Einzug in unseren zwischenmenschlichen und virtuellen Alltag gehalten. Thomas W. Albrecht deckt in diesem Sachbuch die Mechanismen aggressiver Rhetorik auf.

Marie Crenshaw hates nothing more than to disappoint people, especially those she cares about. When she lands herself in a bind having made a promise on behalf of a friend, she finds herself stuck to fulfill the duty herself.