The Assassin's Beauty

The Assassin's Beauty 

Love By A Change Encounter

 Finding your soulmate doesn’t always mean it’s the person you expected.

Riku Hiroshi spends his days in the shadow. A skilled and lethal ninja, he is at the top of his game. The one thing, he is missing is that special someone to share his life with, but how can he when danger lurks around every corner? His carefully manicured life is thrown into chaos the day his path crosses Natasha Smith, and he saves her life.

A young teacher visiting Japan, she is taken off guard when Riku sweeps in to protect her from a gang of street thugs. Feeling obligated, she invites him to dinner to show her appreciation. It should have ended there, but a sinister man wants Riku dead and will stop at nothing to achieve this. 

He deploys his best people to hunt Riku, and now Natasha, down. It is a deadly game of cat and mouse neither is sure they can survive. Somewhere along the way, they discover hidden truths and come to understand that the heart wants what it wants. 

Can love win through the cultural differences before danger finds them?

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Heart of Gold

 

Heart of Gold

Motorcycles, drama, and crazy antics ensue as Thomas navigates himself through life’s mysteries and its very unexpected complications. He deals not only with lingering PTSD from his past as a solider, but all the expectations of life, the drama of an ex a possible new romance and a mysterious criminal underworld. Everyone seems to be trying to take a piece of him, his world is falling apart, and darkness is taking over. Join Thomas on this fast-paced motorcycle ride as he tries to put the pieces back together. Will Thomas finally mend his broken heart... or will it shatter completely?

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I Didn't Come Here to Tap Dance

 

 I Didn't Come Here to Tap Dance

( A Poetic Memoir)

Book Review:

I Didn't Come Here to Tap Dance

5.0 out of 5 stars This Collection is a Universe of Storied Truth-Telling

“I Didn’t Come Here to Tap Dance” is a self-portrait painted in poetry. And like a photomosaic, the larger picture derives the brilliance of its clarity from a carefully crafted tapestry of smaller images. Each one, a voyage to a world all its own. To experience, to explore, to savor. This collection is a universe of storied truth-telling about identity, freedom, war, religion, politics, music, and faith, starting in the Jim Crow South and ending at the Corona Virus question mark. Individually, these poems are blueprints for critical thinking in a world of hypocrisy and illusion. Paradigm shifting history lessons that provoke and connect the unaware to the unafraid. But together, they comprise a face so warm, a voice so strong, a sensation in my stomach so familiar, I recognize the messenger as my friend. In the lake of life, some choose to hurl heavy rocks with all their might, reveling in the size of a short-lived splash. Others aim and complain before skipping their turn, blaming the fear to let go on a frozen shoulder or limp wrist. But Ngoma Hill was born with a slingshot for a sidearm, and he’s been skipping stones for seventy-five years. Why would someone spend their life making waves? Because only the ripples reach the other shore.

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"Lettuce" Love

This book is a collection of texts to a lover. They are collected as one big, religious, romantic, and poetic literary art work.

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Egungun of Benin:

A Photographic and Textual Documentation

Egungun are a traditional Yoruba society of costumed dancers inhabited by the spirits of ancestors. Each wears a unique, full-body, fantastically, ornately decorated costume. The egungun are veiled and gloved and expose not an inch of skin to the outside world.

This book features 130 Sakete egungun type portraits along with many other photographs taken by Michael Landau at the 2017 Sakete Egungun Festival each accompanied by texts by egungun society elders describing the 130 types' origins and behavior. Costume changes between 2011 and 2017 are documented. Limited photographs from Sakete of unidentified egungun,, officiants, and fetishes are also included.

After an Author's Foreward, the Introduction on throughout the 130 texts, all information strictly derives from the oral traditions held as expressed 2010-2017 by my Yoruba informants, mostly Sakete egungun society elders, limiting sources thus to not only document in photographs these beautiful costumes, but also how they are interpreted by their creators.

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Who Okayed This?!

 

Who Okayed This?!

The Riveting Life of Grant Davis 

Acclaimed author Philip E. Barrington is enjoying a newfound passion for writing. In his latest novel, he presents the story of a man in crisis.

In terms of a theme, the expression 'Keep your friends close and your enemies closer' comes to mind," he says. Barrington reveals a suspense driven plot centered on a man named Grant Davis. Grant wakes up one morning to discover his life has been turned on its head, and at the root of the upheaval are the people he trusted the most. Running for his life, Grant must piece together clues to figure out who is behind the effort to ruin him.

Barrington aims to highlight how quickly circumstances can change. He says, "It's a rollercoaster ride of how someone's life can be turned upside down in a split second.

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Whispering Walls

 

Whispering Walls

 A man plagued with memories of a violent past! A small town with a secret! A house with a history! David Livingstone an Iraqi combat veteran plagued with nightmares is trying to get away from the stresses of life. At the orders of his psychiatrist, David decides to go on a road trip. Hoping a quiet place will help him overcome his PTSD, he takes a walk in the countryside. Where down a winding path he happens upon an old Victorian style mansion. Immediately he falls in love with the old place, but the people in the nearby town say the house is haunted. David does not believe in such things; he believes only living enemies can harm you. However, not long after purchasing the house strange things start happening to him. He starts hearing voices and having visions of things he left buried in the sands of Iraq. Are these voices emerging from somewhere in the dark corridors that fill the house or the dark corridors that fill his mind? As David begins to dig through the memories in his mind and the history of the house. The line between dream and reality begins to blur. Are these just memories and nightmares brought on by PTSD or is there something more sinister at work?

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Dandelions in Third Space

Many immigrants experience the concept of third space, a culture and language unique to themselves within the intersection of past and present, of there and here. In Dandelions in Third Space, Edytta Wojnar describes her own experiences with this third space she created for herself after emigrating from Poland, which resulted in the loss of language and family. Within this collection of 70 poems, many explore acculturation, investigating what it means to be an immigrant, what it means to be a writer who has lost a language. Expanding the metaphorical concept of third space to marriage, Wojnar describes the continual translation and adoption that occurs between two people’s backgrounds and psychological traits. Wojnar doesn’t shy away from any topic, describing her experiences as an immigrant, a wife, and a mother with refreshing, sometimes brutal, honesty.

“My Mother’s Necklace”, Dandelions in Third Space 

“I left my home country & learned

a lie can be true—

life can be wasted

& there is a metaphor for every loss—

even language.”

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The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s

     

The Lost Promise:

American Universities in the 1960s

The Lost Promise is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked American universities in the 1960s, with a unique focus on the complex roles played by professors as well as students. 

The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia’s golden age, when universities—well funded and viewed as essential for national security, economic growth, and social mobility—embraced an egalitarian mission. Swelling in size, schools attracted new types of students and professors, including radicals who challenged their institutions’ calcified traditions. But that halcyon moment soon came to a painful and confusing end, with consequences that still afflict the halls of ivy. In The Lost Promise, Ellen Schrecker—our foremost historian of both the McCarthy era and the modern American university—delivers a far-reaching examination of how and why it happened.

Schrecker illuminates how US universities’ explosive growth intersected with the turmoil of the 1960s, fomenting an unprecedented crisis where dissent over racial inequality and the Vietnam War erupted into direct action. Torn by internal power struggles and demonized by conservative voices, higher education never fully recovered, resulting in decades of underfunding and today’s woefully inequitable system. As Schrecker’s magisterial history makes blazingly clear, the complex blend of troubles that disrupted the university in that pivotal period haunts the ivory tower to this day.

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SLAVE SONG

Slave Song is a breathtaking modern tale of survival and redemption. This new breed of modern thriller breaks all the rules and is sure to make you love this genre again! Slave Song has all the best of a traditional modern thriller, but is told in a fresh voice with characters who defy the genre's "too predictable" mold. Slave Song is a HIDDEN GEM!

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A North Lawndale Journey of Faith:

The Testimony of an Ex-Offender

A North Lawndale Journey of Faith: The Testimony of an Ex-Offender is story about a gifted man who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and was incarcerated for a crime he did not commit. Even more, it is the inspiring story of a man whose steadfast faith showed itself early and how it propelled him into a life of commitment and service to a community that many would have abandoned upon achieving the success that he did.

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I Wish I had a Dinosaur:

A jurassic adventure, ideal present for Christmas, birthday for kids 2 -7 years who'd love a T-Rex dino or dog as a pet

What would you wish for on your fourth birthday?

Think long and hard.

Would you wish your pet dog Max was a dinosaur?

That's exactly what 4 year old Jack does in this fantastic little story for boys or girls aged 2 to 7 years.

And through the wonders of children's literature, that's exactly what he gets.

Although Jack probably wasn't thinking long enough to realise that his dream might come true and he'd wake up to find a living and possibly dangerous Tyrannosaurus Rex asleep on his lawn.

And through their little adventures Jack comes to realise that he loves his pet dog, Max and that we should all appreciate what we have and be really careful what we wish for.

All with a funny and surprisingly charming ending.

inside includes a space to draw your own dinosaur and your own pet.

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Magick: From Chaos to Clarity

Magick is all around us all the time!

This book is about bringing your magickal knowledge out of chaos and into the clarity, to make sure you know how to use it to the full potential.

Before you start telling me that I spelled Magick wrong, don’t. When you spell Magick with a “k” on the end you speak about magick in the actual correct way. Magic without the “k” refers to acts of illusion, like pulling a rabbit out fo a house or making a car disappear. Magick with a “k” is about creating good in our world and universe.  

Inside the book you will learn how to create, direct, and share magick. You will learn how you can work with magick individually, in small groups, large groups and the possibility of using in a world setting.  

You will learn the connection between love and magick as well as how intelligent magick actually is in our universe. You will tap into the power of magick and how the billions of people on this planet are creating magick all the time and are unaware they are doing.  

After consuming the information in this book your outlook on the energy of magick will be drastically changed. Magick is the most unlimited resource in our world. There is no limit to the magick we as humans can create and with this knowledge you will learn the ease in which you can create it.  

Are you ready to take a journey into the world of Magick? In all history you will find tales of Magickal feats many of which are considered myths. After reading this book you might have a different opinion on those myths.  

As a bonus for getting this book you will also gain access to a free class on creating Happiness Notes. A class showing you how you can brighten the day of the other human beings on this planet one person at a time.

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Voodoo Child

 

Voodoo Child: The Spectrum Series

TITAN has ended global warming. But can a marginalized, autistic girl save us all from TITAN's unintended consequences? 

Victoriya lives within the Highly Functioning Autistic Spectrum. She is the daughter of principal scientists over the TITAN project, the massive orbital which finally ended global warming. It worked… but with consequences no one saw coming.

Earth is orbiting further from the sun. Time is running out before we fall into a hyper freeze that will render the planet uninhabitable. Viktoriya will do her best to save us all, but unknown and known dangers press close. What some consider a strange behavior may actually provide her with unique gifts that’ll help save humanity… If humanity can be saved.

She must overcome unique challenges, battle attacking aliens, and learn that sometimes the enemy closest to you is the most dangerous of all. And if she fails… well, she and the rest of the world won’t live long enough to cry about the loss.

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FREE Book to Put Adventure In Your Relationship

 

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The Top 100 Intimate Items for Lovers:

Presented by Sexy Challenges

Sex is amazing, Sex is Fun, Sexy is out of this world

However, it can always get better!

Sexy Challenges knows that there is not limit to the sexual energy you can experience. However, a good majority of people out there do not have any clue what products are out there to help improve their sexual experiences. That is why I put together a crack team of experts to help find the best products for your sexual satisfaction.  

Now-a-days there are millions of sexual products out there to choose from. Which means there is a lot to consider when making a selection to put more pleasure in your sex life. Not only are their choices but there are health issues to sexual items, and now many times come with warranties and options, that a person can get overwhelmed in a hurry. Sex should not be stressful nor should picking out items to assist you in your sexual escapades. 

That is why this book was created. Items to enhance your sexual experience are investments. You put out money for said items and hope they will deliver massive returns on your investments. However throwing money blindly in a sex toy store or online isn’t the best investment policy. You have to do the research. With that being said most people don’t have the time or the balls to really dive into researching sexual items. Good thing my team here at Sexy Challenges does.  

We want to take as much of the guess work out of the process as possible. This book was designed to share our top picks with you so that instead of having millions of items to choose from you will have 100 or a few more of the best of the best. High quality, best price, longest lasting items to keep your libido active and excited. Together we will help you build a arsenal of sexual items to keep things new and evolving in your bedroom, and outside of it also.

  

We are not just talking about sex toys such as vibrators. There is an entire world out there of amazing products that when used in the correct fashion will help turn you on and up to a new level of sexual excitement. The list is so long believe me it was a daunting task narrowing this book down to 100 items. Sure there will be sex toys in the list but there will also be games, beverages, items to cleaning up, storage, and a lot more areas that you might not have through about. That is why I brought in the experts.  

The goal here is to update this book twice a year to help keep it fresh and up to date on all the advancements in the sexuality felid. Part of our process is listening to our readers, so if you have a suggestion for a product to be in our next edition by all means sent the information to me. You will be able to find my contact information at the end of this book. Also if you have any question you can send them to me and if I don’t know the answer I will do my best to find it from our team or a different source. 

 

My suggestion for using this book is as follows. Go through the book all the way before you decide on anything to add to your play time. After you have finished mark down a few items you would like to try and have your partner do the same. If you are single and not dating you can skip that last step. Now compare lists and if any items are the same on both lists don’t hesitate pick those up right away. Next set a plan on what Item or items you want to try next and start a budget for your sexual pleasure items. Understand that everything in these pages might not be for you and the is okay we all are different and unique so embrace that fact. So if something doesn’t appeal to you don’t just pick it up cause it is in the book! Trust your feelings use the sexual force.  

Making your list out of the items in the pages and sharing it with your lover is a great way to help during gift giving times, such as the holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, as well as weddings and bridal showers, and bachelor parties.

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A Great Work

 

A Great Work

About the Book 

A Great Work is a story of faith, hope, and perseverance. It encourages all of us whose dreams and hopes seem to be gone to be of good cheer and keep believing that all things are working together for our good. As I look back at my life, I am reminded that there is no strength, perseverance, or hope without divine intervention, and therefore, it is important to know that faith will, at some point, be the only key that will unlock all the possibilities we need to finish a great work, see miracles, and renew our strength to keep moving forward. For those who are waiting on a miracle, this story will inspire you to rest in the depth of God’s promises to keep believing that your story does not have to end the same way it started, regardless of your current circumstances and the challenges you face. For the humble and weary, there is hope. For all the dreamers like me, God is able to do more than you can imagine, so believe in your vision, be at peace with yourself, and keep dreaming. Finally, for those who have lost everything, I want to remind you that the eleventh hour of the night is the darkest time of the day and yet it is the turning point for a new day. God knows, God sees, and God hears you, so cheer up, keep fighting the good work, and be confident that He who has begun a great work in you is faithful to finish it,

Synopsis (About the author)

Sidney Andre was born in Luanda, Angola. In 2014, he moved to the United States to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2018-2021. He is the founder of “A Great Work Foundation”, which helps students by providing scholarships to allow them to continue with their education.

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Pride

 

PRIDE

What do men have to be proud of? James has always known pride to be the biggest of sins, but going on a hunting safari might just be what he needed to experience real humility. A pride of lions is a force to be reckoned with. They are free, ferocious, feral. Forever committed to protecting one another. Perhaps humans should take notes.

When James ends up exposed and hunted in the wilderness, he decides he better start. In nature, there is no time to draw comparisons, worry about being masculine enough, or show off whatever power you may think you hold over others. When you hear a roar, you better start running. When you stumble, you better get back up. When the lion catches up to you, you better show you are not a threat.

That pride you thought was well-deserved? That superiority you sharpened like a knife? They’re not weapons you can use. They’re ropes that tie you down. As James forms a strong bond with the others in the lion camp, he realises society has always spun tales about men that no man can live up to.

Now that those rules don’t apply to him anymore, what is left of his identity? Can he roam free by putting behind that sin? And what does being a man truly even mean? James is only sure of one thing... When you enter a lion pride, you leave your own pride behind.

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