After spending her middle school years playing second mom to her siblings, Azerica Christian has decided to live life for herself. She's in high school. She's a cheerleader. She's becoming popular and living life with no regrets... even if that means breaking all the rules.
The book starts out by talking about a childhood upbringing that led to dysfunctional family events, poor choices, and abusive treatment throughout a young girls life. These negative situations helped influence a young mind and her perspective on the world. After dealing with a tremendous amount of tribulations, she was broken. Knowing that she only had herself to rely on, she found her courage and vowed to be strong in order to find her path and become successful.
Chastity Hernandez makes her poetry debut with a personal and intimate collection of poems spanning years throughout her youth. Spring of Aging explores a myriad of raw emotions and thoughts experienced by the author in a relatable and curious way. Spring of Aging brings you along on a heartfelt journey of self-acceptance, heartbreak, grief, mental illness, and new love. Spring of Aging began at the author’s age of 14 and has been completed at the age of 22. The collection embraces and comes to terms with different situations in life and hopes to comfort and resonate with readers who are experiencing similar emotions and hardships. We hope at least one of these poems reaches you in a meaningful way and leaves you feeling understood, represented, and at ease. Each poem was put together in a vulnerable and brutally honest state that the author hopes readers can come back to again and again.
Jakia thinks her young-girl love and innocence can turn setup thug Spade Johnson into the man of her dreams. But the fairy tale she lives in is soon knocked straight by the power of his fist. Spade abuses, disrespects, and manipulates Jakia into believing she s not worth anything. Spade and his cousin, Rocko, use Jakia in a dangerous mission, leaving one man dead, and the Detroit police are searching for clues. How will her love change now that she has a tainted and ice-cold heart?
Have you ever been misunderstood? People judge you before they even know. Judging you based off your outer appearance, and never wanting to take a chance to get to know you, the inner you. Has different traumas from your past, defined you or shaped you and caused you to look at situations differently; or caused you to carry yourself a certain way? Have you ever felt like an oddball or an outcast? Or like you just don't fit in? Well if that's how you've ever felt, this book is for you. In life you may have been or may even still be misunderstood, that is not your fault, or anything you've done. Not everyone may be able to know you or even understand your story. Don't allow what you've done or what has been done to you, to define you or your future. You are not your past and you do not have to be what people call you, but who God has designed you to be. Don't allow people to label you or you to even label yourself. This book will help you to be able to recognize how we can label ourselves and allow our past and our own choices, to define us, and how once you forgive yourself and heal from your past, that's when new life and wholeness can begin. Remember "Death and life are in the power of the tongue" - Proverbs 18:21 NKJV. Your words are powerful. Speak life into your situation. Speak peace in your life. Speak positive over your circumstance and your situation, and don't allow anyone to have the power to speak over you and define you. You have more to gain, that's what you're holding on too. Let the past go and move forward towards your future.
Offering professional wrestling fans a ringside seat into his adventurous life, WWE Hall of Fame wrestler Jim Duggan recounts for the first time key moments and legendary bouts both inside and outside the ring. Known to millions of enthusiasts as a charismatic patriot--with an American flag in his right hand and his signature two-by-four in his left--Duggan here reflects on his early life as a student-athlete on the Southern Methodist University football squad. Drafted by the Atlanta Falcons, Duggan shares how an injury-plagued rookie season curtailed his football ambitions and paved the way for a brighter career in professional wrestling. Rising to fame in the Cold War-era 1980s, Duggan immediately put himself at odds with anti-American "heels" and engaged in legendary feuds with some of the most legendary names in the sport, including the Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff, and Andre the Giant. In this who's who of top-tier wrestling, Duggan reveals not only the high points of championship bouts but also the low points that occurred far away from the TV cameras and screaming fans, including his fight against kidney cancer during the prime of his career. With each page peppered with Duggan's charming wit, fans will find much to enjoy and discover about the man they once knew only as "Hacksaw."
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From a New York Times bestselling author, a breathtaking second chance love story, perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover and Christina Lauren. Teagan Berkeley and Derek Hartz were best friends in high school. There was always something more between them–but Derek abandoned her when she needed him most, and they grew apart. Years later, Teagan is a single Mom in her small beachside town, and Derek is back–also a single parent after his marriage fails. He wants to make things right with Teagan, but he’s not sure if he deserves her trust. As they confess their deepest secrets to one another, it's impossible for them to deny what's always been between them. But just when their happily ever after is within reach, their complicated history surfaces again and threatens to keep them apart. Forever.
Nuthouse Love, the one and only spin off of Kenny Attaway's novel Slum Beautiful, is a critical, up front; passionate oozing documented real life experiences of Rasheeda "Sade" Griffin and her three best friends Mesh, Bay and Nika plight to find true and meaningful love. But in their plight of finding true love the young girls' then woman engages in physical, emotional, spiritual, financial and social abuse shared by themselves, other woman and the men they become in unisome with. Unluckily throughout the sails in the winds of love self worth they discover not only the harsh reality of hurt, pain and agonies of domestic abuse, but they slip and fall in the egg yolk of their imperfections and insecurities. Regardless of the unforgettable mishaps of her close friends, others involved in her life; including supporting confidants Monica, Mrs. Cent and college friends and herself, she continues her voyage to the point of no return. Nuthouse not only details the experiences, trials and tribulations of many of the woman, but the harsh realism of the black man's fears, misguidance social and emotional troubles and enigmas as he/their boyfriends take them through at first hand experience that they'd refer to as the "nuthouse" and nuthouse love. The "nuthouse" term becomes symbolic for not only the feelings emerged from type of men the woman date and become evolved with, but a nickname for an actual place several of the characters visit in the impatient facility for abused woman Love Lockdown. Rich in detail, filled with angelic landscapes of unforgettable real life realities and mournful endings-Nuthouse Love is a must read.
Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. And, on one fateful December day, girl stands up boy and then bakes him a batch of apology cookies. The rest is history. Building Tiff’s Treats has been a love story unlike any other for these husband-and-wife entrepreneurs who began a two-person operation from their college apartment and grew it into a business that employs thousands and is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Their highly anticipated debut book, It’s Not Just Cookies: Stories & Recipes From The Tiff’s Treats Kitchen, invites readers to experience just how Tiffany standing Leon up on a date led to the pair creating an on-demand, baked-to-order, WARM cookie delivery brand--the first of its kind. What started as a simple apology with a warm batch of chocolate chip cookies ultimately became a way of connecting people through warm moments. "We’ve realized that we get a front-row seat to human nature at its best, with cookies as the conduit," Tiffany and Leon say. "And we’re excited to share some of these stories." They’re also excited to share RECIPES! For the first time ever, It’s Not Just Cookies is releasing fan-favorite cookie recipes, complete with full-page, full-color photos, so readers can bake Tiff’s Treats at home! In the book, you’ll also read about the: Highs and lows of 20 years of entrepreneurship--while being married to your business partner Guiding principles Tiffany and Leon have used to overcome adversity Lessons they’ve learned along the way--mostly the hard way Inspiration that will help you find your own sweet success. Early on, Tiff’s Treats co-founders Tiffany and Leon Chen remember being asked the critical question: "What are you going to do, bake cookies for the rest of your life?" Yes, the answer is absolutely "yes." And so much more. So, grab a cookie or three, follow Tiffany and Leon’s amazing journey, and create some warm moments of your own!