Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah
Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah

Author: Kathy Iandoli

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-08-17

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1982156864

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In a definitive and “excellent homage to a star who left this planet too soon” (Questlove), the life, career, tragic death, and evolution of Aaliyah into a music legend are explored—now updated with new material featuring in-depth research and exclusive interviews. By twenty-two years old, Aaliyah had already accomplished a staggering amount: hit records, acclaimed acting roles, and fame that was just about to cross over into superstardom. Like her song, she was already “more than a woman” but her shocking death in a plane crash prevented her from fully growing into one. Now, two decades later, the full story of Aaliyah’s life and cultural impact is finally and lovingly revealed. Baby Girl features never-before-told stories, including studio anecdotes, personal tales, and eyewitness accounts on the events leading up to her untimely passing. Her enduring influence on today’s artists—such as Rihanna, Drake, Normani, and many more—is also celebrated, providing Aaliyah’s discography a cultural critique that is long overdue. “There’s no better way to pay your respect to R&B’s true angel than to lose yourself in the pages” (Kim Osorio, journalist and author of Straight from the Source) of this “dazzling biography” (Publishers Weekly) that is as unforgettable as its subject. This book was written without the participation of Aaliyah’s family/estate.

Storied Weddings
Storied Weddings

Author: Aleah Valley

Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Published: 2018-11-06

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1423649427

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Shape your wedding into a beautiful occasion that goes beyond the look, to one that shares your story. An inspiring book–meets–planning tool brimming with realistic tips and beautiful imagery; Storied Weddings encourages you to examine your tastes, family history, hobbies, styles, and other bits and pieces of your story to weave into your wedding celebration, your storied wedding. Filled with wedding florals, venues, cocktail recipes, bouquet recipes, table setting ideas, color pairings, and more, the book also features charming stories from past couples, real wedding images, and insightful pro tips throughout. A thoughtful Q&A brings a spark to the process—incorporating these questions will encourage couples to really personalize every detail—to bring to life your vision for a timeless celebration that is perfectly you. With fifteen years of planning and designing weddings and celebrations, Aleah and Nick Valley are known as industry leaders who happily share their knowledge and creativity. Their work has been published in Brides Magazine, Sunset Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, Style Me Pretty, and more.

The Book of Birth, Volume I
The Book of Birth, Volume I

Author: MariMikel Potter, CPM, LM, RN-BSN

Publisher: New Life Birth Services

Published: 2023-11-21

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13:

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Imagine a birth that is safe, comfortable, and empowering. You are in control of your body and your birth experience. You are prepared emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually for your baby's impending arrival. This is the kind of birth you can have with The Book of Birth. MariMikel Potter, LM, CPM, RN-BSN is a legendary midwife with 50 years of experience helping over 3,000 women with their pregnancies and births. She shares her complete methodology with you in this book, including: Nourishment: Learn how to fully nourish yourself and your baby, including recommended supplements, a meal planning tool, and recipes. Hydration: Recommendations for hydration and recipes to help you avoid the boredom of plain water. Movement: Guidance on when and how to exercise-and when not to-for every stage of conception and pregnancy. Emotional/Spiritual: Gain the tools you need to address your emotions surrounding pregnancy, birth, and parenting. Learn exercises to help you access the spiritual side of pregnancy and birth. Knowledge: What is going on in your body throughout your pregnancy from anatomy and physiology to handling the common discomforts and complications of pregnancy, recommendations for how to build a natural medicine chest and what to do with it when you are pregnant and ill, how to choose the right provider for you, what to expect over the duration of your pregnancy and birth regardless of where you choose to have it, home births natural childbirth, freestanding birth center births, hospital births, handling the sensations of labor, stages and phases of the labor process, and so much more. Rest: You will learn strategies to help you achieve adequate rest in pregnancy, including sleep hygiene, positioning for comfort, and setting boundaries for yourself and others. Joy: The joy you experience in pregnancy is shared with your baby. In this book, MariMikel shares strategies for you to amplify your joy at every stage of your conception, pregnancy, and birth. With 500+ pages of helpful information, guidance, resources, tools, exercises, inspiration, and effective remedies, this is a must-have comprehensive guide to a holistic pregnancy and birth.

Aaliyah
Aaliyah

Author: Christopher John Farley

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2002-01-26

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0743455665

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Don’t miss the inspirational biography behind the exciting new Lifetime movie Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, starring Alexandra Shipp as the extraordinary singer Aaliyah. Aaliyah Dana Haughton was that music business rarity: a teen idol who transformed herself into a critically acclaimed hip-hop soul artist, a singer who successfully made the transition to actress, and a beautiful woman who never let the trappings of celebrity go to her head. Following her impressive debut at age fourteen with the album Age Ain’t Nothin’ but a Number, Aaliyah raised the bar with her hugely influential and bestselling follow-up, One in a Million. She then took her talents to Hollywood, starring in the action thriller Romeo Must Die and the highly anticipated horror film The Queen of the Damned. But soon after the release of her third album in the summer of 2001, Aaliyah’s life was cut short in a tragic plane crash. Here is the inspirational story of the star The Washington Post dubbed “Hip-Hop’s Lady Di”—a woman who, by the time of her death at age twenty-two, touched legions of fans around the world with her haunting voice and gentle spirit.

A Little Lynched
A Little Lynched

Author: Aleah Holland

Publisher:

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9780615934280

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When a Brooklyn, New York domestic violence judge that was supposed to protect Aleah and her children stole her toddler son and gave sole custody to a drug addicted, alcoholic, and abuser, Aleah did not know what to do. It is indescribable and something out of the 'Twilight Zone' what she went through.In 2011 Aleah was ordered into this domestic violence court to address the crimes being committed on her and her children by her scorned ex-boyfriend who she shared a son with. After being assaulted and battered by this drug addict with a history of beating women and children unbeknownst to Aleah. She thought she would finally be safe if she went through the domestic violence system, which she avoided for over 3 years. However, once court-ordered into the domestic violence system her life was turned upside-down. She thought the abuse would stop. Aleah thought the harassment would stop, she thought stalking would stop, she thought the assaults on her children would stop, however, things became a million times worse than any normal human-being that believe and trust the justice system could ever imagine, pure evil.The judge, her 3 year-old son's lawyer and New York City Administration for Children Services aka ACS teamed up with Aleah's abuser against her and her children. This seemed to be the common policy, practice, and crime manipulating law for millions of domestic violence victims enslaved in this system Aleah would soon discover. They treated her and her children abuser as if he was their coworker and stole her child away from her, threatened arrest and jail if she tried to contact her child. Aleah discovered over the last twenty years these "Crime-Custody- Bait & Switch" courts have been silencing women and stealing their children under the guise of protection, safety, and best interest of the child. It is estimated that over 2 million children have been abducted by court orders and removed from their loving, caring, safe mothers to a life sentence with a rapist, abusers, pedophile or sociopaths that these secret circus courts are REBRANDING as good dads and protecting them too. All across America, for kicks and lucrative kickbacks judges, lawyers, ACS, CPS, mental health professionals, and so many others are profiting and benefiting from this crime-manipulating industry that is intentionally allowing torture, torment, abuse, rapes, maltreatment, and gross-harmful negligence against mothers and their children in these fake family court and domestic violence court proceedings. I wanted to share my story and let mothers, victims, and children know, "what is going on in these courts is pure evil, and there are good humans fighting for them." As Aleah continues to fall down the domestic violence-family court rabbit-hole more books will unfold. Aleas is working to help free children and mothers from this enslaving and vicious domestic violence system.

Dougla in the Twenty-First Century
Dougla in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Sue Ann Barratt

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1496833716

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Identity is often fraught for multiracial Douglas, people of both South Asian and African descent in the Caribbean. In this groundbreaking volume, Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh explore the particular meanings of a Dougla identity and examine Dougla maneuverability both at home and in the diaspora. The authors scrutinize the perception of Douglaness over time, contemporary Dougla negotiations of social demands, their expansion of ethnicity as an intersectional identity, and the experiences of Douglas within the diaspora outside the Caribbean. Through an examination of how Douglas experience their claim to multiracialism and how ethnic identity may be enforced or interrupted, the authors firmly situate this analysis in ongoing debates about multiracial identity. Based on interviews with over one hundred Douglas, Barratt and Ranjitsingh explore the multiple subjectivities Douglas express, confirm, challenge, negotiate, and add to prevailing understandings. Contemplating this, Dougla in the Twenty-First Century adds to the global discourse of multiethnic identity and how it impacts living both in the Caribbean, where it is easily recognizable, and in the diaspora, where the Dougla remains a largely unacknowledged designation. This book deliberately expands the conversation beyond the limits of biraciality and the Black/white binary and contributes nuance to current interpretations of the lives of multiracial people by introducing Douglas as they carve out their lives in the Caribbean.

Stupid Fast
Stupid Fast

Author: Geoff Herbach

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1402256302

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Just before his sixteenth birthday, Felton Reinstein has a sudden growth spurt that turns him from a small, jumpy, picked-on boy with the nickname of "Squirrel Nut" to a powerful athlete, leading to new friends, his first love, and the courage to confront his family's past and current problems.

Artrepreneur
Artrepreneur

Author: Stina Aleah

Publisher:

Published: 2017-11-19

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 9781973340874

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From her own personal experiences, stories that tieinto each chapter, Stina Aleah created a book thatprovides the fundamentals to starting a business, and operating successfully. Stina Aleah weaves knowledge and wit together to create a book of raregems. Artists of all mediums are able to take thisknowledge to develop a successful brand and business.With each chapter, comes a new bag of goodies, tenchapters of information to take with you through the business you are forming.From your vision, and business name, to branding, and brand identity, the wealth of knowledge is limitless.Stina is a visual artist, and multi-business owner. This book is a direct reflection of her ability to create a successful business, and become a brand. If your desire is to accomplish the same, this book is for you!www.stinaaleah.comfacebook.com/stinaaleahinstagram.com/stinaaleah

The City Beautiful
The City Beautiful

Author: Aden Polydoros

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0369702824

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"An achingly rendered exploration of queer desire, grief, and the inexorable scars of the past." —Katy Rose Pool, author of There Will Come A Darkness Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he’ll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when Alter’s best friend, Yakov, becomes the latest victim in a long line of murdered Jewish boys, his dream begins to slip away. While the rest of the city is busy celebrating the World’s Fair, Alter is now living a nightmare: possessed by Yakov’s dybbuk, he is plunged into a world of corruption and deceit, and thrown back into the arms of a dangerous boy from his past. A boy who means more to Alter than anyone knows. Now, with only days to spare until the dybbuk takes over Alter’s body completely, the two boys must race to track down the killer—before the killer claims them next. "Chillingly sinister, warmly familiar, and breathtakingly transportive, The City Beautiful is the haunting, queer Jewish historical thriller of my darkest dreams."—Dahlia Adler, creator of LGBTQreads and editor of That Way Madness Lies A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens 2021

Visions of Pain
Visions of Pain

Author: Aleah Raynes

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781979094764

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Life changing event is an understatement. Seventeen-year-old Rylee Baker's whole life has been filled with half-truths. She knows her mother was murdered, but not why. She has never met her mother's family and has very little contact with people of her own race. Everything changes when her Capissian powers wake up and her father moves them to the small town of Narmik Springs, hidden in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She's pulled into a culture she knows little about and a civil war threatening to spill over into the human world. If that isn't bad enough, someone wants her dead. It's up to Reed, Sawyer, Cal, Kent, and Dalton to help her control her growing powers and ensure she lives long enough to fulfill an ancient prophecy.