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Author: Tracy Cooper-Posey
Publisher: Stories Rule Press
ISBN: 1772634719
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Only Jonah has the potential to save the Endurance. Tightening food rations, cramped living quarters, unhappy and frustrated citizens. Life on the Endurance is unravelling fast. It is Marlow Fitzgerald’s job to maintain peace, including containing trouble-makers like Jonah Solomon, the radical thinker and society drop-out who just might be able to save the ship…if only she could believe him. Yesterday’s Legacy is the second book in the science fiction romance series readers are calling gripping, superb and fantastic. Written by award-winning SFR author Tracy Cooper-Posey, it is set aboard the closed-system marathon-class vessel Endurance, a generation ship a thousand years from its destination. If you like the smart, romantic SF of authors like Linnea Sinclair and Anna Hackett, you will love the Endurance series. Dive into this thought-provoking new romance series today! __ This book is part of The Endurance SFR series: 0.5 5,001 1.0 Greyson’s Doom 2.0 Yesterday’s Legacy 3.0 Promissory Note 3.1 Quiver and Crave 4.0 Xenogenesis 5.0 Junkyard Heroes 5.1 Evangeliya 6.0 Skinwalker’s Bane …and more to come! A Science Fiction Romance Novel. __ Praise for Yesterday’s Legacy: …lead characters that I'd love to meet in person. Excellent caption of human nature at its best. It opens your eyes to what people think, want and how they achieve their goals. So many schemes, twist and turns, it's no wonder I couldn't put the story down!! I loved this book! I was constantly on the edge of my seat not knowing where the story would take me next. I would highly recommend Yesterday's Legacy to anyone, even if you don't consider yourself a SFR fan. Trust me, Tracy will convert you! When this book arrived I devoured it, I just could not put it down. It was an amazing love story, full of surprises and plot twists, with many good characters, and some evil ones. Loved it! Bravo!!!

Author: Mirin Fader
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0306924102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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The story of Giannis Antetokounmpo’s extraordinary rise from poverty in Athens, Greece, to superstardom in America with the Milwaukee Bucks—becoming one of the most transcendent players in history and an NBA Champion—from award-winning basketball reporter and feature writer at The Ringer Mirin Fader. As the face of the NBA’s new world order, Giannis Antetokounmpo has overcome unfathomable obstacles to become a symbol of hope for people all over the world; the personification of the American Dream. But his backstory remains largely untold. Fader unearths new information about the childhood that shaped “The Greek Freak”—from sleeping side by side with his brothers to selling trinkets on the street with his family to the racism he experienced. Antetokounmpo grew up in an era when Golden Dawn, Greece’s far-right, anti-immigrant party, patrolled his neighborhood, and his status as an illegal immigrant largely prevented him from playing for the country’s top clubs, making his NBA rise all the more improbable. Fader tells a deeply human story of how an unknown, skinny, Black Greek teen, who played in the country’s lowest pro division and was seen as a draft gamble, transformed his body and his game into MVP material. Antetokounmpo’s story has been framed as a feel-good narrative in which everyone has embraced him—watching him grow up, sign a five-year supermax contract extension worth $228 million, and lead the underdog Bucks to the NBA Championship in 2021. Giannis reveals a more nuanced story: how lonely and isolated he felt, adjusting to America and the NBA early in his career; the complexity of grappling with his Black and Greek identities; how he is so hard on himself and his shortcomings—a drive that fuels him every day; and the responsibility he feels to be a nurturing role model for his younger brothers. Fader illustrates a more vulnerable star than most people know, a person who has evolved triumphantly into all of his roles: father, brother, son, teammate, and global icon. **Instant New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, Wall Street Journal Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, Publishers Weekly Bestseller** **Mirin Fader Selected as the 2021 Sports Media Author of the Year by The Big Lead** **The Sports Librarian’s Best of 2022 – Sports Books**

Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Author: Scott Kennedy
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459717511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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In 1855, Willowdale post office opened in Jacob Cummer's store on Yonge Street. Today it is a bustling urban environment. Scott Kennedy recounts the notable stories of what happened in between and who was there as Willowdale evolved into a modern community.

Author: Rebecca Skloot
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307589382
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS • WINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NONFICTION NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Entertainment Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • NPR • Financial Times • New York • Independent (U.K.) • Times (U.K.) • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • Globe and Mail Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah. Deborah was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Had they killed her to harvest her cells? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance? Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.

Author: Tracy Cooper-Posey
Publisher: Stories Rule Press
ISBN: 1774387727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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The first four science fiction romances in a unique series, collected together. GREYSON’S DOOM The AI declares Greyson is going to die and he must train his replacement. Captain Greyson Durant has been in the job for three months, the youngest captain to ever lead the Endurance, when he is assigned to mentor the even younger Emmaline Victore, who resents the disruption to her life and Grey, too…but the longevity of the Endurance depends on them finding a way to work together. YESTERDAY’S LEGACY Only Jonah has the potential to save the Endurance. Tightening food rations, cramped living quarters, unhappy and frustrated citizens. Life on the Endurance is unravelling fast. It is Marlow Fitzgerald’s job to maintain peace, including containing trouble-makers like Jonah Solomon, the radical thinker and society drop-out who just might be able to save the ship…if only she could believe him. PROMISSORY NOTE They can change life aboard the Endurance, if only they can work together. Thanks to a small disaster aboard the Endurance, popular, beautiful and adored Laura Hyland is unable to meet the terms of a promissory note she wrote. The note has been signed over to the horrible Micah Thorn, an elite coder with a dark reputation and no social skills. The note ties Laura to Thorn and forces her to work with him. When she digs into his personal history, though, his work takes on a far deeper meaning…and could change everyone’s life for the better. QUIVER AND CRAVE He broke her heart. Tankball made her whole again. Quiver Sheenan is the most talented topman the Endurance has ever seen. Despite her incredible abilities in zero gravity, she’d rather have a career in the sciences than play for the Dreamhawks while Kallon Crave is their captain. These are the first four stories of the science fiction romance series readers are calling gripping, superb and fantastic. Written by award-winning SFR author Tracy Cooper-Posey, it is set aboard the marathon-class vessel Endurance, a generation ship a thousand years from its destination. If you like the smart, romantic SF of authors like Linnea Sinclair and Anna Hackett, you will love the Endurance series. __ This boxed set is part of The Endurance SFR series: 0.5 5,001 1.0 Greyson’s Doom 2.0 Yesterday’s Legacy 3.0 Promissory Note 3.1 Quiver and Crave 4.0 Xenogenesis 5.0 Junkyard Heroes 5.1 Evangeliya 6.0 Skinwalker’s Bane 7.0 Mongrels United …and more to come! A Science Fiction Romance Boxed Set. __ Praise for The Endurance series: To all SF fans out there, I highly recommend this be on your reading list. To the author, PLEASE keep giving us these amazing stories. I cannot wait to read more in this series and learn more about the people that live on the Endurance as it travels through space. Thank you once again, Tracy Cooper-Posey, for a fun ride! OMG, I love the Endurance stories! Even if you think you won’t like sci-fi you will enjoy this book, the whole series. Love found, lost and found again. This series is one of the best I have ever read. I've been following the entire Endurance series and love them all!

Author: Tracy Cooper-Posey
Publisher: Stories Rule Press
ISBN: 1772634263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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They can’t stand each other. Devin Bronson has climbed from an abject childhood, determined to reach the pinnacle of the Endurance: the Captain’s chair. Association with the wrong people could destroy her hopes. Adam Wary is a typical skinwalker, living hard and fast, for life can be short. When his friend Lincoln dies and leaves a message for Adam to give to a woman called Devin, Adam tries to deliver, to Devin’s horror. Lincoln’s message threatens Devin’s career and pulls Adam into the dark underbelly of the Endurance in search of the truth. Skinwalker’s Bane is part of the science fiction romance series readers are calling gripping, superb and fantastic. Written by award-winning SFR author Tracy Cooper-Posey, it is set aboard the marathon-class vessel Endurance, a generation ship a thousand years from its destination. If you like the smart, romantic SF of authors like Linnea Sinclair and Anna Hackett, you will love the Endurance series. Dive into this thought-provoking new romance series today! __ This book is part of The Endurance SFR series: 0.5 5,001 1.0 Greyson’s Doom 2.0 Yesterday’s Legacy 3.0 Promissory Note 3.1 Quiver and Crave 4.0 Xenogenesis 5.0 Junkyard Heroes 5.1 Evangeliya 6.0 Skinwalker’s Bane …and more to come! A Science Fiction Romance Novel. __ Praise for The Endurance series: I am so glad that this author finally got around to writing SF cause she's great at it. To all SF fans out there, I highly recommend this be on your reading list. To the author, PLEASE keep giving us these amazing stories. I cannot wait to read more in this series and learn more about the people that live on the Endurance as it travels through space. Wow, what a fantastic read!!! Another superb series. I highly recommend this new wonderful series. It is not just a journey through space, but through the beautiful landscape of human emotions with all its wonderful spectrums.

Author: Ray Rhodes Jr.
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802496768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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The definitive biography of Susannah Spurgeon. While many Christians recognize the name of Charles H. Spurgeon, the beloved preacher and writer, few are familiar with the life and legacy of his wife, Susie. Yet Susannah Spurgeon was an accomplished and devout woman of God who had a tremendous ministry in her own right, as well as in support of her husband. Even while dealing with serious health issues, she administered a book fund for poor pastors, edited and published her husband’s sermons and other writings, led a pastor’s aid ministry, wrote five books, made her home a hub of hospitality, and was instrumental in planting a church. And as her own writing attests, she was also a warm, charming, and fascinating woman. Now, for the first time, Susie brings this vibrant woman’s story to modern readers. Ray Rhodes Jr. examines Susannah’s life, showing that she was not only the wife of London’s most famous preacher, but also a woman who gave all she had in grateful service to the Lord. Susie is an inspiring and encouraging account of a truly remarkable woman of faith that will delight Spurgeon devotees and fans of Christian biographies alike. “I am writing in my husband’s study, where he thought, and prayed, and wrote. Every inch of the place is sacred ground. Everything remains precisely as he left it. His books (now my most precious possessions), stand in shining rows upon the shelves, in exactly the order in which he placed them, and one might almost fancy the room was ready and waiting for its master. But oh! That empty chair! That great portrait over the door! The strange, solemn silence, which pervades the place now that he is no longer on earth! I kneel sometimes by his chair, and laying my head on the cushioned arms, which so long supported his dear form, I pour out my grief before the Lord, and tell Him again that though I am left alone, yet I know that ‘He hath done all things well’…”

Author: Tracy Cooper-Posey
Publisher: Stories Rule Press
ISBN: 1772634697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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The AI declares Greyson is going to die and he must train his replacement. Captain Greyson Durant has been in the job for three months, the youngest captain to ever lead the Endurance, when he is assigned to mentor the even younger Emmaline Victore, who resents the disruption to her life and Grey, too…but the longevity of the Endurance depends on them finding a way to work together. Greyson’s Doom is the first book in a new, suspenseful and imaginative science fiction romance series by award-winning SFR author Tracy Cooper-Posey, set aboard the closed-system marathon-class vessel Endurance, a generation ship a thousand years from its destination. If you like the smart, romantic SF of authors like Linnea Sinclair and Anna Hackett, you will love Greyson’s Doom. Dive into this thought-provoking new romance series today! __ This book is part of The Endurance SFR series: 0.5 5,001 1.0 Greyson’s Doom 2.0 Yesterday’s Legacy 3.0 Promissory Note 3.1 Quiver and Crave 4.0 Xenogenesis 5.0 Junkyard Heroes 5.1 Evangeliya 6.0 Skinwalker’s Bane …and more to come! A Science Fiction Romance Novel. __ Praise for Greyson’s Doom: If you have never read a sci-fi story. Greyson's Doom is the perfect book to start. From the moment I started to read this book I was hooked. I am not usually a sci-fi fan but this book just kept me coming back for more. You will find that the answers are there but you didn't see 'em coming!! Absolutely recommend this book! Seeing the characters grow and mature and getting a glimpse onto their relationship made me feel like I was there, part of the story. I couldn't put it down once I started and stayed up far too late so I could see what happened! Tracy hit a home run with this series.

Author: Amber O'Neal Johnston
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 059342185X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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A guide for families of all backgrounds to celebrate cultural heritage and embrace inclusivity in the home and beyond. Gone are the days when socially conscious parents felt comfortable teaching their children to merely tolerate others. Instead, they are looking for a way to authentically embrace the fullness of their diverse communities. A Place to Belong offers a path forward for families to honor their cultural heritage and champion diversity in the context of daily family life by: • Fostering open dialogue around discrimination, race, gender, disability, and class • Teaching “hard history” in an age-appropriate way • Curating a diverse selection of books and media choices in which children see themselves and people who are different • Celebrating cultural heritage through art, music, and poetry • Modeling activism and engaging in community service projects as a family Amber O’Neal Johnston, a homeschooling mother of four, shows parents of all backgrounds how to create a home environment where children feel secure in their own personhood and culture, enabling them to better understand and appreciate people who are racially and culturally different. A Place to Belong gives parents the tools to empower children to embrace their unique identities while feeling beautifully tethered to their global community.