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  Girl Gurl Grrrl - On Womanhood...

  Anonyme

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  “One of the year’s must-reads.” –ELLE 
  “[A] provocative, heart-breaking, and frequently hilarious collection.” –GLAMOUR 
  “Essential, vital, and urgent.” –HARPER’S BAZAAR 
  In the vein of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist and Issa Rae’s The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, but wholly its own, a provocative, humorous, and, at times, heartbreaking collection of essays on what it means to be black, a woman, a mother, and a global citizen in today's ever-changing world. 
  Black women have never been more visible or more publicly celebrated than they are now. But for every new milestone, every magazine cover, every box office record smashed, every new face elected to public office, the reality of everyday life for black women remains a complex, conflicted, contradiction-laden experience. 
   
   An American journalist who has been living and working in London for a decade, Kenya Hunt has made a career of distilling moments, movements, and cultural moods into words. Her work takes the difficult and the indefinable and makes it accessible; it is razor sharp cultural observation threaded through evocative and relatable stories. 
  Girl Gurl Grrrl both illuminates our current cultural moment and transcends it. Hunt captures the zeitgeist while also creating a timeless celebration of womanhood, of blackness, and the possibilities they both contain. She blends the popular and the personal, the frivolous and the momentous in a collection that truly reflects what it is to be living and thriving as a black woman today.  

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  I Want To Be Left Behind -...

  Brenda Peterson

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  In Brenda Peterson’s unusual memoir, fundamentalism meets deep ecology. The author’s childhood in the high Sierra with her forest ranger father led her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist relatives prepared eagerly and busily to leave this world. Peterson survived fierce “sword drill” competitions demanding total recall of the Scriptures and awkward dinner table questions (“Will Rapture take the cat, too?”) only to find that environmentalists with prophecies of doom can also be Endtimers. Peterson paints such a hilarious, loving portrait of each world that the reader, too, may want to be Left Behind.

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  Stories of The Secretly Rich -...

  Jack Branley

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  Do you want to live an extraordinary life? Does absolute financial freedom and wealth appeal to you more than the social media façade of the pseudo-affluent? 
  In a world where showing off seems fashionable, it’s possible to forget the real meaning of life, making a difference. Money will definitely find you if you’re chasing your dreams, solving a problem, or doing good. 
  If you want to be rich and fulfilled, you’ll need to learn from millionaires who didn’t start their careers or businesses looking for fame - all they wanted was to make the earth a better place... and make a living at the same time. Becoming secretly wealthy is a quiet path traveled by exceptional individuals... and that is the real journey to happiness. 
  In Stories of the Secretly Rich, you will discover:How to become secretly rich, the benefits of being an invisible millionaire, and what to expect as a wealthy personHow ordinary people made it onto the billionaires’ listHow to stay motivated in your quest for affluence -- even when your feel-good hormones dip, or you face adversity and there doesn’t seem to be a way outHighly-guarded secrets to wealth and financial freedom to help you follow your dreams and avoid failureAdvice from the ‘millionaire next door, including daily habits you can implement to amass wealthHow to avoid losing your wealth and drowning in debt again by learning golden money management strategies10+ key lessons to learn from iconic men and women who’ve changed the world by doing what they love 
  And much more… 
  Anyone can be on the Forbes’ billionaires list... but first, you’ll need to uncover the secret strategies of people who have achieved the unimaginable - and you’ll find them here. The icing on the cake? You’ll discover how to grow your wealth while doing what you love.

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  Out at the Plate - The Dot...

  Lynn Ames

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  It’s not simply that Dot Wilkinson was one of the most decorated women’s softball players, bowlers, and athletes of all time and one of the original players from the three-time-world-champion PBSW Phoenix Ramblers softball team (1933–1965). Nor was it the length of her time here on Earth—over a century—although any of these things by itself would be impressive. The magic of Dot’s story is in the details. It’s the tale of a childhood spent in poverty, an indomitable, unbreakable spirit, a determination to be the very best to play whatever sport she undertook, the independence to live her personal life on her own terms, and her tremendous success at all of it. Over more than a decade of countless conversations and interviews, Dot shared all of it with her dear friend, author Lynn Ames. Dot held nothing back. Out at the Plate, told through the lens of Dot and Lynn’s friendship, is the story of a forgotten era in women’s history and sports, and one extraordinary woman’s place at the center of it all.

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  Huia Short Stories 15

  Various Authors

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  Here are the best short fiction stories, short non-fiction pieces and poetry from the Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers 2023 as judged by Emma Espiner, Carol Hirschfeld, Maiki Sherman, Mike Ross, Hēmi Kelly and Robert Sullivan. This competition, run by the Māori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers, is held every two years to promote Māori writers and their work. This year, the awards sought short non-fiction and poetry, along with short fiction, from writers in te reo Māori and English. The competition attracts entries each year from writers of all ages and those who are starting out to seasoned authors. This collection of finalists' work celebrates Māori writing, introduces new talent and gives an opportunity for Māori writers to shine.

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  The Caballero's Way

  O. Henry

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  "The Caballero's Way" is a short story by the American author O. Henry. It was first published in the July 1907 issue of Everybody's Magazine and was collected in the anthology The Heart of the West later the same year.
  The story introduces the Cisco Kid, a fast-shooting caballero who murders for sport. Lieutenant Sandridge, a ranger who is after the outlaw, goes to see Tonia, the beautiful girlfriend of the Kid. They fall in love, and Tonia begs Sandridge to kill the Kid in order to ensure their safety. Unbeknownst to the lovers, the Kid overhears their plan. Although a ruthless killer, the Cisco Kid is proud of being a gentleman who knows how to treat a lady. Since it would be against his code of behavior to lay a hand on a woman, he hatches an appropriate counterplan to deal with the situation.

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