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 What is it like to be an Enneagram Five? Instagram poet and artist Morgan Harper Nichols reflects on this question in a spirit of honest self-assessment and with a desire for personal and spiritual growth.

This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women's struggle for inner peace and mental stability. It brings together contributors from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault, healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy considerations and parenting. 

Until now, Odessa Jones's inherited ability to read emotions and foretell danger has protected her. But second sight didn't warn her she would soon be a widow - and about to lose her home and the catering business she's worked so hard to build. The only things keeping Dessa going are her love for baking and her sometimes-mellow cat, Juniper. Unfortunately, putting her life back together means taking a gig at an all-kinds-of-shady real estate firm run by volatile owner Charlie Risko. Until Charlie is brutally killed - and Dessa's bullied coworker is arrested for murder.

Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer reveal how scientists studying animal behavior have long projected human norms and values onto animals while seeking to understand them. When scientific studies conclude that these norms and values are natural in animals, it makes it easier to think of them as natural in humans too. And because scientists, historically and to this day, largely belong to elite, powerful segments of society, the norms and values embedded into animal behavior science match those of the already powerful.

In How to Lose the Hounds, Celeste Winston explores marronage—the practice of flight from and placemaking beyond slavery—as a guide to police abolition. She examines historically Black maroon communities in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, that have been subjected to violent excesses of police power from slavery until the present day.

After the death of her brave Harlem Hellfighter husband during the First World War, young widow Nola Ann Jackson returned to her hometown of Agate, Illinois, to live with her Aunt Sarah, a known local psychic. Under her aunt's care and tutelage, Nola has been learning how to tap into her own intuitive gifts and communicate with the spirits. And she will rely on their insightful guidance when she's asked to help investigate a woman's disappearance.

Demystifying trauma, Lisa Collins, EdD, teaches you how to identify and interrupt unhealthy responses through learning, discovery, and reflection so you can reclaim your joy. With a variety of exercises and insights from the author's own journey, you will learn how to address past experiences that unknowingly weigh on you. This book helps you foster a deep personal relationship with yourself and address emerging internal challenges. In no time, you will be skillfully navigating the often unacknowledged traumas we all face, transforming harmful energies into healing ones.

This comforting story follows an overwhelmed child as she learns how to create calmness anywhere, and shows that anyone is capable of finding their own sense of peace.

Before time began, God spoke a destiny of unimaginable goodness over you. And no matter how far off-track you are, no matter how alone, anxious, hopeless, or exhausted you feel, his Word will bring about the future he formed for you at the foundations of the earth. Because his Word never fails. Showing how nothing in life is a coincidence, prodigal-turned-prophet Sophia Ruffin Wilson renews your expectancy in God's miraculous goodness—and his unwavering commitment to bring you to a hope-filled future.

In a fast-paced world filled with distraction, it is easy to lose sight of ourselves and what we value most. We struggle with slowing down and protecting what gives our lives pleasure and meaning. Our well-being pays the price. If you long to develop a sustainable wellness practice that meets you where you are in your current state of life, Hustle, Flow, or Let It Go? provides a framework for determining what the hustle costs you, where you can nurture flexibility, and what you need to release in your life.