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For more than 20 years, Secours has been urging audiences to look in the mirror. White Privilege Pop Quiz consists of questions and revelations that help set a context for discussing the term white privilege and serves to help people understand what it means to possess it. The quiz is meant to dispel any mystery or skepticism about the existence of privilege for those who have never given it much, if any, thought. After all, the number one privilege of Whiteness is to not have to think about it, therein denying its existence.

Linda Kelleher, or Lilou, faces a dilemma. She is a regular Pittsburgh girl, growing up in the beautiful Shadyside neighborhood. She looks up to her older sister, tries to meet her mothers expectations and loves to study math with her father. Only something is never quite right. No matter how hard she tries to lead a regular life, the world of sorcery and magic has a claim on her: Lilou comes from a powerful family of witches.

Do you find the whole concept of online dating an incredibly frustrating process? Don’t even think about trying to meet someone online until you check out this book. Nowadays, there’s no shortage of profiles you have to weed through before you finally connect with someone who only might be worth meeting. And even if you do manage to set up a date, there’s a good chance you’ll just end up getting ghosted for no apparent reason. With advances in technology, online dating is not the same. The Art of the Tele-Flirt helps to give you a simple solution.

The Dear Sleep audiobook is a collection of letters written by historic figures like Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mary Wollstonecraft, Vincent Van Gogh, and many more. Each letter is lovingly read in a slow, soporific tone both with and without music by Kim (UK accent) and Molly (USA accent). Choose a section, hit play, and fall asleep in minutes!

A rare painting is stolen from the wall of Fairfield's Mystic Museum of Art, and is then mysteriously returned to its owner. Is this the work of a remorseful thief or a dangerous gang involved in a series of sinister crimes? It's up to Katie Porter to solve this mystery that may bring ruin to her editor's family. Will she discover the truth and still keep her job as a reporter for the Fairfield Gazette?

What if the remarkable story of Ebenezer Scrooge was true? What if the account was relayed to Dickens, and he turned it into A Christmas Carol? What if the ghostly visitations did not begin or end with Scrooge, but the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and yet to come visit one misanthropic soul in need of reclamation every Christmas Eve? This modern-day sequel to the Charles Dickens classic assumes all of the above. And this time, the spiritual trio’s attentions have been directed to a not-so-nice woman in Philadelphia.

Used as a source of power since ancient times, from the Greeks to the Egyptians to the Persians, the moon has always been magical. It was viewed as a connection to the natural world, because our ancestors all knew one important thing: The moon brings light to the darkness.

A political storm erupts when Claire Deveraux, a deaf employee of the U.S. Embassy in France, is abducted at a conference in Rome. The kidnapper, Franco Lazzari, is a wealthy pharmacist who has been scouring Italy for the perfect wife. Unable to hear, and with time against her, Claire must use all of her wits to escape Lazzari’s remote home in the Italian countryside.

When her ship is attacked and crew slaughtered by a mysterious creature, Violet "V" Green is rescued by the handsome Dr. Dominic Shade and brought aboard his magnificent luxury class vessel, The Persephone. The opulent halls, fine food, and high-quality hallucinogens are almost enough to convince her that she could recover from the horrific tragedy that brought her here. But from the moment she arrives, something only she can hear torments her endlessly: a woman's scream. Is it trying to tell her something, or is she losing her mind?

Patients are critical to healthcare delivery, yet their concerns and perspective are frequently lost in translation or, at worst, blatantly ignored. Patients don’t even have a place in organizational charts. Yet patients deserve their own branch of science, and author Pamela J. Brink, RN, PhD, FAAN, has started a conversation about giving patients that niche in a new area of study called “patientology”. This work is a brief overview of concepts such as medical sociology and nursing, and will prompt further research and delineation.

For many years, Jeffrey Demitrack searched for a meaningful and fulfilling relationship and, most of all, hoped that one day he would find a significant other who understood and unconditionally accepted his struggles with epilepsy. People have their insecurities, and relationships already are hard without throwing seizures into the mix, so his search has been a challenging one.

All her life, Jane believes she is small-town ordinary...until she isn't. Some people brand her a witch because of the cat while others believe she has a demon. Her family thinks she's ready for the nursing home, and the down-and-out reporter assumes she's a fake. But nobody, including Jane, can figure out how she does it: Heal the sick. All the sick. All the time. Is it a gift of God? The Church is divided. Then, everything erupts when the foreigners arrive along with the government people and the scientists. Will Jane become a pawn or save herself?

Katie Porter and her friends volunteer to help with the Pearson Playhouse’s final stage production of the season. Soon, they find themselves in the midst of plots, betrayal, lost love, dark secrets from the past, and an old theater that is falling down around them. Will Katie uncover the truth in time to save the show, the playhouse, and those she loves before all is lost? Find out in this third Katie Porter mystery!

Midge Pennington is in trouble. She’s been arrested for the murder of her husband that was deemed an accident five years earlier. And who knew she was even married? Add a bloody crime scene, a rumored affair, nosy neighbors, an attractive chemist, and the best lawyer money can buy, and things really get interesting! Katie must use her best analytical skills and deductive reasoning to try and solve this cold case before her Gazette newspaper colleague is put away for life. Will this story be the one that gets the better of her?

Chicago, 1893: The Columbian Exposition gracing the city’s southern shoreline is an unprecedented marvel of culture and innovation, its Court of Honor so luminous it’s known as the White City. But Neva Freeman, a performer at the Exposition and a secret witch, is about to relearn a hard lesson: that the brightest lights can cast the darkest shadows.

Katie and Jim join Ruth and Robert for a relaxing vacation in the quaint little town of Bounty. Everything is going well until a body is found in the bay followed by the discovery of a second victim. Who would murder two people? A group of women ask for Katie’s help, but she finds that they are hiding a dangerous secret. Can she trust them or will she become the next victim?

Katie Porter must follow several confusing leads in her search for the truth concerning a case that the Fairfield Police Department has been unable to solve. She and her friends follow a trail of sinister notes, multiple suspects, unwanted flirtations, and a story that seems to go nowhere. Add the sudden and mysterious disappearance of the Porter’s elderly postman, and the near abduction of Gran, and the situation has the potential to become deadly. Pressure mounts as the crimes escalate. Can Katie Porter find Devlin Douglas before it’s too late?

Never a Cloud charts the course of three women, Violet, Ava, and Margot, who find their way into a new understanding of home and family at Otyrburn, an estate in rural Scotland. Violet Grey, a child of the 60s, writes from an island in Maine as the novel travels between Scotland, New York City, and Venice, Italy.

Julia needed a new start. The unexpected death of her favorite aunt sends Julia to the artist town of Grand Marais. There she starts to weave tattered threads into a new tapestry while rediscovering her love of sketching and running the antique shop, Past Imperfect. Everything is just starting to go right when a mysterious package arrives bearing an antique letter opener arrives.

Sister Jane's Lenten Journal is a companion novella to Sister Jane. The journal entries cover the last 46 days of the original book and end on the same day. Hiding under the name Lydia, Jane has spent most of the previous two years in a monastery. But she is chafing at her restrictions particularly in the face of COVID-19 surging outside the monastery walls. She must act. Challenges abound: her identity, the threat of discovery, and the Sister Jane Society that has usurped her credibility.