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Isabella's Moon

Isabella's Moon

Toni Wass

MMH Press
2023
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As Isabella and her best friend Coral embark on a night of adventure to Luna Park, their worlds are changed forever by a chance meeting with some rather dapper American soldiers. Paul has just finished his military training in Australia, and as he stumbles across a beautiful local girl on the streets of Melbourne, he knows he has no choice but to see her again. After their paths have crossed, Paul and Isabella discover a romantic connection like never before, and love is most certainly in the air under the enormous full moon. But Paul is to be shipped out to war any day now. Will their budding relationship survive the horrors of World War II, the seemingly endless long distance, having to pack up and move across the world, a tumultuous family environment and the tests of time itself? Will their love be enough? Find out in Isabella's Moon, a war-time romance, set in the peak of World War II, following two young hopefuls from two very different worlds. This amorous tale filled with 1940s nostalgia, highlights the importance of following your gut, the value of family and friends, and the joys of finding the love of your life.
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Three Steps to Butterfly

Three Steps to Butterfly

Toni Kelly

Toni Kelly
2022
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This book is a poetic evolution of about ten years of the authors life. How finding her strength in change helped to create a metamorphosis of hope, renewal and growth. The book is divided into three sections, Cocoon, Caterpillar and Butterfly, depicting different times of the authors life and circumstance. From divorce to dealing with death. This book is designed to help the reader understand that they are not alone when life throws change at them because with change, a beautiful butterfly can be rebirthed
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Influence from the Inside Out

Influence from the Inside Out

Toni Courtney

Toni Courtney
2019
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There comes a tipping point a leader's career where their leadership potential is defined by the influence they have, not by the results they've achieved.Do you want to be more effective at work? Do you want to be seen, heard and recognised? Do you want others to follow you? All this happens through building influence.Your success isn't determined by your IQ, talent or even potential; it's defined by the strength of relationships you have and how well you can lead yourself outside your comfort zone. It's believed that we're typically working to about 50% of our potential. We're far more capable than we give ourselves credit for.Leadership is a journey of personal discovery and growth. Growth does not happen to you, it happens within you. That's why leadership influence builds from the inside out.This book is for leaders who want to build their leadership voice and brand. I'll help you connect into what's most important to strengthen you and your relationships, so you can become the leader you want to be, build the career you want and inspire others to do the same.If you are ready to think and act in new ways that support you becoming the best version of you, then it's time to build your influence. Let's spark your bigger game. About the Author: Toni Courtney is a leadership expert who has helped thousands of people improve their leadership and performance through her coaching, workshops, training programs and speaking. Toni's conviction is that people have far more potential than they realise--her practice is to help them achieve it. With an extensive international blue-chip commercial background, she brings over 20 years' experience in building and leading high-performance teams. Toni is also the author of Your Bigger Game.
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How to be a Professional Healer with the Real Jesus

How to be a Professional Healer with the Real Jesus

Toni Therese Maisey

Toni Maisey
2020
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How to be a Professional Healer by the Real Jesus is a non-fiction book tells the true events of miracles(names removed) happening in a main children's hospital in Perth Western Australia where the parents, doctors and nurses and secretaries allowed me to pray when children were too sick in emergency. As a Christian healer I was allowed to pray in a way that no other healer has ever been allowed to pray ever in Australia. After 7 years I created three books from the events one an illustrated children's book to name and visualize many of the miracles. Then each Bishop in Australia was notified and then to finales Gods work on the 7th year the Prime Minister of Australia was informed and Prayers in Emergency was then acknowledged as real. This book is geared towards Christians and those involved in health and the ones that have lost hope.As a strong healer (a heritage in our family from the Schulz (mother's side of the family) I also struggle with my health because I am an emotional eater, but I just heal my body faster a gift from God. I also jog a lot a reward after giving up smoking for thirty years, God also healed my lungs powerfully. I myself am a miracle of Gods miracle healings that a beautiful God would care enough to heal me too because he says we are all worthy of good things.There are many spiritual attacks to our bodies which are caused by sugar as our minds open on a high and the spirit realm can then attack our bodies through the brain. When someone does drugs, they can easily astral travel and do many things, but this can cause problems later when the drug stops working, they then have let in a lot of bad spirits and they can start to have seizures. (The same happens with too much sugar and caffeine and preservatives).Witch doctors are open to having many evil spirits in them it gives them more power to attack the weak so in a sense this is what is happening here in the Western World. As we start to adopt other traditions and cultures, we then start to practice thing we don't understand and in doing so bring sickness into the family. Then the healers in the family have to heal the ones that are not healers in the family, but often the evil is too much and its starts to bring in great sicknesses. An example is when we travel to foreign countries, we bring back with us bad spirits and animal spirits, which can make us ill and others around us sick, but the healers can remove these spirits. Then the doctors can also heal with medication, but if it is a strong spiritual sickness then there often can be death.
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Ghosts and Spirits Are Real and What Is the Difference

Ghosts and Spirits Are Real and What Is the Difference

Toni Therese Maisey

Toni Maisey
2020
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To explain what a ghost or a spirit is, simply means that a spirit is from a live human body, whose spirit is traveling to others and often you can hear them coming to you. A ghost apart from the Holy Ghost is a dead man's spirit. If a dead man's spirit comes into you then you will need exorcisms. In a Christian exorcism, we ask Jesus to perform the deliverance prayer and ask the person to repent of sin, so the evil spirits and ghosts will not have any strongholds. Giving up the sin that causes the spirits and ghosts to stay can help the person recover powerfully.2 Corinthians 11:14-15 (ESV) And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds. GHOSTS AND SPIRITS ARE REAL and what is the difference? (The spiritual realm is more real than the natural world) And how when we leave a place of darkness our memory of sadness is imprinted on the wall to haunt all for ever more. By Toni Maisey/Shinnick This book was inspired by a vision, In the vision I walked to the back of Saint Mary's Cathedral Perth (at the intersection of Victoria Square and Goderich Street) where I saw many graves enclosed with a tall fence and gates to enter on either side, suddenly I felt great fear. And on the back of the St Mary's Cathedral hanged an arm and hand (like a large birds claw) of death (representing evil).To explain what a ghost or a spirit is, simply means that a spirit is from a live human body, whose spirit is traveling to others and often you can hear them coming to you. A ghost apart from the Holy Ghost is a dead man's spirit. If a dead mans spirit comes into you then you will need exorcisms. In a Christian exorcism, we ask Jesus to perform the deliverance in prayer and ask the person to repent of sin, so the evil spirits and ghosts will not have any strongholds. Giving up the sin that causes the spirits and ghosts to stay can help the person recover powerfully. "Are demons evil spirits? No demons are straight from hell and they are fallen angels, they are not evil spirits or ghosts travelling but creatures without bodies and have never had a human body these are called demons. ""There is much evil outside the churches but inside the churches is Holiness. If we could look through magical glasses that see to the spirit realm, we would see the demons lurking around waiting to get inside a human to cause havoc.(sugar, caffeine, medicine, are all stimulants that open the door to the spirit realm which lets them into our brains and then can cause seizures etc." "Gargoyles are what the demons look like it why the churches put gargoyles on the churches outer walls to warn the people of the evil that lurks outside the church and the evil that is to come. This fear encourages the people to stay good knowing that the devil is lurking to take them to hell".
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Playing in the Dark

Playing in the Dark

Toni Morrison

Harvard University Press
1992
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Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to “put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature…draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual adventure, and close exploration as did the original charting of the New World—without the mandate for conquest.”Author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and other vivid portrayals of black American experience, Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic. Her compelling point is that the central characteristics of American literature individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell—are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence.Through her investigation of black characters, narrative strategies, and idiom in the fiction of white American writers, Morrison provides a daring perspective that is sure to alter conventional notions about American literature. She considers Willa Cather and the impact of race on concept and plot; turns to Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville to examine the black force that figures so significantly in the literature of early America; and discusses the implications of the Africanist presence at the heart of Huckleberry Finn. A final chapter on Ernest Hemingway is a brilliant exposition of the racial subtext that glimmers beneath the surface plots of his fiction.Written with the artistic vision that has earned her a preeminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature.
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The Origin of Others

The Origin of Others

Toni Morrison; Ta-Nehisi Coates

Harvard University Press
2017
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“The Origin of Others combines Toni Morrison’s accustomed eloquence with meaning for our times as citizens of the world.” —Nell Irvin Painter, New RepublicAmerica’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid?Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity in The Origin of Others. In her search for answers, the novelist considers her own memories as well as history, politics, and especially literature. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and Camara Laye are among the authors she examines. Readers of Morrison’s fiction will welcome her discussions of some of her most celebrated books—Beloved, Paradise, and A Mercy.If we learn racism by example, then literature plays an important part in the history of race in America, both negatively and positively. Morrison writes about nineteenth-century literary efforts to romance slavery, contrasting them with the scientific racism of Samuel Cartwright and the banal diaries of the plantation overseer and slaveholder Thomas Thistlewood. She looks at configurations of blackness, notions of racial purity, and the ways in which literature employs skin color to reveal character or drive narrative. Expanding the scope of her concern, she also addresses globalization and the mass movement of peoples in this century. National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Morrison’s most personal work of nonfiction to date.
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Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

Everyman's Library USA
1996
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In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morrison as a major voice in contemporary fiction. "Song of Solomon" begins with one of the most arresting scenes in our century's literature: a dreamlike tableau depicting a man poised on a roof, about to fly into the air, while cloth rose petals swirl above the snow-covered ground and, in the astonished crowd below, one woman sings as another enters premature labor. The child born of that labor, Macon (Milkman) Dead, will eventually come to discover, through his complicated progress to maturity, the meaning of the drama that marked his birth. Toni Morrison's novel is at once a romance of self-discovery, a retelling of the black experience in America that uncovers the inalienable poetry of that experience, and a family saga luminous in its depth, imaginative generosity, and universality. It is also a tribute to the ways in which, in the hands of a master, the ancient art of storytelling can be used to make the mysterious and invisible aspects of human life apparent, real, and firm to the touch. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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Gorilla, My Love

Gorilla, My Love

Toni Cade Bambara

VINTAGE
1992
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Fifteen unforgettable short stories from an essential author of African American fiction gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, from uptown New York to rural North Carolina. "Bambara grabs you by the throat ... she dazzles, she charms." --Chicago Daily NewsA young girl suffers her first betrayal. A widow flirts with an elderly blind man against the wishes of her grown-up children. A neighborhood loan shark teaches a white social worker a lesson in responsibility. And there is more. Sharing the world of Toni Cade Bambara's "straight-up fiction" is a stunning experience.
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The Salt Eaters

The Salt Eaters

Toni Cade Bambara

VINTAGE
1992
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A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this "hard-nosed, wise, funny" novel (Los Angeles Times). One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also "inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion" (The New York Times Book Review). Though they all united in their search for the healing properties of salt, some of them are centered, some are off-balance; some are frightened, and some are daring. From the men who live off welfare women to the mud mothers who carry their children in their hides, the novel brilliantly explores the narcissistic aspect of despair and the tremendous responsibility that comes with physical, spiritual, and mental well-being.
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Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality

Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality

Toni Morrison

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
1992
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It was perhaps the most wretchedly aspersive race and gender scandal of recent times: the dramatic testimony of Anita Hill at the Senate hearings on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as Supreme Court Justice. Yet even as the televised proceedings shocked and galvanized viewers not only in this country but the world over, they cast a long shadow on essential issues that define America. In Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison contributes an introduction and brings together eighteen provocative essays, all but one written especially for this book, by prominent and distinguished academicians--Black and white, male and female. These writings powerfully elucidate not only the racial and sexual but also the historical, political, cultural, legal, psychological, and linguistic aspects of a signal and revelatory moment in American history. With contributions by: Homi K. Bhabha, Margaret A. Burnham, Kimberl Crenshaw, Paula Giddings, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Claudia Brodsky Lacour, Wahneema Lubiano, Manning Marable, Nellie Y. McKay, Toni Morrison, Nell Irvin Painter, Gayle Pemberton, Andrew Ross, Christine Stansell, Carol M. Swain, Michael Thelwell, Kendall Thomas, Cornel West, Patricia J. Williams
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Toni Morrison

VINTAGE
1993
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An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race--and promises to change the way we read American literature--from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the Chicago Tribune, Morrison "reimagines and remaps the possibility of America." Her brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. Written with the artistic vision that has earned the Nobel Prize-winning author a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark is an invaluable read for avid Morrison admirers as well as students, critics, and scholars of American literature.
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Those Bones Are Not My Child

Those Bones Are Not My Child

Toni Cade Bambara

VINTAGE
2000
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ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME - This suspenseful novel portrays a community--and a family--under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who calls Those Bones Are Not My Child the author's magnum opus, Toni Cade Bambara's last novel leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare. Having elected its first black mayor in 1980, Atlanta projected an image of political progressiveness and prosperity. But between September 1979 and June 1981, more than forty black children were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and brutally murdered throughout "The City Too Busy to Hate." Zala Spencer, a mother of three, is barely surviving on the margins of a flourishing economy when she awakens on July 20, 1980 to find her teenage son Sonny missing. As hours turn into days, Zala realizes that Sonny is among the many cases of missing children just beginning to attract national attention. Growing increasingly disillusioned with the authorities, who respond to Sonny's disappearance with cold indifference, Zala and her estranged husband embark on a desperate search. Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terror, we watch a city roiling with political, racial, and class tensions.
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Slaves of God

Slaves of God

Toni Alimi

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
2024
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A provocative look at the central role of slavery in Augustine’s religious, ethical, and political thoughtAugustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context. Slaves of God provides a major reassessment of this monumental figure in the Western religious and political tradition, tracing the remarkably close connections between Augustine’s understanding of slavery and his broader thought.Augustine is most often read through the lens of Greek philosophy and the theology of Christian writers such as Paul and Ambrose, yet his debt to Roman thought is seldom appreciated. Toni Alimi reminds us that the author of Confessions and City of God was also a Roman citizen and argues that some of the thinkers who most significantly shaped his intellectual development were Romans such as Cicero, Seneca, Lactantius, and Varro—Romans who had much to say about slavery and its relationship to civic life. Alimi shows how Augustine, a keen and influential student of these figures, related chattel slavery and slavery to God, and sheds light on Augustinianism’s complicity in Christianity’s long entanglement with slavery.An illuminating work of scholarship, Slaves of God reveals how slavery was integral to Augustine’s views about law, rule, accountability, and citizenship, and breaks new ground on the topic of slavery in late antique and medieval political thought.
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Stop Being A Doormat & Start Being A Boss

Stop Being A Doormat & Start Being A Boss

Toni Moore

Legally Chic
2018
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Stop Being a Doormat & Start Being a Boss shares the story of Toni Moore, an attorney who wants to simply live, love, and be accepted by those who she looks up to. After learning one of her sisters is fighting for her life in a trauma center, Toni drops everything to be by her side. During this time, Toni finds herself forced to come face to face with her own truth. That's when her quest to achieve "happily ever after" begins. Within these pages, Toni reveals her experiences of overcoming sexual molestation, rape, prejudice, deception, fear, doubt, and her worst enemy...herself. With time, she discovers that in order to live her best life, she must stop allowing people to step on her like a doormat and start building the boss life she wants.In Stop Being a Doormat & Start Being a Boss, Toni inspires readers to channel their inner power to make their life more beautiful. She focuses on personal, spiritual, and business development strategies, and leaves readers feeling a sense of self-empowerment that will encourage them to reach their full potential, no matter the cost. Toni believes everyone is equipped to do and become anything they put their mind to, being successful on their own terms. Question is, are you ready to become the boss you are meant to be?
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