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567 tulosta hakusanalla Charisse Ross-Callahan
Charisse Wellman's husband has been gone a year, and she's about to lose the only home her son, V.J., has ever known. She's quit law school but the money just isn't there. Her only option is to work as a law clerk for her ex-friend, Gideon Tabor. The only problem: Gideon is the judge who let her husband's killer go free, and Gideon doesn't know the connection.Gideon Tabor can't believe that the woman interviewing for the job is the girl he loved in high school. Charisse is hesitant about accepting his job offer, and when she does, Gideon makes every attempt to apologize for his relationship-ending blunder in high school. Charisse accepts his apology, but she keeps him at a distance. When Gideon learns that Charisse's anger actually stems from his release of the man who ran down her husband, he tries to explain, but Charisse doesn't want Gideon's excuses or the love he has to offer. She wants her husband's killer to pay.
The greatest power one can possess doesn't come from light or darkness, but from a place of love.When Charisse and Draxen meet shortly after the peace proclamation in the galaxy, they discover the fighting is far from done. In search of answers, they unite efforts against fate, risking their lives for each other. The most known White Templar healer in the galaxy, Charisse Tarren, always felt a piece was missing in her life-her identity. Raised as an orphan by the templars, she lets a vision lure her in with the promise of an important discovery. But what will she find at the end of the rocky road? Lord Draxen Harett, a member of the Dark Circle, is the one initiating the first peace treaty in the galaxy after hundreds of years of war. His parents' spirits appear before him, sending him to a forgotten world, where he must make a moment's decision-one which could influence the future of the entire galaxy. Brought together by unexpected circumstances, and overtaken by their feelings for each other, Charisse and Draxen will have to unite their efforts and fight once again. Will they discover their purpose before one of them dies, or will fate defeat them?
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
Charisse Jones; Kumea Shorter-Gooden
HARPER PERENNIAL
2004
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"Always moving, at times haunting, and often inspirational, Shifting provides a richly textured look at the lives of Black women. Jones and Shorter-Gooden poignantly portray the day-to-day challenges and triumphs of 'sisters' at work, in relationships, and in their spiritual lives." -- Bebe Moore Campbell, author of What You Owe MeBased on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to compromise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves or their outer appearance. They modify their speech. They shift "white" as they head to work in the morning and "Black" as they come back home each night. They shift inward, internalizing the searing pain of the negative stereotypes that they encounter daily. And sometimes they shift by fighting back.With deeply moving interviews, poignantly revealed on each page, Shifting is a much-needed, clear, and comprehensive portrait of the reality of African American women's lives today.
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
Charisse Jones; Kumea Shorter-Gooden
HARPER PERENNIAL
2025
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Commemorating its 20th anniversary with a new Introduction and updated content, Shifting explores the many identities Black women must adopt in various spaces to succeed in America. Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of Black women feel pressure to compromise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves or their outer appearance. They modify their speech. They shift "white" as they head to work in the morning and "Black" as they come back home each night. They shift inward, internalizing the searing pain of the negative stereotypes that they encounter daily. And sometimes they shift by fighting back. In commemoration of its twentieth year in print with a new Introduction and updated content throughout Shifting is a much-needed, clear, and comprehensive portrait of the reality of Black women's lives today.
Ten-year-old Marcus Robinson plans to become a professional basketball player, but when he, his twin sister, and their classmates meet a real star on a school field trip, they learn the importance of dreaming more than one career dream. Simultaneous.
A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government’s anti-communist repression. In the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans’ fear of Black Nationalism and dread at what social, economic, and political equality of Black people might entail. The Red Scare, sparked by communist uprisings abroad and subversion at home, established anticapitalism as a force capable of infiltrating and disrupting the American order. In Black Scare / Red Scare, Charisse Burden-Stelly meticulously outlines the conjoined nature of these state-sanctioned panics, revealing how they unfolded together as the United States pursued capitalist domination. Antiradical repression, she shows, is inseparable from anti-Black oppression, and vice versa. Beginning her account in 1917—the year of the Bolshevik Revolution, the East St. Louis Race Riot, and the Espionage Act—Burden-Stelly traces the long duration of these intertwined and mutually reinforcing phenomena. She theorizes two bases of the Black Scare / Red Scare: US Capitalist Racist Society, a racially hierarchical political economy built on exploitative labor relationships, and Wall Street Imperialism, the violent processes by which businesses and the US government structured domestic and foreign policies to consolidate capital and racial domination. In opposition, Radical Blackness embodied the government’s fear of both Black insurrection and Red instigation. The state’s actions and rhetoric therefore characterized Black anticapitalists as foreign, alien, and undesirable. This reactionary response led to an ideology that Burden-Stelly calls True Americanism, the belief that the best things about America were absolutely not Red and not Black, which were interchangeable threats. Black Scare / Red Scare illuminates the anticommunist nature of the US and its governance, but also shines a light on a misunderstood tradition of struggle for Black liberation. Burden-Stelly highlights the Black anticapitalist organizers working within and alongside the international communist movement and analyzes the ways the Black Scare/Red Scare reverberates through ongoing suppression of Black radical activism today. Drawing on a range of administrative, legal, and archival sources, Burden-Stelly incorporates emancipatory ideas from several disciplines to uncover novel insights into Black political minorities and their legacy.
A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government’s anti-communist repression. In the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans’ fear of Black Nationalism and dread at what social, economic, and political equality of Black people might entail. The Red Scare, sparked by communist uprisings abroad and subversion at home, established anticapitalism as a force capable of infiltrating and disrupting the American order. In Black Scare / Red Scare, Charisse Burden-Stelly meticulously outlines the conjoined nature of these state-sanctioned panics, revealing how they unfolded together as the United States pursued capitalist domination. Antiradical repression, she shows, is inseparable from anti-Black oppression, and vice versa. Beginning her account in 1917—the year of the Bolshevik Revolution, the East St. Louis Race Riot, and the Espionage Act—Burden-Stelly traces the long duration of these intertwined and mutually reinforcing phenomena. She theorizes two bases of the Black Scare / Red Scare: US Capitalist Racist Society, a racially hierarchical political economy built on exploitative labor relationships, and Wall Street Imperialism, the violent processes by which businesses and the US government structured domestic and foreign policies to consolidate capital and racial domination. In opposition, Radical Blackness embodied the government’s fear of both Black insurrection and Red instigation. The state’s actions and rhetoric therefore characterized Black anticapitalists as foreign, alien, and undesirable. This reactionary response led to an ideology that Burden-Stelly calls True Americanism, the belief that the best things about America were absolutely not Red and not Black, which were interchangeable threats. Black Scare / Red Scare illuminates the anticommunist nature of the US and its governance, but also shines a light on a misunderstood tradition of struggle for Black liberation. Burden-Stelly highlights the Black anticapitalist organizers working within and alongside the international communist movement and analyzes the ways the Black Scare/Red Scare reverberates through ongoing suppression of Black radical activism today. Drawing on a range of administrative, legal, and archival sources, Burden-Stelly incorporates emancipatory ideas from several disciplines to uncover novel insights into Black political minorities and their legacy.
Victimization varies across the population. Selected characteristics of some individuals and groups make them more vulnerable to crime than others. This is the first reader to focus on the most vulnerable among us. Based in science and free of statistical jargon, this collection goes beyond cursory explanations to examine victimization experiences among members of uniquely susceptible crime targets. Such groups include: homeless women; pregnant drug addicts; inmates with H.I.V.; international students; residents of developing nations; and non-human animals.Coston identifies twenty-five sub-groups and uses a multi-disciplinary approach to provide readers with important background information, an outline of fundamental issues, and a variety of particular germinal ideas. Contributors present a well-rounded view of the nature of the problems faced by each group, including critiques of past and current initiatives and suggestions for practical policy strategies.
A guide for the modern-day woman who leads: entrepreneur, executive, changemaker, warrior, healer, mother, midwife, maverick, crone. One of many women who have been called: To right imbalance. End injustice. Heal people and environment. Speak the truth. And shift the planet. But first, your people have to find you. Your purpose drives you-but you hide, behind keyboard or overcommitted schedule. You remain a "best-kept secret." You feel disconnected from your brand. You've plateaued and can't seem to increase your reach. This book gives you the tools to change all that. You'll learn how to turn up the volume on your visibility and presence, accessing untapped reserves of wisdom, guidance and power-by clearing the shame that binds us, and restoring our trust in ourselves. "Shameless comes from a place of deep truth." -Kimberly Robb Baker, Chief Career Storyteller, ThisLittleBrand.com
The Art of Facilitation, with 28 Equine Assisted Activities
Charisse Rudolph
Art of Facilitation, with 28 Equine Assisted
2015
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Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-Home Pediatric Nursing
Charisse N. Montgomery
Black Blue Publishing, LLC
2015
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Miracles and Grace in an Unlikely Place: Memoir of a Christian Woman Biker-Bar Owner
Charisse a. Tyson
Lifeanew Publishing
2013
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Born Again in a Biker Bar tells the compelling story of a codependent woman and her alcoholic husband, set against the backdrop of the iconic Johnny's Bar & Grill in Hollister, California-the bar made famous by the 1953 Marlon Brando film The Wild One. When Charisse Tyson bought Johnny's in 1996, she had no idea of its fame or historical significance but was well aware of her husband Tommy's struggle with alcoholism. Within months of the purchase, Tommy quit his job and sank deeper into his addiction, threatening not only his health but also their marriage.On the brink of divorce, Charisse attended her first Al-Anon meeting, where she uttered the transformative words, "Hello, my name is Charisse, and I'm a codependent." This moment sparked a profound journey of self-examination, faith, and healing. Embracing the Christian roots she had abandoned, Charisse began her recovery-a process that eventually led to Tommy's as well. Now married for over 35 years, their story is one of redemption, resilience, and the power of faith.In 2015, Born Again in a Biker Bar earned the Bronze Medal in the Living Now Book Awards for Inspirational Memoir, celebrating its impact as a guide for better living. Whether you're struggling with codependency or seeking hope in the face of dysfunction, the pages of this memoir offer help, healing, and inspiration.
Life is cruel.I tried so hard to avoid pain, to live carefully, and to keep a level head until I was ready to settle down . . .much later. Why is it that the people who don't want to take risks get pushed into them the most? All I wanted was to make it to graduation with my friends, to go to college, and to focus on cheerleading-something that made me happy.I never asked for this-any of it.But now, here I am with a gaping hole in my chest. I can barely breathe. I didn't want to need him, but I do. And he left me. How could he do this to me after making me love him? I wish I could hate him. Maybe then my heart could mend.I have a secret. But it won't be a secret for long. I don't think I can do this alone. He found me-someone that's earned my trust over the years. He would never hurt me. And that's what makes him more appealing. Then he made me an offer that's hard to refuse.And just when I thought things were getting better, the biggest twist of them all was thrown in. If my heart survives the shock, which do I choose? Either way, someone will lose.FATE SERIES, #3
I've known what it's like to be at the top of the world looking down.I had the girl, the band, fans, and a deal on the table. It was the opportunity of a lifetime, and not many get to experience it. I knew what I wanted and was unstoppable. No one was going to stand in our way. She supported me. She had an undying love for our music. And I was all in. Being a tattoo artist was just a paid hobby I was more than happy to lay down.We were going to make it-all of us. I could already feel the heat from the stage lights, see the sold-out venue with hands in the air as the crowd chanted our name and sang our lyrics. I could imagine our songs playing on the radio. Music videos, success, fame, Grammys-I wanted it all. We were chasing a dream. Billboard was my target. And we were days away from claiming a tour bus.Then she died.A musician without a muse is nothing. She was mine. I wanted none of it anymore. No friends, family, nothing. I just wanted her. Drugs became my lifeline. Didn't matter the kind. It all served a purpose. An effort to make me forget what I'd done. My desire for music laid six-feet under just like her. And as much as I wanted to die, God wouldn't let me. Living was a greater punishment.When I was as low as I could go, the stars aligned, and suddenly I was around people I couldn't escape, being forced to face things I never had. Fresh out of rehab and halfway across the country and I laid eyes on her-hot, younger, and an itch I was going to scratch.Only it wasn't. She changed everything. Things I didn't want changed. She stirs emotions I'd laid to rest. She sparks behavior in me that's never existed. She surfaces a form of desire I've never known. Her immaturity leaves me raging mad. Her tantrums make me crazy. And the jealousy over her I can't handle. Yet I can't leave her alone.And when the supernatural has a hand in matchmaking, the only thing left . . . is recovery.Note from the author: It is imperative to read "Fated for You and Fated for Me" prior to reading Fate by Forgiveness, as Riggan and Sayler's story starts there. 18+ due to content.
He's the boy who wants to disappear. One mistake and seventeen-year-old Shake LeCasse lost everything. Now there's no going back and no way to move forward. The once-popular Varsity hockey captain is living in the basement of a grandmother he barely knows, ditching school, avoiding friends and working hard on self-destruction. She's the girl nobody sees. Cleo Lee survives however she can. Lie, cheat, steal, whatever it takes, and saving Mr. Popular isn't part of the plan. Telling him the truth about the night that destroyed his life is downright dangerous. She needs to keep quiet, be smart and let the guy she's been half in love with since middle school throw away a future she'd do anything to have. Too bad she sucks at playing it safe.
24 coloring pages To remind yourself that you are beautiful, brave and bold. Beauty is not about a pretty face it is about having a Big Beautiful Heart, mind and soul. I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.Everybody, at times, feels unattractive or even ugly. There are times when we say to ourselves, "Gosh, I am not beautiful at all My nose is to small or to big, my eyes are not colored. My hair is kinky" We could just go on and on with all the imperfections we notice in ourselves. Always try and remember That No beauty will ever shine as big as whats inside your heart