I got very, very emotionally invested in these characters, and this lead to quite a thrilling listen, for me. I even took to listening to it while I was level grinding in a video game, it kept my attention so easily.

I am so excited Snowball Unwrapped – the fourth book in my Snowball series featuring a matchmaking cat – is here!And so, on a day that many educators around the country and world reentered buildings with apprehension, anxiety, and questions, I entered with Purpose. Yeah, I only read this book like two weeks ago, but I loved it so much that it had to be included in this list! I don’t imagine something as BIG as the year long Kiva project yet, but good things are to come so keep checking in. They are hot, badass, protective, possessive, caring, and sexy as hell… Yes, they’re flawed, but I swear, they’ll make your heart RACE! Last summer, I also received a grant to travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where I volunteered at the Salaam Kivu International Film Festival and met a wide range of talented artists from from all over eastern and central Africa.

They lived on a very small farm in a small town in the heartland and existed amongst the strains of Glenn Miller, The Everly Brothers, REO Speedwagon and Whitesnake (and the wardrobes that matched). Yet often times when I reflected on my first few months of motherhood I would think about the experience being connected to cultural and global competence . While pregnant, a strange soul seems to try to seize the body of her child to be reborn; a shame that Tatyana is someone not to be messed with.I knew that in a couple weeks, we’d be able to collect the money owed to us from our large commercial clients, and we’d have enough in our account to pay everyone—and then some. It gave me the image of luchadores, rather than Zorro, eve

What Tatyana didn't know at that time was that this would change Yasenia in ways she never expected. I went to Colorado to realign myself as an educator and to reconnect with the kind of work I was doing in my classroom before the move to Cathedral.

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