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For centuries, blue powders and dyes were some of the most sought-after materials in the world. Ancient Afghan painters ground mass quantities of sapphire rocks to use for their paints, while snails were harvested in Eurasia for the tiny amounts of blue that their bodies would release.

Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest and explores the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. In the first unforgettable story of this collection, 'The Finkelstein Five', Adjei-Brenyah gives us an unstinting reckoning of the brutal prejudice of the US justice system. In 'Zimmer Land' we see a far-too-easy-to-believe imagining of racism as sport. And 'Friday Black' and 'How to Sell a Jacket as Told by Ice King' show the horrors of consumerism and the toll it takes on us all.

The stories that you will hear in this collection highlight all things Accra, everything that the city was and is - the remaining vestiges of colonialism, the pride of independence, the nexus of indigenous tribes and other groups from all over the world, the tension between modernity and traditionalism, the symbolism and storytelling both obvious and coded, the moral high ground, the duplicity and deceit, the most basic human failings laid bare alongside fear and love and pain, and the corrupting desire to have the very things you are not meant to have.

Money, power, prestige...reject. Ransom Cox is - The Player. His whole life, hockey player, Ransom Cox, has watched the people he loves the most reject and leave him. He's learned it's better to be on his own. After the scandal of his wife walking out on him right before the championships, citing his bedroom "over" prowess as the reason, he can't seem to escape the spotlight. The last thing he wants is to be stranded in a cabin with the one girl he's always wanted. The one girl who could destroy him.

Anything can be fixed with a little Duct Tape and sass... At least that's what celebrity fixer, Delilah Donovan, used to think. She prides herself on being able to handle anything. But when she's asked to fix the new CEO of Synth Games, she never dreams she'll come face to face with the only man to ever break her heart. The past can't always be fixed... When a friend calls in a long ago favor, reformed hacker, Nate Williams, worries that his shady past will come back to haunt him.

In her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti's virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of genre.

Chronic list-making, event planner, Jaya Trudeaux Westhorpe, envisioned a fairytale ending once she married hotel magnate, Alec Westhorpe - complete with a steamy, extended honeymoon and an eventual family. What she didn't expect was a baby on their doorstep and a family-phobic husband. When reformed playboy, Alec Danthers Westhorpe, married the woman of his dreams, he thought he'd finally found his happy ending. But a long-hidden secret threatens to jeopardize what he holds most dear.

FBI Agent Dylan Donovan is a man with a plan. Or at least he was. He had the girl, the job, the family until a split-second decision to trade one life for another turned his whole world upside down. With nothing left to lose, he's ready to course correct...until he's assigned to protect the impetuous and free-spirited Serafina Justice. Sera is off men. With an overbearing mother and a bad-news ex-boyfriend, all the lifestyle brand manager wants to do is focus on her job.

Up-and-coming racecar driver Kisima Jennings is all alone in the world, and that's just how she likes it. After all, she has her career - who needs family? But when a near-fatal crash jeopardizes her future, she's forced to lean on someone for the first time in her life. As an athletic trainer, Derek Donovan is driven and has always kept his eyes on the prize, never letting personal entanglements come between him and his dream of becoming a head trainer for the New Orleans Jaguars. That is until one misstep costs him everything. Now he's starting over.

I never asked for my tiara. My dreams were always bigger than a palace. They're as big as the world. Being fourth in line for the throne should have guaranteed me freedom. I thought I was one step from walking away forever, but a long-forgotten rule forces me to run instead. I refuse to marry a Duke and bear an heir to save our titles. I trust my brothers to find a way to save my future, but first, I need to save myself. Only, I never expected to meet danger...and Kannon Adams along the way.

I know men like him. Powerful. Arrogant. Trouble. The world is his playground. The playboy prince, the tabloid favorite, and the bane of my existence. And unfortunately, he’s the only one who might be able to help me uncover the truth. We're all but shackled together as he works to help me find my stalker before another attack. I don’t want to trust him. I don’t want to want him. But letting Breck Waterford in might be the only thing to save us both.

Spunky artist manager, Jessica Stanton, isn't looking for love. She's looking for a savior. When a business rival steals yet another of her rising stars, she's in danger of losing everything she's worked so hard for... and the only person who can save her fledgling business is the one man she shouldn't want.

Smart mouthed and in charge, magazine editor, Micha Bennett, has learned the hard way to choose her career over love. When she's up for the job of a lifetime, the competition becomes deadly fierce. To protect their best asset, her company hires the one person who's ever put Micha on edge and threatens her sense of control. Sexy, security consultant, Caleb Atkins, knows what he wants and it's Micha Bennett. He just has to convince her that she wants him too.

Money, power, prestige...washout. Fox Coulter is...the player. There is no Plan B for Fox. All he has is hockey. All he's ever had is hockey. That and his best friend, Sasha. So when she's up rent creek with no roommate, it's Fox to the rescue. But, with the opportunity of a lifetime on the line, will his hotter-than-sin best friend be more of a distraction than his lucky charm? Sasha Tenison believes everyone should have rules.

You are a Coulter. You will be perfect. That's what Echo has been told every day of her life. As the only girl in the Coulter clan, she knows it's her job to be the glue of the family. But with the Olympics looming, the last thing she wants is to follow the rules. She wants to break free, and she knows just the guy to help her. Cole Atkins has no interest in spoiled little rich girls. Besides, he's got the job of a lifetime and just met the girl of his dreams...that is, until she ditches him under the cover of darkness.

Shortly after Renée is commissioned as an Army second lieutenant, a deadly virus sweeps across the world, turning most of the living into mindless, undead beings with insatiable cravings for raw human flesh. Stuck with a younger half-brother she has mixed feelings for, Renée becomes his reluctant protector as they embark on a harrowing journey of survival in search of their father.

Doubt, self-pity, insecurity, and discouragement: These rob many young people of the opportunity to give themselves a chance to use their potential. By not venturing to do so, they neglect their purpose or live it half-heartedly, if they dare. Worse than that, many young people never think of themselves as people God can or wants to use. This book shatters that mindset and encourages children and young people to believe that God wants to and does use “ordinary” people to do great things for his purpose.

Maya grows up in Germany knowing that her parents are different: from one another, and from the rest of the world. Her reserved, studious father is distant; and her beautiful, volatile mother is a whirlwind, with a penchant for lavish shopping sprees and a mesmerising power for spinning stories of the family’s former glory - of what was had, and what was lost.

De volta ao prazer conta as aventuras de Maria Luísa Vargas, a Malu. Uma mulher de quarenta anos que nasceu em uma época de mudanças, foi criada à moda antiga e tentou ser o que sua família queria. Agora, recém-separada, há algo dentro dela que grita por liberdade. Malu toma as rédeas de sua vida e começa a se redescobrir como mulher.

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