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                             Committed Finding Love And Loyalty Through The Seven                       Power 101 The Harvard Report, Soul Music And The
                           Archetypes by Carmen Harra, Ph.D & Alexandra Harra                          American Dream by Dr. Logan H. Westbrooks & Schuyler
                           Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Goodreads. What is                  Trauhber available at Ascent Publishing at Amazon &
                           commitment and why is it so hard to achieve? We’ve all                      Barnes & Noble. In 1972 CBS Records commissioned
                           struggled in love, but if you picked up this book, it means                 Harvard Business School and CBS Black Music Marketing
                           you’re ready to end cycles of pain and disappointment and                   Director, Logan Westbrooks, to develop and for CBS to
                           foster a truly fulfilling relationship. Committed will make you             implement, a “Study of the Soul Music Environment.” It was
                           reevaluate the way you think about love. It is a relationship               intended to be a simple, productive “blueprint” for Soul
                           manual that unfolds in two parts: the work you’ll need to                   music. The result was CBS Records receiving decades of
                           perform on the inside and the seven distinct archetypes you’ll              praise for its contributions to an era of strong music, along
                           encounter on the outside. In the first part of Committed, you’ll            with employment in positions previously denied to Blacks
                           learn how to· reexamine core beliefs you hold about                         in the music industry...all the way to astonishing charges of
                           commitment and relinquish harmful assumptions,· clear karmic                corporate collusion, racism, payoffs, and greed for the
                           patterns that were passed down to you and heal emotional                    enrichment of White corporate America at the expense of
        trauma from your youth,· liberate yourself from people and places that no longer  powerful, Black-owned, self-distributed record labels like Stax and Motown.
        serve you and habits that hinder your relationship potential, and· develop an
        unshakable sense of self-worth so that you give love not just to another partner but to       Stash My Life In Hiding by Laura Cathcart Robbins available
        the right partner. The second half of our book will teach you how to· identify your           at Amazon and Goodreads. After years of hiding her addiction
        partner’s archetype as well as his strengths, weaknesses, mindset, inclinations, and          from everyone—from stockpiling pills in her Louboutin heels
        commitment capacity,· determine your own love archetype,· make your partner                   (shoes with red soles) to elaborately scheduling withdrawals
        commit based on the needs, fears, and desires of his archetype,· navigate successfully        between PTA meetings, baby showers, and tennis matches—
        through the world of online and in-person dating,· build emotional intimacy with              Laura Cathcart Robbins settles into a complicated purgatory.
        your partner,· mediate external influences that come between you, and apply real-             She learns the hard way that privilege doesn’t protect you
        world solutions to resolve any relationship problem. The goal of Committed is to help         from pain. Facing divorce, the possibility of a grueling
        you find and keep the love you deserve: an authentic, impassioned relationship that           custody battle, and internalized racism, Robbins wonders just
        fills you with excitement each morning and puts your mind at ease every night.                how much more she can take. Now, with courage and candid
                                                                                                      openness, she reveals how she managed to begin the long
                           I Sang That - A Memoir From Hollywood by Sally Stevens                     journey towards sobriety and unexpectedly finding new love.
                           Available at Amazon & Barnes & Noble. It’s about a long                    Robbins harrowingly illustrates taking down the wall she
                           singing career that began in 1960 with concert tours - Ray                 built around herself brick by brick and what it means to be
                           Conniff, Nat King Cole, and later, solo work in concert with  Black in a startingly white world. With its raw, finely crafted, and engaging
                           Burt Bacharach - to thirty years of vocals and main titles for The  prose, Stash is the story of just how badly the facade she created had to shatter before
                           Simpsons, vocals for Family Guy...vocals on hundreds of film &  Laura could reconnect to her true self.
                           television scores & sound recordings, plus twenty-two years as             The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell available at Amazon,
                           Choral Director for the Oscars. It’s also the personal story of            Goodreads and Target. Production for the tenth season of Bake
                           growing up in a “his, hers and theirs” family in the forties and           Week is ready to begin at the gothic estate of host and
                           fifties, and how a shy little girl became a second-generation              celebrity chef Betsy Martin, and everything seems perfect. The
                           singer in the ever-evolving music business of Hollywood.
                                                                                                      tent is up, the top-tier ingredients are aligned, and the crew
                                                                                                      has their cameras at the ready.The six contestants work to
                                                                                                      prove their culinary talents over the course of five days, while
                                                                                                      Betsy is less than thrilled to share the spotlight with a new
                                                                                                      cohost—the brash and unpredictable Archie Morris. But as the
                            Income And Wealth by David Parker Essays available at                     baking competition commences, things begin to go awry. At
                           Amazon. For 40 years, David Parker served as a teacher in San              first, it’s merely sabotage—sugar replaced with salt, a burner
                           Francisco’s inner-city schools. Unlike most of his colleagues,             turned to high—but when a body is discovered, everyone is a
                           however, he did not place his faith and his future in the teachers’        suspect. A deliciously suspenseful thriller for murder mystery
                           union or the government. Instead, he simultaneously became a               buffs and avid bakers alike, The Golden Spoon will keep you
                           real estate investor and entrepreneur, as well as a jazz musician.  guessing until the very last page.
                           As Parker jokingly says, “I have 150 years of experience.” His
                           financial journey has been very successful. A perennial student
                           as well as a teacher, to write “Income and Wealth,” Parker went             The Shamshine Blind by Paz Pardo available at Amazon,
                           back to school to study math, finance and economics. It became              Barnes & Noble and Goodreads. A beguiling blend of noir
                           clear that individual responsibility and initiative are essential           detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael
                           keys to financial success, and that government regulation of                Chabon and Emily St. John Mandel, this unputdownable
                           important sectors of life including healthcare and education will           debut imagines a world where emotions have been
       always be a recipe for disaster. Parker’s message is a positive one. He not only assures        weaponized, and a small-town law enforcement agent
       readers that financial independence is possible, regardless of annual income, but he            uncovers a conspiracy to take down what’s left of American
       provides a step-by-step plan for achieving this desirable goal. ”Income and Wealth” will        democracy. Told in the voice of a funny, brooding, Latinx
       provide readers with thought-provoking insights into the way the economy really                 Sam Spade, The Shamshine Blind is “a rip-roaring beautifully
       works. It is scholarly writing in political economy, yet provides useful insights into          crafted mash-up of cop noir, sci-fi, and alt-history that left me
       financial decision-making on a daily basis                                                      dazzled by its prescience and literary zing.


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