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Continue reading →: 5 Books Filled with That Good Authentic InspirationHere’s a list of five books that I’ve picked up this year that filled me up with that good authentic inspiration. Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist Description Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world…
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Continue reading →: Manga Mania!October is here! My favorite month. I’m also over excited because the creators of Bleach are blessing fans with a new final arc called BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War on October 10th, 2022. This blog post is going to take a minute to celebrate VIZ Media by taking a moment to…
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Continue reading →: Call Us What We Carry – A Beautiful Poetry CollectionCall Us What We Carry Amanda Gorman Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores…
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Continue reading →: The Gilded Ones – Book ReviewThe Gilded Ones by Namina Forna Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like…
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Continue reading →: August Adventures and a Fun Bookstore Named NuriaAugust 31st is here and it is a mix of warm and cold. Our little corner in Nairobi is feeling dry-ish. Still waiting for decent rain. The month was filled with a voting week and the strange limbo that follows result week. Kenyans, we remain resilient. The business continues, and…
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Continue reading →: Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robin SmithWash Day Diaries tells the story of four best friends—Kim, Tanisha, Davene, and Cookie—through five connected short story comics that follow these young women through the ups and downs of their daily lives in the Bronx. The book takes its title from the wash day experience shared by Black women everywhere,…
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Continue reading →: Ember Queen – Book ReviewEmber Queen by Laura Sebastian The thrilling conclusion to an epic fantasy about a throne cruelly stolen and a girl who must fight to take it back for her people. Princess Theodosia was a prisoner in her own country for a decade. Renamed the Ash Princess, she endured relentless abuse…
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Continue reading →: Lady Smoke Book ReviewLady Smoke by Laura Sebastian The Kaiser murdered Theodosia’s mother, the Fire Queen when Theo was only six. He took Theo’s country and kept her prisoner, crowning her Ash Princess–a pet to toy with and humiliate for ten long years. That era has ended. The Kaiser thought his prisoner weak…
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Continue reading →: Murdering Romance by Kendi Karimi- New Book Alert!Murdering Romance by Kendi Karimi Murdering Romance is a fictional story about one woman whose love for peanuts unknowingly sealed her fate, her missing father who had a lot to say about his absence in her life, and a little time to say it, then suddenly none at all, her…
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Continue reading →: Print on Demand – Book Publishing in KenyaQ. Should I Use Print on Demand for Book Publishing in Kenya? Answer: Yes. It is a reasonable and affordable way to print your books on a budget. Here is a scenario. If you have tried to publish a book in Kenya, chances are you have approached a large printing…
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