In Don't Be Bitter, Be Better, Yolanda L. Robinson, an experienced speaker, youth mentor, and professional life coach, shares some of what she has witnessed and learned over the years about self-empowerment. Her guide is not about taking shortcuts, but learning how to work hard in order to be successful, get what you want, and fulfill your dreams. Encouraging you to believe that you are worthy of God's gifts, she teaches you how to recognize obstacles, overcome them, and celebrate life whether your achievements are big or small. Providing tips, suggestions, exercises, and creative solutions, her little book is guaranteed to lead you towards improved performance, enhanced relationships, increased satisfaction, and most important of all, self-confidence. Are family, career, business, financial, and relationship issues holding you back? Stop being bitter, be better, and move on! If you yearn for an empowered life grounded in passion and purpose, it's entirely up to you to make the effort. It's all about treating time as a precious commodity, seeing the big picture, and defining a realistic plan. This invaluable resource is sure to help you along the way.

All Groan Up: Searching for Self, Faith, and A Freaking Job! is the story of the GenY/Millennial generation told through the individual story of author Paul Angone. It’s a story of struggle, hope, failure, and doubts in the twilight zone of growing up and being grown, connecting with his twentysomething post-college audience with raw honesty, humor, and hope.

Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR This inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison reform activist Yusef Salaam, of the Exonerated Five, that will inspire us all to turn our stories into tools for change in the pursuit of racial justice. They didn't know who they had. So begins Yusef Salaam telling his story. No one's life is the sum of the worst things that happened to them, and during Yusef Salaam's seven years of wrongful incarceration as one of the Central Park Five, he grew from child to man, and gained a spiritual perspective on life. Yusef learned that we're all "born on purpose, with a purpose." Despite having confronted the racist heart of America while being "run over by the spiked wheels of injustice," Yusef channeled his energy and pain into something positive, not just for himself but for other marginalized people and communities. Better Not Bitter is the first time that one of the now Exonerated Five is telling his individual story, in his own words. Yusef writes his narrative: growing up Black in central Harlem in the '80s, being raised by a strong, fierce mother and grandmother, his years of incarceration, his reentry, and exoneration. Yusef connects these stories to lessons and principles he learned that gave him the power to survive through the worst of life's experiences. He inspires readers to accept their own path, to understand their own sense of purpose. With his intimate personal insights, Yusef unpacks the systems built and designed for profit and the oppression of Black and Brown people. He inspires readers to channel their fury into action, and through the spiritual, to turn that anger and trauma into a constructive force that lives alongside accountability and mobilizes change. This memoir is an inspiring story that grew out of one of the gravest miscarriages of justice, one that not only speaks to a moment in time or the rage-filled present, but reflects a 400-year history of a nation's inability to be held accountable for its sins. Yusef Salaam's message is vital for our times, a motivating resource for enacting change. Better, Not Bitter has the power to soothe, inspire and transform. It is a galvanizing call to action.

Saundra Boston has finally accomplished a lifetime goal and dream. She is a Senior Partner in a very reputable and prestigious law firm. However, it has not come without a price. Saundra has come through a tough childhood in the projects, dysfunctional family life, broken heart more than once, fake co-workers, envious friends, marriage and divorced. But the one thing she could not do was give up on her children. In spite of all the bitterness, she had to make it for them. She had to become better, not bitter. Now that it seems like she has it all, there is still one thing missing..

The champion of uncelebrated foods including fat, offal, and bones, Jennifer McLagan turns her attention to a fascinating, underappreciated, and trending topic: bitterness. What do coffee, IPA beer, dark chocolate, and radicchio all have in common? They’re bitter. While some culinary cultures, such as in Italy and parts of Asia, have an inherent appreciation for bitter flavors (think Campari and Chinese bitter melon), little attention has been given to bitterness in North America: we’re much more likely to reach for salty or sweet. However, with a surge in the popularity of craft beers; dark chocolate; coffee; greens like arugula, dandelion, radicchio, and frisée; high-quality olive oil; and cocktails made with Campari and absinthe—all foods and drinks with elements of bitterness—bitter is finally getting its due. In this deep and fascinating exploration of bitter through science, culture, history, and 100 deliciously idiosyncratic recipes—like Cardoon Beef Tagine, White Asparagus with Blood Orange Sauce, and Campari Granita—award-winning author Jennifer McLagan makes a case for this misunderstood flavor and explains how adding a touch of bitter to a dish creates an exciting taste dimension that will bring your cooking to life.

"Portions of this book appeared in, or were adapted from, the author's column in the opinion page of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Huffington Post between 2007 and 2014." -- Title page verso.

We all have that one guy that we just can't seem to let go. You know he is terrible for you and finally he broke your heart to the point of no return. People always say "you should leave him" but never tell you how to move on after you leave him. Far beyond the traditional "breakup" book, F*ck Him! Don't Be Bitter, Get Better & Make Money is the ultimate guide that will empower you to let him go once and for all and become a sexy independent woman after a breakup that turned your life upside down, kept you stuck in a rut and left you at rock bottom.From learning how to win the breakup, loving yourself like never before, overcoming the adversities as a single mother, and setting a solid foundation for you and your future, This book is an electrifying way that will show you how to move forward, upgrade your life and attract TRUE love. For the single mother who thought it was hopeless after being played or a young girl who is determined not to fall onto the wrong path with boys This book will create a lifestyle movement for anyone yearning to rebuild and live a fulfilling, fearless and fabulous life. There is no other book like it.