Joy Takes Root -- Gwendolyn Wallace, Hardcover Eduardo Duran Track: 5 - Checkmate

Track: 5 - Checkmate

Limited vinyl LP pressing of this 2000 album from the death metal band

Empires rise and fall every day in the human heart

Isle of Winds is an engrossing tale written in the traditions of high fantasy story-telling while carving out a magical new realm

takes outspoken stances on racism and social injustice

Joy Takes Root -- Gwendolyn Wallace, Hardcover Eduardo Duran Track: 5 - CheckmateIn her grandmother's garden, a young Black girl learns about mindfulness and herbal medicine in this soothing intergenerational story about our connection to nature. It's Joy's first summer in her grandmother's South Carolina garden a rite of passage. In the midst of okra, spinach, and strawberries, Grammy teaches Joy that plants are friends with many uses. Herbs, for example, can be turned into medicine. There in Grammy's abundant backyard, Joy