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by Seconde Nimenya (Author)
Life is always a little easier when we have a listening ear, an understanding heart, and a Hand to Hold. This is a debut novel from the international Book Award-Winning Author Seconde Nimenya, who has graced her readers with heart-warming, inspirational, and soulful books portraying the human experience and resilience in books like: Evolving Through Adversity, A Long Way to School, and the latest, Unlocking Diversity."A Hand to Hold" is the tale of a young Ethiopian orphan named Adina, adopted at five years old and brought to the United States of America. Under her new parents' love and care, she blooms and tries to assimilate to her new home, but she also finds herself longing to know her biological parents, and what happened to them.As Adina experiences life from childhood to adulthood, she always feels a piece of her soul is missing. Then through an unexpected encounter with a caring and loving man interested in her and her story, Adina begins to heal her past and is offered a hand to hold for her life forward. Throughout Adina's story, we learn about one woman's failures and triumphs as she swims against the currents, and in the end, finds that all she needs is to peel back the layers of her own human complexities, trust her inner voice to allow her soul to evolve. Written with compassion and wit, the author leaves us with a satisfying ending, and an invitation to find peace from within ourselves and extend it to heal others.
Author Biography
Seconde Nimenya is an international award-winning author of "Evolving Through Adversity," a story of her life journey in which she shares the life lessons she has learned along the way, to inspire others. Her second book, "A Hand To Hold" is an inspirational novel of love, healing and redemption. And her third book, "A Leader's Companion Workbook to Evolving Through Adversity" is filled with leadership insights for personal and professional development. Seconde is the Founder of COMMON PURPOSE TRAINING SERVICES (CPTS), and serves as CPTS's Principal Diversity Leadership Trainer for clients ranging from small to large organizations and world-class universities and colleges. She helps leaders and employees achieve cultural transformations, develop cultural competence and engage a diverse workforce, while bridging the gaps between diverse and multicultural communities both locally and globally. Her expertise is in debunking diversity stereotypes and biases that affect the workplace from attracting, hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. Seconde holds a bachelor's degree in history, a bachelor's degree in business administration with a major in finance and an MBA. She blends her varied cultural and educational backgrounds to create dynamic presentations, using a unique approach that is both inspiring and empowering. Seconde is a firm believer that despite our social identities such as race, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation, we are far more alike than different. As a frequent keynote speaker, trainer and advocate, Seconde shares inspiration and motivation to spark her audience's minds with new and fresh perspectives. She advocates for diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the educational system, as well as raises key global issues such as the violence against women, child marriage and education for girls. Her TED Talk on Race and other Identity Constructs, titled, "We Are Not All That Different" has been hailed as the most inspirational TED Talk for our times. In 2017, Seconde was honored with The Seeds Of Hope Award, recognizing her contributions in bridging the gaps between diverse communities. For more information about her work, visit: www.SecondeNimenya.com
