Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse
Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse

Author: Susan Vaught

Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1534425012

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“Edgar-winning Vaught, a neuropsychologist, has both personal and professional experience to draw on in crafting a narrator who is admirably smart and resilient despite an ‘itchy’ brain and a compulsion to count things.” —Booklist (starred review) “Deeply smart and considerate.” —BCCB “An absorbing mystery.” —Kirkus Reviews “A strong addition to help diversify realistic fiction collections to include neuroatypical characters and heroines.” —School Library Journal In this Edgar Award–winning novel by mystery superstar Susan Vaught, Jesse is on the case when money goes missing from the library and her dad is looking like the #1 suspect. I could see the big inside of my Sam-Sam. I had been training him for 252 days with mini tennis balls and pieces of bacon, just to prove to Dad and Mom and Aunt Gus and the whole world that a tiny, fluffy dog could do big things if he wanted to. I think my little dog always knew he could be a hero. I just wonder if he knew about me. When the cops show up at Jesse’s house and arrest her dad, she figures out in a hurry that he’s the #1 suspect in the missing library fund money case. With the help of her (first and only) friend Springer, she rounds up suspects (leading to a nasty confrontation with three notorious school bullies) and asks a lot of questions. But she can’t shake the feeling that she isn’t exactly cut out for being a crime-solving hero. Jesse has a neuro-processing disorder, which means that she’s “on the spectrum or whatever.” As she explains it, “I get stuck on lots of stuff, like words and phrases and numbers and smells and pictures and song lines and what time stuff is supposed to happen.” But when a tornado strikes her small town, Jesse is given the opportunity to show what she's really made of—and help her dad. Told with the true-as-life voice Susan Vaught is known for, this mystery will have you rooting for Jesse and her trusty Pomeranian, Sam-Sam.

On a Mission
On a Mission

Author: Ms. Michel Moore

Publisher: Urban Books

Published: 2023-06-27

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1645565424

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Join Essence®-bestselling authors Ms. Michel Moore and T.C. Littles, along with Novelist Blacc Topp, as they each give you heart-racing, gritty tales of what being On a Mission on the block ultimately means. WHEN STAYING ON TOP IS THE ONLY OPTION! Life ain’t never been fair in the treacherous street game. When you play it, you can’t forget there never was and never will be any true honor amongst thieves. It’s do or die. To make major moves and hustle out in the streets, you have zero choices if you want to win. The blueprint is simple: RISE, GRIND, SHINE, and, of course, stay the hell out the way! Between the struggle of avoiding the opposition, law enforcement, and sometimes your own people turning on you, life gets real, and the consequences are even realer.

Friends & Enemies
Friends & Enemies

Author: Ruth Burgess

Publisher: Wild Goose Publications

Published: 2004-02-15

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1905010974

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Short prayers about friends, enemies, relationships and the particular moments and places of our daily lives. Includes instructions for three prayer-writing workshops.

Handle with Care
Handle with Care

Author: Lore Ferguson Wilbert

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2020-02-04

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1535962321

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Whether it’s fearful side hugs on one side or sexual abuse on the other, both the culture and the church aren’t doing very well with touch. Singles are staying single longer, dating is wrought with angst over purity, and marriages struggle to not interpret all forms of touch as sexual. Even the Bible seems to have endless rules about not touching things. There is simply no place where touch doesn’t seem threatened or threatening. But a curious thing happens when Jesus comes into His ministry: He touches. Jesus touches the sick and the outcast, the bleeding and the unclean. What could it mean for families, singles, marriages, churches, communities, and the world to have healthy, pure, faithful, ministering touch? Somewhere in the mess of our assumptions and fears about touch, there is something beautiful and good and God-given. As Jesus can show us, there is ministry in touching.

Testing of a Life
Testing of a Life

Author: Shakima Walker

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2022-07-20

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13:

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Testing of a Life By: Shakima Walker Testing of a Life details a life that experiences so many ups and downs. Violence, hurt, pain. You imagine it, it probably happened. This book is to show anybody that no matter the obstacles, you can get out of any situation. It’s full of lessons. It always shows that with God on your side, nothing is too hard or impossible to happen for you.

Lethal Indemnity
Lethal Indemnity

Author: Vincent Anthony

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-05-06

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1479799963

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Insurance adjuster Benjamin Chaze wakes up in Massachusetts General Hospital, severely beaten and drugged, with no recollection as to how or why. He soon discovers his apartment and car have also been burglarized. Someone has gone to great lengths and risk to get something from Ben. He and the police come to the initial conclusion that he must have seen something while working on a claim, or inadvertently included something incriminating in one of his claim files. Working with public adjuster, Katrina Peters, they increasingly realize the stakes are far more than originally thought, and far more sinister than either ever imagined. The race to find the answers holds the key to the prevention of their own demise.

The answer of the body to the questions of the world.
The answer of the body to the questions of the world.

Author: Julia Hayden

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2019-12-17

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 3750426694

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This book tries to reconcile us with ourselves, our surroundings and our environment. In addition to in-depth knowledge of our body system, anatomy, movement analysis and the soma-somatic, psychosomatic and bio-psychosocial chains of action, it contains a hypothetical model that compares the cell with the human being with the world. In addition, it is made up of lived stories, those that expand knowledge, cheer up or offer new perspectives. As a total work of art, the book accompanies the reader from his own body to self-reflection and beyond - to a balanced world.

Isese Spirituality Workbook
Isese Spirituality Workbook

Author: Ayele Kumari

Publisher: Ayele Kumari

Published: 2020-06-23

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Ifa Orisa Spirituality is an ancestral wisdom tradition steeped in nature and West African history . Isese (Ee Shay Shay) refers to tradition in Ifa spirituality and refers to the wisdom passed down from our ancestors and spiritual progenitors. Descendants from the African Diaspora displaced during the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade are seeking to return back to our indigenous nature based roots for empowerment and spiritual transformation. The Isese Workbook offers a wealth of information, personal rituals, and exercises that can be done right now to begin to tap this expansive spiritual system whether or not a mentor has been found. It will also offer new practicial tools for those who are already devotees of the tradition to deepen their understanding. The workbook is specifically designed for inner work including exercises and rites drawn from traditional practices in Africa but also embraces the evolution of that understanding to be useful and relevant for the 21st Century African Diaspora population. In the Isese Spirituality Workbook, you will learn: * About your unique spiritual anatomy and physiology based on Isese and Ifa * The power of your Ori and its influence in shaping your destiny. * The Pillars of Isese foundations in Ori, Egun, and Egbe. * The role in Iwa or Character in spiritual evolution and healing. * About Asaro meditation and how to use it to cultivate inner peace and healing. * How to cultivate a relationship with your ancestors & healing generational trauma. * About Egbe, your spiritual support system ,soul family & multidimensional worlds * The role of divination in securing answers and how to use a simple method to gain immediate direction and guidance. * Sacred verses in the Ancient Ifa literary corpus to give us timeless guidance. * Sacred technology using Ewe and easy to find items. * Frequently Asked Questions of Beginners * How to begin the practice of Isese, Ifa Orisa Spirituality in the West and more.

Pontiac
Pontiac

Author: Jim Schutze

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Published: 2024-09-10

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1646053605

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In the inner sanctum of an elite 1960’s boarding school, boys test their boundaries and class when they welcome an outsider. One New England boys’ boarding school, a bastion of the WASP aristocracy, has been holding out stubbornly against pressure to diversify. Grudgingly, St. Philip’s School in New Hampshire opens its doors to its first scholarship student: young Woodrow Skaggs from Pontiac, Michigan, the tough, rough-edged son of an autoworker. Things do not go smoothly—the world portrayed in Pontiac may be shockingly inappropriate to the readers of today. The attitudes of the St. Philip’s students toward gender and sex cruelly predict the treatment girls will receive twenty years later when many of these schools become coeducational. And yet in their awkward, often violent attempts to figure each other out, the boys of St. Philip’s also provide a window to better, more tolerant times ahead. Told through memories, vignettes, letters, and compelling conversation, Pontiac sees journalist and author Jim Schutze bring a keen and empathetic eye to the evolutions of culture in the twentieth century.