Meet the faces and voices behind the conversations around immigration. These portraits and stories of teenagers who are recent immigrants to the US from all over the world show the diversity, beauty, and potential of the people who now call the United States home. Sixty full-page portraits of students at Oakland International High School, photographed by award-winning photographer Ericka McConnell, are accompanied by their own unique, diverse, and surprising stories of what makes them feel at home. Each of these young people is inspiring in their own right and together their stories will help us consider the issue of immigration with new mindfulness and compassion. All profits from the publication of this book will be donated to Oakland International High School.
Want to throw a 5-Star wedding, party or event? Michael Scott Novilla, the founder of world-class venue NOVA 535, has produced over two thousand 5-Star weddings and events the "NOVA" way! Michael's first book offers an insider's insights into the wild and hilarious, surprisingly personal, and always educational world of hosting Live Events.
In I Am Home Within Myself, Kadine Christie' s memoir, she explores her unraveling and rebirth. Kadine's father died 17 days after her 18th birthday. She buried their secret of fleeting pleasure and longing shame behind the quaking of her chest. Split and stuck, She cried often. Slowly, her tears turned to thoughts, and she stitched these stories together to find home within herself.
The Healing of I AM Presence teaches you to understand the daily connection with the Omni Presence, your Spiritual Team, and your Higher Self. It also teaches how to self-heal with spirit and to understand you are a spiritual being that has a physical experience and that you should never forget you are one with the Omni Presence. You are so powerful, and it is your birthright to know who you are, from where you have come, and to where you will return. This book is written with the Omni Presence, the Cosmos and my Spiritual Team in order to teach humanity what has taken place upon Earth at all spiritual levels—from the darkest to the lightest—to enlighten your soul. This book aims to show you the 12 physical realms of the Universe, the 12 spiritual realms of Heaven, and the energy at each level. There are over 233 pictures of my Spiritual Team to teach you to understand and believe in what you cannot see, to help you open to the Omni Presence and our higher realms, and to return to who you truly are as a spiritual being from the heavenly realms. “I AM grounded, I AM light, and I AM love with peace in my heart and gratitude in my heart for all. Let the love and light shine through to all on the planet Earth,” said the Omni Presence. A journey with the Cosmos and our Celestial Angelic Guides is life changing and emotional. Once you read this book you will never be the same; you will awaken. Visit Brenda online at www.BrendaZyburt.com
Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly opposed to the apartheid regime. In 1967, at the age of twenty-three, no longer able to tolerate the grotesque iniquities and oppression of apartheid, she chose exile and emigrated to the United States. There she embraced feminism, met anti-apartheid and solidarity movement activists, and encountered a particularly American brand of racial injustice. Urdang also met African revolutionaries such as Amilcar Cabral, who would influence her return to Africa and her subsequent journalism. In 1974, she trekked through the liberation zones of Guinea-Bissau during its war of independence; in the 1980’s, she returned repeatedly to Mozambique and saw how South Africa was fomenting a civil war aimed to destroy the newly independent country. From the vantage point of her activism in the United States, and from her travels in Africa, Urdang tracked and wrote about the slow, inexorable demise of apartheid that led to South Africa’s first democratic elections, when she could finally return home. Urdang’s memoir maps out her quest for the meaning of home and for the lived reality of revolution with empathy, courage, and a keen eye for historical and geographic detail. This is a personal narrative, beautifully told, of a journey traveled by an indefatigable exile who, while yearning for home, continued to question where, as a citizen of both South Africa and the United States, she belongs. “My South Africa!” she writes, on her return in 1991, after the release of Nelson Mandela, “How could I have imagined for one instant that I could return to its beauty, and not its pain?”
