This must read book explains how to bring your dreams to fruition. There are key steps that need to be embedded in our process in order to achieve our dreams. Often times the dream that has been placed in us is so big it appears impossible to achieve. Many of us want to move forward but do not know where to start. In this book you will find key steps and concepts that will assist you on how to begin your journey. If you are reading this back cover recognize that you are not the ordinary individual. You are extraordinary and looking to fulfill a God given vision in this season. Decide to be open minded and allow the creation of a new thought pattern. After reading this book you will not be the same. Wherever your dream or passion lies it will become more fervent and more attainable through the inspirational instructions provided in each chapter. Do not let the disappointments of past failures or the viewpoint of others paralyze you from making your dreams come alive. Be liberated and overcome natural fears and concerns. God is waiting on you to take the next step. Your vision can and will become a reality if you allow God to lead you and guide you. The concepts introduced in this book will empower you and balance your approach to building your bridge from vision to reality. All the best to you along this exciting journey!
Listen to My Heart Speak is a compilation of poetic letters written by writers from different walks of life. Candidly and vividly, lyricists open their hearts on paper, describing the metamorphosis of a sometimes ailing soul as it goes through renewal until a fully delivered spirit is born. Feelings, desires, and beliefs are poetically exhaled as the process of writing brings forth hope, victory, and deliverance. This is the psalm of our generation. This book is written to encourage and to liberate those who know our struggle because it is or has been their struggle. Its written to empower people who are bottled up but cant put their feelings into words that so desperately need to be released. Its written for all lovers of poetry that can appreciate and dance to the beat of our hearts as we reveal our life experiences in words. There are times when we were afraid and times when we were boldly confident. Read it and see for yourselves how poetically we have written our way to freedom. It has been a remarkable journey in which weve grown, and still, our best is yet to come.
Stories of unity and hope in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The author shares her experiences from her travels to New Orleans following the Category 5 hurricane.
Mills & Boon Forever — Be swept away by glamorous and heartfelt love stories. Reunited With Her Blue-Eyed Billionaire - Barbara Wallace For billionaire Whit Martin, Jamie Rutkowski is the one that got away. Now, his college girlfriend is back to celebrate their best’s friend’s marriage. Are they ready to unlock the secrets of their past... if it means a chance at for ever? Summer Fling With A Prince - Katrina Cudmore Journalist Toni Clarke has bagged an incredible opportunity...the chance to interview the notoriously private Prince Ivo of Monrosa! Alone together at his stunning beachside finca, Toni soon discovers there’s more to the royal, than just his crown. Italian Escape With The Ceo - Nina Milne In order to claim her inheritance, Ava Casseveti’s late father requested she make amends with Liam Rourke - his business rival’s son. Gorgeous CEO Liam doesn’t want her money... but he does need a stand-in girlfriend! Yet, walking away from their fake relationship, is harder than they planned... The Heiress’s Pregnancy Surprise - Donna Alward Ex-SAS officer Jacob Wolfe’s latest job, as aristocrat Charlotte Pemberton’s bodyguard, is pushing him to his limits. Never one to step over the line, he’s determined to ignore their intense connection. Until a single dance leads to a forbidden kiss...
A severe black cloud churns in the sky and drops suddenly to the earth. The enormous tornado speeds toward town, destroying everything in its path. Dreams lie in ruins. Loved ones are whisked away into eternity. Is anything in this world really shatterproof? You will be touched as you enter the lives of characters who experienced catastrophes in the deadly tornado outbreaks of 2011 and faced the aftershock with courage and faith.
From critically acclaimed author Katrina Leno comes a tender love letter to books and summertime, with a touch of magic. Anna Lucia Bell believes in luck: bad luck. Bad luck made her best friend stop talking to her. Bad luck caused her parents’ divorce. Bad luck is forcing her mother, Miriam, to sell the family’s beloved bookstore. And it is definitely bad luck that Anna seems to be the only person in the world Miriam is unable to recommend a life-changing book. When Anna finds out that she and her mom are spending two months in a New England seaside town called Rockport, she expects a summer plagued with bad luck too. But Rockport has surprises in store for Anna, including a comet making its first appearance in over twenty years and two new—but familiar—friends. In what will prove to be the most important summer of her life so far, Anna learns about love, herself, and the magic that an ordinary summer can bring.
I wonder if I will be able to bail her out of trouble this time, a daughter’s duty, Belinda Star thought as she was flying from Germany to her beloved Virginia to try to save her mother. Belinda Star is a seasoned veteran of the United States Army. Despite her specialized training and experiences on the battlefield, nothing could mentally prepare her for what she was about to face: numerous crimes committed in her name and against her personally by her mother and godparent. It took every ounce of strength she possessed for Belinda Star to stay focused and disciplined while protecting the laws and her family members. Once again, she put herself in harm’s way to protect others as she had done throughout most of her adult life. This novel presents various issues many military personnel face such as various types of fraud, theft, deceit, and betrayal from their own relatives. Unfortunately, servicemen and women become easy targets for theft, and this is an increasing issue to this day. This novel also focuses on the natural obligation between the service member, parents and other relatives, as well as their God and country.
A bold reconsideration of Hoodoo belief and practice Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. She examines Hoodoo culture and history by tracing its emergence from African traditions to religious practices in the Americas. Working against conventional scholarship, Hazzard-Donald argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters" and that after the turn of the nineteenth century, Hoodoo took on a national rather than regional profile. The spread came about through the mechanism of the "African Religion Complex," eight distinct cultural characteristics familiar to all the African ethnic groups in the United States. The first interdisciplinary examination to incorporate a full glossary of Hoodoo culture, Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System lays out the movement of Hoodoo against a series of watershed changes in the American cultural landscape. Hazzard-Donald examines Hoodoo material culture, particularly the "High John the Conquer" root, which practitioners employ for a variety of spiritual uses. She also examines other facets of Hoodoo, including rituals of divination such as the "walking boy" and the "Ring Shout," a sacred dance of Hoodoo tradition that bears its corollaries today in the American Baptist churches. Throughout, Hazzard-Donald distinguishes between "Old tradition Black Belt Hoodoo" and commercially marketed forms that have been controlled, modified, and often fabricated by outsiders; this study focuses on the hidden system operating almost exclusively among African Americans in the Black spiritual underground.
Taking a career timeout could be the window of opportunity you’ve been looking for Taking A Career Break For Dummies shows you that a career break could be life-changing. Career breaks give us a chance to pause to identify opportunities and dreams, focus on the things we’ve been missing, and develop new skills. This book empowers you to take the leap into your next chapter. There are dozens of reasons you might want to do it, but whatever your circumstance, this friendly Dummies guide will help you value your own well-being, give yourself permission to grow and explore, and reclaim your time, your life, and your happiness. Develop your plan for taking a break from your career and for transitioning back when you’re ready Set a budget for your break, create a realistic timeline, and make it happen Access practical tools and resources to help you on your career break journey Build a positive mindset so you can enjoy your break and return to your career feeling renewed For anyone looking for a new direction, feeling burned out, or longing to reignite that inner spark, Taking a Career Break For Dummies is a must. If you’re looking for help structuring your planned time off, you’ll also love the hands-on guidance and examples inside.
In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically to the rhetorical strategies employed as barriers and boundaries intersect with individual lives. She provides a unique method to understand how the displaced move within accepted and subversive discourses, and how representation is a crucial component of that movement. In addition, Powell shows how notions of human rights and the "public good" are often at odds with individual well-being and result in intriguing intersections between discourses of power and discourses of identity. Given the ever-increasing numbers of displaced persons across the globe, and the "layers of displacement" experienced by many, this study sheds light on the resources of rhetoric as means of survival and resistance during the globally common experience of displacement.
San Diego's North Island is one of the most significant venues of aviation in the world. Starting in 1911, it was the home to one of the nation's first aviation schools, founded by Glenn Curtiss, who pioneered seaplane flight. He trained the nucleus of America's future air forces there, including Lt. Theodore Ellyson, the first naval aviator. When the United States entered World War I, the government took over the island with plans to build a training center for the nation's armed forces. The new army base was named Rockwell Field, and the navy portion was named Naval Air Station San Diego. By 1937, the army had moved out, and the navy became the sole tenant. Today NAS North Island is part of the largest aerospace-industrial complex in the navy and is headquarters for the Naval Air Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet.
As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions. From the Happy Canyon Indian Pageant and Wild West Show in Pendleton, Oregon, to outdoor dramas like Tecumseh! in Chillicothe, Ohio, and Unto These Hills in Cherokee, North Carolina, locals staged performances that claimed to honor an Indigenous past while depicting that past on white settlers' terms. Linking the origins of these performances to their present-day incarnations, this incisive book reveals how they constituted what Katrina Phillips calls "salvage tourism"—a set of practices paralleling so-called salvage ethnography, which documented the histories, languages, and cultures of Indigenous people while reinforcing a belief that Native American societies were inevitably disappearing. Across time, Phillips argues, tourism, nostalgia, and authenticity converge in the creation of salvage tourism, which blends tourism and history, contestations over citizenship, identity, belonging, and the continued use of Indians and Indianness as a means of escape, entertainment, and economic development.
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