ONE CHOICE MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE. An accident. Before, Cassidy Sinclair was no one special—just another freshman at Everett University, trying to make it through her first semester. Then a car crash nearly killed her and her father, and it changed her in a way she can’t explain. An unexpected encounter. Before, Cassidy had only ever admired superheroes from afar. Then one of them found her and offered her a chance to put her new abilities to use. To become a hero herself. A new arrival. Before, the city of Everett was protected by one superhero. Then Cassidy introduced herself as Playback—a hero with the ability to change the last decision she’d made. But being a hero isn’t always as simple as she had imagined it would be. Sometimes, there is no right option. A choice. Before, Playback thought she knew who she was fighting. But when a dangerous villain emerges with a truth that changes everything, she must make her toughest decision yet. She has to be able to live with her choice. But if she gets this one wrong, her life won’t be the only one at stake. For fans of Marvel Comics and Marissa Meyer’s Renegades trilogy, Twisted Fate: Playback’s Story is the next exciting, action-packed coming-of-age superhero novel you won’t want to miss!
THE BOOK OF RUTH Ruth is a teenage girl with the gift of prophecy, but she has blood on her hands when she chooses her boyfriend over her gift. THE BOOK OF GRACE As a freshman in high school, all she ever wanted was to be popular, but the principal's daughter, Angelica Rogers, filled that position a year before she arrived, but she soon realized that there's more to life than popularity. Grace has a gift. God speaks to her through dreams and visions, just like her mother, Ruth. THE BOOK OF GRACE AND CHARLIE: THE BEGINNING When Charlie walked into their first period Religion class, Grace and Angelica suddenly had something in common: they both liked Charlie. What's not to like? He was Prince Charming and a Knight and Shining Armor all in one, but Charlie had a secret.
For Sarah Christian-Love, being a teacher is more than a professional career choice. It is an act of obedience. It is an answer to a call upon her life. Specifically, she feels led to teach the next generation about the acts of love shown and sacrifices made throughout history for the advancement of African Americans. So, when she is given the opportunity to direct a school wide stage play written with the intention to honor black and white abolitionists and civil rights activists during Black History Month, she considers it to be a great privilege and an honor. Unfortunately, her colleagues' opinions about Black History Education leave her heartbroken and utterly speechless. As far as they are concerned, it is just "one more thing," in a long list of "things" to do as an educator and it leaves her questioning if she will ever be able to make a difference.
Mountains and a Mustard Seed: A Family's Journey of Hope is the real-life story of the Allen family. No detail has been spared as the reader is given an inside look at the dynamics of the average but not-so-ordinary family and their journey through this thing called life. How they worked at advancing careers, building a life, and enjoying comfort and security, to losing it all. Accompany them as they come to the humbling realization that they were not the authors of their own successes, learning to put their trust in God, and the amazement at how He provided for their every need, often using people along the way. Mountains and a Mustard Seed will inspire and give hope, regardless what stage of life's journey you are on.
This study provides the first book-length account of US-Habsburg relations from their origins in the early nineteenth century through the aftermath of World War I and the Paris Peace Conference. By including not only high-level diplomacy but also an analysis of diplomats' ceremonial and social activities, as well as an exploration of consular efforts to determine the citizenship status of thousands of individuals who migrated between the two countries, Nicole M. Phelps demonstrates the influence of the Habsburg government on the integration of the United States into the nineteenth-century great power system and the influence of American racial politics on the Habsburg empire's conceptions of nationalism and democracy. In the crisis of World War I, the US-Habsburg relationship transformed international politics from a system in which territorial sovereignty protected diversity to one in which nation-states based on racial categories were considered ideal.
Are you believing God to restore your marriage? Are you standing on God's promises to heal your family? This book is designed to walk one through the journey of standing for their marriage by leading them through prayer and renewed relationship with God. Before God changes your spouse, His desire is to change you first-make you whole again and restore you back to Him. Until You Come Home began as a struggle through prayer for the restoration of my family and marriage. Not as a book, but as a collection of several handwritten journals that God wanted to use for His glory and to save the life of this woman. I made one vow to God to help another woman get through the difficulties of life. I did not want another to struggle to find her voice in prayer, not realizing the power and authority she has implanted deep within her because she is the daughter of the Most High King. You may find the need to leave the constructs of religion and religious practices to seek an authentic relationship with God. Nicole's journey is one that breaks through the barriers of pain and brokenness to healing, restoration, and strength. One of the greatest gifts of love you can give is prayer.
This 1999 edition of The Neural Crest contains comprehensive information about the neural crest, a structure unique to the vertebrate embryo, which has only a transient existence in early embryonic life. The ontogeny of the neural crest embodies the most important issues in developmental biology, as the neural crest is considered to have played a crucial role in evolution of the vertebrate phylum. Data that analyse neural crest ontogeny in murine and zebrafish embryos have been included in this revision. This revised edition also takes advantage of recent advances in our understanding of markers of neural crest cell subpopulations, and a full chapter is now devoted to cell lineage analysis. The major research breakthrough since the first edition has been the introduction of molecular biology to neural crest research, enabling an elucidation of many molecular mechanisms of neural crest development. This book is essential reading for students and researchers in developmental biology, cell biology, and neuroscience.
In Oscar Wilde's Chatterton, Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell explore Wilde's fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took his life at the age of seventeen. This innovative study combines a scholarly monograph with a textual edition of the extensive notes that Wilde took on the brilliant forger who inspired not only Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats but also Victorian artists and authors. Bristow and Mitchell argue that Wilde's substantial “Chatterton” notebook, which previous scholars have deemed a work of plagiarism, is central to his development as a gifted writer of criticism, drama, fiction, and poetry. This volume, which covers the whole span of Wilde's career, reveals that his research on Chatterton informs his deepest engagements with Romanticism, plagiarism, and forgery, especially in later works such as “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.,”The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Grounded in painstaking archival research that draws on previously undiscovered sources,Oscar Wilde's Chatterton explains why, in Wilde's personal canon of great writers (which included such figures as Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Théophile Gautier, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Chatterton stood as an equal in this most distinguished company.
Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child. For most of the world, critical medications that treat these deadly diseases are scarce, costly, and growing obsolete, as access to first-line drugs remains out of reach and resistance rates rise. Rather than focusing research and development on creating affordable medicines for these deadly global diseases, pharmaceutical companies instead invest in commercially lucrative products for more affluent customers. Nicole Hassoun argues that everyone has a human right to health and to access to essential medicines, and she proposes the Global Health Impact (global-health-impact.org/new) system as a means to guarantee those rights. Her proposal directly addresses the pharmaceutical industry's role: it rates pharmaceutical companies based on their medicines' impact on improving global health, rewarding highly-rated medicines with a Global Health Impact label. Global Health Impact has three parts. The first makes the case for a human right to health and specifically access to essential medicines. Hassoun defends the argument against recent criticism of these proposed rights. The second section develops the Global Health Impact proposal in detail. The final section explores the proposal's potential applications and effects, considering the empirical evidence that supports it and comparing it to similar ethical labels. Through a thoughtful and interdisciplinary approach to creating new labeling, investment, and licensing strategies, Global Health Impact demands an unwavering commitment to global justice and corporate responsibility.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is the source of much controversy. Some people feel it is over-diagnosed today, while others believe it was under-diagnosed in the past. Similarly, disagreements about treatment methods, especially whether or not a child should be given medication for it, have been ongoing for years. Sometimes these arguments are fueled by misinformation, and those who are affected by ADHD may have difficulty making their voices heard. Through full-color photographs, engaging sidebars, and quotes from experts in the field, this volume explores all sides of the issue, helping readers form their own opinions.
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