THE STORY: An ambitious black newspaper reporter, Yvonne Wilson, goes against her editor, Pat Morgan, to investigate a murder and finds the BEST story...but at what cost? Wilson explores the elusive nature of truth as the boundaries between reality a
Tracey Becknell was a young and beautiful African American girl. Despite being an only child, she filled the lives of many people. Tracey grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, until the age of eight years old. Shortly after, her father moved them back to Jacksonville. She was forced to leave behind her Aunt Rita, and her cousins Tia and Jeff. The hardest thing about the move was that she and Tia wouldn't be able to visit every day as they had done since they were toddling. Tracey's grandparents, who poured their love over her since the time they knew her, couldn't be happier that Carl's job had brought them back to Jacksonville, Florida. As Tracey aged, she began to go down a path upon which many youths tend to tread; experimenting with alcohol and a little marijuana. Because of her family's active role in the church, her heart stayed under God's conviction. When Tracey would lie to her parents, something inside would tell her that it was wrong. It is most fortunate that she came to her senses; however, that didn't occur until her grandfather was diagnosed with Cancer. Tracey didn't want sin to block her prayers from getting to God. She began to pay more attention in Church and learned to be more sincere and involved with her relationship with God. Grandpa loved Tracey and had been watching over her for years. Tracey truly had no knowledge of the blessing that he had been putting away for her since he'd found out that his only child, Karen was having a baby. With the assistance of the love and guidance she was given, Tracey became a very smart and thoughtful young lady because she realized her potential. She finished college and began a business that she had no intentions of starting. After losing her Grandparents, Tracey inherited a massive home, as well as a fortune that she and no clue was waiting. On one faithful day she met the man of her dreams. Tracey lived her life well, ran her business well, and blessed anyone that she had felt that God had sent her way. Through her love for God, Tracey brought lots of people together and through Tracey Original's she'd started a new Family for her to love.
“Gabe and I are happy this way. We don’t need anyone else in our lives.” Mariana feels like a pawn in other people’s games. Her birth mother is ill and opportunities for them to be reconciled are running out. Despite being adopted, Mariana has always felt secure with who she is. But both sides of her birth family are now closing in, and whatever she decides will irrevocably alter many lives; most of all the man and woman who created her. Of His Bones is about predestination and choices. It explores themes of familial love, identity and the powerful hold of the past. Set in the seascapes of East and North Yorkshire, this novel is the sister-book to The Last Time We Saw Marion.
THE STORY: Jackson, an upwardly-mobile black attorney, has just bought an apartment in a transitioning neighborhood in Brooklyn. He sees the potential of his old neighborhood, as does his white girlfriend Suzy…at first. When Jackson’s childhood friend Don leaves rehab to crash with them, the trio quickly becomes trapped between the tensions inside their own home and the dangers that may lurk outside.
Tracey “Silk” Hardney Scott gives a blunt and whimsical approach to embracing God's gift of women's intuition which she fondly calls her BS Detector. She gives readers true accounts of the consequence of ignoring this six sense.
Packed with useful clinical tools, this state-of-the-art manual presents an empirically supported treatment solidly grounded in current scientific knowledge. Integrative cognitive-affective therapy for bulimia nervosa (ICAT-BN) has a unique emphasis on emotion. Interventions focus on helping clients understand the links between emotional states and BN as they work to improve their eating behaviors, defuse the triggers of bulimic episodes, and build crucial emotion regulation skills. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 47 reproducible handouts. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.
Meeting author Callum Wilde is the catalyst that turns Marianne Fairchild’s fragile sense of identity on its head, evoking demons that will haunt two families. She is seventeen and has spent her life fighting off disturbing memories that can’t possibly belong to her. His twin sister Marion died seventeen years ago. When Cal and his older sister Sarah spot Marianne in the audience of a TV show that Cal is recording, they are stunned by her uncanny resemblance to Marion. They have to find out who she is, but they both soon come to regret the decision to draw her into their lives. Events spiral out of control for all of them, but whilst Cal and Sarah each manage to find a way to move on, Marianne is forced to relinquish the one precious thing that could have given her life some meaning. The book is set in a haunting estuary landscape of mudflats, marshes and the constant resonance of the sea. The Last Time We Saw Marion is the story of two families - but the horrible truth is that two into one won’t go...
This concise, practical text covers the essential information veterinary students and nurses, new graduates and practitioners need to succeed in equine practice, focussing on reproduction and the foal. Written for an international readership, the book conveys the core information in an easily digestible, precise form with extensive use of bullet-points, lists, diagrams, protocols and extensive illustrations (nearly 200 full colour, high quality photographs). Part of a five-book series that extracts and updates key information from Munroe’s Equine Surgery, Reproduction and Medicine, Second Edition, the book distils best practice in a logical straightforward clinical-based approach. It details clinical anatomy, physical clinical examination techniques, diagnostic techniques and normal parameters, emphasising the things regularly available to general practitioners with minimal information of advanced techniques. The clinical information is split into anatomy-based sections. Ideal for veterinary students and nurses on clinical placements with horses as well as for practitioners needing a quick reference ‘on the ground’.
Introduction to Education provides pre-service teachers with an overview of the context, craft and practice of teaching in Australian schools as they commence the journey from learner to classroom teacher. Each chapter poses questions about the nature of teaching students, and guides readers though the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. Incorporating recent research and theoretical literature, Introduction to Education presents a critical consideration of the professional, policy and curriculum contexts of teaching in Australia. The book covers theoretical topics in chapters addressing assessment, planning, safe learning environments, and working with colleagues, families, carers and communities. More practical chapters discuss professional experience and building a career after graduation. Rigorous in conception and practical in scope, Introduction to Education welcomes new educators to the theory and practical elements of teaching, learning, and professional practice.
An all-new, never before published Star Trek graphic novel, written by bestselling science fiction novelist David Brin (The Postman), his first comics work. Colin Blakeney, the 21st century inventor of the technology that will give the world the transporter and the holdeck is the victim of a treacherous attack, one that beams him out of the world... forever. Three hundred years after Blakeney's disappearance, the crew of the U.S.S Enterprise NCC-1701-E detect a stray transporter beam in deep space, and set out to solve a mystery of the ages. That's if they can averty all-out interstellar war with the race known as Palami
A historical fiction post World War II novel that offers a battle of another kind, one of humanity, enriched with a romanticized, theatrical writing style that combines into a wonderful, suspenseful, intriguing read.
Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape the world around them. Seventeen of the best young adult authors across the queer spectrum have come together to create a collection of beautifully written diverse historical fiction for teens. From a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood wset in war-torn 1870s Mexico featuring a transgender soldier...to two girls falling in love while mourning the death of Kurt Cobain...to forbidden love in a sixteenth-century Spanish convent...to an asexual girl discovering her identity amid the 1970s roller-disco scene...All Out tells a diverse range of stories across cultures, time periods and identities, shedding light on an area of history often ignored or forgotten. FEATURING STORIES FROM Dahlia Adler, Sara Farizan, Tessa Gratton, Shaun David Hutchinson, Kody Keplinger, Mackenzi Lee, Malinda Lo, Nilah Magruder, Anna-Marie McLemore, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Natalie C. Parker, Alex Sanchez, Kate Scelsa, Tess Sharpe, Robin Talley, Scott Tracey, Elliot Wake
Called to Australia to identify the body of a young man, Maya is given her son's journal. After the shock wears off, she decides to follow in her vagabond-son's footsteps. She travels from Australia to Denmark and beyond, until a crisis forces her to return home. Here she must come to a new understanding of what really means.
In a series of family upheavals, Ellie shocks everybody by selling her home and deciding to live in a converted van. On the road she meets the mysterious Eliza who turns up in the most unexpected places. Ellie can't change the past, but she hopes a trip to Iceland may enable her atone for the mistakes she made when she was a young mother.
Each week comes with a challenge. These challenges are to help put action to your faith. God gives everyone a faith muscle and what we do with it is up to us. We can ignore it and it will be small and weak, or we can use it. We must exercise and strengthen this muscle daily, so we can be mighty warriors in God's army. As you read this book, it will encourage you, inspire you, teach you, make you laugh, and overwhelm you with God's Love.
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