Long before debates over educational equity dominated the national conversation, Black communities across the American South were quietly and subversively building their own institutions. In A Born Teacher: The Making of a Black Community School in Texas, Avis A. Mullen and acclaimed writer Kirsten Mullen unearth the deeply personal and profoundly consequential story of an educator who defied the odds to create a sanctuary of learning.Set against the complex backdrop of Te...

A timeless expression of ancestors’ voices as they transmit stories and witness truths for future generations.In Lightning in Our Roots, Avis Blackbird invites the reader on a journey to feel Indigenous fluidity of space and time, the impact of colonization, enduring connections to the land, lived urbanized experience, and finally the rising hope of Indigenous communities and cultures to thrive. Inspired by Tommy Pico and Kae Tempest, these short lyric poe...

Are you here for some smut? Or a salad bowl?When housewife Mitzy Barlow starts hosting Tupperware parties one grey afternoon in 1969, she has no idea of the power it has to transform lives.It is necessity that has led her here: when her husband's carpentry hours drop, so too does their family income, forcing Mitzy to take matters into her own hands to support their young children.But if it is necessity that drives her to st...

A pawsome story about doggos, kiddos, and one hilarious mix-up! In a wacky twist of events, a human child and a feisty dog switch places for the day in this laugh-out-loud picture book perfect for fans of Katie Weaver and Ryan T. Higgins.When a dog-walker leading a pack of pooches runs into a teacher leading a caboodle of kids, everyone gets tangled up in the jumble, and a shy boy named George accidentally switches places with a furry pup named Romper.At fi...

Stories have always enabled people to make sense of the world and others, and this book encourages a radical rethinking of how we tell stories about climate change. This book proposes that, while climate change may be a result of policy failures and the incompatibility of capitalism with our finite resources, climate change represents a crisis of imagination — an inability to articulate a differentiated collective problem in ways that inspire, motivate and prompt individual and shared resp...

In this imaginative adventure from Newbery Medal-winning author Avi, four rats will face the ultimate test when they learn to do what no rat has ever learned to do before: Drive.There’s a whole world on the outside surely waiting for these four lab rats to finally walk among them...Starting tomorrow, Rats, your lives are going to become different…Moosh is a three-year-old rat who’s never seen anything other than the inside of Doc’s laborato...

Audiobook narrated by Avi Roque and Pete CrossThe essential introduction or reconnection to the Bible for queer readers from the co-founders of QueerTheology.com.“As we dove back into the story of creation in Genesis 1 and 2, trying to look at it with fresh eyes, I realized I had visited the Garden of Eden before. It was as if, like Saul, the scales had fallen off my eyes and suddenly I could see what had been there all along. The Bible has...

ONE MORE QUESTIONWhat If Everything We Accept Deserves Another Look?One More Question begins with a simple idea: some of the beliefs we accept most easily are the ones we have never stopped to examine.Eric Bray invites readers to look again at our relationship with animals-not through accusation or ideology, but through questions about compassion, responsibility, convenience, tradition, and the value we place on life.Why do we cherish one animal while accept...

What if the questions are not the enemy of faith-but the beginning of it?We live in a world capable of extraordinary beauty and unbearable cruelty. Children suffer. Families grieve. Wars continue. Animals are abandoned. Good people experience devastating loss. And somewhere tonight, someone will look toward heaven and quietly ask the question humanity has wrestled with for generations:If there is a God, where is He?God: What If?...

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Paul Avis charts a pathway of theological integrity through the serious challenges facing the Anglican Communion in the first quarter of the 21st century. He asks whether there is a special calling for Anglicanism as an expression of the Christian Church and expounds the Anglican theological tradition to shed light on current controversies. He argues in conclusion that Anglicanism is called, like all the churches, to reflect the nature of the Church that we confess in the Creed to be one, ...

In this new three-part book series, Avis tackles a series of issues relevant to Anglicanism in the current day.The first book, In Search of Authority, seeks to examine Anglican Theology in relation to questions of authority. Anglican theology has been a hotbed of debate about the issue of authority since the Reformation. What do we really appeal to when attempting to decide matters of doctrine, worship, ministry or ethics? The debate is very much alive today, between Evangelical, L...