Some friendships aren’t chosen—they’re forged to survive.Summer 1927. Jo’s mother is in prison, her stepfather’s temper has left more than one bruise, and every grown-up in her Midwestern city seems to be looking the other way. Sam is an orphan riding the rails, safer dressed as a boy than as the girl she is. They meet on a vacant-lot baseball field in caps and knickers, hiding who they are from the boys around them—and from the men who think girls are theirs to us...

Kenny Bowen is an ex-convict fresh out of prison because of a drug conviction; he goes home to live with his invalid mother, a strong-willed ex-nurse who lost her husband when her children were youngsters and ended up in an abusive relationship. He has two sisters. Rachel, the oldest, is hiding an interracial relationship. His baby sister is Susan. Having a prison record, its hard to go straight. Jerry, an old friend, introduces him to Carol, a high-class madam, who turns him into a prize ...

In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries join the ranks of the world’s largest economies with their resource-intensive patterns. The nexus approach, conceptualized as attention to resource connections and their governance ramifications, calls attention to the sustainability of contemporary consumer resource use, lifestyles and supply chains. This book sets out an analytical framework for understandi...

Bordering no longer happens only at the borderline separating two sovereign states, but rather through a wide range of practices and decisions that occur in multiple locations within and beyond the state’s territory. Nevertheless, it is too simplistic to suggest that borders are everywhere, since this view fails to acknowledge that particular sites are significant nodes where border work is done. Similarly, border work is more likely to be done by particular people than others. This book i...

REIGN OF DRAGONS features an ensemble of fabulous fantasy authors who excel at writing dragons. It showcases a wide range of brilliant talent by up-and-coming authors to veteran storytellers. The authors included are SPFBO finalists, award winners, as well as USA Today and New York Times bestsellers.From romances to heart-stopping battles to LitRPG adventures, this anthology provides a range of tales across subgenres told with many beloved tropes including: dragon-shifters,...

Liberation and Education brings together a collection of essays about Black educators’ and organizations’ quests to cultivate and employ educational strategies for the liberation of Black people. The contributions examine the enduring nature of Black people’s thinking about education prior to and through enslavement to the present. It documents a variety of critical accounts of how Black people have developed ways to free themselves mentally from the legacies of slavery, the view ...

You have been set apart for such a time as this.God wants to perform wonders and great exploits through a holy, set apart people. The question is have you given your life completely to the Lord and His purposes? This level of commitment and consecration comes only by having a prophetic vision of the returning Jesus.As God’s people give themselves completely to Him and His Kingdom purpose, they will become catalysts for bringing the awak...

Courageous is a story loosely based on the life of Avon "Flubber" Johnson Sr. In this story a young man from the streets of Baltimore is raised by a single mother and a family of proud hard working Carolina folk who have a lot of Faith and Pride. As he begins to stray away from the public school system at an early age, Flubber finds himself very much attracted to the street life of robbing, stealing, and drug dealing. He recruits a group of life long friends who take the journey with him a...

The Future of Youth Violence Prevention: A Mixtape for Practice, Policy, and Research focuses on innovative approaches to youth violence prevention that utilize consistent principles found within existing best practices but are dynamic and adaptable across settings—and the sociohistorical and cultural realities of those settings. This book features scholars anchored in applied practices who can ground these forward-thinking strategies in the substantive base of research and theory...

P.I. Chronicles – My Heart My Home is the first book of a three part series by new author Corey Jay Johnson. In this book, the author goes into detail about his life growing up in Baltimore, Maryland with his family and friends. Lance Corporal Corey is just arriving home after being honorably discharged from the US Marines. His last duty station was in the Philippines (P.I.) where he lived a life that only a young B Company Marine can understand and appreciate. Book one ends when Corey is ...

The apostle Paul charged the Church to never be lacking in zeal, which compels believers to a life of radical service. Zeal is one of the greatest virtues that we could possibly pass on to the next generation—a zeal for the lost, a zeal for God’s glory, a zeal for His presence, a zeal for godly marriages and families, and a zeal for revival and reformation. Godly zeal will sustain moves of God more than human passion ever could and will energize believers until they have completed their Go...

In this book, Yuxia Qian and Rukhsana Ahmed explore health acculturation, which they argue is a complex, multidimensional communication process involving concerted efforts from migrants, health professionals, researchers, community members, policymakers, and the media, rather than a unidimensional process synonymous with assimilation. Qian and Ahmed examine individual migrant health acculturation experiences, community-based culturally-centered health interventions, and cross-cultural heal...