"Inspiring, thoughtful, and beautiful." --BRYAN STEVENSON"A tender reminder and spacious invitation." -- FATHER GREGORY BOYLE"Liz Walker accomplishes a difficult literary and theological balance with stunning clarity." --OTIS MOSS IIIAn extraordinary account of a Black church that decided to give neighbors a space to share their grief, No One Left Alone provides a blueprint premised on a simple trut...

A small city's big vision that can help transform your own community.We all want a sustainable future, but what does it look like, and how do we get there? In Ithaca, NY a new culture is blossoming-one that values cooperation, local production, environmental stewardship, social justice andcreativity. Ithaca is showing the way to meet the challenges of the day with a wide variety of practical, real-world solutions.Filled with inspiring examples, Choosin...

Being With YouLife Love and StuffBy Liz WalkerThe poems are about feelings about people, places, and life situations.Struggles and Illness.How everyday events affect us each differently.Although each poem is from my perspective, I hope the reader can see their own positions and situations in the words.The meaning of the poems will touch everyone differently, as we all react in our own ways to any situation or event.In the firs...

As the first Black woman to anchor the Boston-area evening news, Liz Walker found herself in an industry that defined the neighborhood of Roxbury largely by violence. But when she became a pastor there, Walker grew close to households marked not only by trauma but by courage—including the family of Cory Johnson, a young father who was murdered. In the wake of their worst nightmare, the family reached out for help.As Walker's congregation invited neighbors to gather, they created so...

Hamish and the Shadow Secret is written to help parents, carers and teachers prepare and assist children to know what to do and how to recover from viewing explicit, harmful and inappropriate content.Kids are seeing pornography accidentally or deliberately earlier than ever before. In 2008, 14.4% of boys had viewed porn by age 12 or younger. By 2014, this had risen to 48.7%. In 2019, research indicates that 65.5% of boys have seen pornography by age 12 or younger. For girls of the ...

Whilst the body has recently assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily experience of health, illness and disease. This innovative volume redresses the balance by exploring chronic illness and social work, through the specific lens of autoimmunity, engaging in wider debates around vulnerability, resistance and the lived experience of ongoing ill-health.Moving beyond existing conceptualisations of vulnerabil...

I denied my fated mate, but that's not the end of my story. Our story.This love will defy all odds until we find our happily ever after.When you touch, the bond awakens, but only for a chosen few.In this world, you're a settler or a searcher. Settlers pick a partner of their choosing, but the searchers spend their lives seeking out the person made for them. Most die without finding the one.Emry Crowe's a settler and happy in her life with Se...

Even when touched by fate, their future is uncertain.The world of searchers and settlers goes unchanged, but Emry, Sebastian, and Theo's lives will never be the same. Emry is the first settler to be touched by the bond, but even when destiny has its own plans, she won't leave her husband, Sebastian. Theo doesn't want her to.It's not long before their new family is put to the test, and the places they think are safe and people they begin to trust betray them...

An Annual Holiday Celebration!Read a holiday story per day from American Thanksgiving to New Year's Day...or binge the entire collection.This volume contains 39 stories—from mystery to romance to time travel, that range in tone from joyful to strange and even dark. All stories center around the traditional holidays such as Christmas and New Year's but also explore some weird holiday traditions, past, present and future.Featuring works from award-winning and bestsell...

A Companion for Your Journey from Ash Wednesday to Pentecost"Let no one fear death, for the death of our Savior has set us free."—St. John ChrysostomLent is a pilgrimage of the soul when Christians have always commemorated the death and resurrection of Jesus with a season of reflection. Through poems, essays, and devotional readings, A Radiant Resurrection invites you into the time of reflection from Ash Wednesday through Eastertide. Writt...

This trusted companion offers help and guidance on the day-to-day practicalities of teaching and running a yoga business. Including insights from renowned yoga professionals, including Liz Lark, Lizzie Lasater, Andrew McGonigle, Katy Appleton and Tarik Dervish and more, this book offers practical ways to hone teaching skills. It features topics such as working with common injuries and conditions, breath, sequencing, incorporating philosophy and myth into class, and the links between yoga a...

Crime threads its way through everything, including the holidays. But for writers, that just adds some spice to their creativity.Take this WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, in which award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers holiday tales from dark to light and everything in between.Let Thea Hutcheson thrill you as Paolo Bianchi tries to save the man he loves in time for their annual solstice celebration. Travel to Colombia as one family puts their own little twist...