When a teacher exclaims, "Clap if you can hear me," students are meant to clap once in unison in answer to demonstrate they are attentive, focused, and processing what is being said. The essential ingredient in enhancing education is paying attention.This book presents practical solutions to empower students and parents in education. Clap If You Can Hear Me is a navigational guide that exposes critical deficits in PreK through higher education programs. It also illuminates best pra...

Pandora grew up in hardship, child abuse, sexual abuse, rape, drug abuse, and jail. Pandora was taken from her mother when she was ten years old. Her parents were on drugs. The choices she made in her life turned her life upside down. Pandora learned how to amend her oppressed life; she learned how to deal with life in a positive way. This novel is all about empowerment and showing people how they can overcome negative situations without having to continue on a self-destructive path that l...

Have you ever walked around your house wondering WHY this was installed that way or WHY there is orange shag carpet in the kitchen? Maybe you wondered WHY there has to be a front yard or WHY do pests keep getting into your home? We provide a comedic look at the WHY and some insight on what should be.This book provides a tour of the insanity of past, present, and future home design highlighting the tragic comedy of why things are the way they are and what could be done differently t...

Evie has forgotten about her first pair of designer shoes — since becoming a fashion designer, she’s purchased many more pairs. Rosette, the right shoe, and Lilou, the left shoe, feel betrayed by her, and come up with a plan to escape Evie’s closet, much to the shock of Evie’s slippers and sneakers. But the escape plan proves harder than Rosette and Lilou thought, and they witness much more of the city than they anticipated. This is only their first adventure, with many more to come!

Never Too Late is the story of an American family that is confronted with a serious drug problem with one of their teenage daughters. As two friends come to be involved in the situation, they provide help and support. Based on the real-world experiences of the author in both tackling drug addiction in young people and also working to track down and arrest drug manufacturers and distributors. This story is for every family, both American and international. It provides the insights and means...

The Day My God Died: A Mother’s Journey of Love and Loss is a profoundly touching retrospection on the grief of losing a child. Poems in this collection explore themes of reflection, loss, and our connection to the divine, nature, the cosmos, and mortality. There is no timeline for healing; the wounds of despair can last a lifetime. Dealing with the loss of her own daughter, poet Chandramukhi Ganju lays her soul bare on the page, her feelings overflowing from her heart as she struggles to ...

Apocalypse is the story of the epic battle between Heaven’s Original Rock Star, Satan, who is trying to destroy the world, and the five Archangels, Garbiel, Michael, Rafael, Azrael, and Ariel, who are trying to stop him. Satan is furious about being kicked out of heaven, so he decides to take a page out of God’s book by destroying the entire world the way that God did with Noah and the Ark. Satan is aided in his quest by seven demons including a fashion model, a financial whiz from Singapo...

After years of cheating and lying, Angela finds herself with a record. She manages to put her life back together with a happy relationship and a daughter, until it all falls apart once again. Forbidden (L.O.V.E) Attraction is based on a true story about when romance goes wrong and it seeks to teach the youth on relationships and marriage.

At seventy-three years old, Antonina Duridanova is asked all the time how it is she looks twenty years younger. After all the comments and questions, Duridanova has decided to record her daily routine and goals to obtain a fit and healthy lifestyle. In this insightful read, she emphasizes the importance of a healthy diet, finding types of exercise that work for you, maintaining rich, fulfilling hobbies, and doing all of the combined through travel. Duridanova explores first the role of die...

Life is a rollercoaster of ups, downs, balance, and shifts.This book will take you on a journey of the mind through a smooth, breathtaking, rough, joyful, disheartening, thought-provoking, and satisfying ride of life as told through one person’s eyes.Putting pen to paper to express her thoughts has always been a passion for Eunice Harris ever since she was in her elementary years. Her mother wrote in a poetry notebook to share her thoughts with family and friends. As a resu...

"In this contemplative text, one woman confronts the many unknowns of her inner life, attempting to rectify the external with her internal world. Boldly facing the challenge of self-reflection and atonement of one’s mistakes, this stream-of-consciousness narrative invites the reader to enter a space of growth, discovery, and hope."

OMG That’s Her! is the harrowing tale of a mother’s heartbreak over watching her bipolar daughter suffer. This compilation of stories about her daughter’s bipolar behaviors provides insight into how mental illness affects families.