Sixty. For some women, it conjures images of gray hair, declining health, and slowing down.Oh, really? Allison McCune Davis believes it doesn't have to, and she's ready to prove it.***Sixty Is a Good Start***is filled with stories of later-life achievers and longevity-related research, all designed to change your mind. These, combined with Allison's practical tips and ideas, will rekindle your sense of adventure as you take her Sixt...

Based on a hugely successful US model, the Seven Core Issues in Adoption is the first conceptual framework of its kind to offer a unifying lens that was inclusive of all individuals touched by the adoption experience.The Seven Core Issues are Loss, Rejection, Shame/Guilt, Grief, Identity, Intimacy, and Mastery/Control. The book expands the model to be inclusive of adoption and all forms of permanency: adoption, foster care, kinship care, donor insemination and surrogacy. Attachment...

Johnny is always knocking his brains out looking for a way to gain some capital, for the boys at the lumberyard. Kitty, his love and his partner in crime, assists Johnny through a little blackmail, baby! Let the humor begin, when Kitty meets her beloved Hollywood producer, Douglass, in Greenwich Village, while she waits for Johnny to arrive. Douglass sweeps Kitty off of her feet and starts to write-Kitty-up (he sends her love letters!). When Johnny reads Kitty's love letters from Douglass,...

A deeply personal account of a young Black woman who set out to shake up her life by moving abroad but got a lot more than she bargained for.Surviving Paris is not Emily in Paris. It’s not a story of moving to the City of Light, meeting a dashing Frenchman, and raising beret-wearing enfants. It is not a romantic fantasy. It is a true story about a young, Black single woman and what happens when your Paris dream turns into a Paris nightmare.After more than a decade as a jour...

As seen in the movie Origins, a classic examination of the lived realities of American racism, now with a new foreword from Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson.First published in 1941, Deep South is a landmark work of anthropology, documenting in startling and nuanced detail the everyday realities of American racism. Living undercover in Depression-era Mississippi—not revealing their scholarly project or even their association with one another—groundbre...

A deeply personal account of a young Black woman who set out to shake up her life by moving abroad but got a lot more than she bargained for.Surviving Paris is not Emily in Paris. It’s not a story of moving to the City of Light, meeting a dashing Frenchman, and raising beret-wearing enfants. It is not a romantic fantasy. It is a true story about a young, Black single woman and what happens when your Paris dream turns into a Paris nightmar...

Based on the pioneering Seven Core Issues model, this resource is an accessible and age-appropriate way to support children and teens who have experienced early adversity, to strengthen understanding and healing.The Seven Core Issues are Loss, Rejection, Shame/Guilt, Grief, Identity, Intimacy and Mastery/Control. This resource combines two separate interactive workbooks - one for children developmentally aged 5-11, the other for children developmentally aged 12+. These can be fille...

Allison Davis (1902–83), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into inequality, Jim Crow America, and the cultural biases of intelligence testing. Davis, one of America’s first black anthropologists and the first tenured African American professor at a predominantly white university, produced work that had tangible and lasting effects on public policy, including contributions to Brown v. Board of Education

London is sweltering and housemaid Flotsam longs for a break from the oppressive heat, although housekeeper Mrs Hudson remains unruffled. However, Baker Street is about to be consumed by an extremely weighty matter: the last Will and Testament of armaments tycoon Charles Belladonna.Belladonna left his considerable fortune to an only son who went missing, stolen from his cot, years before. Now not one but seven young men appear, each claiming to be the long-lost heir. The tangled ca...

Sixty. For some women, it conjures images of gray hair, declining health, and slowing down.Oh, really? Allison McCune Davis believes it doesn’t have to, and she’s ready to prove it.Sixty Is a Good Start is filled with stories of later-life achievers and longevity-related research, all designed to change your mind. These, combined with Allison’s practical tips and ideas, will rekindle your sense of adventure...

Winner of a third-place award in the collection of prayers category from the Catholic Media Association.Every mother is looking for a spiritual lifeline—words that help bring you closer to God when you need him the most.The Ave Prayer Book for Catholic Mothers is your go-to resource to find the perfect words to lift up in prayer for almost any occasion or need. This beautiful, full-color, hardcover book includes a collection of original and traditi...

It is spring in Baker Street, and London is preparing itself for the wedding of the year. It will be an international spectacle in which the young and popular Count Rudolph Absberg, a political exile from his native land, will take the hand of the beautiful and accomplished Princess Sophia Kubinova. A lot depends on the marriage, for it is hoped that the union will ensure the security and independence of their homeland.When the princess subsequently disappears in dramatic circumsta...