Sr. Anne Montgomery was a nonviolent witness in war zones in the Holy Land and Iraq, and endured years of imprisonment due to her involvement in Plowshares actions. Her poems are rooted in her love for accompanying the marginalized, borne out her experience of religious life and community. These poems provide unique and rich biblical insights into what it means to be human and a faithful follower of Jesus. This volume serves as both a powerful spiritual anchor and a source of inspiration for all who seek to be a radical witness of truth and hope. Drawing on her experience as a religious, teacher and peacemaker, Anne's poetry offers powerful scriptural insights that can sustain people's hope.

A re-release of fan-favorite, Cordelia, in hardback with bonus content by the author.Cordelia can fly. Over the ocean, up with the birds, wherever she wants to go, she does. It's her favorite thing. It's what makes her happy. It's what makes her who she is. Until one day, she hears the whispers: people can't fly; it's impossible. And suddenly, Cordelia can't. A modern-day fable about believing in yourself and your dreams - and flying wherever you want to go.

This best-selling book that has helped literally tens of thousands of children (and adults) overcome anxiety is now being re-released in hardback. The redesigned book will have bonus content from the author.If your little one struggles with big anxieties, this is a picture book that offers a simple solution that your child can easily understand. With a simple shift of the mind, this book helps you reframe any scary and worrisome whatif into a question of opportunity and possibility. Whenever Jonathan James finds himself in a new situation, he hears his Whatif Monster asking all kind of questions to stop him trying something new: What if it's scary? What if they laugh? What if it's hard? Finally, Jonathan James has some questions of his own: What if they don't? What if it isn't? What then?

Sherlock Holmes returns in six original fascinating adventures which tell about the world-famous detective in his early formative days. From the Holmes's family beginnings to the first important case, which was never released to the public because of its political sensitivity, the great detective battles.

When Lilly Carlsen goes into work on the busiest shopping day of the year to find a dead body on the floor of her jewelry shop, she knows the holidays are about to get complicated.

Juniper Junction, Colorado, is not some gun-slinging Wild West outpost; it's a tony resort town where people come to get away from it all. And as President of the Chamber of Commerce, it's Lilly's job to make sure that happens. But add two teenagers, a failing parent, and a deadbeat ex-husband to the mix, and it's beginning to look a lot like chaos.

And when Lilly becomes Suspect Number One in two murders, she's going to have to figure out what's going on in Juniper Junction before she becomes the next victim.

Zachary was truly a wonderful boy. He was an honor student, quarterback of his high school football team, and loved by everyone who knew him, especially his three younger brothers. Zach had a bright future ahead of him, until the onset of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder at age 16. He never gave up hs fight, which led him to six inpatient facilities and six outpatient facilities all over the country. He was a strong advocate of raising awareness and breaking the stigma of mental illness. Zach dies of an opioid overdose in October 2020 at the age of 24.

You Wonderful Boy is a beautiful and vulnerable story about motherhood, perseverance, healing and hope.

Chronicle of the Left Hand by James Lloydovich Patterson was originally published by Molodaya Gvardiya Publishers, Moscow, in 1964 (Khronika levoi ruki). This is the first translation in English and the first time it is published outside of Russia.

The story of James Lloydovich Patterson and his family is a fascinating glimpse into post-Civil War life in America. The memoir, told in the first person by his grandmother, Margaret Glascoe, the daughter of a sharecropper, makes for a poignant account that resonates even today. Patterson adds his own insightful commentary and reflections throughout the chronicle.

In 1932 Margaret Glascoe's only son Lloyd Patterson traveled to Moscow with Langston Hughes and other African Americans at the invitation of the Soviet government. Lloyd met and married Vera Aralova, a theatre designer and artist. They had three sons, James, Lloyd Jr., and Tom. James was born on 17 July 1933 in Moscow. When James was two years old, he was invited to play the crucial role of an interracial toddler in the 1936 classic Soviet film CIRCUS. Later, he attended the Nakhimov Naval School in Riga and the Naval Academy in Leningrad. He served in the Soviet Navy as an officer on a submarine. Film and the Navy were not his calling but poetry was. At age seven he wrote his first poem, and in 1962 he graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. In 1963 Molodaya Gvardiya published his first poetry collection Russia, Africa.

During the uncertainty of the 1990s in Russia, James and his mother Vera (now deceased) decided to move to the United States. They made their home in Washington, DC.

At 13, Cosi McCarthy wants what every girl in Buffalo wants in the 1960s-to become a happy wife and loving mother. But that dream collapses when her father dies, ugly family secrets emerge, and her widowed mother is trapped in the double standards of a patriarchal culture and impoverished by the city's failing economy. Swept up in the idealism of youth, Cosi soon learns how hard it is to save the world, and that love is easy to mistake when you have no idea what it looks like.

From the highly charged opening scene of young Cosi slipping into her dying father's bedroom to the irreverent humor that classifies a handy crucifix and candles as An emergency kit, of sorts, for Catholics on their last legs, Moxie Gardiner asserts her writing chops in this coming-of-age story of a girl growing up in Buffalo, New York. Cosi's heart-rending experiences spring from her desperate efforts to define herself in a culture that expects certain willing sacrifices. Polished by Gardiner's love for her hometown, Virgin Snow shines. Keep tissues handy.
--Ginny Fite, award-winning author of The Physics of Things

Five-year-old Marian Murphy is missing. She'd vanished one night while playing outdoors in her quiet residential neighborhood, and for over a week police have been scouring every imaginable recess in that part of the city. When finally she is located - her lifeless body discovered and dredged out of a nearby cemetery pond - authorities become hell-bent on apprehending her killer, soon zeroing in on a Chinese laborer who lives and works just around the corner from the girl's home. That man's arrest seems to bring the case to a close, until new evidence emerges suggesting he may be entirely innocent of the crime.

This is the true story of the turn-of-the-century missing persons case that brought an entire city to a near-standstill, and of the rocky quest for justice that ensued. It is a close account of Marian Murphy's sudden and baffling disappearance, as well as the frantic investigation that followed. It is also the story of an early Chinese immigrant making his way in the New World, cast suddenly into the spotlight and accused of one of the most heinous crimes in the city's history.

It's Valentine's Day in Juniper Junction and love is in the air. Or is that just a dark cloud?

Lilly's shop assistant, Harry, is about to pop the question to his girlfriend, Alice Davenport. He's got the ring, he's planned a romantic dinner, and he's even thought of a gracious escape if Alice says no.

The only thing missing is...Alice.

Lilly wants to do all she can to help find Alice, even if that means interfering with a police investigation. But as she begins to learn more about Harry's sweet, unassuming girlfriend, she discovers that Alice is hiding a shocking secret that will complicate everything.

And when Lilly suffers a lapse in judgment, the consequences are swift and painful. Can she pull herself together enough to help her daughter through a tunnel of teenage angst, deal with her mother's dementia-related wanderings, and still help Harry find his Happily Ever After?

Summer is getting hotter in Juniper Junction, Colorado.

There's a firebug on the loose, the townspeople are nervous, and Lilly Carlsen, single mom to two teenagers, has even more to worry about. She's in charge of the Independence Day celebration, her mother's mental health is declining, and her son is getting ready to leave for college.

But things are about to get even hotter: when a bistro owner dies at the celebration and Lilly's best friend is charged with murder, events start hitting close to home. It's up to Lilly to help clear her friend's name while at the same time dealing with her mom's worsening forgetfulness as well as a coming-of-age issue under her own roof.

One of the greatest privileges in life is the opportunity to lead others. You can be a leader in your household, sports team or social network. You can also lead co-workers in big or small teams within your place of business.

To be an impactful leader, though, humility is essential. You must be willing to place the needs of others above your own. You will have to accept that you do not have all the answers to everything. You need to be willing to think differently and learn from past and present failures. And finally, you must take 100% ownership of the actions of those you lead.

If you have ever read a leadership or self-help book based on theory, principles, or practice and struggled to understand how you can apply what you learned to your own life-know you are not alone.

This book is about the journey of building a high-performance team through real-life examples all leaders can relate to regardless of their business industry.

In the course of my journey, I read many books by experts in the field. Their wisdom contributed to both my success and my mistakes. I found their ideas helpful, but ultimately had to rely on my own reading of the situation, my team members, and myself.

Place yourself in the story and apply it to some of the struggles you experience within your own leadership journey.

This book is structured so that it follows the consecutive stages of team-building incorporating insights from other experts that were pertinent to each particular stage. You can see how I adopted and adapted those ideas to form my own blueprint of best practices for building teams of any size.

I hope you can relate to the emotions, struggles, successes and failures I experienced while building a high-performance team.

My journey humbled me. What will your leadership journey do for you?

After a brief hiccup, in which an irate dragon must be placated, the story begins--as now told by Christie and her new co-author, Marcus A. Dragon.

In the land of Deweydaire, which is ruled by (anthropomorphic) dragons, things are not fair. Humans work while dragons play. Princess Meredith, a dragon, leads others in fighting against the injustice, supporting the human cause. How could she have foreseen that she, like her human friend, young Peter Porter, would fall afoul of her bully cousin, Prince Rupert? Or that he would go to such lengths to silence her voice? Will intrepid Peter and the underrated court-jester Felix be able to help Meredith break the power of an illegal spell? In this Year of the Wood Dragon, The Voice of the Wooden Dragon is an entertaining-yet-inspiring story of transformation and new beginnings.

This is Christie and Lane Waldman's debut novel as an author-illustrator team. Christie's stories for young readers may be read at Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things, Skipping Stones, and East of the Web. Lane is also a writer whose sci-fi/fantasy stories have appeared in Uncanny, Daily Science Fiction, and Capricious, among other places.

This redesigned Ten-Year Anniversary Edition of Bob is a Unicorn contains bonus content by the author.Bob is not a unicorn. His friend George knows that. So does Stella. And Ted, and Larry. In fact, it's definite: Bob is not a unicorn.Or is he? Bob is a Unicorn, by beloved author Michelle Nelson-Schmidt, celebrates both the power of imagination and the importance of always - no matter what anyone else says - believing in yourself most of all.

The choice to write in two voices was phenomenal. The story, while informative, was also emotional and interesting. The respect and time given to both women and their families are admirable. It reads like a story and is captivating from the beginning.

But also on that note, the images included were eye-catching. Putting a face to these women and others brought a new depth to the text. It read uniquely from most historical non-fiction I have read.

I want to remark on how personal this story feels. The romance, love, and understanding between everyone involved are also beautifully portrayed. There is a lot of empathy in this work as well. It is very informative, and your hope for the readers to be enlightened has been achieved, at least for this reader.
- C. McCellan

I am thankful for all that I have gone through to be able to continue sharing my work with everyone. If you came across this it wasn't not by chance-it was meant for you to discover, you need a reminder that you deserve to love and be loved. Also everyone has ups and downs, you need to remember to minimize the downs and maximize the ups.

As I step into a next chapter of my life, continue learning to navigate through life as a wife, mother, sister and daughter. Challenges and difficulties still arise, however learning to steer through daily existence can be extremely rewarding and fulfilling. All that I have gone through, both good and not so good, has made me the person I am today and I would not change a thing.

My second collection of poems, Secrets Of A Concrete Flower is a comprehensive in-depth collection of healing, adapting to growth, change, and creating a new world filled with endless opportunities. It reflects my difficult journey to understand life, to live without fear of failure or of what others may perceive of me. My desire is that while reading the writings in my book and seeing things from my perspective you will be empowered. I lived in a negative environment paved in cement, nothing could grow in the toxicity. I became the flower that blossomed through it all. Hence I became the concrete flower, one that has risen through the cracks

Saving Buffalo Baseball: The 1956 Season takes the reader into the on-field and off-field struggles of a new phenomenon in the Queen City-community owned professional baseball, following the team on a month by month, game by game saga from September 1955 to the hard-scrabble conclusion of the 1956 baseball year. Experience the doubts and disappointments and day to day heroics of what dedicated men (and some women) could achieve if only they stayed true to the cause. Starting from nothing, within three years' time the Buffalo Bisons became the top drawing ball club in all of minor league baseball and with a valuation of more than half a million dollars!

Thanks to detailed (and sometimes conflicting) newspaper reporting and to the gracious involvement of several ballplayers from that team who discussed the 1956 season with the author, the reader will find inning by inning accounts of each of the 151 games played, plus the off-field efforts to simply keep nine healthy men on the field, pay their salaries and see the season through to the end. Simple box scores accompany each game. An internet link allows access to the full box score for each contest. In the book are the names of 233 Buffalonians and their families, plus 68 community groups, all of whom supported the club during this critical campaign.

Additionally, 18 local lads, Buffalo area ballplayers who dreamed to be Bisons or who played for other professional ball clubs during 1956 are highlighted. Perhaps your family or someone you knew made the newspapers that year; their name is in this book.

What Happened to Our Heroes gives brief descriptions of the post-1956 and post-baseball careers of the front office personnel and players, professional and amateur, all of whom strove valiantly Saving Buffalo Baseball.