While growing up in a large Lebanese-American family, Joyce Brown learned to cook at a very young age and made her first complete meal at the age of eight. In Family Favorites, she shares a collection of time-honored, traditional Lebanese recipes that have been handed down for four generations.Drawing on her years of experience as a caterer and in the home kitchen, Joyce Brown has perfected her familys recipes with precise measurements and easy-to-follow steps for preparation. In h...

Most Christian parents dream of raising children who will love God with their whole being and seek to serve Christ with their very lives. However, sometimes parents feel they lack solid Christian role models for their children outside of their family. Our kids need Christian heroes. Courageous Christians, by Joyce Brown, is just the family reader we need to fill this gap! The vast array of men, women, and children profiled in this book give everyone someone with whom to identify. ...

This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Neal Collins is a charming ladies' man whose street smarts and business savvy propel him to a position of power and respectability amidst Detroit's neighborhood turf battles and corruption. He has the toughness, cunning, and intelligence to take advantage of opportunities that make him a force to be reckoned with. But he also has powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to take away the successful empire he has built. And the one thing Neal wants most is still out of his reach—the love of...

Echoes of the Heart is a deeply moving collection of reflections designed to uplift, strengthen, and encourage those walking through life's most challenging seasons. Ernest L. Brown writes with a compassionate voice, offering readers a gentle companion for the days when their hearts feel heavy, uncertain, or overwhelmed. Through a blend of spiritual insight, practical wisdom, and heartfelt storytelling, this book reminds readers that even in moments of silence, God is speaking-whispering h...

Flowers of the Heavens by Joyce Compton Brown explores the South and its history through the lens of her family. These poems recognize within this history the holiness of life and the nobility of the human spirit, while remaining conscious of the necessity of breaking up the South's old and stubborn mores. The collection is an elegy to the past, an appreciation of present moments, and an acceptance of the finite in the flowing of time which carries us through Earth's cycles and ou...

NUGGETS: A Guide for Women Engaged in Ministry, is designed to offer guidance and information to those engaging in ministry, with a special emphasis on inclusivity for both men and women. The author, Apostle Dr. Joyce Myrick Brown, shares individual experiences from over forty years of ministry, highlighting the unique challenges faced by women in this field. The book addresses the varying opinions and undeserved criticisms that women in ministry often encounter. It aims t...

Ready for some fun? Well Houston sure is. Houston Squirrel just got his first job. Like most of us, Houston loves the outdoors. The joy of meeting people and the chance to share life’s adventures. As you turn the pages following Houston on his journey, you will see that even a young lad can do big things. Through his encounters with sly characters like Claudius Gator and Jean Claude the Fox, Houston will be delivering more than just newspapers. So, let's go. Extra, extra read all about it ...

This book was designed to help parents help their children become proficient readers and writers. The book also can be used by professors and graduate students to help children who struggle with reading to become readers and writers.

This book is designed to help parents help their children to become lifelong lovers of literacy (reading and writing). The book is also written to help professors and graduate students become aware of the need for children to learn to love literacy.

A devotional, reflectional book of Christian prose and poetry, interspersed with personal anecdotes, chronicling the author’s immigrant experience and challenges which she overcame through her firm faith in God.

Minding Ben invites listeners into the private world of one of the anonymous West Indian babysitters who have peopled the lives of so many young urban families for decades. Grace left Trinidad for New York with hopes for a better life and education. As she struggles to adjust to her new life—and to determine just what shape her American Dream will take—Grace finds work as a nanny for the unconscionable Bruckners, a job that pays meager wages for its demanding and humiliating respo...