Build a business that is clear enough to understand, bold enough to notice, and valuable enough to remember.Many businesses are not overlooked because they lack value. They are overlooked because that value is not always clear, visible, or consistently experienced.The R.A.W. Approach: The Framework to Elevate Your Business from Overlooked to Unforgettable gives entrepreneurs, small business owners, consultants, creatives, nonprofit leaders,...

Black Woman's Fire: A Poetic Voice to Resilience, Liberation, and Legacy is not merely a collection of poems-it is a witness.A witness to the sacred strength Black women have carried across generations.A witness to the quiet battles fought behind closed doors and the loud victories history often forgets to name.A witness to the fire that refuses to be extinguished.Through layered, soul-stirring verse, this collection journeys through identit...

Some journeys begin with a destination. Others begin simply with the need to leave.In The Long Way Home: Poetry of Love, Loss, and Return, John David Smith traces the quiet distances between restlessness and belonging, freedom and responsibility, departure and return.Across five poetic movements, these poems follow a wanderer who believes distance will loosen what binds him, only to discover that some things travel with us: love, memory, absence, r...

"What are you looking for?"It is the first thing Jesus says in John's Gospel, and he says it to two people who are following him without quite knowing why. He does not ask for a statement of belief. He asks about desire.Most of us know what faith is supposed to say. We have the language, the frameworks, the practices. What we do not always have is a way for those true answers to reach the places where fear tightens, grief lingers, ambition drives, or prayer goes unanswered....

With multiple starred reviews, don't miss this humorous, poignant, and original contemporary story about bullying, broken friendships, social media, and the failures of communication between kids. From John David Anderson, author of the acclaimed Ms. Bixby’s Last Day.In middle school, words aren’t just words. They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. They can come back to haunt you. Sometimes they can change things forever....

Everyone has seen photographs of the Taj Mahal. The massive, bulbous central dome, the four slender minarets, the shimmering marble, the long reflecting pool, the manicured gardens - all seem too striking for adequate description and proper appreciation. But there is more to the Taj than its beauty. The world's best-known mausoleum celebrates the love story of the seventeenth-century Moghul emperor Shah Jahan and his queen, Mumtaz Mahal. They fell in love at first sight and were married fo...

Unspoken: 12 Devotions for What We Carry in Silence is a gentle yet deeply honest devotional for anyone who has ever whispered, "Is it just me?" Written with pastoral care and spiritual depth, this book creates sacred space for the quiet burdens that often go unnamed-grief without funeral, fatigue without rest, loneliness in a crowded room, and questions too fragile to speak aloud.Each of the twelve devotions explores one unspoken burden through a Scriptur...

You are hurting. You have suffered a crushing loss. You have been disappointed, misunderstood, betrayed. What are you to do? What are you to think? ---- I learned much about what to do during times of suffering from the old saints who led me to Christ. In turbulent times, I marveled at their steady spirits, their sincerity, kindness, and faith in the far of cruelty and skepticism. One example is worth a mountain of words. Of even more value than seeing good being done, however, is understa...

The beloved author of Posted and Ms. Bixby's Last Day returns with the first book in a coming-of-age sci-fi duology about Leo, a kid trying to navigate the galaxy in order to save his family—and, possibly, the planet Earth.When scientists discover a rare and mysterious mineral buried in the Earth’s crust, they have no idea that it just happens to be the most valuable substance in the entire universe. It’s not long before aliens show up to our litt...

God's presence in the life of Jesus in Mark's Gospel

Moving from a prayer life to a life of prayer.

The paradoxes of nineteenth-century colonialism in the Middle East revealed through the accounts of three working class European travelers to EgyptThis book tells the stories of two French women and a French African man, travelers connected to the Saint-Simonian utopian socialists, who came to work for the Egyptian government in the 1830s. They have been marginalized and excluded from the historical record, because they were women, not part of the colonial elite, o...