You picked up this book because conflict has shrunk your prayers into sighs and the same fight keeps circling your home. You love the Lord and still use the same words, get the same hurt, and wonder whether your spouse even wants to try. Perhaps you are sleeping back to back while managing the house with polite efficiency, or you are the only one willing to pray at all. Whatever seat you hold, you share a hope this book exists to serve, that God can be woven back into the center of a coven...

James was beginning to see the similarity to what was occurring on Earth. Now, from what Carolyn and Pierre were telling him he could see that those people concerned for the wellbeing of such creatures as Elephants, Lions and Tigers were signaling the start of a potentially huge problem for Earths wildlife.

Understanding Addiction: Know Science, No Stigma is a must-read for those suffering from the tragic effects of drugs and alcohol.In Understanding Addiction: Know Science, No Stigma, doctors Chuck Smith and Jason Hunt bring a unique and important perspective to the subject of addiction. Experts in the field, Smith and Hunt have personal, firsthand experience with the humiliation and shame that accompanies substance use disorder. Bu...

Navigating the Mortgage Modification Mess A Cautionary Tale takes the reader on a serious, yet sarcastically humorous, trip through Federal and internal bank programs for modifying home mortgages. It represents a 3-year timeline of the authors attempt to save part of the American Dream of home ownership. The process involved submitting, and often resubmitting, a large amount of paperwork to answer underwriter questions and justify a hardship request for mortgage modification. During the pr...

Charles Smith’s life story is that of a small town kid with no silver spoon whose first job was editor of the hometown newspaper he once delivered as an eight-year-old. Forty-two years later he was in Washington, D.C., serving in George W. Bush’s administration as executive director of the Nation’s Report Card (NAEP), arguably the most impactful federal initiative to improve education in modern times.In between, he served as editor of a daily newspaper, chancellor of two University...

Susan Donnely Rowe has suffered three great losses in her young life: The abandonment by her mother at the vulnerable age of twelve, then just two years later the sudden death of her father. Then reaching adulthood and marrying young Kyle Rowe, and as Kyle and Susan are about to leave their rodeo life traveling the rodeo circuit like Western gypsies and settle down to life on their ranch and have their children, Kyle is killed by a bull in a rodeo bull riding competition.Susan suff...

&quote;WASHINGTON A- The Army official who managed the PentagonA's largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying more than $1 billion in questionable charges to KBR...&quote; --- James Risen wrote in the New York Times, June 17, 2008. His article said: Army Overseer Tells of Ouster Over KBR StirEver since KBR emerged as the dominant contractor in Iraq, critics have questioned whether the company has benefited from its political connections to th...

So many of us, as well as our children, lose our way because we do not know how to let our gifts shine. Our gifts are ourselves, in being ourselves. God naturally works through us, and we grow and blossom into spiritual flowers. However, when we are taught or begin to believe that who we are has no value, then begins our spiritual separation from God, as well as our natural gifts. Therefore, we become lost in a world of confusion. In a world where there is no mercy, predator becomes prey a...

searching for eastman is a multidisciplinary performance—a choreopoem—in four acts, based on the interpretation of four of Julius Eastman’s compositions—evil nigger; prelude to st joan; stay on it; and gay guerrilla. Making use of different artistic forms—poetry, theatre, music, dance, video, and digital—it is inspired by the African griot tradition, the Harlem Renaissance (eg the work of Langston Hughes with jazz and Kurt Weil), and the Black Arts movement (eg Amiri Baraka’s work with Sun...

This collection of five award-winning plays by Charles Smith includes Jelly Belly, Free Man of Color, Pudd’nhead Wilson, Knock Me a Kiss, and The Gospel According to James. Powerful, provocative, and entertaining, these plays have been produced by professional theater companies across the country and abroad. Four of the plays are based on historical people and events from W.E.B. Du Bois and Countee Cullen to the Harlem Renaissance. Accurate in the way they capture the pol...

Wendell battles to the heart of all of the problems in society and teaches his lost children how to defeat Hook and his evil mind controlling pirates. Each wrinkle infused into our skin paints a picture into our past and the actions of our present then directs the shape of their future. A frown will eventually infuse into old age and the mannerisms that we utilise will form into the heart that controls them. And as these wrinkles stack, we begin to forget the dreams that once plagued our m...

Meet Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and other baseball heroes in this unique radio broadcast reenactment of a legendary All-Star Game, marking a pivotal time in sports history.1934, Chicago. Come step back in time to witness the best of the best Negro League players take each other on in one of the most fascinating All-Star ballgames in American history.Using a unique radio broadcast transcript, Coretta Scott King Award Winner Charles R. Smith, Jr. ha...