"My twin, Lamar, is a phenomenal innovative storyteller... A true king!" -- Tiffany D. Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Grown and The Weight of BloodSometimes a little fear is a good thing...Cade Webster lives between worlds. He's a standout football star at the right school but lives in the wrong neighborhood--if you let his classmates tell it. Everywhere but home, people are afraid of him for one re...

Four corners is an in-depth look at the power and lasting change of positive and negative exposure. A large part of human behavior whether functional or dysfunctional, stems from what we learn at home, who we hang around with, the music we listen to and what we watch on television or other electronic devices. We process information differently. However, in some cases we may need to unlearn destructive behavioral patterns that could affect our ability to lead a happy fulfilled life that ref...

This book is for serious Bible students who are interested in exploring the questions that naturally arise in studying 'The Book of Acts'. A group setting is a good forum for such a study as you can learn so much from others as you partner together with them to increase your understanding of this biblical book. The notes that from the basis of this current book are to help stimulate conversation and discovery in such a setting.These notes were generated from prior sessions on this ...

Street Prince is a tender portrait of a twelve-year-old boy, grappling with tragic losses and unforgiving poverty.After giving birth his teenage mother abandoned him at the hospital, leaving a scribble note: His name is Lamont, I am no fit mother. Keep my baby boy. Letty J. His maternal grandmother “Elma” raises him as her own child.Thought to be dead, her estranged daughter returns home with two other children. A disastrous homecoming party takes place. Lamont meets a new ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In a post-Singularity future where human consciousness is a transferable quantum wave, granting near-immortality through body-swapping "shells," Earth groans under 80 billion souls. Ousted from his mega-corporation Corpus Ad Astra (CAA) by the ruthless AI overlord MOMI—installed by the Solar System Exchange to maximize profits—former Brigadier General Greg Body stakes everything on a high-risk interstellar gamble. Defying Lloyd's of Lon...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.THE HEART OF THE CITY BOOK 5Boardrooms & Back AlleysNew York doesn't sleep. It recalculates.Vargas is gone — no body, no message, no war. Just silence where an empire used to be. As the city scrambles to fill the vacuum, Detective Mike James mounts an off-the-books rescue that pulls him deeper into a conspiracy reaching far beyond the streets he's sworn to protect. His partner, Lou, pays the price for the mis...

An interdisciplinary reevaluation of William Bartram’s Travels, illuminating the natural, cultural, and intellectual landscapes of the eighteenth‑century Southeast through diverse scholarly lenses.William Bartram, author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulees, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws, was colonial America’s first n...

**2024 International Impact Book Award (Religion)★** Publishers Weekly starred review**"Marshaling fine-grained historical detail and scrupulous analysis, Hardwick persuades."--**Publishers Weekly (starred review)As a Black autistic pastor and disability scholar, Lamar Hardwick lives at the intersection of disability, race, and religion. Tied to this reality, he heeded the call to ...

A landmark in historical research, tying the Mafia and Cuba to the assassination of JFK—updated to reveal the role of Cuban Commander Juan Almeida.Recent revelations by the U.S. government point to Cuba’s former number three official—Commander Juan Almeida—as secretly working with President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 to overthrow Fidel Castro. This updated edition of Ultimate Sacrifice tells the full story for the first time—complete with new photos ...

"The Last Last-Day-of-Summer reminds me that all children deserve to exist in magical spaces where their imaginations and familial bonds will them into heroism. Every single child should have the freedom to be one of The Legendary Alstons. And I, for one, am grateful to Giles, and this brilliant story, for that reminder." —Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor–winning author of Stuntboy, in the MeantimeIn the first Legendary Alston Boys mystery from Edgar ...

Solstice "Soulless" Smith is a demon wrapped in human skin, who only has love for one person: his manipulative big brother, Theory. By chance, Soulless, Theory, and the rest of the old crew bump into Calico, who recently got released from prison after doing six and a half years for a case he took for Theory. In the midst of a robbery that same night, Theory calls Calico and asks for an unusual--and unsettling--favor. Against his better judgement, Calico agrees and soon finds himself caught...

Lamar Giles takes readers on a wild and dark ride in this contemporary Witness Protection thriller, perfect for fans of James Patterson, Harlan Coben, and John Grisham.Nick Pearson is hiding in plain sight. In fact, his name isn't really Nick Pearson. He shouldn't tell you his real name, his real hometown, or why his family just moved to Stepton, Virginia. And he definitely shouldn't tell you about his friend Eli Cruz and the major conspiracy Eli was uncovering when he died. About ...