The author read The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, a book written in the early 1900s and it changed her life. She saw for the first time that conditions for ordinary people could be so much better under socialism than capitalism and it started her on a mission to try to bring about this change. The original described the miserable conditions of the working class in 1900s Britain. The new workers Party, the Labour Party was spreading its message of an alternative to th...

Testimony: God's Deliverance is a true story that God told me to write, which has become a testimony from me to all who reads this book. God made sure that this book would help both the saved and the unsaved. If you are saved and do not know how to have a personal relationship with Jesus, then this book is for you. If you are unsaved and do not know who Jesus is, then this book is for you. To everyone reading Testimony: God's Deliverance, your life will be changed forever as mine was. This...

Composer and piano teacher Mary Jackson has long found that there is a gap in piano repertoire for intermediate students. For those who are no longer beginners but not yet ready for advanced pieces, often the available material was either too easy or much too difficult. While her students went online in search of answers, Mary chose to write them herself. Mary’s students found simple selections built around a small range of notes, but the pieces of this collection offer a more musical appr...

A little boy in needCould unite two broken hearts.After her business goes under, Torryn Emerson is only too happy to return to her hometown and restore the house left to her in her mother’s will. She never expects to find friendship next door. Matthew Lawson finds it difficult to connect with his young son after his wife’s death. So when Connor is drawn to their fun-loving neighbor, Torryn, Matthew asks for her help. As they spend more time together, Torryn can’t help but fa...

For the baby’s sake, she’ll tolerate anythingEven his exasperating—and handsome—uncleAdorable baby Micah melts Sienna King’s heart instantly. Too bad he’s related to the most insufferable man Sienna knows. Joel Armstrong has temporary custody of his sweet nephew—and no clue what he’s doing. Sienna has free time…and a yearning to be a mother. It could be a perfect match. But what happens when they both start wanting a long-term ever after?From Love Inspired: U...

Based on a qualitative research study of gay and lesbian teachers, Unmasking Identities explores how gay and lesbian teachers bring together their identities in a climate where the two have historically been pitted against each other. Janna Marie Jackson demonstrates that participants made direct and indirect connections between their experiences related to being gay or lesbian and their classroom practices of promoting social justice and building on students' understandings. This...

BEST INDIE BOOK AWARD WINNERWhen bombs fall on Pearl Harbor, the trajectory of Faye Baxter's midwestern life takes an unexpected detour. Her fiancé Steve Connor enlists in the Army, and Faye follows him to California for a spur-of-the-moment wedding just days before he ships out.Eager to contribute to the war effort, Faye joins the workforce in San Francisco, a city awash with jobs, handsome soldiers, cheap cocktails, and nefarious secrets. When she is recr...

Marie B. Jackson-Peoples, a retired educator and author from the District of Columbia Public schools. She taught elementary education, special education and bilingual education during her tenure. Later, she became an administrator for the school system. She served as an advocate for several preschools in the Washington, DC area. Currently, Mrs. Peoples works part-time as an administrator and board member for an infant and child development center.

Can one little boyHold the key to their future?Nigel Emerson’s world is turned upside down when he learns his late mother’s last wish was for him to restore her house to its former glory with the help of the woman who broke his heart. Still hurt by Peyton Fitzgerald’s rejection, seeing her and her son, Samuel—a child Nigel could never have given her—is the last thing he wants. But as Nigel and Peyton work together repairing the old house, t...

A woman finds it hard to impersonate her twin sister when the family she wished for is right next door in this inspirational holiday romance.Swapping places with her identical twin over the holidays sounds easy enough to Chanel Houston. But playing the role is trickier than expected when it comes to maintaining frosty relations with her sister's neighbor and nemesis—especially since he has an adorable little girl and a rowdy puppy. Ryder Frost's supposed to be grum...

Five-year-old twins, separated at birth and determined to become a family, play matchmakers in this inspirational romance."She looks like me!" When her orphaned niece utters those words, Kelsey Harris is shocked—not only that Morgan has a long-lost twin but that the grieving five-year-old spoke at all. Overjoyed by Morgan and Mia's instant connection, Kelsey and Zach Johnson, Mia's widowed adoptive father, agree to be friends—and only friends. But can they ignore t...

An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesThe African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from the early twentieth century to today. Examining works from the Gold Coast, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, and tracing how such writers as J. E. Casely Hayford, ...