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June Randolph and her father make the perfect team at their small, family-owned jewelry store. While the pair have always maintained a close relationship, the dynamic she shares with her mother has proven much more challenging throughout the years. Now at seventeen years old, June has found herself contemplating life beyond working at her father's shop. Though it isn't until she is befriended by a ritzy, older customer that June begins to come out of her shell. The woman's kindness and infectious energy are a welcome addition to her young life the summer before her senior year of high school. However, secrets from her mother's past begin to threaten June's newfound happiness - calling into question all that she has ever known. Confronted with the often-perverse intentions of the human heart, the teen must uncover the truth which has been concealed by years of deceit.

An in depth guide for policy and law makers on ways in which they can litigate witchcraft abuses as a human rights issue. Contains real life case studies, deep analysis of existing bills and frameworks as well as sources for further learning and research.

Arnold Ekpe had an unorthodox, but highly successful business career that saw him build Africa's leading bank, launch a regional airline, and much more. Today, he may be semi-retired, but he's still an active businessman, working at the intersection of impact, sustainability, and technology.Ekpe has also penned The Bush Banker, a brilliant memoir that tells his fascinating story. It's refreshingly frank, pragmatic, funny and is a must-read for anyone interested in African industry, banking, or business.What also sets The Bush Banker apart is its ring of truth, something that comes from being written by someone who was there, an active participant alongside some of the biggest personalities during one of the most profound periods of political and industrial change the continent has ever known.

Make your first (or next) 100 days the hallmark of your entire career. Whether you work in the White House, the State House, or City Hall, this book will help you as a newly elected official to make the difference you always wanted to make.In this tour de force, Robert Hargrove, a trusted advisor to America's leaders, provides an Optimist's Guide to your first 100 days in a time of hyper-polarized politics. Hargrove provides a touchstone of warm human stories about some of our country's greatest leaders, as seen through the exclusive lens of their first 100 days, during times in our nation's history that were as bitterly divided as today. Hargrove then demystifies the process of your first 100 days by providing an overview that helps you think about it, breaks down the process into doable chunks, and highlights the predictable landmines that can cause you to derail. You will learn toTake charge, build a team, get resultsAnchor yourself in America's ennobling ideals and valuesBuild a focused first 100-day planDeliver a powerful inaugural speechKnow when to take a bipartisan approach and when to stand your groundLeverage the power of shared purpose, collaboration, compromiseSecure early wins that build political capital and momentumWhether you are a newly elected official, political appointee, or public manager, use this book to accelerate the time between job entry and job impact. Click "Look Inside" to begin your 100 days journey.

Readers are exposed to the savage nature of humanity where society-saturated with dollar-based ethics-headbutts the truth. While on this freakish path of discovery shade will be tossed on the wrongs we are all force fed. Amen.

On an ordinary night, four young girls have identical dreams which change their lives forever. In them, they meet the Teacher, a mystical woman, glowing light and radiating love, who leads them to the Haven, a place of peace and wonderments. Guided by her, the girls meet and become friends for life-and beyond. As years go by, they weave in and out of each other's paths, rejoicing, sorrowing, struggling-and dreaming. As elders, the Teacher shows them a vision of a beatific place beyond the Haven, but to enter it, each must master her final life lessons. As with the challenges of their pasts, the net of their loving friendship sustains them and keeps all afloat.With the death of the last of the four, the story of their friendship can now be told.

Are you familiar with the emotions attached to fear, fret, and regret? These three emotions equal shame. Shame can be very consuming and also have the potential to create a state of paralysis. I can venture to say that guilt and shame are something all of us have experienced. Living in shame leads to immobility; living in freedom requires the ability to move. "Ashamed No More" is a guide to a pathway of shattering the chains of fear, fret, and regret that equates to SHAME!! This interactive book reveals the power of living in the freedom that God provided through the message and the power of the cross.

One man's life-and a lifetime of stories.A Brewerytown Kid Grows Up...Some More! had its humble beginnings as stories from blog posts but soon became one man's catalog of boyhood life in Philadelphia and a working-class neighborhood, courtroom trial stories as a tenacious trial attorney, and a Vietnam War veteran and PTSD survivor. Michael J. Contos is a former reporter nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Now, he wants to pass down his stories to his granddaughter, detailing the challenges he has faced and the accomplishments he has achieved in his long and colorful life.Fans of poignant memoirs such as Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life will love this truthful and funny foray into history as Contos masterfully recreates some of his most memorable moments in this page-turning, instant classic.

This book presents tools to help non-believers, new believers, and mature believers follow the Holy Ghost. The book is divided into four topic areas (1) Learning to Follow the Holy Ghost, (2) Becoming a Certified Holy Ghost Warrior, (3) Stepping into a Spiritual Maturity, and (4) Expecting Manifestations. The book is equipped with daily devotions, challenges, prayers, and a set of declarations - making it easy for anyone who reads the book to increase their relationship with the one who made them!

For young readers, I've just dropped a survival adventure game book entitled the, " Cold Island Challenge." It's one of those stories written in the "second person" In this genre of books, "You " the reader, are invited to choose where the adventure goes from two, sometimes three, possibilities As the stories began,"You" have entered a cross country race called the, Cold Island Challenge. The race takes place on an imaginary Island off the coast of South America.and begins in the town of Wood Junction and ends in New Spice City, 100 miles away, To reach New Spice City, you must climb mountains; swim across lakes and rivers; hike through the jungle; fend off gators, crocks, snakes, bulls and the elements.You will bicycle across the scorching desert, get lost in a cave and find treasure in a mine. You'll meet Thorny and his spider, Matilda. You just might discover evidence of an outlaw bunch; and camp on a mountaintop. Will you discover and translate the writings on an ancient stone slab? Dangerous situations you encounter will have you talking to yourself. As you move through the challenge, you will uncover certain histories and mysteries of the island. Survival techniques are based, loosely, on proven methods, You will come to "The End", many times, sometimes as a winner, sometimes is a survivor. .Remember, when you reach, "The End", return to the the page you came from and make another choice. Let the challenge began!

Our faith is an adventure of never-ending discovery and discipleship as we increasingly step into God's design for our lives. And discipleship, in the words of Dallas Willard, is "the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you."