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Ryan and his mom have moved to a new town, and Ryan is entering middle school. Adjusting to middle school life is like trying to adjust to a parallel dimension for him. He sees the school athletes getting noticed and he wants to be noticed too.Meanwhile, his mom is recuperating from divorcing his dad. She begins to take a romantic interest in Randy. Ryan doesn't like the idea of another man pursuing his mom. Initially, he wants nothing to do with Randy and wishes he would leave his mom alone.As time goes on, Ryan begins to realize that Randy may be the only one who can help him climb out of obscurity at his new school. A relationship that starts out with Randy acting as Ryan's football coach gradually transforms into a relationship with Randy acting more like a father.Ryan and Randy learn together that learning to love new people can be scary. A bond that starts out as not much more than a mutual love of football becomes a bond filled with love and compassion. Ryan gradually begins to feel grateful to have a new dad who actually cares about him and his mom.

I sent out an email to a large number of coaches several years ago asking them to answer one simple question. "What is the one thing you want parents to know?"After reading the responses from over 175 coaches, I was able to capture the spirit of their answers in what I felt was not one thing, but 5 THINGS. You may not agree with all I have written in this book. I am using my experiences as a former collegiate and professional athlete, a parent of athletes, a high school coach, a collegiate coach at the D-I, D-II and D-III level, and 20 plus years of serving as an Athletic Director at some of the largest and most athletically successful school districts in the State of Texas. I am almost certain there is nothing in this book that is going to surprise any parents. It offers common sense on acting like an adult when dealing with coaches and game officials, plus specific tips on what you can expect to experience as a parent. Although very tough at times, allowing your child to learn valuable life lessons by encouraging them to work through adversity on their own may be the most important 'THING" of them all. Coaches are not perfect; they are going to call the wrong play, forget to call a timeout, play the wrong kid, and get confused, possibly all in the same game! In my 20 plus years of being an Athletic Director, it would be a lie for me to say that I never witnessed a coach handle a kid poorly. There will be times when a coach says something they should not have said; or does something they should not have done. It is going to happen. As a parent you need to determine how you will manage it when it involves your child. Coaching is tough, but not near as tough as parenting. I recognize that fact, and that is why I wrote this book. In athletics, your child will be presented with many situations such as adversity, humility, perseverance, sacrifice, uncertainty, commitment, failure, success, disappointment, victory, and defeat. As a parent, what role will you play, not if but when, those situations come.

Memories can grow dim and become lost over time. Through his prophets and apostles God called on his people to remember his works and not let their memories of his faithfulness fade away. This book is one family's account of God's faithfulness in their lives, from childhood to advanced age, through joy and deep grief, blessing and rejection, while living with the challenges of ordinary life in the U.S. and in Thailand. It gives chronological examples of God's faithfulness that show how his continuing care and faithfulness strengthened their faith, even in the darkest valleys.

Considering the violent and deadly experiences of racism in the United States during this contemporary moment, there remains a critical need for demonstrative dialogues for social justice. Progressive anti-racist allies-across differences of race, gender, class, sexuality, and ability-must continue to join together to enact strategies devoted to the eradication of racism. Ways to advocate life survival for Black Indigenous People of Color in the U.S. must be actively engaged. Particularly related to the emotional and physical trauma BIPOC communities are currently experiencing in this day and time, there must be a renewed call for the vision of a "beloved community." It must be envisioned by a unified, collective body of people committed to liberation for all the oppressed. In this day and time, anti-racist solidarity means that these individuals must take on challenging conversations about ways systemic and institutionalized racism continues to be perpetuated.In Killing Rage: Ending Racism (1995), published over two decades ago, bell hooks states that "to 'talk race'"-in and of itself-is a difficult subject. For bell, her reluctance toward speaking publicly about the subject of race and racism is the fact that it "hurts ... [it not only] startles, frightens, and is enough to throw one back into silence" (3). Yet, it is clear for hooks that silence is not the solution to the traumatic experience of racism. Writing in Killing Rage: Ending Racism about the complexity her life as a Black woman, a feminist, a professor and cultural critic in PWIs (Predominately White Institutions), she expresses her feelings about the experiences of racism and its intersectional relationship to sexism and classism.In Liberation for the Oppressed, I have conceptualized this book to compel its potential readers-not only to contemplate the "painful," emotional challenges that the subject of race and racism may provoke, but also to compel them to think about the life-saving power of unity for the creation of a "beloved community," as envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In allyship for social justice, progressive individuals (across differences) should support struggles to end racism perpetrated against BIPOC communities. In the conception of this book, I contend with bell hooks that silence about race and racism in the U.S. is hurtful.The mission for Liberation for the Oppressed is boldly to affirm the lives and voices of its contributors. They literally put their lives on the line writing about traumatic experiences each of them has or would face in what it means "to 'talk race'." Becoming critically aware of the self-deadening effects of internalized racism, each of them map the course of their personal, political, and professional journey toward self-recovery. Becoming critically aware of the complicity with racism by not speaking out about its traumatic implications, each of them critically employs personal narrative to speak out in loving resistance to racist colonization.Linking the concept of Black feminist intersectionality with interdisciplinary, I employ it as the theoretical foundation for the advocacy of community activism for resistance to all forms of systemic oppression. Liberation for the Oppressed is about representing the power of love for social justice. Each contributor to this book acts to demonstrate the agency of emotional wellbeing and self-recovery needed for all oppressed people. This standpoint lines up with bell hooks' vision of a "Beloved Community: A World Without Racism," the final chapter of Killing Rage: Ending Racism.I believe the contributors' writings in Liberation for the Oppressed act to transform the personal, political, and professional lives of those people who will read them-in and outside the "ivory tower".

2023 Cadmus Book Award Winner!¿Solzanna of Lansheer was Sorceress Advisor and Protectress of Imperial Peace in the vast Lansheean Empire. Although Feraco the Great held an uneasy throne, the threat of Solzanna's power discouraged many a would-be rebellion. But the winds of change were blowing, and a dastardly plot was brewing in the Imperial City.Jago the Dalo was spoiling for trouble when he stumbled across it. Bored to death in somber Lansheer, he readily agreed to pit himself against the empire's great sorceress. But as the challenge unfolds, he begins to suspect that the gods were meddling again, and perhaps he had bitten off more than he could chew.

Butchie is abandoned on the street by an uncaring family. He happily meets other homeless pet friends and shares some adventures with them. But is soon captured, caged and scheduled to be "put to sleep." He prays to be saved, and waits patiently for an answer to his prayers.

Revisiting The Prophet is a modern, practical guide to everyday living. A series of short easily digestible essays give a unique and inspirational perspective on everyday topics. If you are looking for some inspiration, some answers or some understanding of the world around you, this book is for you.Based on the structure of the book "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran, this version brings a modern take on his philosophy without losing the beauty of words to express the soul of humanity.As with other books from The Mystic Storyteller Series, this book vibrates with the energy levels of higher dimensions and automatically transmits a healing energy to anyone who reads it.

A Baker's Dozen, Stories of Africa, follows Frank, a photographer, as he travels that vast continent. As you travel with him, you experience what he does, the Sahara, the Serengeti, the bush, dozens of diverse cultures, and a scatter of unique individuals. The book begins in Uganda where he's settled and is adapting to a society that includes a melange of tribal cultures and a wealth of corruption. From here you accompany him, backwards through time and through dozens of other cultures to a dozen other locales. In the Lower Omo River Valley of southern Ethiopia, you encounter the Hamer, Mursi, and Karo peoples who are historically nomadic pastoralists and have only recently been exposed to Western culture but are threatened with extinction by it and by a massive dam the Ethiopian government is building. Then you journey by land and via the Niger River in flood with Frank and Soungalo Traore, the son of a witch doctor, first to the fabled city of Timbuktu, then to Agadez, an old Saharan trading town. Here you mingle with the tribal people who dwell in this desert, the Tuareg, Fulani, Wodaabe, Hausa, Toubou, and Bella, and see the Cure Salle where the Tuareg and the Wodaabe arrange their traditional marriages. On the plains of the Serengeti, you lie with Frank in his tent as a lioness and her cub sniff round the outside of it trying to sort out if there's anything inside it to eat. Later on these plains, you sit with Frank and his companions when their progress across the Serengeti is halted by a herd of 200 elephants crossing the road. As you move over rough, remote terrain with Frank and Nixon, his driver, you make the acquaintance of an American missionary couple who are proselytizing unsuccessfully to convert the Masai to Christianity. Here you also get to know Tonday, a young Masai warrior who became a local hero when he killed a leopard single-handed after it leapt the thorny perimeter of his family's boma and attacked their cows. Traveling with Frank and Nixon through the Masai refuge, you see the tribe living much as they did before the white man came. The Hadza are some of the last hunter-gatherers remaining on the planet, making them some of the last of the first humans. You meet them and journey with Frank, Daniel, and Senik, their Hadza guide, into the tribe's ancient, ancestral hunting ground deep in a thorny forest near Lake Eyasi in central Tanzania. There you come face to face with a deadly black mamba and witness Senik's remarkable hunting prowess. In Egypt, you accompany Frank and Sami Hamzawi into the Western Desert where Frank discovers natural landforms that may have served as models, during the Old Kingdom, for the pyramids, the sphinx, and the mastabas where the nobles were buried. During their explorations, you fear for Sami and Frank, as they try to evade radical Islamists who've brutally murdered a group of European tourists.