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I have felt the pain, sweat, blood, and tears.I have seen victory a thousand times, beyond my reach.I have had the pat on the back, the smileOf a frown in my face.I am a symbol of your wrong.I am reminded of the past, but not the future.I am Black-proud to be Black.While growing up, Ron Whitlock experienced not only racism and prejudice, but also love and acceptance from many who did not look like him.In a debut collection, Whitlock shares poems that lyrically address a wide range of topics and themes that include love, race, faith, and much more. As his poetry reveals a glimpse into his personal journey and perspectives, he explores what it means to be Black in America, faith and hope, life itself, and love as he learned to navigate through and achieve victory over the pitfalls and obstacles in his way, accept and love others with an open heart, and find strength in God's unconditional love.In the Eyes of an Old Black Man is a volume of free verse that candidly reflects on the personal journey of a man of faith as he embraced the colorful experiences of life.

Words matter. The words and phrases you use with your customers make a lasting and memorable difference in the quality of your customer's experience. AT YOUR SERVICE-ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE elevates ESL from simply correct English to the highest levels of professional, gracious, and confident communication. Students positively engage, through role-playing and other activities, in practical, real world service situations.Kathleen Bradley Amidei shares her four decades of teaching, international business, and hotel management to successfully guide students to use the most effective language to give outstanding customer service to: engage and make a positive connection, resolve customer complaints, contribute to teamwork and training, give confident directions, serve wine, and take food orders.The book also focuses on the best procedures and methods to create these workplace essentials:Interviews and resumesBody LanguageEconomics of the workplaceSpecific grammar pointsBrainstormingTraits of good managers and employeesMany students have experienced a life-changing sense of accomplishment that has helped them with their careers and personal interactions.

Clara Agnes Braaten kept a diary from the year she married the author's father, Torstein Folkvard Braaten, in 1922 until she was ninety-four-years old.Three weeks after they were married, they departed Minneapolis by train for New York City to board the Stavangerfjord, a fine Norwegian ocean libber, to cross the Atlantic Ocean on their way to Bergen, Norway.The author's father had accepted a call from the Foreign Mission Board of the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America to become a missionary to Madagascar. The couple decided to visit Norway on their way to Paris, France, where they were to spend one year learning the French language. In this book, the author draws on his mother's diaries to highlight why his parents obeyed the Great Commission and how they lived it every day in Madagascar. The book includes excerpts selected from his mother's diary as well as a brief narrative of what the author remembers about growing up in Madagascar.Whether you're interested in missionary life, the Lutheran Church, the history of Madagascar, or genealogy, you'll enjoy Living the Great Commission in Madagascar.

Shiloh love spending time in the back yard with his friend, Weeping Willow, but the other trees are mean and call Weeping Willow names. When the infected elms hatch a plan to trap Shiloh's sister, he's afraid he'll neve see her again. Can Weeping Willow and the wise, old oak help Shiloh find his sister before it gets dark?

On the day I was born on this earth,my path awaited my premeditatedfootprints.Imprinted in my mind was theroadmap to my destination,and the directions to getting theresewn into my heart.Inga Marie is a black immigrant who finds serenity in writing poetry, and applauds its beauty and power to heal many wounds. In a debut collection she began penning over fifteen years ago, Marie shares poems that address not only her life experiences of heartbreak, pain, rejection, love, and healing, but also a variety of themes that include human rights, universal equality, faith, motherhood, and what it means to be a black woman in today's world. Through relatable reflections that offer a safe place for others to study themselves through the lens of her thoughts, Marie encourages an awakening of the soul as she provides a lyrical snapshot into how she persevered through hard times and found her true self in the process.Spiced Black Coffee is a thought-provoking collection of poetry that shares a glimpse into a black woman's soul as she contemplates her life journey and offers inspiration for others to do the same.

Did you ever have a cheery dream of discovering gentle life on another world?This is not that dream.Stranded on a distant world too dangerous for physical contact, the brave crew face fearsome predators, toxic gases, and starvation. As they battle the perils of this Cretaceous world, their own internal monsters may prove the deadliest challenge.To secure a starship to bring her stranded crew home, Captain Camille Tremblay must travel to a science station on another harsh prehistoric world to convince Earth's callous alien allies, a race she insulted, that her crew is worth saving.But she's still a suspected killer and must travel with an agent she despises as he pursues a covert terrorist plot to destroy the science station. When the coldhearted terrorists decide to kidnap her as a prize, she escapes to a dark world of shadows and nightmare beasts.Filled with action and drama, this evocative book will have you turning pages.

Being adaptive, brave, and resilient is something all children strive for, especially when life is indeed very strange. Whether it's moving to a new home, feeling out of place when using the Internet, or navigating bullies, these big moments can become less scary when told through the perspective of pets.Strange is a five-year-old brown, white, and super fluffy guinea pig. Her life is filled with enchantment and fantasy, as she experiences the world for the first time. Read about ups and downs, victories and struggles, along with a good dose of self-discovery that Strange experiences while living aboard.Precious pets and their stories put words and pictures with big experiences, ultimately helping children feel less alone. The guinea pigs, dog, cat, otter, eagle, fox, ducks, and even an elephant are all here to share their relatable stories and inspire kindness around the world. Set sail on a journey through life, dealing with everything from joy to grief, friendship to intolerance, with Life as Strange.

A boy named Jack Gum rides his bike to and from school every day and passes by his favorite tree, Goldy. Then one day he discovers that Goldy is gone; in her place there is only a stump. What can he do?Jack begins to think about ways to help Goldy go back to the way she was. First he visits his friend Lucy the Ladybug and tells her the bad news and asks her to help. As they travel back to where Goldy once stood, they meet Francesca the Frog, Delilah the Duck, Ruth the Rooster, and Patricia the Pig. Together the friends work on a plan to get their favorite tree back to the blossoming way she was before.Offering a light-hearted and fun approach to community and environmentalism, this children's story follows a boy and his animal friends as they help their favorite tree grow once more.

Hildon Bush has experienced extreme highs and lows in his life and was the recipient of both good fortune and bad luck. But he overcame many challenges because of his thoughts and experiences, growing and learning from each event.In The Thought Life, he offers a compilation of these learnings, sharing what it takes to be successful and mentally win. Bush presents his key understandings through a series of affirmations, quotes, principles, tips, and mind-set moments to give you the winning advantage in life to succeed.Based on Bush's introspection during his life, he delivers the message that you are the sum of your experiences.

Why are you here? What is your soul's purpose? How do you intend on making this life count? In Remember Who You Are, author Shweta Gandhi explores these existential questions and offers guidance on living a meaningful life that's aligned with your calling.Each chapter explores a different theme, including self-discovery tools like astrology and numerology to decode your personality as well as 15 journaling exercises and relaxing meditations to connect with your Higher Self. You'll learn how to access your Akashic Records to uncover karmic patterns, activate your chakras to restore balance, practice mindfulness to overcome anxiety, strengthen your spiritual hygiene to increase well-being, and so much more.It is now time to remember your real identity. You are not this body. You are a soul. From this enlightened state of mind, Remember Who You Are invites you to begin a personal journey to meet your most authentic and honest self. Prepare to transform your life with sacred wisdom that acts as therapy for your soul.

This collection is the poet's extrapolation of the trials and tribulation in his journey through life in two volumes; in the first, several styles of rhyme and free verse, the second comprising Haiku.

Chipper the chimp is very sad. He wants to learn how to tie his shoes so that he can be like his big brother, Lou, who is older and quicker and very bright. Their mom is proud of Lou, and Chipper wants her to be proud of him too.The young chimp sets out to visit some of the animals he knows in the jungle. He goes to the lion in his den, the wise old owl up in a tree, and a crafty snake, but none of his friends can help him. Then his brother comes to the rescue with some kind words-that their mother is proud of both of them and loves them very much. Lou helps Chipper understand that all he needs to worry about is being the best Chipper that he can be.In this children's story, a young chimpanzee wants to be more like his older brother but learns instead to focus on being the best at being himself.

On a hot Florida summer day in August, 1952, Ruby McCollum, the wealthy African-American wife of Suwannee County's Bolita King, murdered Dr. C. LeRoy Adams, a beloved white physician and recently elected state senator.The sensational murder trial was widely covered in newspapers ranging from the New York Times to The Times in London, and was the first of its kind since 1855.Now the story of a forbidden interracial love affair gone wrong is recounted by an author who was a neighbor to the McCollum family and delivered by Dr. Adams.Dr. Ellis' odyssey to discover the truth behind the murder began with locating the lost transcript of the trial-which was both manually transcribed and wire recorded. He then published an annotated copy to discredit statements by some scholars that McCollum was not allowed to testify in her own defense.In the Afterword of this book, Ellis now addresses McCollum's most telling statements to her attorneys- "I was caught between two guns," and "I don't know whether I did right or whether I did wrong"-and proposes an intriguing moral alternative to societally defined concepts of "right" and "wrong" for African-Americans who lived in the Jim Crow South.

Unexplained weather has been terrorizing the world for a few months. When MI6 agent Nicholas Wellington and some colleagues are killed in a ship wreck, Nicholas's girlfriend Charmaine Dorbandt, a fellow MI6 employee decides to investigate and prove her theory of unexplained weather, but will the world governments listen to her?French Air Force Medic, Pierre Marceline is recovering from a helicopter accident that nearly cost him his life. Pierre receives a call from DGSE where he is asked to help a blind MI6 agent on a classified mission. Pierre decides to help and his adventure begins.When Charmaine and Pierre meet, they start to work with a group of scientists to see if they can stop the worsening weather. During their investigation, Charmaine decides to investigate each person, but along the way, Charmaine and Pierre must learn to work together with physical obstacles from Charmaine's blindness and Pierre's healing body, and the emotional scars that Charmaine has from Nicholas's untimely death and the trauma from Pierre's accident.Will they be able to weather the physical and emotional storms that keep coming up, while they are trying to save the world from disaster?

After reading my book "WHERE DO THEY GO", I hope that you will have a better understanding of my opinions and beliefs about spiritual and philosophical thoughts and theories involving the inevitable passage of life from our earthly existence as I believe to be true.