Monkey Tales

Monkey Tales
By Deshka Peneff

Published: 3/20/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 148
Size: 5.5x8.5
ISBN: 978-1-47596-142-3
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Thirteen-year-old Eric Larson is a brainiac willing to do anything to become popular, even telling a lie the size of an elephant—or in his case, a monkey. Determined to reinvent himself and not live in the shadow of his brother, Eric returns to high school after summer vacation tanned, muscular, and confident. But when he spontaneously brags to his classmates that he has a pet monkey, everything changes.

Just as Eric’s geek-o-metre levels start to decrease and the supper-hot Stacie Hansen begins to notice him, his science teacher volunteers Eric’s fictitious pet primate as the latest class project. With the help of a zoo webcam, Eric frantically begins researching what monkeys eat, how they sleep, and their natural habitats. Forced to relay his findings to his science class, Eric unintentionally discovers the dangers that jeopardize not only his fabricated monkey, Blue, but also the rain forest as a whole.

Suddenly, his mission to achieve social success is replaced by his zeal to teach others about the critical depletion of this important and fragile ecosystem.

Now, a teenager unwittingly caught between a lie and his conscience must decide whether he’s willing to sacrifice his new social success and relationship with Stacie in order to do what’s right.

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Out of the Rabble

Out of the Rabble
Ending the Global Economic Crisis by Understanding the Zimbabwean Experience
By David Chiweza

Published: 3/21/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 164
Size: 5.5x8.5
ISBN: 978-1-47597-385-3
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

The world economy is in a crisis. From the United States to Europe to Africa, growing uncertainty exists over the future. In the midst of this, however, some nations are thriving. In Out of the Rabble, author David Chiweza dissects the real causes of the financial crisis and presents likely scenarios for the future.

Based on Zimbabwe’s past forty-five years of experience, Chiweza, a resident of Zimbabwe, relates his nation’s economic fortunes to markets and establishes that all emerging economies have leveraged monopolistic domestic markets to overtake advanced economies. He sheds light on the causes of Zimbabwe’s infamous economic crisis and details an industrialisation blueprint with universal strategies that have catapulted underdog nations to succeed against the odds.

A comprehensive and insightful exposition of the Zimbabwean and global economic crisis, Out of the Rabble proclaims that the free markets doctrine has benefited stronger economies. It not only reveals the factors influencing the current crisis but presents a sobering exposition of economic dynamics that mark the emergence of a new economic order.

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The Marrow of Life

The Marrow of Life
Earth’s Memories Series, Book III
By Nancy Larsen-Sanders

Published: 3/21/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 302
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47597-650-2
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

It is 1931 in Fremont County, Kansas, and Deborah Nelson’s husband, Christian, disappeared months ago. But Deborah has no time to feel sorry for herself. Two children need her love, livestock require feeding, and farm crops must be tilled. Deborah is desperately trying to survive in a man’s world—an especially challenging task for a woman believed to be an Indian.

Even after a drought begins to cause dire conditions, Deborah refuses to leave, for her soul is still connected with the land. She decides she must sell her cattle and stop planting wheat and then finds herself fighting a field fire that comes close to burning her farmstead and threatens the life of her old friend. Things go from bad to worse when she, her children, and the community experience the first horrifying dirt storm of the drought. Deborah partners with her closest neighbors to share labor and valuable resources, not realizing that very soon, one neighbor will leave her with five more mouths to feed and a promise he may not be able to keep.

The Marrow of Life continues the saga of one woman’s determined journey through the hardships of the Depression and Dust Bowl era as she slowly comes to the realization that she must turn to others for help.

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Bench-Pressed

Bench-Pressed
A Judge Recounts the Many Blessings and Heavy Lessons of Hearing Immigration Asylum Cases
By Susan L. Yarbrough

Published: 3/23/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 152
Size: 5.5x8.5
ISBN: 978-1-47597-542-0
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Every year, thousands of people seek asylum in the United States because they have been persecuted in other countries due to their race, religion, nationality, social group, or political opinion. In seeking refuge and protection, these immigrants must rely on the American court system to help them achieve safety from the great harm they have suffered.

In her unique and compelling judicial memoir, Susan Yarbrough, a former US immigration judge, highlights five significant asylum cases that she heard and decided during almost eighteen years on the benchcases that profoundly changed her not only as a judge, but also as a person.

Yarbrough recounts heartrending testimony described against the background of the countries in which the persecution took place, following each account with personal reflections on how she was emotionally and spiritually transformed by each person who testified. From Josué Maldonado, persecuted in El Salvador because of his religion, to Daniel Quetzal, an Indian from Guatemala who was tied naked to a pole and tortured because of his political opinion, the cases that the author shares provide an unforgettable glimpse into the lives of courageous people who risked everything for peace and freedom in the United States.

Bench-Pressed is the story of five asylum seekers and the judge who was irrevocably changed by the intersection of her life with theirs.

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Blue Ridge

Blue Ridge
By Alison Gieschen

Published: 3/27/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 178
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47597-744-8
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Growing up in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Laura Atwood endured terrifying abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. Too many times she felt the brunt of his anger, and at the age of sixteen she ran away, determined to try and make a decent life for herself. Even so, the ghosts of the past aren’t so easily shaken.

Laura meets and marries Jim McBane, a wealthy and successful businessman who sets her up in style. She lives in a ritzy townhouse, drives a BMW, and loves her role as his elegant, beautiful wife. But the modern fairy tale has a dark underbelly. Jim’s overbearing nature begins to tarnish the golden dream Laura has built; even worse, when his criminal business dealings put her in danger, she narrowly escapes with her life.

Starting over again isn’t what she wants, but she has no choice. Laura moves in with her aunt Gracie and begins to rebuild her life. Living in the Blue Ridge Mountains again, though, means her ghosts insist on being confronted. Each day brings a new struggle. But when love turns up again in the form of a kind country veterinarian, Laura finds she must finally face her past, even if it will be her undoing.

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Brag, Worry, Wonder, Bet

Brag, Worry, Wonder, Bet
A Manager’s Guide to Giving Feedback
By Steve King

Published: 4/2/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 58
Size: 5.5x8.5
ISBN: 978-1-47596-874-3
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Giving someone feedback can be a daunting task for a manager—especially when an employee is underperforming. To soften the blow, we sometimes refer to difficult feedback as “developmental” or “constructive.” But these phrases rarely prompt the type of productive conversations managers need to have with team members.

Steve King, a longtime executive who has held leadership roles with a variety of organizations, cuts to the chase with a simple and tested framework on providing feedback.

Think of how great it would be to break through the typical awkwardness of giving feedback and start having serious conversations about performance, development, and careers.

Regardless of your role, if you want to give feedback to others on a regular basis, you need a proven approach to improve the quality of your conversations. It starts with four simple words—Brag, Worry, Wonder, Bet.

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Spiritual Warfare

Spiritual Warfare
Lessons on Deliverance from Spiritual Bondage to Freedom in Christ
By Stella Davis

Published: 7/29/2010
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 240
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-45024-554-8
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Spiritual Warfare, the sequel to Stella Davis’s first book, Giving God the Praise, provides teachings on spiritual warfare for both priests and laity through the recounting of Davis’s own experiences in ministry and those of her team. As a veteran missionary herself, Davis believed that various texts she had read available to the public and to priests did not treat spiritual warfare in the depth required, especially at a time when evil has so increased, and the need to know how to combat it is so great. Extraordinary supernatural phenomena have become more common in our day and cannot escape our attention. Even those who consider themselves “enlightened,” who maintain that the power of nature is unlimited, are put on their mettle by the undeniable facts of the preternatural. Intrigues of Satan are as active today as they were when God first called Davis to ministry. Hence, Spiritual Warfare attempts to address the need to deal with these occurrences, offering a call to repentance, healing, deliverance, and action.

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Doorway to H.O.P.E.

Doorway to H.O.P.E.
Second Edition
By David R. Grimm

Published: 5/21/2010
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 112
Size: 8.25x11
ISBN: 978-0-59540-304-2
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Help Overcoming Painful Experiences (H.O.P.E.) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to help people experience a life transformation through their emotional pain so they can live the purpose-filled, victorious life God intended and designed them to live. We set people free from emotional bondage and empower them to live a transformed life.

To accomplish our purpose, the H.O.P.E. program was designed to help people 1) resurrect hope, 2) overcome emotional pain from a variety of issues, 3) build a safe and healthy support network, 4) comprehend the truths about God in the midst of pain while exposing and replacing lies, and 5) experience a life transformation through the healing and restorative power of Jesus Christ.

Our transformation model consists of three levels. Doorway to H.O.P.E. is Level 1 and centers on Three Truths About Life. These truths are used as encouragement for accepting and beginning God’s process of transformation. They also resurrect hope, expose needs and lies, tear down barriers to making healthy changes and “wet appetites” for experiencing how God can transform us through our pain.

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