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Dreaming, like reading, can be a fun and exciting adventure! Dreaming can take you to distant lands and faraway places where you can meet new friends too. In this book, Little Boy dreams a very colorful dream. Let's see where his dream takes him and find out who he meets!

This book documents the author's personal experience with administering her mother's estate. The story is a candid and detailed account of the legal, financial, and emotional components of estate administration. The author shares several great lessons from her experience:Be prepared to make short-term and long-term decisions. Everyone has an estate. Everyone needs an estate plan. Everyone can build an estate. Leave a trail of breadcrumbs for those left behind. It costs money to die! Who knew??? Leave a mark and not a scar.

In a nation that is shifting and opposition against Christianity on the rise, anyone who claims to be a believer is labeled as a "Zealot" and in danger of breaking new hate crime laws.Fifteen year old John Mann is faced with a decision to believe in what he has been taught his whole life about religion or go an-other way. His decision to answer God's call, proves to be very costly and possibly fatal.Will John question his decision to take the path of Christianity? Since his conversion things have only gotten worse for him. As the plot thickens the question becomes can John stop what is about to happen in his school?

A Riveting and Powerful Memoir of the transformation and metamorphosis of a young girl living the glamourous life of a model and a stripper, whose life de-railed and de-escalated to a rapid halt! It is the story of a Divine Appointment and a Divine Rescue from the Sex Industry. Walking in True Freedom, only found in God, she returned and Founded The Lions Beauty Queens, Inc., a ministry reaching out to women in the Sex Industry. As a child Dana endured the death of a parent, father in prison, dysfunctional environment of alcoholism and drugs, poverty, abuse, neglect, and was sexually abused by age 8. A troubled teenage rebellion followed. As Dana pursued high hopes in a modeling career, she was trafficked through a local tanning salon, into exotic dancing in strip clubs at age 17. Her first marriage to a male stripper/drug dealer ended with him at the gates of a prison. Living in lies, a world of illusion, in pain, struggling, and single parenting became her personal hell. In January of 1994 she felt the words Love has taken over me - I have been set FREE! She then graduated college with her BSN and RN Degree, married a youth Pastor of 14 years, and birthed her ministry and nonprofit, The Lions Beauty Queens, Inc. Currently LBQ is reaching out to 17 strip clubs monthly throughout Kansas City, MO, KS and California. Surrendered Showgirl...from Stripper to Saint reveals how for some people life can be a set up, creating the perfect victim. It is an absorbing journey through overwhelming circumstances, the darkness of the sex industry, and resulting in the marvelous revelation of how God redeems and restores. It shows the way of escape, how to become New again, be made whole and live in total freedom! BOLD, BRAVE, and INSPIRATIONAL! This is a passionate story of turmoil and tragedy and a relentless pursuit of HIS Glory and Grace!

FOR THOSE WHO NEED A BIT OF ENCOURAGEMENT IN THE KITCHENDo you need help making a great meal?Do you need to allow God in other areas of your life?Are your meals lacking love & flavor?Are your cooking skills low to none?Are you overwhelmed in the kitchen?IF YOU ANSWERED YES TO ONE OR MORE OF THESE QUESTIONS. LOOK NO FURTHER.COOKING WITH JESUS is a spirit-filled cookbook with delicious recipes, scriptures from the Holy Bible and much more. This cookbook will uplift your spirit, build your faith about cooking and show you how to add love and flavor to your meals. It also gives you information about food from the Bible, measurements, etc.COOKING WITH JESUS will not make you a better cook. It will make you a better child of God.Some of us look at cooking as a consuming task. It doesn't have to be, and I've found cooking can be fun if you invite Jesus. We know that God is love and love enhances the flavor and cooking experience.In order to cook with Jesus, you have to want to be in the kitchen and enjoy the people or person you are cooking for.

Leading in the Unknown: A New Paradigm for Leaders in Intercollegiate Athletics presents a new vision of leadership for practitioners, scholars, and leaders within higher education. This book is situated within the unprecedented confluence of the global Covid-19 pandemic, societal injustice, and severe economic depression for which intercollegiate athletics was not immune. Dr. Brandon E. Martin is uniquely positioned within the landscape of intercollegiate athletics as a former Division I Athlete, Vice Chancellor/Athletics Director at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Respected Scholar, and Co-Chair of the Black Athletic Director Alliance. This work represents the unique collection of experiences that inform Dr. Martin's approach to leadership that acknowledges current cultural realities and the necessity to reimagine how to engage with athletic programs, institutions, and student-athletes.Traditional leadership strategies and maxims are infused with culturally relevant principles that address current and future challenges facing the world of intercollegiate athletics. In this book, Dr. Martin invites current leadership voices in intercollegiate athletics to illustrate principles of leadership. The following leadership principles are discussed across the first six chapters: 1) Multidimensional Contexts 2) Cultural Agility3) Catalytic Leadership 4) Dynamic Flexibility 5) Mindful Leadership 6) Cultural SafetyEach of these chapters end with practical takeaways that provide an initial "game plan" for leaders seeking immediate guidance on how to approach challenges in their respective institutions. In a final chapter, additional intercollegiate athletics leaders are featured to continue the conversation with leaders facing crises on multiple fronts. This book is designed to give current and future leaders new language, practices, and approaches to leadership that can elevate equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice efforts across all levels of intercollegiate athletics.

"Committed to Love" is a deeply personal one. It details the many issues and experiences I had to confront and deal with in my twenty-five-year marriage to a bisexual man who succumbed to AIDS. The twenty-four chapters in this book range from his diagnosis on June 19, 1992, with AIDS related pneumonia to his death on August 17, 1994. Every aspect of my relationship with Dr. Jeffrey A. Mintz, both as my best friend of thirty-seven years and my husband of twenty-five is explored in explicit detail. The challenge of a marriage under these circumstances was to say the least, both chaotic yet most rewarding. My thoughts about love evoked images of champagne, roses, and chocolates. Yes, I had a lot of all of them in my marriage, but the reality and truth about my life with him was that the word love for me had always meant commitment, unconditional acceptance, and facing every problem with a solution even if I didn't know what the solution would be.It is in this particular area that I feel my most powerful impact. To say that my marriage was unconventional and that it was difficult is an understatement. But, I would do it all over again because my journey with Jeff provided me the opportunity to discover my own true definition of love. For in those twenty-five years, I was able to find my core, my strength, my faith, my hope, and my true understanding that I was chosen to love him. I was chosen to stay with him. And I was chosen to be able to watch him become the stranger in my bed due to the horrific devastation that his virus brought. To this day, I remain in my heart, Jeff's wife, friend, caregiver, and devoted partner. My hope is that with this book, others may gather up the strength and fortitude to commit to their marriage vows before God first and then, commit to their marriage. May this book give you the understanding of how remarkably strong you can be and how capable you truly are when "Committed to Love."