Disposable Youth has the power to change America. Seventy percent of the 2.4 million prisoners in America today are high school dropouts. Half of all African American and Hispanic urban high school students drop out. Forty percent of all urban high school students drop out. This continuum of dropping out of high school and into crime and then prison does not have to persist. Disposable Youth offers a new way of organizing American high schools. This educational innovation is called a Career Academy, which graduates 90 percent of their students. By implementing Career Academies on a national scale, the number …

Something from the past was destined to haunt her for a very long time. Mercy, a compassionate nun and an orphan, quits the nunnery in Ghana after receiving a vision for a calling outside the convent. Mercy launches into a new life in her homeland of Nigeria, which is rife with poverty, pain, harassment, loneliness and gender prejudice, as well as abuse, betrayal, murder, revenge, blackmail and decadence. Possessing such qualities as determination, courage, sacrifice, perseverance and faith, Mercy surmounts many obstacles to become a career-oriented counselor. Her work is everything, until she meets and marries Nick, a dashing multi-millionaire …

The dramatic novel Good Evening, Vietnam is a love story interrupted by war. During his tour of duty in Vietnam, a young U.S. chopper co-pilot falls in love with a Vietnamese girl. After his chopper is shot down, he is taken prisoner by the Vietcong. Under a POW exchange in 1973, he returns to America, leaving behind his pregnant girlfriend. After the Vietcong take over Saigon, they imprison hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese who worked with the Americans, force others into the jungles, and denounce the children of U.S. soldiers. Most of these abandoned children were left homeless, some …

Take Carrie Bradshaw and combine her with Samantha Jones, and you've got Rachel. In Diary of a Single Thirty-Something:31, Rachel begins a close relationship with her only reliable friend her diary and chronicles the ups and downs of being single and in your 30's in todays ever-changing society. While negotiating the single's landscape, Rachel's trials and tribulations with her indecisive brother, Caden, along with her husband-hunting best friend, Kacey, are also highlighted. Rachel's adventures in love are brought to life in this entertaining and insightful book, as she wonders if she might never settle for settling down. Does Rachel want …

There is an energy force in the world - known to the Ancients - that has largely escaped the interest of the modern day world. Why? There are allusions to this energy in the Chinese I-Ching, in the Hebrew Torah, in the Christian Bible, in the Hindu Sanskrit Ramayana and in the Muslim Holy Qur'an. Its force is strongest within the Earth's magnetic triangles. Near one of these--the Bermuda Triangle--circumstances bring together four very different people. Patrick Gallagher is a mining engineer searching for a viable alternative to fossil fuels; Tara Geoffrey, an airline pilot on holidays in the Caribbean; …

To Cherish Harm is the intimate, autobiographical story of a severely abused child, bloodied by a disturbed alcoholic mother. The story is told from the child's point of view. Witness what happens to this little girl’s psyche as she evolves in hiding, under the tyranny of irrational evil, sustained only by her vivid imagination and hope of finding a better life. Unable to distinguish a destructive relationship from a loving one, the girl matures into an intensely lonely and confused teenager. Tragically, she runs into the arms of one of her mother’s *friends* seeking safety and comfort, only to find …

Learn how to remain healthy, happy, and positive during Testing Times in this all-encompassing book that will surely enrich your life. Discover how you can transform all situations and events into opportunities to become a stronger, happier person. Cultivate positive thoughts and feelings, and use Energy Psychology to free yourself from fear, anxiety, and other negative emotions. Use Twelve-Step Manifestation Process to manifest your ideal life. Transform your current reality by using methods to create alternative perceptions that result in more inspired solutions. Learn the art of living in the present moment, letting go of the importance you give to …

A terrible tsunami struck the idyllic South Pacific islands the afternoon Carla Kennedy and Daniel Briggs made love for the first time. The skiff they'd been rowing across the bay on their way home from school had broken into countless pieces, but Carla had managed to cling tightly to a small piece of its timber decking in her desperate struggle to survive, refusing to surrender it even after she'd been rescued. She woke, bewildered and lost, suffering amnesia and, unknown to her at the time, pregnant. An elderly couple, Joshua and Hazel Kaplan, volunteer workers in the aftermath of the …

David Monroe is the would-be beneficiary of his father's multimillion-dollar enterprise. Avaricious and sadistic, Mr. Monroe creates an evil plot to secure his inheritance by using another human being to sow his seed and bear the children his barren wife cannot. Bodies begin to disappear one after another. Helen Avery, seemingly a victim of these mysterious disappearances, manages to escape the gruesome nightmare and survives. Rescued from the outback of Australia, Helen begins her own investigation of the past, uncovering more and more evidence that ultimately points to David Monroe. Set in 1980?s Australia, The Planting is a chilling novel …