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Success in life and business can be tough. Achieving success in business when you are a professional of color can be even tougher. The challenges of growing up in an inner-city neighborhood, with a diminishing industry, unexpected life tragedies and obstacles, struggling against the odds in a society which slanted away from giving opportunities to people of color, sets the backdrop to Michael Mitcham's book. Ahead in the Count: One Baseball Fa...

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With this beautifully photographed book showing the changes of the Moon over a lunar cycle, children will determine where the Moon is each night, empowering them to make observations, ask questions, and find the answers with a little help. A Parents/Educators section is included.

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The reality is that little is known of Aristophanes actual life but eleven of his forty plays survive intact and upon those rest his deserved reputation as the Father of Comedy or, The Prince of Ancient Comedy. Accounts agree that he was born sometime between 456BC and 446 BC. Many cities claim the honor of his birthplace and the most probable story makes him the son of Philippus of Ægina, and therefore only an adopted citizen of Athens, a dis...

Have you ever felt stuck? How did it feel? Like one of my mentors says, "Being Stuck Stinks." It's ok to feel stuck occasionally. It means we have reached our ceiling. The question is what are we going to do now to get out of this situation? How will we get to the next level? Interestingly when we feel stuck, a state of mental immobility, our physical body can also become paralyzed. And until you allow your mind to get unstuck you will not mov...

In this collection, pelicans dive to clear waters near a foreign city, seeking their catch, an ineffable meal. In such surprising juxtapositions, Ann Yu Huang makes us see the world anew, beautiful and strange, delicious and alien.

Take a breath, imagine dragons, legends shadowed in the mist. Close your eyes in willing wonder - you can make them all exist." With full color illustrations and exciting and humorous poems, kids and parents alike will enjoy this look into a world where dragons exist. Kai Satoshi's whimsical and thoughtful poetry along with his beautiful images creates a world of wonder and a place we would all love to live.

As a retired Professor of Literature, George Hodge knows that if life were art, his story would be over. He has outlived his wife, his children and finally his money. With little more than his wits, his thumb, and a resignation to serendipity, Hodge sets out on a journey of discovery. Along the way he acquires two travelling companions, a single mother and her precocious daughter who have reasons of their own for hitting the road. For three da...

With My Whole Heart is a complicated story about family.Jaime's a young, single mother who is trying to make ends meet, feeling like she's always waging an uphill battle to make sure she and her son are housed, fed, and healthy. Connor's designed his life to stay too busy for relationships.How complicated is it?She's his big brother's surrogate, and he's the sperm donor. How in the hell would this ever work? Connor didn't know, but he was dete...

Disaster Is Brewing In Donner Pass...Winter in the High Sierras has always been a challenge, but this time is different. Global warming has spawned an endless series of blizzards the likes of which have never been seen before. Even the proud Union Pacific is reeling from the onslaught.But the relentless storms and equipment breakdowns are only the beginning. They face a crisis at Donner Summit: a passenger train wrecked in the most dangerous, ...

It's a wild world for mummy lady beetle and her littlies scurrying off to the Saturday school fair. How will they avoid the gigantic, boisterous Horlocks with their huge galumphing feet as they race down to their morning swim? With our little hero Harpo and his huge mate Boo, it's up to them to find what to do. Another Harpo and Boo adventure that combines detailed, colorful illustrations with lilting rhymes. This picture book is sure to engag...

HAVE YOU HEARD that Allah's followers constitute the world's fastest-growing religion? That Muhammad was mankind's greatest and final prophet? That the Bible is unreliable and the Qur'an is God's ultimate revelation?In Burning Questions About Islam-A Panoramic Study for Concerned Christians, Wilbur Lingle tackles those claims. Here, in language everyone can understand, Lingle provides readers with a comprehensive survey of the history, beliefs...

I Wish I Had Wings is a child's dream story that captures the young's imaginative play.Susan M. Bagay is an alumna of Duquesne University, and resides in Washington, PA. A veteran teacher, with Science, Math and the Arts concentration in the upper grades, she has extended her creative expertise into and beyond the educational setting in the form of plays, choreography, short stories, poetry, art, and continues to inspire with her unique style ...

Inspired by both a fascination with birds as well as intense personal experiences of motherhood and a broken relationship, Rhian Edwards' booklet, Brood, also features beautiful, original charcoal drawings by Welsh artist Paul Edwards. Rhian won Wales Book of the Year for her debut poetry collection, Clueless Dogs.

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At thirty-two, feisty Annabel Simpson is the youngest doctor to take charge of a ward in the history of Oakwood Hospital. A possible closure threatens her position and spurs her into action. Organizing a charity bike ride from Brighton to Lands End seems like a good idea until she comes face to face with her past in the form of playboy Marcus Chapman.Marcus Chapman is still grieving the loss of his daughter. The Oakwood staff did everything in...

Leaders Made Here Building a Leadership Culture Every organization dreams of having enough leaders. Yet most take a haphazard or inconsistent approach to leadership development. They either assume they can find new leaders when they need them or they believe leaders are born-they can't be made. The consequences of this thinking are devastating, creating a perpetual shortfall of high caliber leaders, without them, no organization can thrive. Th...