Book Pick For The WEEK ( 69 ) !

Book  Description :

 

Love is in the air—but what does that mean for Greg Heffley?A Valentine’s Day dance at Greg’s middle school has turned his world upside down. As Greg scrambles to find a date, he’s worried he’ll be left out in the cold on the big night. His best friend, Rowley, doesn’t have any prospects either, but that’s a small consolation.

An unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves Rowley the odd man out. But a lot can happen in one night, and in the end, you never know who’s going to be lucky in love.

Author Bio

Jeff Kinney is an online game developer and designer, and a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Jeff was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. He spent his childhood in the Washington, D.C., area and moved to New England in 1995. Jeff lives in southern Massachusetts with his wife and their two sons.

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Book Pick For The WEEK ( 11 ) !

 

So many children’s books out here but , this one gives you adventure, education and a good read !

Marvin Discovers is a family based idea dedicated to kids, family and pets. It’s activities about families, short adventure STORIES  for children, family fun and games. It’s about the quality time spent together, creating lasting memories! It’s about the everyday events in family life. It’s about discovering your child’s world!

Marvin Discovers offers your family books to read to and for kids, created by Kathryn Kessler, mother of two boys and grandmother of a beautiful girl. Her pet dog, Marvin, inspires Kathryn’s stories. Marvin has a ferocious curiosity that leads him into amazing discoveries of his world. Kathryn takes Marvin’s adventures and creates a world of discovery for children to escape to. Together with Marvin, your child will learn about their world, learn to create with their imagination and, it is our hope, that you will rediscover your inner child and relive your childhood memories with your children.

Check out “Marvin’s Goodies”. You will discover Marvin’s first book, Marvin’s first DVD, Marvin’s T-Shirts and Marvin Approved Discoveries activities to do with the family. Marvin has created activities for the whole family to share together that will create lasting memories. He is so confident that your family will have tons of fun creating together; he has put his “paw” of approval on each activity!

Step inside, explore and discover what Marvin has to offer you and your family.

Website: http://marvindiscovers.com/marvin-discovers-snow/

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Author online interview link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/girlpower/2012/04/12/new-book-marvin-discovers

 

Book Pick For The WEEK ( 9 ) !

Author Wendy Williams writes about the whirls and twirls, the quirks and perks, the frustrations and the fun of a multicultural relationship in her book, The Globalisation of Love.

Cross-cultural couples have all the issues that exist in monocultural relationships, plus whatever colourful combination of culture, language, religion, and ethnicity the couple brings into their marriage.

The BOOK is based on dozens of interviews with multicultural and international couples from around the world, The Globalisation of Love includes chapters on cross-cultural weddings, religion, race, food, language, bi-racial children and a whole lot more. The book is both humorous and factual and Wendy includes personal anecdotes from her own experience in a multicultural family.

WEBSITE:

http://www.globalisationoflove.com

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Book Pick For The WEEK ( 8 ) !

Book Description:

Bothmer has captured, synthesized and fully understands the needs of children in the 21st century. She offers simple tools to integrate numerous possibilities seamlessly into a teaching environment. These tools are essential values necessary for children and adults to live a fully balanced, integrated and happy life. There is no doubt in my mind that Creating the Peaceable Classroom ought to be required reading for every teacherand caregiver. –Rosemary Todd Clough, Founder of Creative Kids Yoga®Sandy Bothmer’s Peaceable Classroom has been an indispensable resource for years in my consultation to programs for students with autism spectrum disorders. The ’21st century wellness guide’ provides even more wisdom for the classroom and for parents. I especially like the ‘Parent Connections.’ Parents so often forget to take care of themselves. Sandy has some excellent suggestions that can fit into the days of even the busiest families . . . The movement and music chapters are chock full of fabulous ideas!” –Teresa Bolick, Ph.D., Psychologist and Author

 

   Author Description:

Sandy Bothmer has a Master of Education Degree from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Her elementary teaching career spanned twenty years. She designed a Writer’s Workshop in the early 1980s for the Gifted and Talented Programshe taught for grades two through five in Illinois. Currently, she teaches Creative Kids Yoga to preschool and elementary school children and assists at the Creative Kids Yoga Teacher trainings.During the summer, Sandy teaches Peaceable Classroom strategies at the University of Connecticut‘s Confratute, The Summer Institute of Enrichment Learning and Teaching. She also presents workshops at various educational conferences and schools.Sandy has been a Reiki master for twelve years and has a private practice in energy medicine, working with adults and children who have special needs, including anxiety issues, ADHD, Asperger’s Disorder and autism.

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Author Live radio show interview link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/girlpower/2012/04/10/creating-the-peaceable-classroom

 

Book Pick For The WEEK ( 3/26 ) !

 

        Love it or Hate It  !

 

Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America (Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America)
By author George Derek Musgrove

 

 

Book Description :

Historians have exhaustively documented how African Americans gained access to electoral politics in the mid-1960s, but few have scrutinized what happened next, and the small body of work that does consider the aftermath of the civil rights movement is almost entirely limited to the Black Power era. In Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics, George Derek Musgrove pushes much further, examining black elected officials’ allegations of state and news media repression—what they called “harassment”—to gain new insight into the role of race in U.S. politics between 1965 and 1995.

Drawing from untapped sources, including interviews he conducted with twenty-five sitting and former black members of Congress, Musgrove tells new stories and reinterprets familiar events. His cast of characters includes Julian Bond, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Alcee Hastings, Ronald Dellums, Richard Arrington, and Marion Barry, as well as white political figures like Newt Gingrich and Jefferson Sessions. Throughout, Musgrove con­nects patterns of surveillance, counterintelligence, and disproportionate investigation of black elected officials to the broader political culture. In so doing, he reveals new aspects of the surveillance state of the late 1960s, the rise of adversary journalism and good government reforms in the wake of Watergate, the official corruption crackdown of the 1980s, and the allure of conspiracy theory to African Americans seeking to understand the harass­ment of their elected leadership.

Moving past the old debate about whether there was a conscious conspiracy against black officials, Musgrove explores how the perception of harassment shaped black political thought in the post–civil rights era. The result is a field-defining work by a major new intellectual voice.

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Quote Pick For The WEEK !

 

HELPING HAND !

 

 

 

 

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things LOOK  tough for a family member , friend, neighbor or stranger.You never know when you may need a HELPING HAND !

 

 

By Bernadine Feagins

 

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Book Pick For The WEEK !

Book – The Slow Talk Of Stones

 

 

This collection is set in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky and places an emphasis on the issue of Mountain Top Removal.

“We have lost the mountains
and the creeks rise black
with something
that ripples below the surface,
as if giant Hellbenders wait
with their monstrous mouths.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bio

Pushcart Prize nominee, Sheri L. Wright is the author of one full-length book of poetry, Nuns Shooting Guns, and four chapbooks, Sharks Never Sleep and Contains Scenes of Indigenous Nudity and the Courtship Of Reason, including the most recent, The Slow Talk Of Stones. Her works of poetry appear in numerous journals including New Southerner, Out of Line, Chiron Review, Clark Street Review, Darkling and Earth’s Daughters, Crucible and Kentucky Monthly Magazine. Ms. Wright was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her piece, The Tenants Of Central Park , in 2011. She also works as a free-lance editor for a variety of books ranging from poetry to fiction and as a ghostwriter for websites such as Proud Single Moms and Deathcare.com. Ms. Wright is a graduate of Lee Kitt’s Scholl Of Acting and has completed basic and advanced courses in Commercial Voice-Over at the University of Louisville. She has been a guest poet on Accents, at 88.1 on WRFL out of Lexington, Ky. and on Janice Lee “Featuring The Arts” on WSKV in Stanton, Ky. She has won awards with Jesse Poets, Green River Writers and the Kentucky State Poetry Society and has read extensively throughout the Kentucky/Indiana area and has also appeared at New York city’s Cornelia Street Café. She has been a volunteer editor for This I Believe. Ms. Wright has taught poetry workshops for Women in Transition, the Kentucky Young Writer’s Connection and The Kentucky State Poetry Society, judged the poetry division in The Golden Nibs for the Virginia Writers Club, for Women Who Write and for Green River Writers writing contest. She is a regional chair for the Kentucky State Poetry society and is co-chair for their adult poetry contest for 2011. Ms. Wright currently is the host of From The Inkwell, a one hour radio show dedicated to all things literary on CHRadio 1650am, live-streaming at http://www.CrescentHillRadio.com. Please visit her website at http://www.scribblingsandsuch.com.

Sheri L. Wright’s visual work can be seen in numeropus journals, including Blood Orange Review, The Single Hound and is forthcoming in THIS Literary Magazine, Prick of the Spindle, Blood Lotus Journal and Subliminal Interiors. More examples of her work can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sherilwright/. With Ms. Wright’s consent, all work is available for publication.

 

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Poetry Pick For This WEEK ( 4 )!

Stressing me out !

Years ago a  real friend said this to me , about the stress in my life:
When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question:
What difference will this make 5 years from now? If  it doesn’t make any difference, then don’t be stressed by it. If  it will make a difference in 5 years time, then take action towards improving or changing  the thing that is stressing  you and killing you slowly .

By author Bernadine Fegins

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Quote Pick For The Week ( 2 ) !

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: and a people who mean to be their own governours, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

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Book Pick For The Week ( 1) !

Author Chitoka Webb is a successful business owner, motivational speaker and author who lives in Hendersonville, TN.

Author Webb memoir book  is  about her growing up in the Preston Taylor housing projects, landed her first job in a grocery store at only 13 years old. When a senior in High School, she was told by school authorities she couldn’t graduate with her class just a week before the ceremony due to being one point short in her chemistry class. Now, in her mid-30s, Webb owns several businesses—that she founded.

She began her self employed career at 23. In 1999 Webb left Nashville and moved to Atlanta, where she nurtured numerous relationships with professional athletes and successful business leaders. Working as the only female barber alongside 14 other male barbers. Her highlight moment came during Super Bowl XXXIV when she was invited by her client Anthony Dorsett (Son of football great Tony Dorsett) to attend the event as their barber. After much success and accomplishing set goals she returned to Nashville in pursuit of a dream to own her own barbershop, which she opened in October 2001. She worked three full time jobs for three months to make this dream a reality.

Her life and business motto is “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” pulling herself up by the bootstraps these humble beginnings brought more success. After developing two health care agencies and a new state-of-the-art barbershop Webb developed Chitoka L.Webb Holdings, Inc. which oversees her professional ventures, and the early development stages of a Foundation which supports her community service projects

Through her impressive business growth, Webb suffered blindness for six months as a result of Behcet’s disease. High doses of Steroidal eye injections and medications corrected her failed eye sight. The Behcet’s diagnosis led Webb to write her memoir, Something Inside of Me (Greenleaf Book Group, July 1, 2011).

Some of Webb’s successes include being appointed by the governor of Tennessee as a board of trustee to a state appointed board, a mentor for the Nashville Juvenile Justice Center, president of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce Business Council and being elected to the prestigious Entrepreneurs Organization. Webb currently volunteers as an auditor for the Nashville United Way and serves as a board member for the Middle Tennessee YMCA.

 

 

Website Link: http://www.chitokawebb.com/about.php

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